REGENERATIVE CONFLUENCE

REGENERATIVE

CONFLUENCE

An innovative programme

for professional and

personal regeneration

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Introduction

with Alicia Carey

Introduction to the Regenerative Confluence and Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking. This 4-day deep dive programme and experiential learning journey explores systems thinking and innovative practice for professional and personal

regeneration. Welcoming renowned thought-leaders, visionaries and creatives to share new models of thinking – it will challenge, provoke, inspire and activate.

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How to Build Transformation Literacy

for the Years Ahead

with Otto Scharmer

What have we been learning over the past year that can inform how we approach the remainder of this decade of transformation? We know that we live in a moment of disruption. We know that something is ending and dying while something else in the process of being born. But what is our own role in that journey of transformation? How can we regenerate our economies, advance our democracies, as well as reimagine and reshape our learning systems? How can we address the knowing doing gap that keeps us collectively enacting results that most people don’t want? In this keynote Otto Scharmer will introduce the concept of Awareness-based Systems Change and give examples of how systems sense and see themselves. The keynote will include a journaling practice to apply systems thinking and systems sensing to one’s own context.

Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and founder of Theory U and the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for sustainability and cross-sector innovation.

presencing.org ottoscharmer.com

16:30-17:15

Facilitating Change with Social Presencing Theatre

with Dick Baker & Jenny MacKewn

Social Presencing Theatre (SPT) brings to the surface a clearer sense of the relationships, hidden dynamics, and emerging possibilities inherent in us or a larger system. This is not ‘theatre’ in the conventional sense but is a method to make visible both current reality, and the deeper – often invisible – leverage points for creating profound change. It uses simple body postures and movements to dissolve limiting concepts, to communicate directly and to access intuition.

This session will start with a brief introduction to Social Presencing Theatre and its close link to Theory U. It offers a chance to experience some SPT approaches such as the Dance and Stuck exercises. These activities are lively and engaging. AND they are graded so as to make them accessible to all participants.

Jenny MacKewn is a creative catalyst, embodied systemic coach, consultant, trainer and author. She encourages organisations, teams and individuals to transform in response to the needs of the future and of the wider environment.

Dick Baker supports organisations designing and facilitating change and developing new ways of working to better reflect the complexity of the modern work environment to help them navigate sustainably into the future. Dick is passionate about helping organisations engage in purposeful work in a meaningful way in this time of seismic change, in business and society.

jennymackewn.com

futureconsiderations.com/ our-people/dick-baker/

Regenerating Rivers and Transforming Landscapes

with Minni Jain

How do you regenerate a river and transform a landscape? Can rural communities teach the world how to become water rich again? Water renews not only the physical landscape. The social, cultural, ecological and spiritual landscapes- all get transformed through these community practices to revive rivers. Stories and practical wisdom from the field.

Minni Jain is the Operations Director of the Flow Partnership, working globally on community driven, water management and landscape restoration. Along with local communities, she co-ordinates Waterways- a practical water school of skills, language neutral tools and methods to achieve replenishment of the world’s water bank.

theflowpartnership.org waterways.world

19:00-20:30

Storytelling Evening

with Corinne Harragin and Fiona Eadie

On Monday you are invited to come to an evening of story. Bring a hot chocolate, a comfy blanket, listen and enjoy!

Shifting Shapes

with Corinne Harragin

Follow the twists and turns of story and sinew as we traverse the imaginative landscape of myth and metamorphosis. Explore that mossy forest where the boundary between human and animal, fact and fiction starts to blur and disappear; where goddesses are wrathful, heroes often foolish, goats can talk, and sometimes even the apples are made of gold.

corinneharragin.co.uk

The River Within

with Fiona Eadie

Taking ‘the river is within us’ as her theme, Fiona will be telling two very different traditional stories from very different parts of the world. One, a Jewish story from Afghanistan of a poor man who has nothing and a King’s search for meaning, touches on what is required to flow with the current of life. The other is a tale from Italy of a young woman’s journey towards her fate. Like all stories, neither of these is about one specific thing and each listener will take away from these tales whatever speaks to them in the moment.

fionaeadiestoryteller.com

Letting Go and Letting Life

with Katherine Long

A key aspect of Theory U process involves letting go of what no longer serves, and which might impede the new life that is seeking to be born. This session offers an opportunity to reflect on what we each might need to release at this time in our history, for inner structures and patterns to dissolve, and to learn from Nature’s ways in allowing the old to die to make way for new life.

