Syntropic World Founder and Chief Steward
Christine McDougall
A Thirty + year applied student of
R.Buckminster Fuller
Inadvertently introduced to Bucky in my mid twenties, and luckily able to study his work intensely over 7 days in the early 90’s I have recognised Bucky as my main mentor. I have applied his models to teams, human co-ordination and enterprise design for over thirty years.
“You continue to astound me with your deep insights. You truly are one of Bucky’s most brilliant heirs. Your mind is amazing. Thank you so much for continuing to express yourself so clearly. You are a light in the dark that surrounds us in space and time. “
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Guiding Principles
Integrity
*All of my work starts with Integrity. Easy word to say, hard to live by, even harder to build a life and enterprise with integrity as the foundation. To be able to go to sleep each night knowing that you have lived the highest expression of your integrity…this is to have a good sleep.
*I build models and maps. I help others build models. I like to co-build models most of all. “Argue with the model,” said Bucky. I am most passionate about building new models that make the old obsolete. I have built models of organisational design that enable people to thrive as they co-create world changing projects together, without human upset and entirely self managed. Read an example of this in The Trust Manifesto of Syntropic Enterprises. The result of 30 years of model building. It works.
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Speaker
I am alive on stage teaching, speaking, challenging. I speak of all things Syntropic. Integrity. Steward Leadership. Synergy. Clean Communication. Evolutionary Purpose.
‘To hear Christine McDougall speak is to witness a unique mix of passion and integrity. Christine brings decades of life experience combined with an amazing skill set that has come from a beautifully diverse ecosystem of experiential and diverse study and interest. The work of Buckminster Fuller is the holding space for what has emerged through Christine in the form of Syntropic World. We are all indeed being called forth, in our own unique way, to midwife a world with a future into being. Christine helps to give you an architecture for that emergence’.
Nikki Thompson Soil2Soul.
The Conscious Company Article
“Perhaps instead of saying It’s time to burn it all down, but how do we do that, and how do we rebuild it, we should start asking how we can benefit the most people, value the most contributions, and work towards our 100-year goal of a truly Syntropic world? Yes, 100-year goal – not Q3 goal. Syntropic looks well into the future and thinks about the cost of everything (the cost to the earth, humans, government, and more).”
Christine speaks to the Cambridge Greens, UK
Limited Edition Podcast Series
Episode 01: Syntropic Voyage – Charting Course Towards Life And Hope
In this podcast Christine and Jan discuss how humanity’s present and future might be if we held life as sacred in all of our work, play and enterprise. We explore life and work as devotion. A vow and commitment to the things that matter most. We contemplate reverence as a business practice – a deep and abiding respect for our staff, customers, the future, and all stakeholders, including ourselves. We paint the picture of possibility forged from a new beginning as the world that is tearing itself apart slips further into the shadows.
They share a hopeful story, asking us to reach inside and connect with our Soulful longing for the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
How might we establish enterprises, any human endeavour, where life is held as sacred in all domains? Where humans come together and create together in ways that evoke awe and delight. Where we grow up together as we create and design the project, service or technology that we care deeply about that supports an increase in well-being for a hundred percent of life.
Episode 02: Human Symphonies – Partnerships For A Syntropic Planet
Join Christine and Sarah in their moving, enlightening and far-reaching conversation exploring how we have these truths:
- Each life has value, and each life is unique.
- Humans want to make a valuable contribution, to belong, to be a part of something that asks them to be better than their small selves.
- We do not want to feel exploited, to be extracted to extinction, to colonise or be colonised.
- We long for beauty, creativity, and connection – to touch, daily, the sacred and awe.
This podcast examines – then what do we do? We redesign everything in partnership with life.
We learn from Sarah’s work about how a Syntropic Enterprise is a living system. It is biological. It has cells, membranes, and organs. No one part can thrive without the other. Communication flows are exquisite and extraordinary. It has a nervous system. It also has consciousness connected to the greater consciousness of the field.
Episode 03: Systems In Syntropy – A Global Ecology Of Integrity And Trust
In this powerful, confronting and passionate conversation Christine and Cindy discuss the practice of Syntropy.
What happens when we animate the critical elements of a Syntropic Enterprise?
How does it affect people, not just those actively participating but also those affected by the enterprise in the near and very far term?
We hold this in tension with our current Molochian world, where the system is designed for win-lose: accumulation to the few at the cost of the many, extraction to extinction, colonisation and exploitation of people and life.
