6.2 Lección-2: Investir desde unha mente rexenerativa

A idea do investimento de impacto, que pretende utilizar a riqueza financeira como vehículo para mellorar o mundo, é unha idea que os bancos, as institucións, as corporacións e as persoas están adoptando cada vez máis. Os investidores de impacto adoitan invertir en proxectos ou empresas que consideran que poden ter un impacto apalancado nunha necesidade particular, como a restauración ambiental, o alivio da pobreza ou a redución de carbono atmosférico. Esta estratexia varía da filantropía tradicional porque ten como obxectivo gañar cartos. Os investidores de impacto pensan que este é o mellor método para promover a iniciativa e o espírito emprendedor ao tempo que se aseguran que hai fondos dispoñibles para máis investimentos.

O investimento de impacto naceu dun desexo sincero de cambiar o mundo e de provocar unha transformación significativa na forma en que viven as persoas no planeta. En xeral, ten como obxectivo mellorar os danos socioecolóxicos (usando o paradigma do trastorno da detención) ou facer avanzar tanto os sistemas humanos como os naturais.

Queremos presentar unha estratexia alternativa de investimento de impacto que se basea no paradigma rexenerativo e que pretende ir máis alá de facer pequenos axustes para actualizar sistemas completos.

A paradigm shift to the regeneration level entails much more than just a simple adjustment to an investor’s approach. It essentially calls for a shift in the way individuals perceive and comprehend their interaction with the outside environment. Because regeneration calls for people to invest themselves as well as their material assets, it also necessitates a change in aspiration and direction toward the activity of investment. Together, this means that it necessitates creating a regenerative mind.

The term “mind” refers to all conscious and unconscious mental activity and processes, such as emotion, habit, reasoning, sensory perception, and so forth. Regeneration is the process of drawing out something’s essence and allowing it to evolve so that it can manifest in a new way and add fresh value to a new environment. Seeing the intrinsic completeness, agency, and potentiality in living phenomena, a regenerative mind actively engages with their innate capacity for regeneration.

Company owners and entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to boost their positive impacts on social and ecological systems. They almost always show a sincere desire to make the world a better place: “We want to make a difference,” they declare. These noble intentions, however, are rarely matched by knowledge and procedures sophisticated enough to bring about lasting change. This is typically the case because the desire to do good is anchored in an outmoded paradigm that has an anthropocentric view of the universe. Those who want to improve the world will naturally define and work toward what they regard as right and good. The same concerns are raised in relation to investment, which has recently seen its definition change. For instance, it is becoming increasingly clear that the phrase need not just refer to traditional financial instruments that offer the promise of a financial return. Moreover, the term “investment” can be used to describe the commitment (or “self-investment”) that involves something besides money, with the hope of receiving positive results.

Impact investing, on the other hand, is concentrated on making it possible for whole-systems actualization to occur. The process through which a system’s innate potential manifests or becomes actual is known as actualization. As a result, it can be inferred that an impact effort is regenerative if it results in systemic changes or evolutionary processes that reveal potential new for a system as a whole. This is very different from assessing consequences in terms of changes in a desired but constrained metric, such the number of homeless individuals who have received housing.

A different investment orientation is necessary to redefine impact in terms of systems actualization. For starters, it necessitates understanding how systems are layered within one another and viewing systems as wholes as opposed to bits and pieces. Additionally, it begins with a system’s nature and questions how it will evolve rather than starting with what we wish to change about it.

Cando se ve desde unha perspectiva rexenerativa, o investimento xa non se ve como algo que se trae para provocar un cambio (paradigma de facer o ben), senón máis ben como algo ao que un Sistema chama para facilitar a súa propia evolución (paradigma da vida rexenerada). máis aló da comprensión convencional e da práctica aceptada é necesario para desenvolver un pensamento verdadeiramente novedoso para facer descubrimentos de orde superior á vida na Terra. Para iso, hai que ter un comprensión dos movementos e enerxías subxacentes que serven de base para tácticas innovadoras que permitan aos sistemas cambiar a graos máis altos de expresión e realizar o seu propio potencial.

The mind of a regenerative investor must also be regenerative. To do this, one must be prepared to go beyond education and experience in to understand and interact with the environment in novel ways. That is a lengthy, difficult procedure. After all, letting go of one’s certainties and the things that have historically worked is never an easy task. But at this pivotal time in history, this kind of course correction is required. The framework that follows provides an overview of the extent of a process for developing fresh perspectives that make it possible to identify and realize the inherent potential of living systems.

• The phrase “essence-to-essence link” describes the mentality one must adopt: one that recognizes and respects the unique qualities and untapped potential of every living system. We must learn to relate to them as autonomous beings if we are to transition from acting on to working with the natural systems, raw resources, local cultures, and people that our investments and enterprises influence.
• The term “systems evolution” refers to the capacity to see a world of process, dynamism, and flow in which life develops to its full potential and becomes richer, more structured, and more complicated. This applies to the evolution of economies, animals, and ecosystems, as well as societies, and it necessitates accepting ambiguity and uncertainty as the building blocks of original ideas.
• O pensamento dos sistemas vivos é o proceso mediante o cal a mente pode modelar as súas accións segundo a forma en que funcionan os sistemas vivos. A teoría dos sistemas vivos, por exemplo, pon máis énfase nos conxuntos que nos fragmentos, no potencial que na realidade, na esencia que nas categorías xerais, etc.
• Self-managing and self-determining systems must be capable of managing themselves and making decisions for themselves. This is crucial to shifting relationships with biological systems from extractive or authoritarian to regenerative. At the regenerative level, investing always aims to increase communities’, individuals’, and ecosystems’ capacity to successfully shape their own futures. When this is the case, businesses and investors are appropriately viewed as allies as opposed to predators.
• The ability to keep track of one’s own thoughts and determine which paradigm is influencing it is referred to as discernment levels. Because to ingrained habits and social constraints, working at a regeneration level is impossible without this skill. Instead, one will automatically shift to a lower order of paradigm.