REGENERATIVE LIVING
Invitation to a Collective Inquiry
How can we cultivate practices for living regeneratively where we are while learning from others in different places?
Join in this inquiry on the:Â 12, 19 and 26 February
In a time of cascading crises, how can we cultivate the living practices of regeneration right where we are, while learning from others across the world who are deeply rooted in their own places?
We have a window of time to act -an opportunity to make decisions with future generations in mind. We are calling this Collective Inquiry because we are imagining a growing field of practices and practitioners that can restore, heal, balance, and grow new natural and social systems.
In what ways does the act of inquiry, shaped by our attention, intention, and action become a transformative process that not only shifts our understanding but alters the very systems we are studying, making our learning inseparable from the regeneration we seek?
We are Art of Hosting stewards, co-initiators and practitioners who are living into these questions ourselves and we wish to share and explore them with you as fellow inquirers. We invite you to bring your experiences and questions, your stories and hopes for the possible futures we are building.
By practicing regeneration we invite you to befriend the chaos of our times, explore how we can make sense of what is happening in artful ways and understand that we need to come together to do this work building creative and resilient communities that are part of the larger web of life.
"Regenerative practices invite us to imagine a future in which all life thrives — a future that calls for a profound shift in how we think about work, wealth, and our place in the world."Â
Â
This invitation is for you if are called to ...
This inquiry is an invitation to those already working with regeneration in their own places—through community-building, ecological restoration, or other land-based practices—and to those seeking to learn how to begin. Together, we will:
- Model how to host and participate in meaningful inquiry, recognizing that regeneration is not a solitary effort, but a collective living process.
- Strengthen our collective capacity to connect to both inner and outer resources and deepen our relationship with place and the living systems we inhabit.
- Co-create frameworks and practices that can guide our individual and collective paths forward and share resources that can support our ongoing inquiry and action.
- Harvest the wisdom of our collective inquiry to sustain our ongoing work that heal and sustain both natural and social systems.
This is how it works:Â
We invite you to join us for a 3 week learning journey...
- DATES:
- 12, 19 and 26 February 2025

- TIME:
Three 2.5 hour sessions at:Â Â- 19.00 - 21.30 Copenhagen
- 1.00pm - 3.30pm Boston
- 10.00am - 1.00pm San Francisco
- PLACE:
We will meet online, connecting in from our web of places around the planet.
Each session will have a theme and a question at the center to guide our collective learning.Â
Session 1 - Place and Potential:
What are we learning from being in relationship to place and its potential? Â
Session 2 - Regeneration in Degeneration
What are we learning about the dance of regeneration and degeneration?
Session 3 - Practice individual and collective
Harvest the skills and capacities we need to cultivate to practice individually and collectively? Â
OUR QUESTIONS
Some of the questions deep in our hearts are….
Regeneration in Times of Collapse:
As the systems we rely on continue to break down, how can we make visible and cultivate the untapped potential in our local ecosystems and communities to restore balance and regenerate what has been depleted?
Local and Translocal Connections:
In what ways can local actions and learning ripple out to other communities, and how can we weave these threads into a translocal network that honours the uniqueness of each place?
Collective (and Other) Intelligences:
What happens when we listen together - not just as humans, but alongside the more-than-human world?
What can we learn from these relationships to inform the regeneration of our social and ecological systems?
PLACE
How are we in relationship to place? What is our foot print and how is the place affecting us?
POTENTIAL
What is the pontential, where we are? Where is it, how to cultivate it and make it flourish?
RELATIONSHIPS
What are the relationships we need to tend to and how are we stepping into these?
LIVING SYSTEMS
What is systems learning? What are the skills and capacities we need to cultivate?Â
WHO?
We are co-initiators, stewards and practitioners of the Art of Hosting and we are calling this Collective Inquiry to be in this deep practice at a crucible time in our turbulent world. Each of us is immersed in navigating the climate crisis and regenerative futures in our own local bio-regions. We co-host and learn with land, the elements, and our kin in the natural worlds and since last year, we have been exploring how we can support each other’s learning and practising to create a larger web of relationship and intelligence. We bring our lived experience of climate catastrophe, the practices from our respective organizations, our camaraderie and our big love of learning. We believe that the questions we are asking are of service to more than just us.
