Regenerative Design Lab
The world needs more regenerative designers. Become one. nRhythm's next Design Lab Session begins on August 9 - 25, 2022. Full schedule below.
What is Regenerative Design?
Regenerative design is a methodology and a mindset informed by living systems that utilizes a principle-based approach and flexible frameworks to create conditions for health in complex systems. Designing with principles and flexible frameworks enables the design to be living, evolving, context specific, and allows space for the unimaginable to emerge. This contrasts with a mechanistic approach that focuses on best practices, prescriptions, and predicting outcomes.
nRhythm’s Regenerative Framework is a tool to guide people towards a new way of thinking around our environment and social systems. This framework inspires, supports, and monitors a behavioral shift in how we design and manage our economies, businesses, policy and communities.
The Regenerative Framework acknowledges the need to move away from an extractive, mechanistic and disconnected worldview. It shifts people towards embracing an equitable, collaborative, nature-based and regenerative approach that results in healthy, thriving and an abundance of life in all ecosystems.
Work Reimagined and Designed For Health
Are you ready to start designing your workplace, career, project, product, or even your community in a way where abundance and well-being are the natural outcomes? (Hint: you can use these principles to design anything!)
Every time a person, business, brand, organization, or project infuses nRhythm's Regenerative Design Principles into their organizational ecosystem (and life), we are all one step closer to planetary well-being. Why? Because we use living systems as our guide.
During the live Design Lab, we will support you to design, create, and manage with a more holistic and regenerative approach. The result: Organizational health and unleashed potential.
The Opportunity:
The Regenerative Design Lab is an opportunity to design your project, team, or organization using a regenerative, living systems approach. With a variety of different engagement opportunities, we will support you on an intentional design journey using nRhythm's Regenerative Principles & Regenerative Framework. As guides, we will provide both time and resources to develop a meaningful, culturally relevant, context specific design. No prescriptions! Your customized design will enable new potential and begin creating the conditions for your teams to thrive.
HERE'S HOW THE DESIGN LAB WORKS
Every session is structured to enable you as a designer to understand the “living” dynamics of complex systems (projects and organizations).
We will use the Regenerative Principles and Regenerative Framework to both inform and guide you through a design process that will honor the principles of living systems (Holism, Interdependence, Uniqueness, Evolutionary, Nodal and Developmental) while utilizing flexible frameworks (Context, Health, Structures, Work and Abundance) to guide your decision-making and ultimately a meaningful and relevant design.
In each session, you'll have space and time to design your project. During this time, you will begin applying the information gained in the workshop to your specific design project. With the support of nRhythm and peer to peer learning with your fellow participants, you will begin to create a design that enables your purpose, releases new potential while increasing the health of the system. nRhythm will be an active resource supporting questions, clarifications, and ideas during this process.
After the Regenerative Design Lab, you'll have the opportunity to schedule one-to-one mentoring sessions with members of nRhythm to support your regenerative design.
Here's what's included:
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20+ hours of workshops, design support, mentorship, and community
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A completed Regenerative Plan
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An invitation to join nRhythm's Community of Practice (membership is free)
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Lifetime access to course content (recordings, exercises, and links)
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Certificate upon course completion
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100% money back guarantee
What Design Lab Graduates Are Saying:
The Regenerative Design Lab has been a truly powerful tool which has assisted me in developing my project further. I enjoyed the peer learning and meeting new people from different continents. There was a great atmosphere which encouraged meaningful connections, engaged learning time and good humor. The past 6 weeks has grown my confidence in the project I am responsible for and deepened my understanding in regenerative principles and the Framework.
The Regenerative Design Lab was an experience I would recommend to anyone who not only wants the tools for designing a project, organization, or holistic life around regeneration, but who also wants to be inspired by others seeking a similar emergent and regenerative path. All the tools, peers, and guidance from the nRhythm staff was beyond exceptional, and I can only say amazing things about the entire process. Thank you to all my peers and to those at nRhythm. Standing ovation!
The Design Lab created the space to take both a macro and micro look into how I design my Regenerative Framework. It was incredibly valuable to take the time to develop my holistic context, and I was surprised by the growth that happened during the 6 week lab. It was wonderful to connect with an international community, from various contexts and sectors, coming together to develop regenerative systems within our organizations.
The Regenerative Design Lab is a journey and cohort that all growth seeking leaders should have the opportunity to experience. Participating in the Design Lab helped me and my team to have the conversations, do the deep work and design the type of organizational context that we never would have imagined without it. Transformational!
