Is this you?

You can see what is happening—in our communities, institutions, the living world.

And you see what could be.

In fact, you have a vision for your role in that shift.

something you really want to see come to life.

You can almost see it—

alive with people and possibility.

A venture taking form.

A community organizing around something that matters.

An organization working the way you always knew it could.

A project that has lived in notebooks and conversations becoming real.

You’ve thought about it. Talked about it. Even made plans.

But somehow it just never happens.

Not enough time. Not enough money. Not enough help. You need the right people. Someone else has to say yes. Something you don’t control has to change first.

Regulations. Institutions. Personalities. Histories. Resources. Politics. Timing.

Ten other things have to happen first.

It feels like pushing a boulder uphill.

And it breaks your heart a little.

Life finds a way.

Yet each of us is here today. The odds of that are infinitesimally unlikely.

For four billion years, life has encountered existential challenges. 

Life just evolves possibilities.

New relationships, new capacities. 

Small changes that changed everything that came after.

That’s the premise of Living Design.

Small acts have the power to make big ripples.

Life finds a way.

Imagine…

Five years from now, doing the work you want to be doing.

The things you spend your days on matter deeply. Your work is connected to the changes you want to see in the world—not something you squeeze in around the edges of your life.

And twenty years from now?

Something is genuinely different because of you.

Your small acts have created ripples that have grown into something you could never have predicted. People doing things they couldn’t before. Relationships that didn’t exist. Resources that flow.

Your work. Your values. Relationships and creativity. The place you live. The way you spend your time.

All of it one thing. Aligned.

The archer, the arrow, the target.

The surfer and the wave.

Aligned and in motion.

What was the first step?

Program Details

8 weeks

12–18 participants, by application

Living Design Lab

An 8 week intensive for people working to bring a big vision to life (the way life always has).

Program Details

Program: Living Design Lab - Founding Cohort
Duration: 8 weeks
Estimated minimum commitment: 4 hours a week for 8 weeks
Format: 

• Self-paced videos and reading or other resources

• Weekly live cohort session 

• Personal Living Design Review 

• Applied project with media documentation

• Online cohort forum 

Professional Development Objectives

By the end of the Lab, you will be able to:

• Apply Living Design frameworks to a complex organizational or community challenge

• Map your challenge within a larger system of relationships, resources, constraints, and exchanges.

• Identify limiting factors, underused capacities, and potential leverage points.

• Apply evolutionary thinking and Teeming to organizational challenges.

• Use your Living Design Brief to translate your insights into practical moves.

Participants who complete the Living Design curriculum and develop their Living Design Brief will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Biocultural Institute for Living Design, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

A limited number of BILD Fellowships are available to support people and projects whose presence would make this particular ecology more capable, but who could not otherwise participate. Please inquire.

Additional documentation for employer-sponsored professional development is available on request.

By application.