Human history is bloody, cruel and violent.
Yet so is our present.
Don’t miss the insights from these two thought-leaders as they uncover the possibilities in a Syntropic future.
Episode 04: The Future Is Syntropic – Success Is A Thriving Planet
In the fourth episode of this podcast mini-series comes a fascinating and action-packed exchange between Christine and DJ Carey – a call to action, with the rich rewards available when we take the Syntropic path. This episode invites you to move from the impossible to the possible. To overcome the too big, too hard, too uncertain cannot be obstacles – and to join in syntropy as allies. Be challenged to turn to the horizon – to advance on Gandhi’s quote, Be the Change. To live the change you intend to create, now, in all ways, all the time.
DJ and Christine will call you to action to free the sustainable, regenerative, syntropic world from the cages of entropic systems. One trim tab change at the individual level. One trim tab change at the enterprise level.
This podcast talks to creating a scaffolding for a Syntropic Life, including the use of technology, and a Syntropic Enterprise and examines why this is this important. Hear about how to get involved and why.
Explore my daily blog: Beauty of Beginnings
See the real threat
We must stop playing this constructed game and see the real threat true. We are too busy being terrified of those at the bottom of the ladder trying to usurp our position
I know
I know. Humility and the accepted willingness that our knowing is wrong must partner with knowing. Otherwise, we become fundamentalists.
Running in the rain
Running in the rain. There is a threshold to cross, from just wet to fully wet, that might feel uncomfortable.
Christine speaks about Syntropic World
Graduates representing Countries
We have to start with the whole
Why?
RE- Design Business + Remember Who We Are
In 2019 I was fed up. Fed up with morally bankrupt leaders and broken systems – so I started a movement that would strive to leave everything touched, better. This idea, this evolution, this intention …became Syntropic World.
It’s a completely new take on business. No more rearranging the deck chairs. We are building a whole new boat for the success of 100% of humanity, Earth and all her creatures without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
Syntropic World is creating business for a world with a future. A world where integrity, multiple domains of value, human connection and well-being are honoured on the balance sheet.
The greatest exponentially technology available is the human mind working together synergistically. But how do we create ecologies of synergy – where we are better together? And how do we have these ecologies of synergy become normal operations rather than the exception?
How do we reconnect with the unique Pattern Integrity of who we are, for when we bring our gorgeous uniqueness to our work and lives, in deliberately designed ecolgies for synergy, around a purpose we all deeply care about for a world with a future, we can do impossible things regularly.
Zero exploitation. Zero extraction to extinction. Zero colonisation.
Towards a Syntropic World.
My path to here
Under a Big Blue Sky
R. Buckminster Fuller has been my main mentor since my mid twenties. As an ongoing student of his work I speak systems, design and the geometry of relationships and integrity with fluency.
I was one of the global founders of the Coaching Profession in the 90’s. I was the first non USA Board member of the Global Board of the International Coach Federation (ICF) holding this role for five years, in the final year as Vice President. I was the founding President of the Australasian ICF, setting up the Chapter system in Australia and around the world.
I have worked within the corporate, leadership, startup and future of business space with 100% focus since 1998 – in the early days as a coach, then evolving to create and lead businesses, partner with teams worldwide and mentor leaders who are creating a whole new kind of world.
In 2013 I pitched Sir Richard Branson an idea around his book, Screw Business as Usual.
This pitch led to the creation of a world class event, Big Blue Sky, in 2015 and 2016, in my local city, to convene multi sectorial members of the community, plus a few provocateurs from around the world, to co-create solutions for the future of our city.
‘The greatest exponential technology is thoughtfully designed human relationships’ Christine McDougall
Books & Publications
Communications skills
Speak the Truth
How to speak with truth with compassion. A 7 step process.
Business design
How to Start a Syntropic Enterprise
A practical workbook covering the initial critical elements of how to start a Syntropic Enterprise
Trust Manifesto for Syntropic Enterprises
Coordinating people around a purpose they care about is never easy. This is a powerful document/agreement that enables diverse teams to co-create enterprises with elegance. No matter the size of your enterprise some form of Trust Manifesto is critical if you want human synergistics, where we are better together.
Photos from my life. My partner Tony. My daughter Natalie. Writing Beauty of Beginnings from the back of our van. Our dog Milly.
