Communities of Praxis
The UNFCCC's Article 6 calls for the worldwide development of diverse, innovative educational initiatives that resource individuals and organizations to take more effective action on the global climate crisis. In accordance with this clear collective priority at this moment in planetary history, IoR stewards and participates in numerous communities of praxis on specific topics of concern for global regeneration. These communities work to synthesize theory and practice in their respective fields in a context of ongoing personal, organizational, and network development.
Praxis is theory and action, each catalyzing and unfolding the other
Each member brings live work into the room: a supplier program that has stalled, a fund thesis that keeps hitting the same wall, a bill that died in committee. Using a living systems framework, the group helps each other ask questions and evolve their approach. The work deepens the individual's ability to engage the framework. Everyone leaves with a sharper instrument and a next move to test before the following session.
A Community of Praxis evolves its capacity together over years. Sessions occur in-person at major global events, and online throughout the year to keep the learning in motion.
Some communities are open, some are by invitation, and all of them are small on purpose.
Please note that dates are subject to change. Each community opens when enough committed people have registered to form a critical mass.
The First Seed
IoR's first Community of Praxis. Running now by invitation.
The First Seed community is comprised of business leaders whose work touches climate, food, agriculture, investing, education, and the wider economy — from consumer goods companies, retailers, food service, agricultural inputs providers, consultancies, investors, NGOs, and multi-stakeholder coalitions.
It is called the First Seed because the other communities listed below will grow out of it.
Members meet online through the year and in person alongside the major moments on the global calendar, with eight in-person sessions in the 2026–27 year.
New Members join quarterly by participating in one of the in-person events.
Regenerative Climate Action
Since its founding, the Institute of Regeneration has been focused on organizing and resourcing innovative industry and community responses to the global climate crisis.
Through internationally attended courses and trainings on climate solutions, community engagements around climate adaptation, and partnerships with other industry organizations and educational institutions, IoR continues to develop its community's capacities to take highly effective, deliberately designed climate action.
Educational and research partnerships:
- Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
- Hudson Valley Farm Hub
- Omega Center for Sustainable Living
- White Buffalo Land Trust
- Shelburne Farms
- Threefold Educational Foundation
Founders speaking on regenerative climate action:
Launching 2027. Register interest →
Regenerative Food & Agriculture
Food systems drive roughly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural expansion causes nearly 90% of global deforestation. Agriculture accounts for about 70% of global freshwater withdrawals, and is a threat to 86% of the species at risk of extinction.
At the same time, food and agriculture have the potential to be net-positive nature-based solutions, with extensive evidence from decades of scientific research in agroecology, agroforestry, managed grazing, and wildlife ecology.
Feasible pathways to transform food and agriculture exist. With the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Food Systems and the Global Biodiversity Framework, and the clear central identification of food systems in the Global Stocktake, strong international agreement has been reached around the importance of this transformation.
Businesses, governments, civil society, and farmers themselves are actively working to regenerate agriculture. But little has changed thus far on a global scale. What's missing? In our team's experience as farmers, researchers, and industry participants, changing how we think about food and agriculture may be an even more important ultimate driver of outcomes than a primary focus on changing agricultural or supply chain practices.
Institute of Regeneration staff and participants are at the core of ongoing efforts by global multi-stakeholder coalitions — including the Sustainable Markets Initiative, One Planet Business for Biodiversity, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development — to harmonize and accelerate the transition to regenerative food and agricultural systems, working on the underlying thinking and paradigms behind food systems and specifically in the context of equitable and resilient bio-geo-culturally unique landscapes.
Launching 2027. Register interest →
Regenerative Investing & Economy
Capital moves faster than anything else in the global system, and gets examined least by the people moving it.
The dominant question in investing is how to earn a return while limiting harm. That is an improvement on ignoring harm, and it is still a question asked from inside an extractive frame. Impact investing, ESG integration, and blended finance were all built there, and they improve the terms of extraction without changing what capital is for.
A regenerative economy asks something else. What would it take for capital to increase the ability of the enterprises and markets it touches to keep generating value on their own, in ways particular to what they actually are? Answering that question changes everything downstream of it, including time horizons, ownership structures, exit expectations, what counts as a return, and who is in the room when it gets decided.
