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Practicing Regeneration

A 9-week online workshop series
to learn how to steward necessary change
in your organization or community
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Join us to learn how to navigate complexity and cultivate creativity, resilience and collaboration.
Practicing Regeneration offers you a robust, real-world exploration of living systems principles and their practical application. Join us to shape your project, organization or community as a practice ground for a more thrivable world.
Practicing Regeneration:
Why It Matters
In this short video, Michelle Holliday explains why the Practicing Regeneration workshop series is likely to be valuable and relevant for you. 

After watching the video above, you may also want to check out this follow-up video where hosts Michelle and Nathalia introduce themselves and provide details about the full program.

The program's impact

"I had the pleasure of engaging in the Practicing Regeneration workshop last year with Michelle Holliday and Nathalia Del Moral Fleury. It was an experience that gave me some tremendous resources in my journey as a regenerative leader:

  • A toolkit of additional resources and links that I keep bookmarked and work through and reflect on my own time. One of my favourites is the Project Ecology Map, which I use as a part of my business review system before I consider making an offer.
  • Words matter and one of the things we talked about is a CEO being a Chief Ecosystem Officer. I have taken that lens as I look at businesses as wholes and living systems.
  • An incredible community of friends from the cohort that are on the same path as me.

It was a wonderful experience for me - if you choose to participate, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did."

Jessica Cullen
Jessica Cullen
CEO-in-Residence and Managing Partner at Regenerative Capital Group

Why practicing regeneration?

In every sector of business and society, we’re starting to see a hopeful and necessary shift from an extractive, mechanistic worldview to a deeper alignment with life. We’re seeing that our social and ecological systems need not only sustainability but regeneration. And we’re recognizing that business has a key role to play in this transition.
Within this shift, we’re coming to understand our organizations as dynamic, living systems, with profound implications, including the expansion of organizational purpose and the deepening of leadership into stewardship.

Fortunately, we can find helpful guidance from a set of design principles common to all thriving living systems. As leaders, we can learn to put them into practice to support the regenerative capacity of the systems we steward.

How will you benefit?

Gain a comprehensive approach to enabling change, with resources to go with it.
Learn to work with emergence to navigate complexity with confidence and ease.
Take inspiration from innovative case studies from a wide range of sectors in order to pioneer in yours.

Discover living systems principles and learn to apply them through practical frameworks and tools.
Understand the implications of the growing regenerative movement.
Be nourished within a space of rich conversation.
Grow your personal resilience and influence.

How will your project, organization, clients or community benefit?

Improve collaboration, integration and flow of work.
Come to understand more of your system and its needs and capacity.
Grow collective trust, creativity and the courage to work on things that really matter.

Develop stronger engagement, commitment and connection to the work, to each other, and to shared purpose.
Get to wiser action. 

"Being part of this year’s Practicing Regeneration workshop was an absolute delight and a deeply enriching experience. I entered with no clear expectations, but I emerged with profound insights into life and thrivability, not only from a personal perspective but also in terms of family, business, and the broader ecosystem.

Thanks to the workshop, I now feel equipped with the tools to approach each day with integrity and a heightened awareness of the environment, enabling me to be a true steward of life.

I am deeply grateful to Michelle and Nathalia and will treasure this community of leaders forever!"

Rodrigo Rojo
Rodrigo Rojo
Entrepreneur

Who is this for?

Internal Changemakers

If you are an organizational or community leader working with others to enable ongoing change, this workshop series will provide you with perspectives, resources and skills to grow system capacity and effectiveness and to contribute to a more thrivable world. Come with colleagues to get the most benefit.

Consultants and Facilitators

This workshop series provides a holistic understanding of living systems principles and a toolkit of resources and methodologies you can use to guide your clients in more effective, life-aligned action. Just as important, you’ll find affirmation and courage to bring more boldness into your client interactions (and they’ll thank you for it!).

How will it work?

Place: Zoom + a dedicated private LinkedIn group

Dates: Live calls 1x per week (approximate time: 9-11am PST | 12-2pm EST | 6-8pm CET | 6-8am NZDT (+1 day))

Size: Maximum 30 participants

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What is involved?

Dynamic 2-hour weekly workshops with an engaging mix of presentation, storytelling and conversation.
Comprehensive materials, including workbook, slides, recordings and resources shared in a LinkedIn group.
Brief reflection exercises each week to help you integrate content and apply it to your own context.
Peer coaching in breakout groups to provide tailored guidance on implementing regenerative practices.
A personalized one-hour 1-to-1 coaching session for each person who completes the course.
Personal exercises to support the personal development that underlies regenerative practice.
A small peer-learning team that meets in between sessions to work on a concrete case study. 
A LinkedIn certificate for completion of the program.

What others have said

  • "I just wanted to thank you so much for a beautiful and stretching course. I have never experienced a class quite like it and I get the sense that there are things that will continue to emerge for me as I reflect and revisit the content."
  • " I am so excited there will finally be a course on this life-changing work. Check this out if you've been searching for something where it doesn't feel like you're drowning in a waterfall of complexity and instead dancing with systems."
  • "I’m so grateful for the course because it has taught me that 1. Practicing regeneration is a marathon that begins with the FIRST step. 2. We’re all not only connected with nature but also we’re PART of nature. And 3. (and most important) I’m NOT ALONE in this journey! "
  • "The course presents an excellent framework with life-rewarding examples to demonstrate how it could be applied."
  • "The course has given me the language and tools to introspect more effectively, do better work, and spread the word on regeneration."
  • "The thing with this course is that I find I KEEP learning as I reflect throughout the week."
  • "The course helped me appreciate a different approach to stewarding a company that centers not only on asking different questions, but developing an appreciation in everyone about certain practices and how these apply in my life. "
  • "The course has given me a deeper insight and more holistic view of the interconnectedness of life systems. I will continue integrating the regenerative principles and frameworks by refining our business model."

