1. Xmind Map by: date created: Design Web by Looby MacNamara, designedvisions.com transposed to XMind Map by Ariane Burgess, arianeburgess.com, Gaia U advisor Template created 130626 Use freely in your Integrative Ecosocial Design work.
  2. Vision
    1. Allow yourself to dream and create goals
    2. What is my ideal?
    3. What are the abundances I would like to create in my life?
    4. What are my wildest dreams?
  3. Helps
    1. Identify the things that are going to help
    2. What are my motivations for changing?
    3. What resources do I have within me?
    4. What external resources are available?
  4. Limits
    1. Identify what blocks the path, what might keep it small or slow it down
    2. What's holding me back?
    3. What are my limiting factors?
    4. Why would I not want to change?
    5. What concerns do I have?
  5. Patterns
    1. Identify helpful an unhelpful patterns
    2. What are the current patterns of thinking, behaving and interacting?
    3. What spirals of erosion can I identify?
    4. What would a spiral of abundance look like?
    5. What patterns from nature, other people or different activities could help within my design?
    6. What patterns of success from another area of my life can I translate into my design?
  6. Ideas
    1. Gather inspirations
    2. What creative, adventurous, wild and wacky ideas do I have?
    3. What big, little, practical, routine ideas do I have?
    4. What seeds of ideas do I have?
  7. Principles
    1. Look through the lens of each one
    2. If I look though the lens of each principle what do I see?
    3. What does it tell me about my current state?
    4. 1. Observe and Interact - pay attention
    5. 2. Catch and Store Energy (harvest while it's abundant)
    6. 3. Obtain a yield (make sure you're getting valuable results)
    7. 4. Self-regulate: Accept feedback (be open to modify dysfunctional behaviours)
    8. 5. Use & Value Renewables (reduce dependency on scarce resources)
    9. 6. Produce No Waste
    10. 7. Design from Pattern to Detail (observe natural / social patterns and apply the to design)
    11. 8. Integrate (capitalize on how things work together)
    12. 9. Use Small, Slow Solutions (local resources & response, manageable scale)
    13. 10. Use & Value Diversity (diversity leads to greater resilience)
    14. 11. Use Edges: Value the Marginal (important things happen at the intersections)
    15. 12. Creatively Use & Respond to Change (envision possibilities and intervene in effective ways)
  8. Integration
    1. Bring it together
    2. How can I integrate the information already gathered?
    3. What are my needs within the design?
    4. What systems could be put in place to meet those needs?
    5. What elements would each system be composed of?
  9. Action
    1. Make a plan for getting things done
    2. What am I going to do and when?
    3. What resources to I need?
    4. What yields and benefits am I going to get?
  10. Momentum
    1. Consider how to keep going
    2. How am I going to maintain momentum?
    3. How am I going to build and increase momentum?
    4. What support might I need to keep moving towards my vision?
  11. Appreciations
    1. Focus on things to be thankful for
    2. What can I appreciate about myself?
    3. What can I appreciate about other people and the world around me?
    4. How do I feel supported at the moment?
  12. Reflection
    1. Evaluate progress
    2. What is the current situation?
    3. What is going well?
    4. What is challenging?
  13. Pause
    1. Incorporate time for rest and rejuvenation
    2. How can I recharge my batteries?
    3. How can I make times of rest and quiet a built in part of my design?
    4. How can I rejuvenate myself?