Everything is Connected to Everything Else
At EarthWonders, our Ecology of Caring is built on the foundation that “everything is connected to everything else”. Its core focus is on nursing, assisted, memory, hospice and palliative and in-home care, but it strikes me that this same concept is so visible especially in our economic market today. I’m not an economist, I’m not even a scientist, but what I know is when we look to nature for answers on most any level, we can find answers. Nature has 3.8B years of wisdom in creating life-affirming and life-sustaining communities. It’s why we use Nature as our model in creating caring communities. But the key to the success in those models requires that we care for ourselves, each other, our community, our planet and future generations. It appears that some people never got beyond taking care of themselves. And now there is so much angry energy in the world, it’s hard to find an opening for the positive steps it takes to begin to heal and move forward.
Sometimes, in organizations, you find this very same thing. A person, or group of people, decides either knowingly or unknowingly, that their interests trump the rest of the organization. It doesn’t really matter if it’s at the top of the organizational chart, on the front line, a customer group, or the public. Once a group decides their “health” (or wealth) is the priority at all costs, the natural state breaks down. So, while this group has determined they no longer need to be connected to anything other than getting their own needs met, the “system” can’t support the disconnect. In fact, the system stays connected and everyone pays the price. For awhile, those in the self-declared priority group fluorish, but as in nature, with a fully alive ecosystem, with a cycle of feeding, nurturing and connections, eventually everything begins dying out.
There are much more scientific explanations I’m sure. My point really is that the answer to the state we find ourselves in today, is to return to our Natural State. To reconnect to the land, the roots we share, the same air we all breathe, the same planet we all inhabit, the same desire we all have for safety and security, to love and be loved, to have a purpose and to know our life is meaningful. I’ve seen it work in organizations and I know it could work in the world. I also know that like an organization, the leaders of the world would have to be courageous enough to demand a culture of change - a culture of caring - a respect for “everything is connected to everything else” and an awareness of the consequences when we move away from our Natural state.
In caring organizations, we partner with visionary leaders who have big, bold dreams about shaping the Nature of Care in a new way. And our butterfly logo says the rest - we believe that if can shift our attitude, perception, behavior, condition by just a tiny, tiny bit - we can create dramatic shifts in the way we care. If you’d like to know about how EarthWonders is integrating nature-based solutions into nursing, assisted, memory, palliative, hospice and in-home care settings, we invite you to visit our website at www.earthwonders.net