The Explorers Club Fieldbook is created for anyone bold enough to explore systemic investing. It’s written for our entire ecosystem: impact investors and institutions, wealth owners and peers, current and future Explorers, and the many allies who share our belief that change must be built together.
The spirit of this Fieldbook is learning by doing. Because systemic change is never the work of one author or one community — it is co-written by many. This is your Fieldbook too. More chapters will follow. Not just by us, but maybe also by you.
An intro: who we are, what we do, projects, dots and more
Systemic Infrastructure
Systemic Mindset
Embracing complexity with new tools
There Is No Such Thing as a Portfolio
The hero, the heroine and the stories we invest by
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« Back to our fieldbook Chapter 6 introThis chapter was written by Corien Botman, writer, investor and member of the Explorers Club. She brings all her capacities to bear — personal, social, spiritual and financial — in service of regeneration. In...
« Back to our fieldbook Of the most famous story in human history, the Hero's Journey, a truncated version has come to dominate — one in which the individual proves their right to exist through struggle, victory and recognition. This incomplete...
« Back to our fieldbook But let us begin with the most primal forms of masculine and feminine energy. Every conception begins with two movements that are radically different from one another: that of the sperm and that of the egg. The sperm travels...
« Back to our fieldbook Joseph Campbell described the Hero's Journey in 1949 as the universal story of humanity. In the complete form of this story, the hero leaves his familiar world, called by something that challenges him to cross the threshold....
« Back to our fieldbook The consequences of these damaged narratives are visible everywhere. In education, learning has become a competition. Children must excel, compare themselves, prove themselves. Doubt, softness and cooperation are not valued....
« Back to our fieldbook The hero is driven by the desire to prove that he matters. His investing is aimed at measurable results that confirm his choices were correct. Beneath this drive lies a specific fear: failure. Losing money, making a wrong...
« Back to our fieldbook Without the inner journey, without inner work, both masculine and feminine energy remain in the contracted form that fear requires to keep itself in check. The unfinished Hero's Journey is not hard to recognise — it sits at...
« Back to our fieldbook When we invest from fear, we invest in protection: of what we have, of who we are, of the world as it was. When we invest from love, we invest in life: in what wants to arise, in who is not yet here, in what the earth needs....
« Back to our fieldbook In the sections above I described the concepts and energies of heroes and heroines, of the masculine and feminine. Below I show what that looks like in my own investment practice — the reality from which this chapter was...
« Back to our fieldbook The Explorers Club trains systemic awareness through doing — through playing, moving, practising together. In the other chapters of this Fieldbook that happens through games and physical exercises. In this chapter it works...
« Back to our fieldbook The questions raised here are larger than a chapter can answer. How do we develop mobility between masculine and feminine energy? How do we build investment structures that let the hero and heroine dance? How do we initiate...