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2022: Developing the Field Guide to Flourishing

Finding the Language of a Flourishing Future

Ruth Glendinning
4 min readJun 6, 2022

Field Guide to Flourishing

The Field Guide to Flourishing concept came to me as a vision in 2016. The core of the story at that time was a series of visuals that I had sketched out in a few notebooks over the prior years that illustrated the ‘how’ of flourishing.

From 2018 to 2020, the ‘why’ became much clearer…

One of the purposes of the Field Guide to Flourishing is to provide access to the message in a close to the ground, pop culture referenced way, providing tools for people to identify their wisdom, then look at their household/community/world through that lens, drawing in other wisdom leaders, including children in the community. Just as the Information age led to the Knowledge economy (ME, ‘My Experience’); the Knowledge age is creating the Wisdom economy (WE, ‘Wisdom Exchange’) ~ Transacting Transformation from Me to We

Finally, in 2021 the language began to emerge in the form of poetry.

I am often asked why I chose poetry as my creative expression. Actually, poetry seems…

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Ruth Glendinning
Ruth Glendinning

Written by Ruth Glendinning

Community Architect // Published Poet // Future Story Lab // Anti-Fragile Playbook // S.L.O.W. Tech // #womenswork Buy my book! https://a.co/d/5MG47Di

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