Really Regenerative CIC

This is the first year that we ever launched a #givingtuesday appeal to help support our subsidised places on our regenerative learning journeys. We are blown away by your generosity! Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our work. It will help us support small growing regenerative place-based community projects working on the intersection of economy, ecology, culture from place iin 2025. https://lnkd.in/gySWNcqk

POPers take action for place. Here's a brilliant example from Nui Sirikul Laukaikul and her team in Thailand - a new festival of place in ISAN. "Come to celebrate the ISAN Wisdom in fermentation (Plara) and soul music (Morlam) in KhonKean during Dec 26-29. Both are the cultural drivers of ISAN of which the world must learn from. ISAN is considered the poorest area of Thailand but in fact it’s so rich in humanization and civilization. Let’s collectively bring ISAN to the world for the regenerative future." #regenerativeculture #thailand #isan

Our November newsletter: Long-time vs short-term | mission vs adaptation | evolutions we're proud of | Carol Sanford | Narratives of Irresistible Circular Futures. "Our work is always informed by the questions that arise from the people who choose to study with us and that we work for. In our Power of Place retreat this year we spoke a great deal about dualism - in particular how we navigate the perceived urgency of action in these critical times, whilst holding the cognisance of our place in an arc of evolution that has taken 3.8 billion years on earth to evolve, and of homo sapiens part in that evolution that has been ongoing for just 300,000 years.  We discussed how we make sense of the trajectory we all feel we are on, and how we make good, discerning decisions about what we choose to do in the world. What is ours to do and who should we be doing it with was a cornerstone question of the retreat this year. In last month's newsletter I mentioned Autumn as a time of shedding. It's also a traditional time of review in western hemispheres where we approach the calendar marker of a new year. How should regenerators review their work in the world so that they are consistently having a regenerative effect? What determines long-time and short term?" https://lnkd.in/eyng8DdF

Narratives of Irresistible Futures: a compiulation of stories bout the 8 different sites that experimented for 2 years within the Desire an Irresistible Circular Society project to discover the key conditions for creating built environment initiatives that engage people in transformative change. The report concludes: - to promote place-based change when experimenting with creating sustainable, attractive and inclusive urban spaces through interactions with and across designers, artists, project managers, architects and others, we notice that: • Creative, artistic, and design methods can support deep and participatory engagement with places • Building and nurturing trust and relationships with people is vital to developing a sense of belonging and ensuring the sustainability of urban transformation efforts • Organisations actively creating spaces for dialogue and presenting alternatives for the future development of living spaces is important • Multistakeholder participatory processes can take various formats. When tailored to the unique local context, it can lead to more effective and relevant outcomes and strengthen local actors’ support and trust in organised initiatives See pages 71-83 for our contribution to Kalundborg, and final recommendations for two key living systems principles - the importance of relationship before task and working with potential not problems. Produced by Olivia Thomassen Harre #livingsystemsprinciples #regeneration #potentialnotproblems #relationshipbeforetask #neweuropeanbauhaus #DESIRE #PowerofPlace #PlacesForLife https://lnkd.in/e-A8z4Mb

