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The concept of ‘ecological organisations’ was birthed by Anna-Marie Swan in 2023 with the release into creative commons of the Ecological Organisations Framework 1.1, now Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens 2.0.

‘Ecological organisations’ is not a new story but a reimagined one of organisations as rich living systems formed of flows of relationship, care, information, and intelligence that are utterly entangled within wider ecosystems and social systems: from place to neighbourhoods, cultural stories and histories, languages and worldviews, the more-than-human to planet Earth.

Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens is shared freely so that any organisational founders, stewards, and guides that want to support organisations to move into becoming more ecological have a starting point, if they would like one. It is not intended to imply that there is only one way of being an ecological organisation or starting those explorations and experiments.

While Anna-Marie is entangled in some wonderfully supportive and collaborative networks and relationships that have influenced and helped hone this work, she is currently the sole source of this work.

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SUGGESTED PATHWAY INTO THE DESIGN LENS AND THE UNDERLYING STORY OF ECOLOGICAL ORGANISATIONS

Here’s our suggested discovery path for organisational founders, stewards, and guides, to ensure you have the tools to support your personal and shared enquiries:

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

  2. Read through the How to be in relationship with this work so that you understand the Creative Commons license that this work has been released under, and why.

  3. Read through the 3-part series exploring the underlying story of ecological organisations in Educational materials, so that you understand the core truths (lower case truths) at the core of this work:

  4. ****Becoming a more ecological organisation is an ongoing process with no end goal (it cannot be, since living systems are living, and environments and relationships are therefore always changing); and

  5. *Becoming a more ecological organisation is likely the work of generations, and this doesn't reduce the need to start becoming a more ecological organisation today.

  6. Organisational edges are a co-created story that do not exist in the material world.*

Start with Ecological Organisations pt 1: Worlding Through Really Good Stories and follow the links into the next 2 articles.

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

  2. Start running small experiments and see what changes in the system as you run those. Enjoy!

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This free Notion site has been set up to house all of the ecological organisations information and links in one place.

Head to **Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens** to explore and download the most recent version of the lens. You’ll find a PDF version, for easy zooming in and out, as well as poster versions with bleeds and without.

Head to **Educational materials** for links to articles and videos about the design lens and the underlying concept of ecological organisations, including a link to a Miro board where you can explore the lineage of this work.

Head to How to be in relationship with this work to understand the Creative Commons license that this work is released under and that all users are required to adhere to.

Head to **Funding and partnerships** to view current funding and partnership needs.

Head to About Anna-Marie and contact details to read more about Anna-Marie’s background, along with her other work focuses and to reach out about partnerships, collaborations, or client work.

Head to FAQs to read more about how to utilise the design lens, why it was designed in the first place, and the kind of work Anna-Marie does.

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