Rowan Simonsen
Rowan is driven by a call to build community on a local, regional and global level, focussing on resilience, creativity and critical relationships.Â
Rowan is inspired to leverage the potential of systems innovation and a holistic understanding of the society we in. He practices Aikido and stewards the Warrior of the Heart Dojo as part of is developing practices for engaging conflict in more creative ways and creating a culture of peace. Rowan has worked as an experiential educator, with strategic sustainability, leadership development and facilitation of participatory processes since 2006.Â
Â
Maria Scordialos
Maria is a lifelong learner dedicated to exploring the natural order of life, guided by her passion for nature, human development, and relationships. Recognizing the harm caused through fragmentation fostered by the dominant mechanistic paradigm, she has pursued a relational worldview rooted in living systems and collective intelligence.
As a co-initiator of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations, Maria became a process artist and educator, helping organisations, communities and individuals worldwide uncover new potential through meaningful collaboration.
To deepen her practice, Maria became the steward of Axladitsa Avatakia, a 24-acre olive farm in South Pelion, Greece, where she co-founded the Living Wholeness Institute as a result of a deep relationship with the place, offering land-based systems learning residencies. Now a regenerative practitioner, Maria is transforming Axladitsa into a hub for local regeneration, fostering connection and the realisation of place’s potential.
Â
James Ede
James is a process consultant and practitioner working internationally in the fields of sustainability, organisational development and systems transformation.
He is a gardener, working with people to develop skills and capacities for leading authentically, collaborating generatively and learning collectively in complex systems.
James lives with his partner and two children in Denmark where he is enjoying getting his hands dirty setting up a community market garden in his backyard.
He is guided by the question: How can we cultivate the conditions for humans to collaborate so that all life may thrive?
Vanessa Reid
Vanessa Reid works at the intersection between systems and soul, bringing her unique brand of artistry to the field of systems transformation. She has worked around the world to co-create cultures and communities of practice dedicated to systemic transformation amidst complexity, collapse and chaos. She holds Masters degrees in both architecture and process-oriented psychology. Vanessa is the former executive director of Montreal’s Santropol Roulant and publisher of ascent magazine. A translocal practice leader, she co-founded the Living Wholeness Institute and The Art of Hosting Athens and is lead faculty at Wolf Willow Institute for Systems learning, hosting depth learning with people, place and the numinous world. Vanessa has a particular call to work with transitions, transformation and the natural cycles of life - from the mess and excitement of creating new systems and initiatives to Conscious Closure and the Wild life of Dying.
Ticha Masai
Ticha will be visually harvesting the session through his art and listening practice. He is a Kenyan art educator, certified teacher and spiritual leader living in Kenya; he is a seasoned conference facilitator who majors on Experiential Learning merging concepts with visualized expression. A Bachelor of Arts graduate in theology and trained Gender Equity and Reconciliation international Facilitator, Ticha Masai is the founder of Rhema Center in Busia, a wellness center that focuses on trauma healing within communities through creation of safe spaces. He is also a consultant on Organizational Climate with Development Associates International. As a graphic harvester he blends his spiritual discipline, wisdom with visual conceptualization and offers them as a gift into this circle as we venture into the inquiry
Register now
Join us in this inquiry to learn valuable lessons about how to cultivate regenerative practices and some good action learning about working with collective inquiry as a core leadership skill in times of uncertainty.
- We will have 3 sessions of 2.5 hours.
- Harvest our learning into a compendium to support our ongoing practice and inquiry.
We suggest a price of 175 USDÂ
We don’t want your economic situation to get in the way of your participation. Contact us for group discounts, or if you need help making the course work for you financially.
If you can only join 1 or 2 sessions, you are still welcome to register. You are also welcome to enter a discount code if that feels appropriate for you.
Â
