Why
Seeding transition pathways1 toward life-affirming futures,2 whilst the number of crises and their effects exponentiate,3 requires radical and safe experimentation4 with multiple levels of aligned stakeholders. These stakeholders need to be able to evaluate5 their gestures6 as they try on new shapes,7 and communicate to a broader audience the learnings of those actions8 in a way that honours the complexity of the systems involved.9 Systemic shifts, to open up the possibility of such transition pathways, are actively provoked with changes in the underlying approaches to observation, being, and relation.10 Making visible the difference in approach of this awareness-based11 work is the challenge we are addressing by organising and facilitating action-learning journeys.
What
Action-learning journeys12 are a process of co-designing a systemic intervention into the local systems of place.13 These interventions take shape as participartory action during an in-person intensive. These actions are published as a case-study14 environment, making the work visible as a whole system, from multiple perspectives.15 The aim is to engage an extended audience16 in the process of organising, sharing learnings and coordinating resource flows on an ongoing basis.17
Where
We work with practitioners on-the-ground and aligned partner hub-networks. These actors play a nodal role in their region, and are actively building the capabilities in their communities. These hubs host the intensives.
How
We design processes that combine regenerative design, innovation and faciliation to create the conditions for aligned and emergent collective action.
When
The next action-learning journey takes place in Accra, Ghana, with enrolment starting March 17, 2025. The intensive will be held May 12-31.
Who
We are a tightly-knit team with precisely the capabilities needed to bring this work forwards, our combined experience spanning facilitation, network coordination, design and technology development.
Our partners are some of the most committed actors in their respective fields.
Footnotes
- Beyond the Carbon Fixation: Pathways to Regenerative Futures, by Culture Hack Labs in collaboration with Ma Earth
- Land Back to Right Relations Briefing, by Culture Hack Labs
- An Introduction to the Metacrisis, Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Alnoor Ladha, Kosmos Journal
- Twelve principles for transformation-focused evaluation, Sam Buckton
- Báyò Akómoláfé, The Emergence Network
- Sophie Strand, Sounds of SAND
- ABC of Action Learning, Reg Revans
- Regenesis Institute of Regenerative Practice
- Delfina Terrado, Regenerative Education
- Journal of Awareness-based Systems Change
- Action-learning Journeys are the heartbeat of our organisation. These events are at the centre of all that we do.
- Place is a very important word for us, referring to both the material and immaterial aspects of a locality.
- Case-studies are a dynamic communication environment which show-case the work happening on-the-ground from multiple different perspectives.
- We offer a set of applications as a kind of minimum-viable infrastructure, for teams to use as templates and examples.
- Collaborators and Audiences
- Publishing