Source of Synergy
Foundation
Together we achieve more than we ever could alone
What is Synergy?
Synergy is what happens when connections create something new; when things work together better than they do alone. Muscles coordinate. Chemicals combine. People collaborate. Synergy is when parts or souls combine to produce something greater than their sum. The Greeks called it synergos: "working together". It's not a metaphor, it's a principle of reality and it shows up everywhere.
[sin-er-jee]/ ˈsɪn ər dʒi /
- broadly: combined action or operation
2. a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct participants or elements (such as resources or efforts)
3. (synergism): conditions such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual effects
-Merriam Webster
Biological Synergy
Your heart doesn't pump blood alone. It works in coordination with arteries, veins, lungs, the nervous system. No single organ could circulate oxygen through your body. The system does what the parts cannot; in constant collaboration
Ecological Synergy
Mycorrhizal networks connect tree roots underground, sharing nutrients, sending chemical signals about threats. Trees that should be competing are cooperating. The forest thinks—slowly, chemically, collectively. No single organism runs it. The intelligence belongs to the relationship.
Creative Synergy
In a Jazz quartet the bassist responds to the drummer who follows the pianist who's vibing off the the saxophonist who's riding the bass. The music exists in the listening—in the space between players. Remove one and you don't lose 25%. You lose the whole of it.
Universal Synergy
Buckminster Fuller spent decades trying to get people to understand one idea: you cannot predict a system's behavior by studying its components in isolation. A triangle's strength doesn't exist in any single strut. Water's wetness doesn't exist in hydrogen or oxygen. The property belongs to the relationship.
He wasn't being mystical. He was being precise. Synergy is what happens when the whole has properties its parts don't have and couldn't predict. He called Synergy "a fundamental property of Universe itself".
Synergy Starts with Connection
Every Connection Sparks Possibility
SOURCING SYNERGY is a state of conscious connection. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected and global crises grow more complex, we must utilize the power of Synergy to connect deeply, bridge divides, and find creative new approaches to the challenges we're facing together.
Tap into this force and reimagine what is possible. It's about evolving our very essence—our values, behaviors and systems—to create a world that works for the good of all life.
Why Synergy Matters Now
We're facing problems no one can solve alone. Climate, polarization, economic fragility, the erosion of trust—these aren't issues any single organization or nation or ideology can fix. They're systemic. They exist in the relationships between things.
And yet most of our institutions were designed for a different era. They optimize for competition, individual achievement, siloed expertise. We've gotten very good at the parts. We've neglected the whole.
Synergy can be activated by anyone, anywhere, at any time. It's a practice—a capacity we can develop until it becomes part of everyday life. Connect deeply, bridge divides, find creative approaches to the challenges we're facing together. This is how we create a world that works for the good of all life.
How We Source Synergy
Bringing Visionaries Together, Catalyzing Collaboration and Engagement, Communicating Synergy
Evolutionary Leaders
Evolutionary Leaders is a community of global thought leaders from diverse fields who come together in synergy to inspire and support new models of leadership and visionary action where collaboration thrives, partnerships emerge, and creative solutions take flight.
Retreats/Advances
The Source of Synergy Foundation organizes gatherings where leaders, visionaries, and innovators from various fields come together to synergize and inspire deeper community connections, cooperative partnerships and new insights that propel and elevate the evolutionary movement for global change.
Our Moment of Choice
The Source of Synergy Foundation’s debut book is a powerful, uplifting, and timely call to action, offering visionary insights, transformative resources, and actionable steps from 43 members of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. Together, they guide us through this pivotal moment of choice and amplify the global movement for transformation on which our future depends. Our Moment of Choice has earned prestigious honors, including the 2020 Gold Nautilus Award in Rising to the Moment, the 2021 New York Book Festival Award for Compilations/Anthologies, the 2021 COVR Silver Visionary Award, and the Gold Living Now Book Award for Social Activism.
Synergy Circles
The Source of Synergy Foundation encourages the formation and supports the development of Circles, Salons and Evolutionary Roundtables to build upon the synergistic collaborations, insights, revelations and agreements that emerge out of the Retreats, Journeys and other forums, and take them to the next level of engagement.
Become a Source of Synergy
You don't need permission. You don't need credentials. You need connection, creative collaboration, and the willingness to let something new emerge.
Connect
Find your people. Join a Synergy Circle, attend a gathering, or simply reach out to someone working on what you care about. Synergy begins the moment we stop going it alone.
Create
Bring something into being that didn't exist before. A project, a partnership, a new way of approaching an old problem. The best ideas emerge from the collision of different perspectives.
Ignite
Carry it forward. What you learn and build here doesn't stay here—it ripples out through your relationships, your work, your community. One spark lights others.
The Source Effect
Tapping into Source awakens our innate capacities—often dormant qualities and intelligences that arise from our essential nature. Being fully present and aware in everyday life, recognizing our intuition and innate capacities to heal, and the realization of the Oneness of all life.
Stillness makes room for Source to be felt directly.
Taking a walk in nature, meditating and creating sacred moments in everyday life can lead to deeper connections with all realms of existence.
Our Wonderful Partners
Friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers building a world that works for all.
