
We are very happy to invite you to the next IFIS - Colloquium with Tom Mansfield from Pale Blue on Wednesday 15th Oct 2025 at 20h (CEST) on the topic
"Guiding our journey from a world of objects to a world of relationships"
Tom has developed the tool Cards for Life, which supports individuals and teams to bring living systems thinking into cultures and organisations. The cards work as a guidance system and a shared language to define regeneration in particular situations, sectors and contexts. .
Cards for Life is much more than a deck of cards, it’s a connected way of seeing the world. A set of key concepts for ‘Living Systems Thinking’ that shifts our focus from ‘objects’ to ‘relationships’, helping us to regenerate the connections between self & world, humans & nature
Tom Mansfield is the founder of Pale Blue where he offers Coaching and Consulting in service to Planetary Health. Self-taught in many subjects as an autodidact he naturally creates tools and programmes for participatory learning with a focus on alignment between individuals and the life of the world. His current focus is on frameworks for regenerative practice in business and organisational design where he is living the question ‘How do organisations participate regeneratively in life sustaining systems?’. Cards for Life and the larger Thinking like Gaia training and workbook is a response to this question which supports individuals and teams with a coaching approach to bring ‘living systems thinking’ into the cultures where they live and work. For more information see here
Please register here for the colloquium. We will send the zoomlink shortly before the event.
Looking forward to exploring with you how we can shift from objects to relationships.
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And on Monday, Oct 13th at 10h CEST
our board member Angelika Pohnitzer is offering a Q&A session on the ACE Leadership Excellerator for Women Leaders for experienced women leaders in the not-for-profit worlds. The next edition starts in January 2026 in Vienna
Please register here for the event