Welcome to the evolving website of Earth Family Office. What are we?

Let’s start with a definition of a Family Office, excerpted from “The Family Office – A Comprehensive Guide for Advisers, Practitioners, and Students” by William I. Woodson and Edward V. Marshall, published by Columbia Business School in 2021:

“Family offices are entities set up by a single family, or by or for a group of families, to manage their assets and affairs. They are used to address the issues that come with substantial wealth, including dealing with complexity and helping family members achieve their goals (e.g., simplicity, purpose, legacy, family harmony, passing down wealth, investment management, philanthropy, and so on). In this context, family members are called “principals”, and the senior staff of a family office are referred to as “family office executives”. Principals are the primary members of the family that the family office supports, although there are situations where multiple generations and/or extended family members can use the services of a family office. Family offices vary in design, operations, and services delivered, depending on the needs of the principals.”

Naturally, families and groups of families are living systems “nested” or embedded within larger living systems such as in the local communities or neighbourhoods within which they live and work, which are nested within ever larger living systems at the scale of towns, cities, countries, bioregions, continents and the planet. And, of course, Earth herself is nested within larger systems.

This brings us to the “what” and “why” of Earth Family Office. Here’s where we are perhaps a little different from the “norm” insofar as we don’t like to use “labels” that might restrict the many ways in which we aim “to contribute to enabling, supporting and advancing the highest evolutionary potentials and regenerative flourishing of people and planet“. (Our “North Star”).

What might the future hold for planetary progress, peace, prosperity and possibility if humanity chooses to regeneratively pursue our highest ideals and potentials in, for, and with life?

We want to explore, experiment, experience and invest in unlocking our highest collective potentials to realise our best futures, on Earth and beyond. To eventually become a worthy multi-planetary species, we first need to survive and thrive on and with our planet of origin.

This isn’t “pie in the sky”. Pockets of better futures are already being seeded. Humanity is moving towards a “critical mass” of people, communities and organisations advocating, actioning and advancing systemic change work, but this isn’t happening fast enough or with the level of financial and non-financial resources and co-ordination to do justice to our higher potentials and do what is needed to address our existential systemic crises.

We intend Earth Family Office (“EFO”) as an accelerator for this purpose, driven by “FASTER” principles for Flourishing, Authentically, Systemically, Together, Evolutionarily, Regeneratively. EFO is inspired by Humanity’s “Call to Adventure” on its heroic evolutionary journey toward being all that we are capable of being, doing, thinking, relating and experiencing, in regenerative service to the full flourishing of all beneficial life. Synergising human, artificial and natural intelligence with the practical wisdom that is there to be multiplied, (re)connected and advanced, absolutely can bring forth the enabling, elevating and enriching systemic conditions to realise incredible shared futures, on Earth and beyond.   

Together, building a “Systemic Wealth Accelerator” comprising a regenerative, collaborative, multi-capital, multi-intelligence, “trim tab” evolutionary enterprise and inclusive networked “nodal” platform with Human-AI-Nature systemic imagination, intelligence, ideation, innovation, investment and impact processes and technologies.

The notion of “systemic wealth” takes its inspiration from the etymology of the word “wealth” dating back more than 700 years. At one time, “wealth” and “weal” were synonyms; both meant “riches” and “well-being.” Both words stem from “wela”, the Old English word for “well-being,” and are closely related to the Old English word for “well.” Hence, today, using terms such as “systemic wealth” or “whole wealth” are intended to help recapture the origins of “wealth” and expand its meaning and purpose for future generations.

The language we use for Earth Family Office and that others might use for us and the work we do, will continue to evolve, as life should…

Reach out at Contact@EarthFamilyOffice.com and let us know what you’re most interested in hearing more about, and what you’re currently doing or want to do, to contribute to advancing collective flourishing.