Design for social change.
Informed by nature.
Design for social change.
Informed by nature.
Design for social change.
Informed by nature.
When you’re a changemaker, there’s no script to follow. From equity to burnout, from strategy to conflict, the challenges to success can often feel overwhelming. But what if the solutions were around us all along, in the time-tested patterns of healthy ecosystems?
At Regenerate Change, we use the wisdom of living systems to create practical solutions for changemakers. Looking for a more holistic approach to strategic planning? Struggling with the next steps in your career? Need help aligning your team around equity? Whatever challenges you’re currently facing, we have a wealth of experience and actionable tools to help you get there.
When you’re a changemaker, there’s no script to follow. From equity to burnout, from strategy to conflict, the challenges to success can often feel overwhelming. But what if the solutions were around us all along, in the time-tested patterns of healthy ecosystems?
At Regenerate Change, we use the wisdom of living systems to create practical solutions for changemakers. Looking for a more holistic approach to strategic planning? Struggling with the next steps in your career? Need help aligning your team around equity? Whatever challenges you’re currently facing, we have a wealth of experience and actionable tools to help you get there.
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OUR TEAM
Our practice is drawn from over four decades of combined experience as changemakers ourselves. We’ve founded successful nonprofits and worker-owned cooperatives, managed million-dollar budgets, strategized winning policy campaigns, and found harmony between conflicting ideologies more times than we can count.
As consultants, coaches and facilitators, we’ve spent thousands of hours facilitating powerful outcomes for dozens of clients, ranging from individuals to national coalitions.
ADAM BROCK
ASIA DORSEY
ABRAH DRESDALE
TES COHEN
ADAM BROCK
ASIA DORSEY
ABRAH DRESDALE
TES COHEN
Our Areas of Expertise
FOOD SYSTEMS We leverage our deep experience building regenerative and equitable food systems to support our clients’ efforts in food systems strategy, policy advocacy and more.
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM Drawing from our ancestral lineages, we combine ancient wisdom with contemporary movements for justice, guiding clients towards a spiritually-grounded approach to social change.
CLIMATE JUSTICE Interweaving science, policy, and activism, we offer strategic insights to clients focused on climate solutions that prioritize justice and equity.
IDENTITY, POWER & CONFLICT We empower clients to address power imbalances & conflicts head-on, facilitating the development of inclusive team cultures grounded in trust & collaboration.
FOOD SYSTEMS We leverage our deep experience building regenerative and equitable food systems to support our clients’ efforts in food systems strategy, policy advocacy and more.
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM Drawing from our ancestral lineages, we combine ancient wisdom with contemporary movements for justice, guiding clients towards a spiritually-grounded approach to social change.
CLIMATE JUSTICE Interweaving science, policy, and activism, we offer strategic insights to clients focused on climate solutions that prioritize justice and equity.
IDENTITY, POWER & CONFLICT We empower clients to address power imbalances & conflicts head-on, facilitating the development of inclusive team cultures grounded in trust & collaboration.
FOOD SYSTEMS We leverage our deep experience building regenerative and equitable food systems to support our clients’ efforts in food systems strategy, policy advocacy and more.
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM Drawing from our ancestral lineages, we combine ancient wisdom with contemporary movements for justice, guiding clients towards a spiritually-grounded approach to social change.
CLIMATE JUSTICE Interweaving science, policy, and activism, we offer strategic insights to clients focused on climate solutions that prioritize justice and equity.
IDENTITY, POWER & CONFLICT We empower clients to address power imbalances & conflicts head-on, facilitating the development of inclusive team cultures grounded in trust & collaboration.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
In societies founded on fragmentation, reconnection is a revolutionary act. When we grow our ability to cultivate wholeness and reciprocal relationships with other humans and the more-than-human world, unforeseen cultural healing takes place.
CHANGE ACROSS SCALES
We aim to shift culture fractally. Recognizing that regenerative solutions start with the individual and one-on-one relationships, we cultivate personal capacities for change while pursuing design interventions in larger systems, working in coalition with allies and network partners.
SOLIDARITY
Accountability to the impacts of colonization, white supremacy, and patriarchy begins with acknowledging our relationships to these systems. We work to dismantle oppression across scales while resourcing efforts led by frontline communities to create new societies defined by collective liberation.
EMBRACING EDGE
We believe the greatest potential for change occurs at the ever-shifting edge between the ideal and the possible. We aspire to nimbly navigate that edge, continually re-evaluating social contexts as they shift and evolving our own practices in response.
LEADING FROM LINEAGE
We stand squarely in our ancestral, intellectual and spiritual lineages, honoring the cultural practices and specific individuals who have influenced our offerings. We are humbled to be in the embrace of those ancestors who’ve created and recreated culture in service of life.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
In societies founded on fragmentation, reconnection is a revolutionary act. When we grow our ability to cultivate wholeness and reciprocal relationships with other humans and the more-than-human world, unforeseen cultural healing takes place.
CHANGE ACROSS SCALES
We aim to shift culture fractally. Recognizing that regenerative solutions start with the individual and one-on-one relationships, we cultivate personal capacities for change while pursuing design interventions in larger systems, working in coalition with allies and network partners.
SOLIDARITY
Accountability to the impacts of colonization, white supremacy, and patriarchy begins with acknowledging our relationships to these systems. We work to dismantle oppression across scales while resourcing efforts led by frontline communities to create new societies defined by collective liberation.