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Working with Mission

Oriented Innovation

with Rowan Conway

Taking on grand systemic challenges that are beyond the human scale requires design thinking that is beyond human centred. Here we will discuss setting direction for innovation and how that might support transitions to a more sustainable future. linkedin.com/in/rowan-conway-09bab58

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Connections

& Inquiry

Day 1: 16:15-16:45

Day 2: 16:00-16:30

Day 3: 16:00-16:30

16:30-17:15

An Economy of Place: The Ripples and Patterns

of our Living System

with Jenny Andersson

What is the role of humans on spaceship earth? Do we even have one? Beyond mere existence as a species, we are part of the rich diverse planetary living system that has been evolving for 3.8 billion years. What if we have a distinctive value-adding role to play within the nature that surrounds us? This interactive talk explores the process of transformation from within the organism – like the imaginal cells that activate the emergence of a butterfly. Jenny Andersson explores the power of place and potential in a regenerative economy which she suggests is unlikely to resemble existing forms,

including sustainable models.

Jenny Andersson is co-founder of Really Regenerative CIC, a regenerative and bioregional learning centre in Sussex, England. A former international brand strategist, she has developed brand, communications, CSR and sustainability strategies for some of the world’s most recognisable brand names, always seeking to move organisations to their next evolution as entities. Today as a

regenerative practitioner, her work is focused on increasing the capacity of individuals and organisations to fulfil their human roles as agents of systemic change to bring a regenerative economy into being - in place.

Creativity of the Collective

with Jennifer John & Matthew Shaw

Singer for Social Change, Jennifer John will be in conversation with author and musician, Matthew Shaw exploring the creative and therapeutic capacity of

creativity for one’s inner life, the inner life of the community and the impact that this has on the whole. This conversation explores compassionate collaboration, and how the arts and authentic expression through sound, art, music and togetherness can rejuvenate, revive and regenerate.

Jennifer John is an award winning composer, singer/songwriter, vocal coach, music mentor and entrepreneur. As the music manager of the vocal ensemble, Sense of Sound Singers her artistic collaborations and performances have led to projects with an impressive array of

amazing artists including Nile Rodgers, Take That, Seal, Jon Bon Jovi, Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Yoko Ono. Her activism within community music led to her receiving an award from HRH The Queen as Pioneer For The Nation.

Matthew Shaw is a composer, author and artist as well as Hawkwood’s Partnerships Manager and Curator. He is the co-founder of a transition town in Dorset and is the Trustee for the charity People Need Nature. Matthew is passionate about the environment and climate action and about the artistic collaboration that comes through nourishing the communities of purpose.

jenniferjohnmusic.com

19:00-20:00

What is Systems Change?

with Nora Bateson

How do systems learn? In what ways does information find form in and through our relationships to our history, identity, language, education and culture? Where do we get stuck? Where and how do choices appear irreconcilable? We will be looking at Warm Data, transcontextual learning and initiatory ways to explore change through understanding double bind. Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator. She wrote, directed and produced the path-breaking documentary An Ecology of Mind: a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. She is author of Small Arcs of Larger Circles (Triarchy Press), a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity. Nora is the President of the International Bateson Institute that provides consultancy and training in looking beyond current methodologies to new patterns of connection, which is termed “warm data.”

Deliberative Democracy

with Matthew Taylor CBE & Rich Wilson

This session addresses the urgent need to renew democracy as part of trying to restore our belief in collective progress, and about the role that deliberative methods could play in that renewal.

Matthew Taylor CBE, has led the RSA in research and innovation. Its 30,000 fellows further its global profile as a platform for ideas.

Rich Wilson is a democratic renewal specialist and co-initiator of the Global Citizens’ Assembly for COP26. This initiative will be inviting 1,000 citizens from around the world to take part in a virtual convention to address climate emergency impacts and generate ambitious proposals. These will be brought to November’s COP26 United Nations climate conference in Glasgow.

thersa.org/about/our-people/ rsa-team/ matthew-taylor

linkedin.com/in/richwi1son

Radical Enchantment

with Manda Scott

Imagine a world in which each of us - every human being on the planet - is ready to take our place in the Web of Life, to join the flow of Being. Imagine how it would feel if each of us were to wake every morning alive with the enchantment of life, knowing without question that we are the right person, in the right place at the right time, ready to act, to do what only we can do, and what we can best do,

Manda Scott, author of the Boudica: Dreaming novels, podcaster at Accidental Gods, renegade economist, smallholder and conscious

evolutionary draws us on a journey through systems theory, emergence and radical opening to reach the tipping points to conscious evolution - and all the stories we can weave around

ourselves to shape a generative world.

