The Seven Practices
The research on transforming how we work to build beloved economies illuminated seven practices that were common across these exceptional cases.
These practices are a springboard for transforming work—toward vital forms of success, and a world of shared power and prosperity.
1. Share Decision-Making Power
Operating as peers across teams and groups - trusting one another to hold creative decision-making authority, impart insight, and share the risks and returns of our work together.
4. Seek Difference
Refusing to accept business-as-usual assumptions about who should be at the table and cultivating multiple, meaningful forms of diversity among our groups.
6. Trust There Is Time
Choosing to believe that there is always time available to prioritize authentic connection, reflection, and care in how we work — including through following these practices.
2. Prioritize Relationships
Dedicating time and care to connect as human beings in our everyday interactions with team members and people in the broader community whom our work affects.
7. Prototype Early & Often
Sharing and testing ideas at each step of a process, and deciding together what best next steps to take from what we learn.
5. Source From Multiple Ways of Knowing
Considering, valuing, and attuning to multiple types of knowledge, ranging from technical training to lived experience to spirituality to what we sense from the living world.
3. Reckon With History
Operating as peers across teams and groups - trusting one another to hold creative decision-making authority, impart insight, and share the risks and returns of our work together.
Learn much more about each of these practices, what they can look like in action, and how they collectively connect to transforming our work and broader economy, in the award-winning book Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work
“Beloved Economies offers a deeply compelling vision of a world in which the relationship between work, the environment, and human flourishing is one of harmony rather than friction and inequity.”
— Eric Ries, author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup
“Beloved Economies is a pragmatic guide for all of us who know we are ready to move beyond our current extractive and violent economy.”
— adrienne maree brown, author of New York Times bestseller Pleasure Activism