This leadership practice has three central motivating forces:

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1. Leadership Inspired by the Wisdom of Nature:  Deepening our relationships with the more-than-human world and the ecological systems, patterns, processes, and organizing principles that can inspire our leadership, design, and change-making processes;

2. Challenging Forces of Domination and Oppression: Enhancing our ability to critically examine dominant worldviews and shift inequitable systems, patterns and structures of power and privilege;

3. Expressing Our Unique Potential to Create Conditions for All Life to Thrive: Integrating core leadership practices that enhance our capacities to express our unique potential, embody and catalyze change to create conditions for all life to thrive over the long haul.