The challenge of these times is not just to change, but to remember what change actually is.

We draw on depth psychology, mythology, anthropology, ecology, systems thinking, and somatic wisdom — integrating what modernity separated to restore the capacities this polycrisis calls for.

What we know

Change doesn’t happen by simply rolling out a plan top to bottom. Change is developmental – it asks people, teams, and institutions how to grow in complexity, agency, and responsibility rather than merely having them comply with a new structure.

Regenerative change does more than reduce harm. It restores the conditions that allow life to renew itself. In organisational terms, this means change that increases vitality rather than merely preserving viability – that grows the capacities of people rather than consuming them, and that strengthens relationships with community and place rather than externalising costs elsewhere.

That kind of change requires rigorous thinking, honest inquiry, and the willingness to work across disciplines and borders.

    • What does change actually require – beneath the frameworks and the jargon?

    • What would organisations look like if they grew the capabilities of people instead of consuming them?

    • How do we move from extraction to regeneration – in practice, not just in principle?

    • How do we build businesses and institutions that nourish the places, communities, and futures in which they are rooted?

  • Systems change practitioners. Regenerative designers. Business builders. Researchers. Leaders navigating threshold moments in their organisations – and who feel they can benefit from having access to more perspectives.

The invitation

We're a growing network of practitioners, researchers, leaders, and builders – coming together in working groups, workshops, and local chapters around the world.

  • Research partnerships
    connecting scholars and practitioners across disciplines

  • Workshops
    co-designed and place-specific, not off-the-shelf

  • Local chapters
    working groups in cities around the world, meeting where you are

  • Open conversations
    about what regenerative change actually means in practice

Join us

Join a working group. Co-design a workshop. Start a local chapter. Bring your research.

The conversation is already happening. Come be part of it.

GET IN TOUCH

"Profit-maximisation functions as an invisible environmental designer: it structures the spatial, temporal, and institutional conditions through which people live, work, learn, and relate."

— Adina-Iuliana Deacu, When Business Shapes Minds and Cities (RIFS, 2026)

THE FRAMEWORK

The Soul of Change

Most people navigate change without knowing what change really is.

At the heart of the Center's work is the Soul of Change — a cyclical framework for understanding how genuine transformation unfolds: the crisis or calling that interrupts the old pattern, the descent that cannot be strategised, the rebirth that requires patience, and the return that brings what was discovered back into the world.

This is not theory. It is a map of something people move through whether they have language for it or not. The Center works with this map at every scale — with individuals, with organisations, and with communities navigating threshold and renewal.

LEARN ABOUT THE SOUL OF CHANGE ➔

"Regenerative Change is not just about restoring systems. It’s also about restoring our capacity to move through change."

— David Hoogland, founder of the Center for Regenerative Change

McKinsey research across more than 3,000 organisations found that approximately 70% of change programmes fail to meet their objectives.

Who is this for

This work is for people who are serious about change that goes to the root.

Not cosmetic improvement. Not the next iteration of approaches that have already been tried. The work of the Center is demanding — of the people and organisations who undertake it, and of us. It asks something genuine. In return, it offers something most frameworks do not: a way of understanding and navigating transformation that leaves capacity, not depletion, in its wake.

The Center works with founders, leaders, change makers, regenerative practitioners, researchers interested in or navigating periods of threshold and redesign. With organisations and institutions that want to become genuine places of development for their people, their communities, and the places they inhabit. With practitioners who need a deeper framework than standard consulting or coaching can provide. And with communities working to regenerate the life of a specific place.