Regenerative Thinking for Professionals and Designers

Regenerative Thinking for Professionals and Designers A 3-Week Professional Development Program for Innovative Professionals Are you feeling the weight addressing the climate crisis amidst political unrest? Are you seeking a new approach to workplace conversations around polarizing issues like ecological degradation vs. economic stability? Are you seeking a value-aligned community of peers who echo your concerns and want to do something about it? Regenerative Thinking for Professionals and Designers Is an innovative workshops series that has been developed specifically for engineers, designers, planners, consultants, educators, scientists, managers, and leaders seeking to navigate climate complexity, revolutionize the way they approach systems change, and integrate regenerative design principles into the fabric of their work. What Makes This Workshop Series Different? This isn’t a crash course in carbon accounting, ESG strategy, or sustainability metrics. It’s an invitation to go deeper than ‘corporate sustainability’. It’s an invitation to find empowerment in moving away from colonial decision-making models that are perpetuating ‘solutions’ that are founded in the same ways of thinking that put us here to begin with. It’s an invitation to sit with discomfort, ask braver questions, and cultivate the inner clarity needed for outer change. We will seek to answer the questions: • What's our role in shaping a regenerative corporate paradigm? • What language, tools, and context is missing from the current ways we are attempting to ‘solve’ climate change. • How do we bridge increasingly polarized workplace conversations about our collective future? Pragmatic Description & Professional Value This 3-part workshop intensive weaves together climate psychology, regenerative thinking, environmental ethics, and deep ecology in an innovative flow that will leave participants with: • Professional development hours relevant to design, ethics, and mental well-being • Tools for integrating intuitive insight into strategic or technical decisions • Techniques for managing eco-anxiety and burnout in high-pressure workplaces • Dialogue skills for bridging polarization and fostering collaboration • Personalized strategies for embedding regenerative thinking into your role, team, or organization Workshop Details August 7th – The Blind Spots in the Sustainability Paradigm: Why do well-meaning industries keep reinforcing extractive systems? • Challenge the ‘green growth narrative’ and understand common biases that keep most individuals locked to processes of incremental change as opposed to paradigm shifting thought. • Develop shared language to discuss sustainability more honestly within your organization—bridging strategic and relational paradigms. • Reframe sustainability from a metric-driven process into a regenerative practice grounded in care, connection, and metabolic entanglement with the Earth. • Explore how emotional resilience supports ethical decision-making in your field. August 14th – Earth Listening as a Design Principle: Attuning to nature as a method for going beyond the status quo • What if we designed solutions in dialogue with nature, rather than against it? • Work towards understanding what “listening to the earth” means to them through a process of mosaic building. • Leverage the practice of earth listening to inform business design decisions that work with the earth rather than against it. • Increase your capacity to be with challenging emotions related to environmental degradation. • Engage in ways of thinking that have the potential to evoke new thoughts and ideas about your life and work. August 21st: Applying Regenerative Thinking into Corporate Strategy: Bridging esoteric theory into to the practicalities of business • Form your own definition of what regenerative thinking means with respect to your work • Find a practical use for your creativity, nature, and deep ecology within day-to-day business • Learn the fundamentals of transformative scenario planning • Create a Climate Resilience Map to clarify your next steps and reduce decision fatigue / activation energy typically required to ‘do something’ about the crisis. • Share insights and commitments with the group for collective momentum.