Suggested pathway through this guidebook

Here is a suggested pathway for organisational founders, stewards, and guides that want to start exploring what it is to be an ecological organisation and would appreciate some guidance.

1. Read through the Ecological Organisations introduction page.

2. Spend some time with the most recent version of Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens. Download it, print it off, zoom in and out, spend time with it individually and/or with others.

3. Read through the Being in relationship with this work so that you understand the Creative Commons license that this work has been released under, and why.

4. Befriend Mapping this work's lineage.

5. Read through the 3-part series exploring the underlying story of ecological organisations, so that you understand the four premises at the core of this work in greater depth:

• All organisations are ecological in nature, and not all organisations are ecological in practise.

• Becoming a more ecological organisation in practise is an ongoing process with no end goal (it cannot be, since living systems are living, with processes, relationships, and outcomes that are always shifting and evolving).

• Becoming a more ecological organisation in practise is likely the work of generations, and this doesn't reduce the need to start moving towards being a more ecological organisation.

• Today's systems make it impossible for any organisation to be ecological in practise.

1. Head to FAQs and read the answer to the question ‘Where do I start?’ in the first section.

2. Start running small, iterative experiments and see what changes in the organisation. Enjoy!