Content overview

The content follows the Core Practice Areas of Thrivability in a progressive accumulation and integration of learning.
Workshop 1
Orientation, connection and introduction
November 6, 2024
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Content: Introduction to the shift from a mechanistic paradigm to a living systems worldview. What it means for business and leadership: what changes and what stays the same. Beginning to work with Life’s Universal Design Principles.
Personal: Learn to apply the three levels of listening.
Workshop 2
New Ways of Seeing
November 13, 2024
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Content: Deepening the exploration of the living systems lens. Introducing the Project Ecology Map, identifying whole system conditions that must be cultivated for regenerative impact.
Personal: Learn to be more aware of your own perspectives and to adopt new ones.
Workshop 3
New Ways of Being
November 20, 2024
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Content: The role of stewardship, what it means, how it’s different from management and leadership (and when those are still appropriate). A set of stewardship practices to choose from.
Personal: Develop new sensing systems, learning to access the wisdom of heart, brain and gut. Connect with your leader or “sage” within.
Workshop 4
New Ways of Relating
December 4, 2024
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Content: New methods of collaboration, co-creation, decision-making for working effectively in complexity and emergence.
Personal: Learn to develop compassion for the different parts in you, and to access them at the right moments.
Workshop 5
New Ways of Serving
December 11, 2024
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Content: Expanding collective intention in response to more of the system’s needs and potential. Engaging “careholder” ecosystems to discover new opportunities.
Personal: Develop your own thrivability compass including your impact statement.
Workshop 6
New Ways of Acting
December 18, 2024
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Content: Agile methods for moving into “good enough for now, safe enough to try” actions and experiments.
Personal: Practice trusting the process of emergence.
Workshop 7
New Ways of Sensing
January 8, 2025
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Content: Identifying new indicators of success, including which traditional metrics to carry forward. Understanding how the very process of monitoring can contribute to greater cohesion and regeneration.
Personal: Practice visioning and connecting to what's important. Design your own aims, be in contact with your internal locus of control and balance external contribution.
Workshop 8
New Ways of Evolving
January 15, 2025
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Content: Integrating a learning orientation into your work, including the role of story and storytelling as key stewardship capabilities.
Personal: Envision your allies. Connect with your values. Design how to access them.
Workshop 9
Conclusion
January 22, 2025
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Harvesting, integration, celebration, commitments.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to participate in every workshop?
The series of workshops build on each other, so you should plan to participate in every session. However, recordings and related materials will be available immediately after each workshop and we’ll recap along the way to help keep everyone up to speed.
What's the price?
We are currently reworking the program model and adapting the pricing accordingly. In any case, our pricing always includes a solidarity option for those who wish to attend but can't otherwise. We also offer company packages.
How much time will it take each week?
You should plan to spend 4-5 hours per week (2 hours in the workshop, 1 hour with your peer-learning team, 1-2 hours on the personal activity and team project).
How many people will be participating?
There will be a maximum of 30 participants. This small size will support conversation and connection.
What counts as “completing” the program?
You will receive a certificate of completion and be eligible for a one-on-one coaching session if you have participated in at least 7 of the 9 workshops, have submitted brief reflections for 7 of the 9 workshops, and have participated in a peer-learning team.
Is there any flexibility in pricing?
Yes, solidarity pricing is available for a limited number of those in need. Please reach out to us directly at hello@thrivableworld.com to discuss options.
How can I get more information?
If you have more questions, please contact Michelle Holliday at michelle@thrivableworld.com. 
If you have more questions, please contact Michelle Holliday at michelle@thrivableworld.com. She’ll be happy to hear from you! We will also be hosting an info session  (Friday September 13th; 9-10am Pacific Time | 12 - 1pm Eastern Time | 6-7pm Central Europe Time). You can register here.

Meet your hosts

Michelle Holliday
As a consultant, facilitator, researcher and globally recognized thought leader, Michelle Holliday has focused for more than two decades on regenerative leadership and understanding organizations and communities as dynamic living systems. With this expertise, she supports pioneering, purpose-driven clients across a wide range of sectors, including tourism, agriculture, education and life sciences, to enable the transition to more regenerative systems and structures. Specifically, Michelle brings people of diverse perspectives together to uncover shared aspirations, tap into their collective intelligence, and allow innovative responses and effective action to emerge.
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Nathalia Del Moral Fleury
Nathalia Del Moral Fleury
M.A. in Regenerative  Economics, M.Sc. in Business Management
Nathalia has 19 years of experience in business strategy and transformation, having worked as an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor. Currently, she operates in consulting and coaching, blending both practices to inspire and drive change. As an impact investor, she supports innovative cleantech such as carbon sequestration solutions in Quebec. Nathalia holds two master's degrees: one in Business Management from the Sauder School of Business (UBC) and another in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College in the UK. She is also a professional Co-active coach, a strong advocate for life-enabling economic principles and an artist at heart. Her contributions include serving on Group Rocher’s Global Sustainability Committee and leading the BCorp certification process for the Yves Rocher American subsidiary. Outside of work, Nathalia enjoys running marathons, walking her dog, and mentoring entrepreneurs.
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