Our cases
Every engagement leaves something behind. Sometimes it changes the organization. Sometimes it changes us. What follows is a selection of reflections drawn from our work across different places, organizations and transitions.
Surfacing potential for a new competence center.
FIBS is the largest corporate responsibility network in the Nordic countries. In 2025, they updated their corporate strategy, which included the establishment of a new competence center…
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Regenerating leadership and culture for more effective impact.
This was our first engagement, back in 2021. We hold it quite dearly in our hearts for a few reasons. Casa Mendes Gonçalves is a food manufacturer in central Portugal…
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From organizational strategy to driving whole sector evolution.
VIBE is a membership organization that helps positive-impact innovations gain traction in the Flemish building sector. They invited us to support them in developing a five-year strategic plan…
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From restoring a 1600 ha land to belonging to place.
Seven years in, Idanha-à-Vida had been working to restore its 1600 ha landscape and had brought together a growing community around the place…
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From international residents to co-stewards of place.
Lisbon is at a threshold. It has never looked more beautiful, and yet something essential is fading away. Together with Michelle Holliday, we convened a first gathering of international residents…
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Growing a regenerative development practice in Europe.
We are a regenerative development pioneer and lead educator in Europe since 2020, when we hosted for the first time “The Regenerative Practitioner Series” — the flagship…
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Seeing Lisbon through the paradigm for regenerating life.
Lisboa Viva aimed to disrupt our habitual ways of thinking, asking us what if the city isn’t a set of problems to fix, but a living system we all participate in? Thus the conference opened with a provocation…
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Hosting locally an international education semester.
Kaospilot (a Denmark-based transformative education provider) chose Lisbon for their “Outpost” semester in Enterprising Leadership Education. During an Outpost,…
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Exploring sustainability as a paradigm shift in Tourism & Hospitality.
In 2023, we were invited by Turismo de Portugal to take part in the Lisbon Tourism Fair (BTL) in a public debate on the role of tourism in achieving broad sustainability…
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There is a moment when you recognize your own situation in someone else’s story — not the sector, but what is shaping the challenge. That’s what these reflections are for.