The Art of Hosting Transformative Conversations 28th – 30th June 2012 UK

Many of us are hosting and leading transformative initiatives and projects and, bringing movements and people together in new and collaborative ways. As this grows we meet new challenges of complexity, diversity and rapid change, we are challenged to work on many levels simultaneously. Amid this complexity, turbulence and diversity, we are united in our [...]

Lego Serious Play at FoAM

Originally posted by Dave Griffiths on Thu 3rd Nov 2011 at FoAM’s Blog

Last weekend it was the annual FoAM gathering to discuss long term ideas, some self reflection and consideration of external perceptions. We were guided on this mission by Simone Poutnik and Hendrik Tiesinga, members of FoAM and founders of Natural Innovation. They [...]

The Art of Collaborative Leadership ~ cultivating our capacity for hosting systemic transformation

Norfolk, United Kingdom, 9th June 6pm – 12th June 4pm 2011.

For those hosting emerging movements, networks, or systems change and asking how to deepen them or scale up. For those holding projects and visions beyond our own local reality who want to connect up the dots and see the bigger whole. For those of [...]

The Art of Collaborative Leadership Training 25-27 September

Belgium, September 2010

Many of us are leading transformative initiatives in civil society, business, government, culture and the arts. Across sectors and organisations to improve the well-being and sustainability of our communities, and places of work. Bringing movements for the common good together in new and collaborative ways.

As our initiatives grow and meet new [...]

World Café at the European Consumer Summit

Brussels, March 2010

The European Consumer Summit is a multi-stakeholder event in Brussels organised every year by the Health and Consumer Directorate (DG Sanco) of the European Commission. This event used to be, what we would call a ‘classical conference’: with lots of plenary presentations, little opportunities for participants to contribute [...]

Transition to Resilience Training

A European Learning Partnership

Through the Hub Brussels, Natural Innovation is one of 8 partners in this EU financed project, together with GEN Europe (Germany), Center for Human Emergence (Holland), Permakultur Institut (Germany), Transition Network (UK), Damanhur (Italy), Findhorn Foundation (UK), Sustainable Projects Ireland (IR).

We are developping a 2-year [...]

Culture¦Futures @ COP15

Copenhagen, December 2009

During Cop15, the Climate Summit, we were invited by the Asia Europe Foundation ASEF, to facilitate a 2 day meeting for leading Asian and European artists and thought leaders from the cultural sector to collectively understand their role in the Climate Change debate. This gathering was part of the Culture [...]

Spaces for Social Innovation

Since 2006 we are actively supporting the Hub Brussels, Hub London, Hub World and other start-up Hubs in Europe and around the world as advisers, community builders, hosts, facilitators of co-creative meetings, strategists, co-founders and members.

The Hub is a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and [...]

One on One with Nature

One on One with Nature – Bridging the ecological divide Sunday,13th December 2009 Nature walk during COP15 just outside Copenhagen What is at the core of the climate crisis we are facing? It is a sense of separation and disconnection from nature, thinking we are not part of the larger ecosystem of our planet. When we take decisions from this place of disconnection and separation we just add to the ecological imbalance that is becoming more and more visible. [...]

Lab Development Support

We support organisations to build their capacity to innovate and learn on a systemic level. We design generative and safe containers or ‘labs’ where the collective intelligence and creativity that exists in a system and its people can be harnessed to tackle a particular question or challenge. To do that we incubate [...]