DeepSummary
The podcast features an interview with Dom Franks, an executive leadership coach and wilderness guide. Dom discusses his background, including his time at Stanford and his journey to become a professional golfer before transitioning to work in renewable energy and climate tech. He explains his perspective on the climate crisis, emphasizing that it is rooted in our fundamental relationship with the natural world and requires a shift in worldview beyond just reducing carbon emissions.
Dom shares his belief that deep immersion in nature is crucial for personal regeneration and finding one's unique role in the regenerative transition. He describes his Vivify regenerative leadership program, which combines wilderness experiences with coaching to help climate leaders reconnect with nature, find purpose, and avoid burnout. The program involves an eight-day backpacking trip in the High Sierras, preceded and followed by online coaching sessions.
Throughout the conversation, Dom and the host, Brooks Barron, explore themes such as the role of trauma and collective healing, the importance of cultivating presence and integrated wildness, and the potential for a diversity of lifeways coexisting, including eco-villages and other forms of community living. They also discuss the need for leaders to find sustainable ways of working that replenish their energy and commitment to collective regeneration.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- The climate crisis is rooted in our fundamental relationship with the natural world and requires a shift in worldview beyond just reducing carbon emissions.
- Deep immersion in nature is crucial for personal regeneration and finding one's unique role in the regenerative transition.
- Dom Franks' Vivify regenerative leadership program combines wilderness experiences with coaching to help climate leaders reconnect with nature, find purpose, and avoid burnout.
- The program involves an eight-day backpacking trip in the High Sierras, preceded and followed by online coaching sessions.
- The conversation explores themes such as the role of trauma and collective healing, the importance of cultivating presence and integrated wildness, and the potential for a diversity of lifeways coexisting, including eco-villages and other forms of community living.
- Leaders need to find sustainable ways of working that replenish their energy and commitment to collective regeneration.
- There is a paradox in addressing the urgency of the climate crisis while also recognizing the need to slow down and cultivate presence.
- Cultivating a sense of animism and reconnecting with nature's aliveness is a key aspect of Dom's approach.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Um, the way that I like to think about this, first of all, I just want to establish, like, we really. We need more people than are currently working on the climate crisis.“ by Dom Franks
- “What does it look like if you walk through a forest or a wild place, or even a wildish place, like a park near your house? As if all the other beings there are aware of you, trying to communicate with you, and glad that you're there.“ by Dom Franks
- “The times are urgent, we need to slow down was by Okoma lafe. And I think that paradox is a really hard one to hold because there is urgency, and I think it's important for us to at least have the felt sense of being able to slow down.“ by Dom Franks
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ReFi Podcast
John Ellison
3/5/24
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