What is there for us to hone and refine? ⚗️

Dear Ones,

What are you noticing as you open this newsletter into your day? There is a particular quality to this moment: so much is moving, so much is asking for our attention, and it can be difficult to know where to place that attention well.

The work of this time is perhaps about becoming more discerning about how we respond, not simply responding to what is happening around us. What do we give our energy to? What needs more care or precision, or simply more time?

For those of us working with people, organisations, communities, and wider systems these questions aren’t abstract. They shape how we listen, how we make decisions, how we hold complexity, and how we remain available to what might emerge.

In this newsletter, we’re sharing some invitations into that ongoing practice: to look more closely at what we are cultivating in ourselves and in our work, and to notice where there might be an opportunity to refine, rather than add more.

We hope there is something here that meets you where you are, perhaps a question to carry, a practice to explore, or a different way of seeing something you thought you already knew.

Field Reading

What is there for us to hone and refine?

In a time of heightened awareness, our discernment is called to be switched on - steady and precise.
In a time of heightened caution, our care is called to be at the centre and guiding us.

In a time of heightened tensions, our presence is the gift we can bring to all that is moving in and around us.

It's not an easy thing to welcome all, yet stay clear and determined on track.

It’s not a smooth ride when acknowledging that there are so many aspects calling for our attention and care.

So, then… we pause and step back - not to disengage, but to widen our horizon of perceptibility.

So, then… we pause and step back - not to shy away, but to deepen into our relationship with all there is.

It’s one thing to be here and to welcome what's ours to tend to.

It's another to engage and work with the matter that arises - unexpected, unannounced, possibly taking us by surprise.

And in all of it… ensuring my centre, my roots…well anchored while buoyant and in motion.

Honing and refining calls us into a space we were unaware existed.

Honing and refining calls us while grappling with the subtle parts that are so delicate to trace.

Honing and refining calls us while being in suspense.

Honing and refining calls us while allowing the still point to take us to new shores.

A new chapter for Collective Transitions

Our first Advanced Training I cohort has begun its year-long journey after coming together at the beautiful Waldhaus in Switzerland last month, bringing practitioners together to deepen their systemic and embodied practice of process stewardship.

This cohort is also the first to work with our newly developed pattern language, an evolving body of work shaped through years of practice, action research and community, and our experience accompanying systems through complexity, change and transformation.

The handouts pictured above offer a very small glimpse into this work and what we’re creating as it moves from the page into practice. We’re excited to be learning with this new cohort, and to see how the pattern language continues to evolve through reflection and experience.

We’ll be sharing more from the Advanced Training I journey, and more of the thinking and practice behind our pattern language for process stewardship, in the months ahead.

Upcoming training and offerings

Foundation Training is going online!

This autumn, we’re opening our Foundation Training to an international learning community through a new online format. Across eight immersive sessions between October 2026 and January 2027, we’ll explore how we can deepen our capacity to meet uncertainty, multiple perspectives and complex systemic challenges with greater presence, care and coherence.

The training is for practitioners, leaders, facilitators, activists and others working towards meaningful change. Together, we’ll explore systems sensing, systemic constellations for societal change, and relational engagement with land, place and the more-than-human, amongst others things — developing new ways of perceiving and working with the systems we are part of.

The online format means you can join from wherever you are, learning alongside people working in different contexts and places while remaining rooted in your own community and practice. If you’ve been curious about Foundation Training but haven’t yet found the right opportunity to join us in person, this may be the moment.

Find out more and register for Online Foundation Training

Practice Circles: Holding Complexity

Working at the forefront of socio-ecological transformation can be deeply meaningful, but it can also be challenging.

Our new Practice Circles, run in collaboration with Oasis Human Relations, offer a space to pause and practise alongside others who are navigating similarly complex landscapes.

Blending reflective supervision, embodied inquiry, systems sensing, and peer learning, these circles provide a grounded and relational environment where participants can bring live questions, tensions, experiments, and emerging challenges from their practice. The emphasis is not simply on problem-solving but on deepening perception, strengthening capacity, and learning how to work with uncertainty, emergence, and complexity with greater clarity.

There are four more circles planned, running from October 2026 – February 2027. Participants are welcome to book individual sessions, or book to join them all in advance for greater continuity and learning integration. Find out more about the session dates, lengths and what to expect from them here.

Whether you're looking to deepen your practice, bring a live case study, or simply reconnect with a community of fellow practitioners, you're warmly invited to join us.

Find out more and join the Practice Circles

Other trainings & offerings you can join us for

Foundation Training in-person

Switzerland: 3 – 6 June, 2027 at Waldhaus, Lützelflüh-Goldbach

Find out more

Advanced Training I in-person

UK: Four immersive modules between April 2027 – January 2028 at Oasis Centre, Boston Spa

Find out more

Inspiration

Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work

We often say the world is in trouble. But beneath the global polycrises lies something deeper: the relational web that connects people, places, communities and living systems

A new six-part essay series, Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work launched on our LinkedIn, explores this underlayer of systems transformation work and the capacities, relationships and ways of working that can help us accompany transformation amid the complexity of our times.

Across the series, authors Luea Ritter, Julien Leyre and Claudian Dobos explore what it might mean to pay greater attention to this unnamed and often overlooked terrain, and how tending to it can change the way we approach systems transformation.

The introductory essay: What does the world require of us? is now available to read along with Essay 1: Tuning up our attentional capacity. New essays will be shared every two weeks and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments on the series, as well as the ways in which you see the topics discussed resonate within your own work.