Seemingly random yet completely perfect
At 17, I found myself at Melbourne University Architecture School. I did not enjoy it. I moved to RMIT and got a bachelor’s Degree in Applied Science, with a major in Chiropractic. Science and biology. I only realised in the last four years that I was trained as a scientist. (Falling on the floor laughing at myself.)
I knew in the last six months of my six years that I did not want to practice. It was too narrow a field for my hungry diverse mind.
I kissed many career frogs for a long time, searching. At the age of twenty-six, I was introduced to the work of R. Buckminster Fuller. His work became the backbone of my life and work.
My best friend introduced me to the infant profession of coaching in the mid-nineties when the only coaches were those on the sports field.
I found myself executive coaching in the banking industry, working on cultural change programs and advanced communication. I brought Bucky’s tools into human relational design and teaming.
When coaching became an everyone and the dog industry (very quickly), I exited. I am a pioneer, not a member of the pack.
I was on the search, again, for the next.
I convened many people around many ideas, only to have them all fall into a messy human heap. Great people, no structure to our teaming.
In 2015 I was inspired to create what became Big Blue Sky – a gathering of multi-stakeholders to co-create the future of the city I lived in. A team of extraordinary people co-created this event, all without a single human upset and entirely self-managed. It was breathtaking and brilliant. The enterprise architecture was the Trust Manifesto and the Synergistic Audit – the two key tools that are central to Syntropic World. A human symphonic team pulled off a phenomenal event. No more messy human heaps – instead, ecologies of synergy.
From architecture to biology to coaching to creating ecologies of synergy using an enterprise architecture with geometry built in.
At the time, the journey was confusing, random, and non-sensical.
Yet now, in hindsight, it is incredibly perfect and profoundly sense-making. Every step. Even the decade-plus of single status, discarding the need to be in an intimate relationship with another, discovering intimacy with myself.
Simultaneously with the birth of my life work, the birth of my incredible relationship.
If you are lost and confused, please trust that the story is not fully written. The puzzle pieces have not yet arrived fully. With time, you, too, might know the experience of acknowledging the perfection of the journey that brought you to the place where you get to be 100% all of you.
Photo Taken September 6th 2024
