And the Living Design Lab gets its own page
This is where I would use the full material you removed from BILD. It is genuinely good sales copy and deserves room to breathe. Pasted markdown
I'd structure that page:
BRING YOUR BIG VISION TO LIFE
→ Is this you?
→ Life finds a way
→ Imagine...
→ What was the first step?
→ What the Lab actually does
→ What you'll work on
→ What you'll receive
→ Program details
→ January cohort
→ Apply
And I would absolutely keep this sequence:
Five years from now, doing the work you want to be doing...
And twenty years from now?
Something is genuinely different because of you.
...
All of it one thing.
Aligned.
The archer, the arrow, the target.
The surfer and the wave.
Aligned and in motion.
What is Living Design?
Living Design is a structured way of thinking about the complex systems we live and work within, based on the proven patterns through which life has adapted and grown possibility for billions of years.
Evolutionary biologist and biomimicry author Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker applies decades of work in evolutionary biology, biomimicry, living systems, collective intelligence, cooperation, organizational design, and multicapital thinking to help organizations ask better questions about the systems they are trying to change. Where is the leverage? What’s possible? What’s necessary?
Ways to work together
We offer a range of Living Design engagements.
Keynotes + Interactive Talks
Inspire possibility. Change how people see.
Introduce your organization to the patterns by which living systems to coordinate, adapt, cooperate, and become more capable.
Drawing on evolution, biomimicry, collective intelligence, and stories from nature and organizations, these sessions explore what billions of years of living systems can teach us about navigating uncertainty, working with constraints, distributing intelligence, growing possibility and trust.
Presentations can be tailored around the challenges and opportunities your organization faces
Great for: leadership gatherings, conferences, staff events, board meetings, innovation programs, retreats, and organizational learning.
The Result: A shared language and new lens for seeing the organization, its challenges, and possibilities that have been overlooked.
Living Design Workshops
Bring a real challenge. Find the opportunity and the leverage.
Bring a cross-functional group together around something the organization genuinely wants to create, change, or unlock.
Using the Living Design Lens, we explore questions like:
What is working—and what is in the way? What capacities need to be developed?
What relationships, resources, or forms of capital have we overlooked or underleveraged?
What relatively small changes could create the effects we require?
Format: Half-day or full-day, in person or virtual.
Great for: emerging initiatives, persistent challenges, innovation opportunities, strategic questions, organizational transitions, or problems that cross traditional functional boundaries.
The Result: A richer map of the challenge, greater clarity about constraints and potential leverage, with a strategic map for the initiative’s successful emergence.
Living Design Lab
Develop the people who navigate complexity within your organization.
Living Design Labs develop internal capacity by applying Living Design while directly to a significant challenge or opportunity.
Participants bring organizational challenges, initiatives, or opportunities into a structured Living Design process.
They learn to see systems more clearly, recognize constraints and underused capacities, work with multiple forms of capital, identify leverage, design experiments, and adapt based on what happens.
Labs can be created for a single organization or include participants from multiple organizations and fields.
Great for: emerging leaders, innovation teams, cross-functional groups, organizational change leaders, internal consultants, strategists, and people responsible for navigating complex initiatives.
The Result: Progress on real organizational challenges while developing a transferable Living Design capability that remains inside the organization.
BILD Team + Board Retreats
From talented individuals to collective capacity.
Living Design retreats help boards and leadership teams understand how different people, capacities, relationships, knowledge, information, and responsibilities can become more capable together.
You’ll explore questions like:
What are we here to make possible? What do each of us bring?
Where does knowledge live and die? Where does information and responsibility flow—and where do they get stuck?
Where is responsibility concentrated? What needs to be shared?
What constraints are making things harder? What would have to be true?
Great for: boards, leadership teams, newly formed teams, organizations undergoing transition, distributed organizations, and groups working to develop greater trust, agency, coordination, and collective intelligence.
The Result: Stronger relationships, greater clarity about purpose and roles, improved information and responsibility flows, identified leverage opportunities, and practical experiments the team can begin testing immediately.
Living Design Strategic Labs
See the system. Find the constraint. Test what changes it.
