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LNS History

Jane Cull is the Founder and Leading Consultant for Life's Natural Solutions. She is an author and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Systems Studies (a bi-annual academic journal dedicated to applied systems theory). Her journey into Circularity, Sustainability and Associated studies began in 1994 and has included many major landmark events to the present day.

2006

  • Seminar/Workshop, San Francisco, USA. Biology of Human Existence, Institutional Evolution & Sustainability.

    A biological foundation was provided for understanding human beings, cognition, emotions, social relations, and culture for attendees to design a sustainable matrix of human co-existence, the conscious evolution of institutions and culture. Attendees included organizational management consultants, group process consultants and leadership trainers in sustainability. This seminar/workshop was done in conjunction with Manuel Manga, Centre for Evolutionary Leadership. www.evolutionleader.com.

2005

  • Presentation - The Human Social Construction of Reality.

    Diverse range of attendees: ontological coaching, representatives from the Foresight Institute (creating better sustainable futures) and Eco Steps (sustainability consulting),PhD students and an Associate Professor of the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University (Melbourne). Key questions were presented - Is the world independent from us? Is the world a social construction? What are the larger social implications of a human socially constructed world? Held in Melbourne, Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia.

  • Seminar/Workshop, Brisbane, Australia. Radical Sustainability: A New Vision - A New World.

    Based on a perceptual shift to a circular systemic worldview, participants were invited to generate a new vision that would sustain social and environmental systems. Practical solutions were devised. Participants included representatives from several Engineering Firms, Kellogg Brown,Root; GeoLink; PMM Group; Price Waterhouse Coopers, Gold Coast Wastewater Treatment Services, Sala Homes and The Gondwana Centre, an ecological adult learning centre.

  • Presentation - Social Construction of Reality

    Forum of PhD students, Senior Lecturers and various Departmental Heads. Green, Wired, Safe Australia - An Educational, Leadership, Policy Action and Research Concentration. Key questions were presented - Is the world independent from us? Is the world a social construction? What are the larger social implications of a human socially constructed world? Held at University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, New South Wales, Australia.

  • Seminar/Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Radical Sustainability: A New Worldview.

    A perceptual shift from a linear dualistic western worldview based on separation, to a natural circular systemic worldview that reflects how we, nature and the cosmos are, systemically interconnected and mutually interdependent systems. New social systems, methods and technologies are founded on this paradigm shift as a way to resolve present social and environmental problems stemming from current western worldview. Participants were from a diverse range of fields including academia, local government and community developers.

2004

  • Internet Workshop on 'Being'

    This was an experiential journey on what shows up perceptually and behaviorally when in a biological state of 'trust', being. Exercises were given to trigger this biological state of trust along with how the state can be maintained in daily life. Workshop participants included lay and academic people interested in a paradigm shift from the theories of living systems.

1998

  • Seminar/Workshop, Boston, USA. The Ontology of the Observer, The Biology of Cognition and the Biology of Love.

    Co-presented with Prof. Fernando Gonzalez on Participants included people from business, academia, social change and the arts.

  • Internet Workshop: The Boundary and Closure of Living Systems

    Applicability of the theories of living systems to daily life. Reflections on the importance of boundaries and closure of all living systems as a way of understanding how living systems are and what they do as a result of their biological operation. Academic audience.

1997

  • Poster Presentation, The Boundary of an Autopoietic System: The Skin as a Biological and Psychological Interface, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

    Co-presented with Dr Steven Hoath of the Skin Sciences Institute, International Symposium on Autopoiesis, Biology, Cognition, Language and Society.

1994

  • The Theories of Living Systems as a Paradigm Shift

    International Green Left Conference held in Sydney, Australia.