17:15-18:00

The Art of Living in a

Regenerative, Sustainable

and Flourishing Earth

with Mashudu Ramano

In 2004, Mashudu had a breakthrough that revealed the interconnectedness of himself with all living existence. His practice is based on deep experience, deep questioning, deep learning and deep commitment, encapsulated in his vision

Mashudu Ramano is committed to becoming a sustainable and symbiotic self in his personal,

organizational and societal practice. A sustainability entrepreneur, Mashudu established Sustainable Ethical Solutions Holdings which is championing change in the energy and health sectors.

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Social Presencing Theatre

with Dick Baker & Jenny Mackewn

This session gives a further orientation to Social Presencing Theatre and an introduction to 4-dimensional mapping. It offers a chance to try out a 4D map about a theme relevant to the Regenerative Confluence – acting as either players or circle holders. The activity is vital and experiential and will be graded so as to make it accessible to all participants.

futureconsiderations.com/ our-people/dick-baker/ jennymackewn.com

Networks for Life: Weave our way

to Regenerative Futures

with Curtis Ogden

Scientists and sages suggest that long-term human thriving is

largely a function of having healthy human and social-ecological webs. This session will explore how weaving new patterns of connection and flow can support regenerative futures, and will consider the networks that exist within, between and around us.

Curtis Ogden has spent the past 17 years with Interaction Institute for Social Change helping leaders, organisations, communities and networks to better collaborate for impact.

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14:30-15:15 15:15-16:00

Futures Literacy

with Alex Lambie & Loes Damhof

It seems fair to say that humanity has paddled into the rapids. Our boat is called ‘The Poverty of Imagination’ and we bail for our lives as the giant waves of uncertainty smash her against the rocks of complexity, sending some of our heavy societal norms tumbling overboard. But this ‘loss’ reveals new and forgotten perspectives.

Loes Damhof and Alex Lambie will introduce us to Futures Literacy, recently named by UNESCO as critical competency for the 21st Century. By using Futures Literacy to explore why and how we use the future, we can liberate imagination and change how we see and act in the present.

opennarratives.live

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How to make the next

10 years feel like a Revolution

of the Imagination

with Rob Hopkins

Rob will share the key findings from From What Is to

What If, his book on the importance of imagination

in the work of the next 10 years. He will share the Imagination Sundial, a tool for expanding imagination in organisations, movements and projects, illustrated with stories from around the world. This talk is like spending time in a ‘positivity wind tunnel’, so hold onto your hat!

Rob Hopkins is co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books, including The Transition Handbook, The

Power of Just Doing Stuff and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of

imagination to create the future we want.

Giles Hutchins

Regenerative Leadership deals with underlying causes as well as symptoms by addressing the root problem of our myriad crises. By working with the wisdom of nature, we can realign ourselves, deepen our authentic relations, and co-create life-affirming futures. Giles Hutchins is co-author of Regenerative Leadership and is the author of 3 other books: Future Fit,

The Illusion of Separation and The Nature of Business, all exploring

how we can lead in ways that find harmony with life.

regenerativeleadership.co

Kei Franklin

As we confront the disruption of our systems, narratives, and norms, we face a marked collapse of the private-public dichotomy and are invited to integrate the facets of ourselves. What might it mean to practice radical hospitality amidst these turbulent times?

Kei Franklin is a coach, facilitator, performance-maker, scholar and musician. Her work lives at the intersection of culture and the environment, and concerns questions of power, context, identity, and justice.

kei-franklin.com

Alicia Carey

Alicia shows how building trust, embodying values and allowing just the right level of risk enables opportunities to flourish. Collaboration, curiosity and warmth characterise her interactions at every level. Alicia’s unique leadership style has brought financial abundance, international recognition and creative zest. Prior to arriving in Gloucestershire, she ran the Dartington International Summer School, managed opera singers at IMG and toured the globe with the world’s top orchestras.

Sebastian Pole Lic OHM, Ayur HC, MAPA,

MRCHM, FURHP

Sebastian practices traditional herbal medicine and is Master Herbsmith and Co-founder of Pukka Herbs. Passionate about how herbalism can help serve society, Sebastian has spent the last 20 years dedicated to bringing the best quality herbs for Pukka’s herbal teas and organic wellbeing supplements whilst pioneering sustainable organic and fairwild herbal value chains.

