Regenerative design unites the power of nature with human creativity to transcend current limitations and create a just world where all can thrive. In this book, Abrah Dresdale, Regenerate Change’ founding co-director, shares social permaculture frameworks and regenerative strategies that enhance changemakers’ abilities to re-design their personal lives, projects, and communities in Regenerative Design for Changemakers.

This excerpt, Chapter 8, explores how changemakers can understand the whole systems context of their projects through frameworks such as Rings of Influence and Paradigms at Work.

Change Here Now is Regenerate Change co-director Adam Brock’s book, published in 2017. Developed as a “pattern language” of solutions for regenerative social design, the book contains 82 short, easily-digestible chapters that span community building, group collaboration, organizational design, decolonization, personal regeneration and more.

This excerpt contains a list of all the patterns in the book, as well as several chapters with key frameworks.

This free download includes the table of contents for the full Toolkit, as well as four sample lesson plans.

The Regenerative Social Design Canvas is a powerful, flexible framework for regenerative social design at any scale, from personal transformation to whole-systems change. Synthesizing multiple design lineages, including the Business Model Canvas and the Permaculture Design Process, the Regenerative Social Design Canvas is comprised of twelve “steps” or “modes” of design thinking, each one containing multiple frameworks for designing regenerative social systems for wholeness, equity and abundance. This free download is a high-resolution graphic that names each step of the canvas with its associated icon.

Want to go deeper? Take our self-paced Organizational Design Frameworks workshop to hear us explain each step of the Canvas and how to get started using it. Or sign up for the Organizational Design Intensive to gain access to dozens of video lessons and worksheets related to the canvas that you can complete at your own pace.

Facilitation is a core skill of any changemaker. Whether leading a team meeting, teaching a workshop, organizing community members, or helping to  resolve interpersonal conflicts, as changemakers we can learn to create the conditions for transformative group experiences.

The Regenerative Facilitators’ Guide is a comprehensive overview to the art of holding space from a living-systems and equity-oriented lens. In this excerpt of the full guide, we’ve included sections on qualities of the regenerative facilitator and uprooting oppressive tendencies through inner tracking. Purchase the full guide here.

The people and ecosystems that are most need our love are frequently the very same ones that have been too starved of resources to be able to financially support our work. Fortunately, regenerative social design offers us multiple ways out of this trap.

This set of slides is drawn from our Organizational Design Intensive online course. It provides diagrams and simple explanations for seven different revenue models for regenerative organizations, as well as a set of reflection and integration questions for applying the frameworks to your own changemaking efforts.

This set of slides unpacks and distinguishes different levels of conflict that may arise in workplaces, grassroots organizing teams, or coalitions, offering definitions of key terms and outlining a set of restorative practices to explore.