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We're paying attention as arts of living — practices — emerge in this season's conversations of On Being.
This week, with the founder of the field of biomimicry, questions for taking nature as mentor — because "we are surrounded by geniuses."
Next time you have a design decision with a creative or logistical task in your life, however minute, remember the core operating principle of vitality in the natural world: "creating conditions conducive to life."
And ask:
1) What would nature do here?
2) What wouldn’t nature do here?
3) Why or why not?
4) What do I need to learn more about, or get more curious about, to answer these questions with integrity?
📷 Tell us what happens next. Tag @onbeing in your stories or posts.
🎧 Listen to Krista’s full interview with Janine Benyus: youtu.be/wBDT4Em1q6s
#onbeing #kristatippett #podcast #practice #nature #problemsolving #possibilty #innovation #mentor #genius
We're paying attention as arts of living — practices — emerge in this season's conversations of On Being.
This week, with the founder of the field of biomimicry, questions for taking nature as mentor — because "we are surrounded by geniuses."
Next time you have a design decision with a creative or logistical task in your life, however minute, remember the core operating principle of vitality in the natural world: "creating conditions conducive to life."
And ask:
1) What would nature do here?
2) What wouldn’t nature do here?
3) Why or why not?
4) What do I need to learn more about, or get more curious about, to answer these questions with integrity?
📷 Tell us what happens next. Tag @onbeing in your stories or posts.
🎧 Listen to Krista’s full interview with Janine Benyus: youtu.be/wBDT4Em1q6s
#onbeing #kristatippett #podcast #practice #nature #problemsolving #possibilty #innovation #mentor #genius








![“The Facts of Life” — written and read by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Listen to Pádraig’s On Being conversation with Krista, “This fantastic argument of being alive,” here: https://onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-this-fantastic-argument-of-being-alive/
And listen to his On Being conversation with Krista and poet Marilyn Nelson, “So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars,” here: https://onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-so-let-us-pick-up-the-stones-over-which-we-stumble-friends-and-build-altars/
Pádraig is a poet, conflict mediator, and theologian from Ireland. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios. Profiled in The New Yorker, with poems in Poetry Ireland, the New England Review, the Harvard Review, and more, his publications include collections of poetry: Readings from the Book of Exile, Sorry for your Troubles, Feed the Beast; an incandescent memoir: In the Shelter; theology: Borders and Belonging (with Glenn Jordan), Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community; and the anthology Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. padraigotuama.com
Pádraig hosts the On Being Studios podcast Poetry Unbound, which can be listened to here: https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/
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