My leadership style is trying to be the best of me; Enthusiastic energy, uplifting vision, focused on solutions, managing uncertainty. I am still learning

herbalreality.com

Jyoti Ma

As we step into this prophetic time, we are called to remember and to lead following the Original instructions of Nature. We flow through collaborative actions following the directions of Mother Earth as given to Her Original Peoples. They carry Her prophecy, which instructs us, and are guiding our way through these times of the Great Turning.

Jyoti Ma is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. She has cultivated projects that demonstrate ways of life that honor the Earth and all Peoples. As the Grandmother Vision Keeper of the Center for Sacred Studies, she co-founded Kayumari with spiritual communities both in America and Europe.

centerforsacredstudies.org thefountain.earth

How to lead the way?

with Alicia Carey, Giles Hutchins, Kei Franklin, Jyoti Ma,

Sebastian Pole and Yock Theng

Yock Theng

What assumptions underlie our approach or relationship with education? How do we go about that in a way that is aligned with its original

intentions; to cultivate qualities of attention, care, and agility; and to navigate current realities, emergent circumstances or decisions?

Formerly trained as a social scientist accustomed to a mechanistic worldview, Yock Theng is currently an educator supporting students in their development. She seeks to invite a shift – to include an orientation of inquiry and relationship – in her ongoing work.

19:00-21:00

Open Mic Night & Celebration Ceilidh

with Drew Dellinger and Jennifer John

Drew Dellinger will be our host for the

final evening of celebration, regeneration, poetry, spoken word, music and story. This is an invitation to all who have attended to bring something to contribute toward the evening festivities!

Please write to our Programme Manager, Miriam Buck, ahead of the evening with your wish to contribute - but rest assured, there will always be open space for the spontaneous flow of creation! We can’t wait! Drew Dellinger is an internationally sought-after speaker, poet, writer, and teacher who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, and compassion.

He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement.

Jennifer John is an award winning composer, singer/songwriter, vocal coach, music mentor and entrepreneur. As the music manager of the vocal ensemble, Sense of Sound Singers her artistic collaborations and performances have led to projects with an impressive array of amazing artists including Nile Rodgers, Take That, Seal, Jon Bon Jovi, Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Yoko Ono. Her activism within community music led to her receiving an award from HRH The Queen as Pioneer For The Nation.

drewdellinger.org jenniferjohnmusic.com

Katie Lloyd-Nunn is a mover,

writer, editor and curator. She has worked at Hawkwood since 2004 developing the programme in parallel with her varied interests. Hawkwood CFT celebrates

authentic communication, leadership, spirituality, Nature, music, silence, embodiment and community. Prior to finding her place in Stroud she lived 10 years in the Midwest US before moving to Findhorn community from 1990-2000. Now semi-retired, her own brand of youthful eldership is coming to the fore.

Miriam Buck is a people

enthusiast, writer and facilitator, working as the Creative Curation and Programme Manager at Hawkwood CFT. She works with openness, intimacy and heart, creatively curating the educational and artistic programme of

Hawkwood. A natural networker, she enjoys the richness of

connection found in sometimes the most unimaginable of places. She is a student of Advaita

Vedanta, which has and continues to radically and absolutely

transform her life.

Alicia Carey leads Hawkwood

Centre for Future Thinking with passion and purpose. Alicia shows how building trust, embodying values and allowing just the right level of risk enables opportunities to flourish. Collaboration, curiosity and warmth characterise her interactions at every level. In 10 years at Hawkwood CFT, Alicia’s unique leadership style has brought financial abundance, international recognition and creative zest.

Priscila Pabon is the Brand and

Content Strategist at Hawkwood CFT. Born and living in the Global South, Priscila is a creator of beauty and seamlessness and works with a passionate fire that brings vitality to her work. With expansive curiosity, Priscila explores diverse cultures and indigenous lifestyles and her care for the planet is precisely done within every aspect of her work.

For Natali Martinez Robo, creativity, self-expression and culture is what makes life colourful. The centre of her vision is and has always been the richness and spirit of community. Born and partly raised in Colombia, Natali has been inspired by alternative and diverse thinking and living, and through exploring embodiment through a regular movement and yoga practice. Her work in Hawkwood is in support of the Programme and Marketing departments, as well as warmly hosting the Hawkwood virtual community.

Matthew Shaw is a composer,

author and artist as well as

Hawkwood’s Partnerships Manager and Curator. He is the co-founder of a transition town in Dorset and is the Trustee for the charity People Need Nature. Matthew is passionate about the environment and climate action and about the artistic collaboration that comes through nourishing the communities of purpose.

Supporting creativity and innovation is at the heart of our work. We look forward to collaborative engagement and transformation. Follow our work at:

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