Soulprint

These enterprises deliver across multiple bottom lines, simultaneously creating outcomes for our planet, people, profit. There are multiple groups and global movements creating such ‘meta-business’. Examples include donut economics, social enterprise, impact investing and ‘Game B’ businesses. They are discretely different from traditional business models and recognise the interconnectedness of business, society, and the environment.

This type of human endeavor and commerce outcompetes the old, extractive outdated systems. Some are nascent, developing and iterating. Some are already present past tipping points e.g. electric cars and decreasing total consumption of oil in countries such as China. Some are wholistic such as business models of many of Soulprint’s partners.

Emergence means something new arises that wasn’t here before.

Daniel Schmachtenberger

This is a phenomena fundamental to our world and the universe. Higher orders of organisation consistently evolve from diversity. E.g. our cells perform different functions yet together they co-create a person. This evolution is both encouraging and unexpected. As Ken Wilber puts it “the universe is a probability enhancing machine”.

Emergence is particularly relevant today. Meeting our global conditions is asking us for a paradigm shift. We have collective global problems and they will be answered through co-created solutions. Fortuitously, that shift mirrors evolutionary change, it is a higher order. One that is supported by “synergies of spirit and earth”

This is the inner and outer wisdom of transformation. It is recognising that our effective agency—being aligned, awake and effective—means hosting space for and working with:

1. inner states, subtle, spiritual and emotional
2. cultures, outliers and the social norms all around us, spoken and unspoken
3. the systems that bring this all together, our politics, infrastructure, environment
4. individual behavior, what we physically do, the individual actions, care and stewardship we bring to any given circumstances.

This is an integral theory of change, everything has these four dimensions. We pay attention to which aspects we’re privileging and consciously decide to narrow or broaden our focus.