A biocultural systems process that bridges Original Peoples’ wisdom with organizational strategy and design.
Urgency without wisdom creates reactivity, not resilience.
The OLRs provide the relational and cultural foundation that makes honoring planetary boundaries possible. They translate Original Peoples’ principles, proven over millennia, into practical processes and pragmatic implementation where complexity becomes clear through kinship, relationality, and nested belonging. This guides climate action, biodiversity protection, and bioeconomy transition rooted in sacred reciprocity.
A BIOCULTURAL PROCESS INTEGRATING ANCESTRAL PRINCIPLES WITH CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
ORIGINAL LIVING
RESPONSIBILITIES
A collaboration between Earth Elders and (re)Biz.
The transition toward bioeconomy and circular economy is essential, yet incomplete and impossible without worldview shift. The Original Living Responsibilities, born from a convergence of Mother Earth's original instructions and systemic transformation, embed kinship ethics, ancestral governance, and ethno-ecological timekeeping into economic redesign.
Guided by Earth Elders and bridge-designed by Ryan (Ra) James Kemp of (re)Biz & Quantum Systems Revelation, the OLRs weave ancestral wisdom with contemporary systems thinking, shifting from extraction to regenerative responsibility, where circularity includes ceremony, biomimicry learns from nature as elder, and regeneration means giving back, and forward.
Frameworks and tools are nouns, professional structures that serve us well. The OLRs are verb-based processes, living alongside those structures, processional invitations to remember that we are woven into both the crises we face and the kin we share this planet with. Our actions are offerings as well as measurable outputs. Our leadership embraces stewardship and care while engaging innovation and creation, grounding them in context, relationship, and continuity across time.
We created the OLRs because we have seen what happens when transformation forgets the sacred, and what becomes possible when it remembers. We are here to be re-woven into Earth, to participate in her intelligence. These responsibilities are ancestral agreements, spiritual callings, and pathways of repair that stretch across time-space and species, invitations to both honor what has always worked and respond to what this moment calls for.
In a world moving at the speed of growth and urgency, the OLRs ask: what would it mean to live and lead while remembering that Mother Earth is speaking, watching, listening, and responding to us? What if every decision we made was overheard by the soil, witnessed by the waters, and remembered by our future children—and we allowed that awareness to inform our choices alongside our strategic needs?