A TIME FOR EDGEWALKERS
The Center Cannot Hold
Crack the salt crust. Peel back the calcification. Let yourself be carried by visions. Feel into the seemingly impossible even in the midst of things breaking, cracking, collapsing.
Edgewalking is a timely response to the polycrisis—a social art whose purpose is tending to humanity and the natural world with an eye toward hospicing, healing, and ushering in transformation. Edgewalkers in finance think systemically, feel and question deeply, center relationality, and move flexibly between strategies to reform extractive systems and catalyze just and regenerative ones.
Modern finance is shaped by and perpetuates the divisions of Self, Culture, and Nature. Healing and harmonizing these spaces of reality can bring forward a regenerative & equitable future.
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SELF
Finance too often operates out of a fear-based, scarcity mindset that hoards and dominates. The work of shifting finance from harm to healing needs people with brave, conscious, and coherent inner worlds. Edge Finance opens spaces for deep inquiry into our personal edges, from untapped human potentials to intergenerational traumas and the psychology of money and wealth. Our self is an instrument of the change we seek in the world. The world is a reflection of our inner self. Knowing this, we look within to go beyond.
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CULTURE
Cultural perceptions of value, money, and finance are changing. Systemic investing is gaining mindshare. Collective efforts to address complex issues remain fragmented and require greater coordination across worldviews. Edgewalking takes us to this intangible “We” space, where relational edges become places of solidarity and creativity and we become more skillful at healing and evolving the dominant culture of finance.
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NATURE
How do we rewrite the rules, remake the incentives, rebuild the tools and institutions of finance? Can we revalue the natural world to include nature’s intrinsic value and sacredness? Who holds the power to decide and what voice does nature have? Edgewalking is imaginative and practical—we play at the innovative edge of movements, technologies, and strategies to birth a new economy and underlying financial system in right relationship with the natural and physical world.
FINANCE FOR A TIME BETWEEN WORLDS
Money is the mother of social agreements. It is unrivaled in both its responsibility for the polycrisis and as a catalyst of alternative worlds.
The investment landscape is saturated with strategies, market opportunities, and new 21st-century risk frameworks that represent step-change iterations of finance-as-usual. Continuing to funnel financial and other capitals into these structures further entrenches the dominant culture of separation, extraction, and dispossession at the root of the polycrisis.
Edge Finance is a refuge for you and your fellow edgewalkers who are often isolated on islands, separated by a sea of philanthropy and investing as usual. What are you ready to bring to the finance table that you’ve left behind and intuit is now possible?
transformative SPACES begin with bold inquiries
inquiries designed to shine light into the FINANCE darkness
► Who must we become to meet this moment of polycrisis and transition?
► How can we practice finance as a healing art?
► What adventures and challenges await on the journey to wielding money in service of all life?
► How do we know when we are creating conditions for transformation?
► How might we presence what is absent or distant—bodies, communities, the sacred—to reshape finance?