A leadership or cross-functional team—and, where useful, external partners—Take a significant initiative or organizational challenge through a deeper Living Design process.
You’ll maps the challenge as a living system: its purpose, nested systems, capacities, exchanges, constraints, relationships, and multiple forms of capital. Then look for places where information, knowledge, resources, responsibility, funding, relationships, or decision-making are not flowing as effectively as they could.
Where are the leverage points? What’s in the way? What would have to be true? Who would be invested in that outcome?
Format: One or two days, with optional preparation and follow-through.
Great for: strategic initiatives, innovation, organizational redesign, scaling, partnerships, resource flows, persistent bottlenecks, or complex challenges where the solution is not yet obvious.
The Result: A practical evolutionary strategy that adapts to change, with a clearer understanding of the system, identified leverage points, and experiments that can be tested before committing to large-scale change.
Living System Assessments
Get a bird’s eye view.
Sometimes the first need is a clearer picture of the system producing the outcomes you’re experiencing.
A Living System Assessment examines the relationships, capacities, structures, exchanges, resource and information flows, constraints, and patterns underneath a recurring organizational challenge.
The goal is not to produce an exhaustive diagnosis of everything that could be improved.
It is to identify:
What is limiting the system’s capacity—and where might intervention create disproportionate value?
Depending on the challenge, the assessment may include leadership conversations, stakeholder interviews, document review, mapping, workshops, and observation.
Great for: recurring organizational problems, stalled initiatives, scaling challenges, collaboration breakdowns, concentrated knowledge or responsibility, resource constraints, and situations where previous solutions have treated symptoms without changing the underlying pattern.
The Result: A Living System map of the challenge, key limiting factors and capacities, potential leverage points, and recommendations for experiments or deeper work.
Custom Living Design Accelerators
Grow the system’s capacity to evolve.
Some challenges cannot be meaningfully addressed in a workshop.
They cross departments, organizations, sectors, communities, or places.
A longer-term Living Design partnership works with the actual system over time.
That might mean strengthening distributed leadership inside an organization.
Developing a network of partners around a shared purpose.
Rethinking how knowledge or resources flow.
Growing the capabilities required for a major transition.
Developing a new initiative while simultaneously developing the ecosystem that can support it.
Or working across organizations to ask:
What could this system become capable of that none of its members could accomplish alone?
For place-based work, the process may grow around a Nature of Place Inquiry:
What are the particular ecological, social, cultural, and economic patterns of this place?
What sources the resources and nutrients this community depends upon?
What relationships and exchanges sustain it?
What’s possible?
What would have to be true?
And what new capacities would have to develop?
The engagement evolves with the system itself:
The Result: Greater capacity within the organization or ecosystem to coordinate, learn, adapt, activate resources, distribute intelligence, and continue evolving without permanent dependence on an outside consultant.
What changes?
The goal of Living Design is not to leave you with an elegant diagram of your organization.
It is to make the system more capable.
Depending on the engagement, that might mean:
Information reaches the people who need it.
Knowledge survives changes in leadership.
Resources begin flowing toward opportunities that were previously invisible.
People find roles where their capacities create more value.
Responsibility becomes less concentrated.
Partners become more capable of coordinating without central control.
A persistent constraint is removed.
An initiative that had stalled begins moving.
The organization becomes better able to sense, learn, experiment, and adapt.
Possibility grows.
Where do we begin?
You don’t need to know which engagement you need.
Start with the thing your organization is trying to bring to life.
The initiative that isn’t moving.
The transition you’re navigating.
The capability you know you need.
The problem that keeps returning.
The opportunity you can see but haven’t figured out how to unlock.
Then we ask:
What is happening now?
What would you love to have happening instead?
What is getting in the way?
That tells us where to begin.
Start lightly—with a keynote or workshop—or bring a concrete challenge into a Strategy Lab, retreat, assessment, or longer partnership.
There is no requirement to move from one offering to another.
Do enough to create value. Learn what happens. Then decide what the system needs next.
What is your organization trying to bring to life?
Let’s start there.
Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker
Evolutionary Biologist · Biomimicry Practitioner · Author of Teeming
Founder, Teemlab