
Aurora Flynn, MEM
Research scholar, cultural liaison, director Ouroboros Agency
My passion lays in understanding and tending the psycho-social fabrics of communities through the inner landscapes of human consciousness to the outer manifestation in the systems around us. I work as a regenerative systems consultant, cultural liaison and strategist, climate resilience researcher, facilitator for community dialogue and planning, and teacher. I have over 15-years experience working with a variety of tribes and communities from around the world, engaging in transformational work on both the individual and community level. I have a background in regenerative agriculture/holistic management, climate action planning models, community resilience, multiple spiritual disciplines & initiatory journeys, wildlife/evolutionary biology, and filmmaking. I am a research scholar at the Ronin Institute and a California naturalist. I obtained my Masters of Environmental Management at Western Colorado University. I am also a filmmaker & did postgraduate training at London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art.

“My applied and theoretical research focuses on climate resiliency, adaptive capacity, and transformation capacity of socio-ecological systems. My research centers on five select cross-cultural sociological and psychological indicators that multidisciplinary research suggests are the emergent drivers behind these concepts including the proliferation of sustainable development itself. Mv applied research was done within the context of climate action planning for a higher education institution, whereby I evaluated and assessed correlations of these cross-cultural indicators to the institution's greenhouse as emission footprint and mitigation efforts. These indicators were then increased with a 5-week training program I designed for "transformational learning" where we explored across multiple fields of study concepts to do with identity self, culture, cognition, communication, transformation of the self, perception, trauma, self-directed neuroplasticity, and emotional awareness. This enabled a shift in the participant's perspective of their subjective realities, identities, implicit biases, and limiting beliefs, all of which potentially keep community from interconnecting and moving forward powerfully in a transitionary process towards sustainability.”
