
An Evolutionary Agents Practice is your personal bridge between today’s fragile systems and tomorrow’s resilient ones.
Unlike a traditional job (working for someone else) or business (selling products & services), an EA Practice transcends these limited frameworks by being a structured way of doing work you’re passionate about, with people you love, the way you want, and being paid in a way that creates a healthy value flow from a system that’s ending into a system that’s emerging. Developing your EA Practice now, even in parallel with existing work, creates the foundation you’ll need when systemic shifts accelerate in the coming years.
An EA practice is:
Expertise-centered: Built around your evolving knowledge and approach to resilience
Practical: Focused on tangible skills and systems that work in real-world conditions, now and in the future
Adaptive: Designed to evolve as conditions (predictably and dramatically) change, rather than rigid adherence to outdated models
Relationship-based: Developed through consistent work with a community of clients/participants
Values-aligned: Guided by regenerative and evolutionary principles rather than solely extractive profit motives
Cumulative: Improves with repetition and experience, like a craft
Parallel: Can be developed alongside existing employment, growing at your own pace
Identity-forming: Becomes part of who you are, not just what you do
The key distinction is that while a job is something you have and a business is something you own, a practice is something you develop and embody. For Evolutionary Agents, this means creating a structured approach to helping yourself and others build resilience for future systemic changes—not just theorizing about what might happen, but actively practicing the skills needed to thrive when it does.
This entry is part of our Evolutionary Agents Glossary.