The Regenerative Design Lab is the most impactful course I have taken all year! Highly recommend -- and definitely bring a friend. This completely restructured my organization and our impact.
Soil Centric's team really needed this class. We had a clear sense of our work, but not of our organizational design. You guys are brilliant and I wish more organizations could benefit from regenerative design principles.
Life Beyond The Lab
Course Details & Schedules:
The Regenerative Design Lab is a very hands-on workshop and we encourage participants to choose a time that enables them to participate in as many sessions as possible. We are offering RDL in two time zone options in order to make this workshop accessible to a global audience. You can find the schedule and course details of both options below.
PREWORK
Pre-Work: Foundations of Regenerative Organizations
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: Tuesdays & Thursdays from August 9-25, 12:00-14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #1 — Tuesday, August 9, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #2 — Thursday, August 11, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #3 — Tuesday, August 16, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #4 — Thursday, August 18, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #5 — Tuesday, August 23, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
- Session #6 — Thursday, August 25, 12:00 - 14:30 GMT-4 (New York)
POST-COURSE SUPPORT
Opportunity to join the Community of Practice to continue to learn from our global network of practitioners and educators committed to evolving work through the implementation of nRhythm's Regenerative Framework.
*If none of these dates and times work for your schedule, please get in touch and let us know what does. We will take it into consideration for future Regenerative Design Labs.
LOCATION
Attend this course online from anywhere in the world. Sessions take place live, on Zoom Video Conference, and recorded in case you miss a session.
Enrollment Information:
Paying full price for the program enables 20% of participants in every Design Labs to join via scholarship #payitforward
Individual
Choose this option to enroll for nRhythm's Regenerative Design Lab as an individual in Time Zone 1.
$499 USD
Team
Choose this option to enroll for nRhythm's Regenerative Design Lab as a team of up to 5 people in Time Zone 1.
$1,999 USD
Scholarship Program
We offer scholarships for Leadership Program on a rolling basis. nRhythm's Scholarship Program supports our mission to transform the way we work and inspire organizations and individuals from many different financial, cultural, and social contexts to unleash their potential.
Your Course Facilitators & Guests:
Dr. Jeffrey Su
Managing Director
Traci Wallace
Communications Strategist
Alexandra Groome Klement
Operations Manager
Jennifer Cates
Director of Client Support
Tay Lotte
Support Team Co-Lead
Ryan Williams
Organizational Design Consultant
Partners
We collaborate with organizations around the globe to create customized learning experiences for their communities and members within the Regenerative Design Lab. Contact us at team@nRhythm.co if you are interested in becoming a Regenerative Design Lab partner.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What if I cannot make all of the sessions?
Will sessions be recorded?
All of the sessions are recorded in case you need to miss one or in case you'd like to revisit the content. Recordings are posted to the online course platform within 24 hours.
What kind of materials will we receive?
You'll receive access to class recordings, weekly exercises, and nRhythm's Regenerative Framework Worksheets.
Do you offer discounts?
Yes, we offer discounts for students and others in need. We are also open to exchanges, specifically if anyone is willing to contribute to helping us to administer the course. Please contact us if you are interested in a discount or supporting us on the course implementation.
Can my work place pay for this course?
Some of our course participants choose to submit courses as an expense to their employer. If you have any questions or need help, please reach out to us for support.
How long we will have access to the materials?
You have lifetime access to course materials.
Do you offer scholarships?
Yes! Please see our scholarship program for details: https://www.nrhythm.co/scholarships
How can I use the resources shared in this course?
nRhythm's work is open source. You are welcome to use what you learn in the course as you wish. We'd appreciate if you gave credit when you do utilize our materials though.
Everyone is a Designer.
Regenerative Design Lab Begins May 10th.
"Regeneration is based on observation of the principles of nature and so is ancestral wisdom. It's centered around a quality of life that not only includes business or organizations, but includes nature, people, and relationships. ―Regeneration truly happens from the inside out." - Carolina Putman of Reviveolution, Design Lab Graduate
During nRhythm's Regenerative Design Lab, we will support you to design, create, and manage with a more holistic and regenerative approach. The result: organizational health and unleashed potential.
Our Approach:
We believe that regenerative organizations are organized around specific guiding principles. These principles lead us in our design and decision-making, both with our clients and within our organization. At nRhythm, the foundation of our work are based on six Regenerative Design Principles.
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