The Rhizome Way
The Rhizome Way is a community of people creating practical frameworks that generate opportunities and creative solutions for relationships, organizations, corporations and communities.
This website presents a variety of ideas, programs and resources that harness the powers of rhizome community toward the creation of growth, healing and productivity in our lives and our world.
The Rhizome Network will connect you to a broad spectrum of rhizome practices from around the world.
Please contact us to discuss how the Rhizome Way approach can be implemented to address your particular context.
Rhizome Productions Books
The “Territories of the Alive” trilogy, by Christopher J. Kinman, comes as a result of thirty years of work in the human services fields. The books are based on the notion that life is composed of territories of the Alive, where many relationships exist like rhizomes, always involved in a unique interplay of gift-exchanges — gifts of all forms are in movement within our communal worlds.
The books offer practical ideas about engaging in these relationships; providing insight and wisdom in addressing the complexities of our lives. Christopher awakens us to a significant cultural shift, affecting how we engage in work, family, community life and politics. This is a shift away from the predominance of individualism, and giving alternatives to the thinking and actions that result from our ubiquitous problem/deficit language.
The Rhizome Network
The Rhizome Network is a place of world-wide connections. For years there have been those in the human services fields (therapy, psychiatry, medicine, health-care, education, social work, etc.) who have challenged the status-quo and have attempted to invite their respective fields of service into practices which:
- connect people to life-giving and engaging rhizome community;
- help disconnect people from the limitations of pathologizing and categorizing language;
- find ways to limit the powers that institutional hierarchies repeatedly place upon individuals, families and communities;
- open up spaces where people and communities can collaborative and actively engage in the creation of their own joys, freedoms and responsibilities.