Practicing Regeneration

A 9-week online workshop series for
stewarding necessary change
in projects, organizations and communities

Why this workshop series?

In every sector of business and society, we’re starting to see a hopeful and necessary shift from the dominant 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 ecologies, 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, including projects, organizations and stakeholder ecosystems. And as leaders, we can engage in a process of practice and discovery to support the regenerative capacity of the systems we steward.

What will you learn in this program?

What it means to be a steward, and why it matters to you, to your business, and to the world.
What it means – and how – to cultivate “whole system” capacity for regenerative effect.
The guidance found in “life’s universal design principles.”
7 core practice areas that lead to regenerative outcomes.
Strategies for navigating complexity effectively.
New signals of success, and which traditional metrics to carry forward.
How to apply these learnings in your own specific context, with support from helpful tools, methods and frameworks and a community of peers.

Testimonials

"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."

"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! "

"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."

"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. At some point a realization hits that the practices are not really a roadmap, but more a way of thinking and sensing to be open to a wider set of possibilities we'd not normally consider when thinking purely from the lens of business performance."

"The course presents an excellent framework with life-rewarding examples to demonstrate how it could be applied."

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Meet your host

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.