This week the annual tourism fest World Travel Market has been taking place in London. For the first time at WTM, regenerative tourism made it to the conference agenda, where Power of Place grads Tina O'Dwyer (always good to see someone link place and potential in a slide Tina!) and Anna Pollock shared their ideas in a panel discussion and presentation. It was also a moment to catch up with other POP grads, including Katharine Beer , Sam’s colleague at Experience Sussex. We also heard from place-makers Elke Dens and heard from Orla Carroll of Failte Ireland Gatherings like this are also an opportunity to make new friends - Debbie Clarke and Dimitris Palaiogiannis, and catch up in person with virtual friends like Vicky Smith. Tina curated the afternoon’s Regenerative Tourism Summit - and it was heartening to see the Orange Theatre packed for this focus. This was a rich presentation of insights, questions and stories of place sourced transformation. - Anna reminded us that we are witnessing and participating in the chaotic and uncertain space between a dying one and a new emergent one - trying to be born… and challenged the audience with her usual flair: “are we brave enough to leave behind a paradigm that has served us well in the past but which will not serve us well in the future?” - We heard from Elke whose focus on radical collaboration reminds us that tourism is about partnership between hosts, nature and the wider ecosystems of places - how local community-centric tourism transforms visitors into guests. Systems change takes time, relationship, leadership and conviction but also funding - and it was great to hear from Orla Carroll how an EU funded, government-led tourism initiative applied regenerative principles to the restoration of peatlands which has lead to tourism being seen as a catalyst for transforming the region. There was so much more - and a sobering reminder from Bloomberg’s data analysis of regenerative tourism articles in the media… how small a feature of the overall discussion about tourism they are in the wider picture. Lots still to do. We’ve had lots of tourism representatives attend our signature learning journey Power of Place over the last four years. Like all sectors, it is challenging to let go of the system and approach that is no longer fit for purpose in the context of the 21st century. Building regenerative capability takes time and dedication over years through all of the turbulence of creating and shifting economies. Our aim for all our learning journeys is to enabling deeper understanding of how to develop and design places through the lens of regenerative principles. And we believe place is the fractal at which ecology, culture and economy weave and intertwine - we can nurture the birth of this new paradigm if we attend to place as our source for catalysing change.

This Autumn's cohort on Beyond Polarisation completed the programme today. Congratulations to all the participants. We covered a lot in 6 weeks. + Upstream Thinking and mapping the deep roots of polarisation + de-veiling invisible dynamics of systems in which polarisation is taking place + exploring what is being valued + a theory of change behind regenerative reconciling + frameworks that help sensemaing - the law of three, the three horizons, the X curve +pre-empting polarisation, approaches for right relationship in multi stakeholder engagement + navigating complexity in groups, including different paradigms and worldviews and we worked together on multiple live challenges each of our participant is currently facing. Such a great, diverse group! Our next open learning journeys begin in 2025. Now it's time for a review. redesign and regenerate all journeys ready for 2025. Thanks to everyone who joined us in 2024!

Our latest newsletter tunes into seasonal change as we glide towards the end of October .. You can read it at this link https://lnkd.in/eNwp63GW Or you can sign up from our website to receive it straight into your inbox. https://lnkd.in/eQzQ-tTg

Some reflections from one of this year's #PowerofPlace cohort following our in person retreat in Mallorca. Thanks Marielle for being such a committed member of this year's cohort. Really excited to see what's coming next unfold for you! https://lnkd.in/eAvSrNeA

So much gratitude to this year's Power of Place cohort. What a wonderful four days we have just spent together at the close of the programme! What deeply warm souls, commiting their essence and sills to regenerating place, evolving systems and self. From all across the world - as far as Chile, Thailand, Turkey, Denmark, Colombia, Spain, UK, Indonesia. Netherlands, and Belgium this year. We explored, we dug deep, we experimented, we embodied, we laughed, we cried and we marvelled at the power of the place and people that held us while we were there. This year we have sought to weave much more embodied practice into the work of regenerative design and development - which can sometimes get too theoretic and cerebral. Weaving mind, gut, body, soul, emotion at a cellular level can feel more challenging and ethereal than mentation alone, but it connects the disconnected parts of us back together again in service of life. To the Tramuntana, Santuari de Lluc, to Daniel Christian Wahl whose generosity as our spirit guide is always lent to us, to Mila Aliana our embodied practice guide, to Samantha Smithson who stretched muscles and minds in morning yoga practice and started us off connecting with inner trust one day one, and mostly to all those of you wonderful POPers who joined us, shared your hopes, plans, courage, vulnerability, brilliance and future dreams - thank you, make they take flight 🙏

It is always a pleasure to share the wonderful work happening in the world - and this month our founder Jenny Andersson has been very busy. Our latest newsletter is out and available to read at this link https://lnkd.in/eMJ8qFDf Also if you would like to sign up to receive future newsletters, you can do so from our website here https://lnkd.in/eQzQ-tTg