This community convenes investors, fund managers, family offices, development finance institutions, and economic policy practitioners willing to work that question against their own portfolios and mandates.
Further reading:
- Food System Investing in a Regenerative Economy — Ethan Soloviev
- The Regenerative Economy Collaborative
Launching 2028. Register interest →
Regenerative Politics
This community is specifically for elected officials and the people who support them.
The work of politics is the work of governance: designing and steering governing systems in service of the peoples and places they serve. To govern, in its oldest sense, is to pilot a ship — to guide, not to rule.
This community is made up of practitioners who want to think beyond individual election cycles, working from higher-order common values and the founding principles of governing itself. This is not about policy positions or party lines. It is about growing the capacity of those doing the actual work of governing to think regeneratively — over decades, not terms.
Launching 2028. Register interest →
Regenerative Education
Education is the system that produces the people who run every other system. It is also among the slowest to change and the most defended.
Most reform works on curriculum, assessment, and access — what is taught, how it is measured, who gets in. Necessary work, and it leaves the deeper question untouched: whether the institution is developing the capability of a human being to think, or transferring content and certifying retention.
This community is for people with real leverage over educational systems — university and school leaders, funders, ministry and policy staff, curriculum designers, corporate learning heads, and founders building new institutions. Members work the developmental paradigm against the institutions they are actually responsible for.
Launching 2028. Register interest →
Regenerative Real Estate
Most real estate investing and development seeks to maximize financial return on assets invested. Some individuals, investors, and organizations go beyond this, and seek to achieve positive social impact through real estate development. Very few actors in this industry, however, take a holistically developmental perspective — one that aims to evolve the capacities of people, the built environment, and the local ecology and economy in which each piece of real estate sits, to express their unique potential and generate multi-capital value for their place and community.
The Regenerative Real Estate Community of Praxis offers frameworks, guidance, peer-to-peer learning, and creative inspiration for real estate agents, brokers, developers, and investors who want to grow themselves and the holistic value of their portfolios and services.
Launching 2029. Register interest →
Regenerative Psychology
Almost every model of the human mind in wide use was built to explain dysfunction and restore a baseline. You diagnose the problem, treat it, and return the person to functioning. This is the problem-solving paradigm applied to human beings, and it produces what problem-solving produces everywhere else, which is restoration rather than development.
A developmental view starts in a different place. It asks what this particular person is uniquely capable of becoming, and what conditions would grow that capacity, including the capacity to act with agency inside systems far larger than they are.
This community is for psychologists, therapists, coaches, organizational development practitioners, and anyone responsible for the growth of other people. It applies the same seven principles to the interior of a human being rather than the exterior of a market.
Launching 2029. Register interest →
Regenerative Parenting & Familying
Children are the foundation of the future. The family, in whatever shape it takes, is the immediate nest in which children grow, evolve, express themselves, and learn to engage in a wider community and eventually in the whole world.
The way that children and young people experience their family influences their entire life. In a time of global environmental uncertainty, violent military conflict, and fractiously polarized societies, how are we helping the children in our lives and communities navigate with calm clarity, deep integrity, and purposeful agency?
The Regenerative Parenting & Familying Community is designed to fill gaps in our current capabilities, understandings, and systems of support for parents and caretakers of children.
It is made up of parents and families around the world, who work creatively together to improve their children's lives (and their own!). The Community offers a repeating and dedicated space for personal regeneration while taking on the significant work of supporting children and young people to grow.
Launching 2029. Register interest →
Book Clubs
A core practice of IoR's learning community is to study and engage with the theoretical sources of our work, and to test these intellectual underpinnings through participants' lived experiences. IoR's book clubs provide an accessible venue for ongoing study and application within our global community.
Book clubs are open to anyone. They meet online, run in cycles, and are led by members. Several of these books are written to be worked with actively rather than simply read, so we will often go slowly and apply the work rigorously as we read.
Starting 2027, if there is enough interest.
Planned reading
- The Regenerative Business — Carol Sanford
- Wholeness and the Implicate Order — David Bohm
- The Feedback Trilogy (No More Feedback, Indirect Work, and No More Gold Stars) — Carol Sanford
- Regenerative Enterprise — Ethan Soloviev & Gregory Landua