Bravely imaginative spaces to envision regenerative futures.
We cultivate collective imagination for social transformation. We help your team or community think like an ecosystem and see unseen potential and possibilities to usher in regenerative futures.
Worldbuilding Regenerative Futures Workshop
We take your team or community on an experiential journey into the lifeworld of other living organisms through sound-assisted guided visualizations and group inquiry, expanding their capacity for imagination, empathy, and creativity.
Are you ready to embrace new and holistic world-building, innovation, and design strategies?
In a culture of separation and human exceptionalism, imagining how other organisms experience life is a radical act.
It is the groundwork for designing regenerative futures.
Who is this for?
For organizations, teams, and communities that:
✔ understand that business-as-usual is unethical and unsustainable;
✔ want to go beyond sustainability and embrace regeneration;
✔ understand the power of imagination but don't fully know yet how to foster it;
✔ want to expand empathy and creativity to create a healthy organizational culture and develop products and services that solve the genuine needs of people without compromising the needs of future generations;
✔ want to explore multi-species perspectives and design and learn from the wisdom of nature.
Fungi gave us antibiotics. Mountains helped us to think long-term. Birds taught us how to speak.
Nature is full of wisdom and always talking to us. Are you listening?
The process.
Metamorphose
Transition into an imaginative, curious, and intuitive state of being through a guided visualization.
Imagine
Dive deeper into the felt experience of other living beings, set in a futures context.
Design
Design regenerative futures taking into account the needs and desires of their companion species.
Empower
Be empowered to build the futures they want to see by cultivating self-awareness and psychological flexibility.
“My species' imagination stays with me all the time. A connection with a being that opened my mind and heart to the world.”
— Dorothe, workshop participant
Benefits.
Cultivate empathy
Taking on the perspectives of other living beings cultivates empathy and understanding for all life. It encourages us to seek new ways to serve life through design, marketing, governance, and more.
Think like an ecosystem
Thinking like ecosystems creates a shift from fragmented and linear thinking to a more integrated and holistic perspective. Developing a systems thinking mindset enables us to better understand and address complex problems.
Expand creativity
Exploring the perspectives of other living beings fosters creative thinking and opens up new possibilities beyond the status quo — essential capabilities in a world of rapidly changing demands.
Grow self-awareness
Speaking on behalf of another being makes it easier for participants to freely talk about their inner lives. The workshop helps them to identify their values, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that promote or stand in the way of transformation.
Foresee & shape the future
The future is what we make of it. Foresight — the ability to foresee the future and act on what will be needed in the present, starts with the space and ability to imagine alternative and desired futures.
It’s fun!
We have an inherent gift to transport ourselves into the skin of other living beings mentally, yet we get so few opportunities to do so in our workplaces and social lives. There is great shared joy if we let our imagination run free.
What others are saying.
Selected Workshops
THF Future Workshop, 2023
Transformationsbündnis Tempelhof (THF) is an alliance of civic society actors, artistic and urban initiatives, and sustainable organizations working to transform the former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport into an inclusive civic space. Sympoiesis hosted a Worldbuilding Regenerative Futures workshop to reimagine the airport building and field. Participants envisioned a city that meets the needs of all living beings, not just humans.
Regens Unite, 2022
Ruta guides participants through a meditation during Sympoeisis’ Worldbuilding Regenerative Futures workshop at Regens Unite Berlin Festival 2022. Regens Unite brings together change makers working on regenerative solutions.
The world is ours to imagine. Let’s make it beautiful. Together.
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