Most people spend over 40% of their waking hours at work; in jobs and environments that we traditionally see as limiting, as the place we go so that we can really ‘live’ our lives, pay bills, go on vacation, buy things that we need and want. We spend nearly half of our waking hours in this place where we ‘have to’ go in order to live. What if our working environments hold the potential to invite and nurture health, humor, compassion and truth? What if our working lives could be as fulfilling as our home lives? What if it's not work that holds you back but your own context for thinking about work? Imagine the alternatives if you were to change your mind. Change your mind and you change your life!

The fundamental operating unit of any organization is the individual human being. Without individual human beings (not resources, or groups, or teams) interacting with other individual human beings – one on one or in groups – face-to-face or via paper or technology – the organization ceases to exist. Work is nothing more than a collective of individuals, coming together with the intention to produce a particular product or service. As each of these individual living systems come together with other individual living systems, we create larger living systems that are a reflection of the individuals who created it. What we have come to call a corporate culture is not a thing on its own; it is a reflection of something else, with that something else being the internal states of the human beings who go there.

WEL-Systems (Work Environments as Living Systems) tools and processes provide a context for change that doesn't just tell people that they are in charge of their own lives, it helps them to rediscover the natural expression of this and become willing to reclaim it. Emergent Futures uses the WEL-Systems tools and processes in conjunction with other methodologies to assist individuals and organizations to invite and nurture health, humor, compassion and truth within each individual, and within the living system of the organization. We assist you in creating working environments and working lives that are equally as fulfilling as life outside of the office.

Contact Us to begin a dialogue about using WEL-Systems to assist your organization in creating an inviting and nurturing working environment.