The Regenerative Practitioner Series

How does the series work?

The Regenerative Practitioner Series is an in-depth, five-month course held over Zoom. The course includes ten two-hour dialogue sessions structured around our curriculum of reading material and practice exercises, and culminates in a three-day intensive workshop.

Sessions

• Sessions are two hours in length, held every other week. For each session, participants will complete a preparatory reading and assignment.
• The sessions themselves combine live instruction with open group dialogue and one-on-one “fishbowl” time, where a single participant works with our instructors to explore a project they are actually working on as a way of bringing strategic frameworks to life for the entire group.
• The sessions are recorded and made available for download, so you can catch up if you miss a session. Participants typically spend between 3 – 5 hours per week preparing for and engaging in the sessions and course assignments while this portion of the course is underway.
• In the off weeks between sessions, you will be encouraged to meet with one another in small study groups to work on grounding the content of the sessions through real-life application and a group assignment.
• Each study cohort receives 4 hours of faculty coaching over the duration of the series.

Intensive

• Depending on your cohort selection, your Intensive may be held either online or in person.
• The Intensive takes place over a long weekend, with sessions lasting all day with a lunch break on Friday – Sunday.
• The Intensive combines dialogue in large and small groups with journaling and reflection exercises.
• The Intensive is followed by a final two-hour zoom session, held approximately two weeks after the weekend workshop.

Have a question about how the course works? Submit it via our inquiry form.

Is this course right for me?

We encourage all prospective TRP participants to engage in your own process of self-identifying as a regenerative practitioner. To support you in that, we’ve developed a list of qualities that regenerative practitioners tend to share, which can help you see whether the course would be a good fit.

To help with this, you might ask yourself whether some or all of these statements apply to you:

• You often see bigger potential than is being realized on the projects you’re involved in but haven’t found a way to help your collaborators and/or clients see and align with that potential.
• You know that sustainability will never accomplish its aims if we can’t change the way we think and work, but you’re not sure how to achieve this.
• Your work is important and meaningful to you, but you still feel the drive to learn and develop along a path so that your work and the essence of “who you are” become further and further integrated.
• You have a track record of delivering results, and yet you continually see possibilities beyond the level that you are currently able to realize.
• You feel a strong desire to be part of a larger community of likeminded practitioners mutually committed to growing and deepening the impact of your work.

If so, you may be a good candidate for the series. If you are considering enrolling in TRP but unsure as to whether the course is right for you, you may request a conversation with a faculty member to mutually assess whether it’s a fit.

What material does the series cover?

The series is structured around a systemic framework that has been drawn from and tested through decades of working on regenerative development projects in communities all over the world. The framework integrates four core elements that enable regenerative thinking and working across the nested systems in which we work. 

The learning outcomes of the series are as follows:

• A deeper understanding and embodiment of regenerative development principles and how they unfold both in your personal life and in projects and communities
• Greater ability to assess project design and development practices for their regenerative potential
• Greater ability to define how a regenerative approach would apply to various sectors and fields of practice relevant to your work
• Increased capacity to manage complexity as a means to deliver greater value to clients and stakeholders
• A new grounding into the significance of place as a coalescing force for regenerative work, yielding fresh insights and observations into the places in which you live and work.
• New insight into the contribution that your practice can make to the systems in which you work, and the ability to chart your own developmental path towards realizing that contribution
• The support of a growing learning community of peers and colleagues who share your commitment to creating profoundly innovative work in service to a healthier community and world.
• New insights into and discernment around how to grow increasing levels of caring, motivation and spirit in our teams and our projects.

For more information about the content covered in the series, you may download the course syllabus.