EMBRACING EDGE
We believe the greatest potential for change occurs at the ever-shifting edge between the ideal and the possible. We aspire to nimbly navigate that edge, continually re-evaluating social contexts as they shift and evolving our own practices in response.
LEADING FROM LINEAGE
We stand squarely in our ancestral, intellectual and spiritual lineages, honoring the cultural practices and specific individuals who have influenced our offerings. We are humbled to be in the embrace of those ancestors who’ve created and recreated culture in service of life.
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ADAM BROCK
ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGIST
Adam Brock (he/him) is a Denver-based cultural artist practicing regenerative social design. For over a decade, he has worked to create the conditions for regenerative relationships among individuals, grassroots initiatives, and institutions throughout the country.
As co-founder of food justice nonprofit The GrowHaus, Adam led the transformation of an abandoned half-acre greenhouse into an award-winning hub for healthy food and urban agriculture. While at GrowHaus, Adam co-chaired Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, spoke at TEDxMileHigh, and was named one of “Colorado’s Top Thinkers” by the Denver Post.
A trained permaculture designer since 2008, Adam has led over a dozen Permaculture Design Courses and is a national leader in the field of social permaculture. In 2017, Adam published Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal And Community Transformation, a recipe book for social change inspired by the more-than-human world. Since 2019, Adam has served as co-director at Regenerate Change, a national consulting and education group focused on regenerative social design.
ASIA DORSEY
ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGIST
Asia Dorsey embraces the earth. Ear to the soil, she heeds the instruction of mineral, microbial, and botanical beings. She uses her gift of pattern recognition to embed organizational culture with the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. She studied Non-Profit Management at the Wagner School for Public Service at New York University from 2012-2014 and uses her training in Kingian Non-Violence, Restorative Justice and Authentic Relating to create frameworks for beloved communities. Asia draws from her nourishing apprenticeship with Kay Baxter of the Koanga Institute and Vandana Shiva of Navdanya in seeding indigenous centered Permaculture Design and Social Permaculture Design education with The Regerative Education Collective of Denver. She has centered ecological design in building her own, regenerative worker’s cooperative, the Five Points Fermentation Company in 2016 and as a current Coop Educator and Board Member of the Center for Community Wealth Building.
Ever the Afrofuturist, Asia has collaborated with and been shaped by Black Quantum Futurism as a quirky performance artist at national exhibitions such as TimeCamp and the Pan African Arts Festival. As a Black arts curator and founding member of the Palm Wine Collective, Asia ensures that the frameworks for world building center joy, creativity and pleasure. She has, to this end, become a pillar of play using art to cultivate strategic imagination through her innovative Dreamplay modality. She engages communities and organizations in dreaming themselves back home.
From this dreaming, Asia perpetuates the notion that home is in our bodies and facilitates from frameworks of Healing Justice to shape everyday organizations to embody liberation. Asia has personally, grounded and centered Black bodies in these libratory futures as a teacher and Cofounder of the Satya Yoga Cooperative and as bioregional herbalist and disciple of Herbal Medicine as People’s Medicine. How can we shape our organizations to heal the environment, to heal our communities and to heal ourselves?
Be in inquiry with Asia at asia@regeneratechange.com and www.bonesbugsandbotany.com.
ABRAH DRESDALE
REGENERATIVE EDUCATOR / FACILITATOR / MENTOR
Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her), co-founder of Regenerate Change, is a visionary educator and professional mentor who guides changemakers in applying pragmatic regenerative frameworks alongside holistic healing practices to their leadership. She is trained in Integral Breath Therapy, Family Constellations, and Anti-oppression work, all in service to supporting clients clear intergenerational debris and step fully into their intrinsic power and brilliance.
Abrah’s professional background encompasses regenerative design, food systems, and Jewish eco-social traditions. Since 2011, Abrah has been faculty for the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and she taught for 7 years at Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living.
Through founding two nationally acclaimed academic food justice programs—Farm and Food Systems at Greenfield Community College and the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program at Franklin County Jail, MA—Abrah guides professionals from her embodied experience of envisioning and enacting systems change on the ground.
She served a David Bird Ecological Design Fellow to India and an Africa Conflict Transformation Fellow to Rwanda. As a cultural artist dedicated to personal, collective, and intergenerational healing, she is well versed in crisis and trauma recovery, ritual design, and accompanying others through life cycle initiations.
She is the author Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture Guide, a mom to one kiddo and a kitty, and lives with her family in occupied Pocumtuck Territory, known as Western Massachusetts.
TES COHEN
ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGIST
Tes Cohen (she/her/ella) is an experience designer and facilitator who believes in the transformative power of intentional gathering and reflective leadership. Guided by a deep commitment to belonging and continuous learning, she designs experiences that spark reflection, build trust, and move people toward collective action.
Rooted in years of community engagement, from serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Costa Rica to leading corporate social impact initiatives at Gap Inc., Tes brings a cross-sector lens to her work with purpose-driven organizations. She is the founder of Gather Better and co-founder of Radical Reset, building a movement of rested leaders and a world in which rest is democratized, normalized, and celebrated.
Tes holds a Master’s in Public Administration from NYU Wagner and a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Connecticut College. She currently serves on the board of Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), supporting a coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the lives of immigrants and refugees.
Tes calls Denver, Colorado home, and is always down for a good story, a long bike ride, or a shared meal.