Namaste. Hola. Nĭ Hăo. Kia Ora. Salam. Hujambo. Hello.
This is Kâli Sapien*.
You may refer to me as Kâli Sapien or Mansi whichever feels more from your heart. Neither is preferred as I am both equally. If your heart chooses Kâli Sapien, use it in its entirety, meaning not just Kâli.
I am reimagining the story of sapiens for our collective liberation/healing/transformation/regeneration. My dogged KNOWING is that renewal of the planet and sapiens is not a matter of making it happen, but recognising that it is already happening and choosing to live it. My life’s work is dedicated to making this KNOWING visible and tangible in the most weirdly creative way to enliven and inspire 1 million sapiens with a reparative bias for those at the base of the pyramid!
I have spent the last 16 years in the field of design, art, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social impact. While life experiences and intergenerational trauma brought about neurodivergence with many symptoms of CTSD (Complex trauma stress syndrome), I have tasted my own aliveness and I am proudly addicted to it. Please explore my blog to support you through your own journey toward radical (S)self acceptance and building eco-bio-spiritual relationships with other sapiens.
I aspire my death to be a long and extraordinary life (Atticus). My story to be an example of post-traumatic thrivability and radical human badassery despite present-day fuckery.
*[Kâli Sapien: phonetically ‘Cah-lee’, English “ah” as in an American “hot” or British “bath”and ‘Say-pee-in as in Homo Sapien
Mansi: phonetically, man + like ‘a’ in Elan + see. ]
How My Work Will Benefit You
The core inquiries that I explore through my work and writings are:
How do we build the skillsets and mindsets for regeneration?
How do we leverage the chaordic richness of complexity and diversity at scale with human, hardware and digital technologies?
How do we shift culture towards an ecozoic era systemically?
How do we have conversations that align with the flow of emergence while including the expertise created thus far?
How can decisions be equitable and efficient? How can networks be healing?
How do we mine the power of our interconnectedness in our organizations, networks, and ecosystems?
How do we heal trauma on a global scale using innovation and technology?
…and more. However, my greatest drive is to design practical tools for application of these inquiries in our daily life as leaders in the current social, political and ecological climate toward social transformation.
AS INNOVATOR & LEADER
I am the Zentrepeneur of The Social Innovation Collective: an incubator devoted to brave disruptors embodying regenerative innovation, The Fireweed Expedition: an immersive experience devoted to enlivening change-makers.
AS WRITER & SPEAKER
11 yrs ago I started an 'unreasonable' journey. Without a job or savings, I decided to fuel an intuitive hunch. Since then, I‘ve convened 1000s of people across many cultures and disciplines and synthesised my learning into Regenerative Innovation (RI).
AS ARTIST & PERFORMER
I weave poetry, art, dance, drama, music, and memes into multi-dimensional performances, exhibitions, and experiences to help renew humanity and the planet with play and provocations. You may find my latest performance video here.
All these creations aim to make transformation effortless, playful, sexy, and sticky!
regenerative:
( verb | noun ) re·generation
The incredible ability generated by embodying the most evolved potential of human interconnectedness, that alchemizes wicked problems by healing keystone relationships at scale.
Speaking Highlights
Regenerative Innovation - Evolutionary Futures Lab, 2022
Regenerative Business Models’ at Hult International Business School, March, 2021
‘Rebuilding with regenerative relationships’ - Fractal Friends Podcast, Oct 2020
‘Regenerative Innovation’ at Purposeful Business Summit, July 27th, 2020
‘Regenerative Innovation’ at Techstars Startup Week West Slope 2020, Colorado, July 16th, 2020
Spoken Word at Thrive East Bay, Oakland CA - Jan 2020
Spoken Word at Nora Bateson’s Warm Data Lab, Oakland, CA - Oct 2019
Spoken Word at BK Authors Retreat, Oconomowoc, WI - Sepetmber 2019
‘Regenerative Innovation’ Keynote at Pollination, San Francisco, CA - July 2019
Writing Highlights
Articles
1. Love is knowing how to choose: On eros, soul, war, zen, and death.
2. Unrolling Wipegate: What toilet paper teaches us about media, capitalism, privilege, implicit bias, and racism.
3. Sincerity, the antidote to the pain of future failure.
Others:
2020: I did not take the pledge of allegiance.
2020: Regenerative Innovation: How to design in uncertainty with human, ecological and economic equity
2019: My dearest and beautiful revolutionaries
2019: How are you feeling today?
2018: 30 things that I love about myself
2017: Don’t say happy earth day to me, please. Seriously.
Poems & Prose
1. The ballet of the bouquet
2. My Secret Garden
3. Have you tasted your problem?
4. Tea With Troubles
5. Constellations