Dear Ones,

There is something about these times that feels less like standing on solid ground and more like being carried by a tide.

Things come and go. Ideas emerge and dissolve. Relationships deepen, stretch and reshape. At times it can feel unsettling, as though we are constantly adjusting to shifting currents; to ebbs, flows and flotsam. Yet perhaps the invitation is not to search for stillness, but to discover a different kind of steadiness: one that is found within the turbulence itself.

When we stop resisting the turbulence, we begin to notice its rhythm. We sense that not every ending is a loss, not every uncertainty a source of anxiety. Sometimes the currents themselves are carrying us towards places we could never have reached by standing still. They ask us to soften our grip on certainty and trust what is taking shape beneath the shifting surface.

In this newsletter, we share a number of offerings that have emerged from our current place of listening and unfolding. We hope they meet you wherever you find yourself in the movements of our times.

Field Reading

What turbulence can we give ourselves to right now?

Movements, waves, and whooshes.

A coming and going – continuously.

In them a suspense carries us throughout.

We, moved and shaped by it all.
We, informed from within by it all.

Staying steady is not the aim.
Staying with it is the call.

As in the movement lies strength and rhythm. 

As in the movement lies direction and connection.

As in the movement, as uncomfortable as it may be, lies wisdom to pay attention to.

So here I rest right into the movements,

So here I lean right into the unfoldings,

So here I breathe right into what appears to be turbulent.

Suspended between the coming and going,

Suspended between the emerging and dissolving,

I feel myself being carried to yet unknown shores.

Shaping the next chapter of our learning journey

Following a powerful and deep Foundation Training at Waldhaus, our pattern laguange team stayed on for two further days of deepening, designing, and weaving together the next chapter of Collective Transitions.

Together, we have begun shaping the overarching pattern language that will underpin our future trainings, mentoring programme, and wider learning spaces. Rooted in practice, action research, and years of experience accompanying systems and transformative change across diverse contexts, scales and places, this living framework brings greater coherence to the ways we teach, learn, and accompany others.

We are especially excited that the first cohort of our Advanced Training I (see below for more info), beginning this September in Switzerland, will be the first to engage with this evolving body of work. It feels like an important milestone for Collective Transitions, and we look forward to sharing more as this journey continues to unfold.

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, practise, and learn 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 five more circles planned, running from September 2026 - February 2027. Participants are welcome to book individual sessions, or book to join them all in advance for greater continuity, trust-building, 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.

Upcoming training and offerings

A new way to gather: Online Foundation Training

Hosted in English

We’re delighted to be launching a new online version of our Foundation Training, offered across four immersive sessions between October 2026 – January 2027. If you’ve been curious about our Foundation Training but have not yet found the right opportunity to join in-person, this may be the moment.

This new online format opens the door for a diverse international learning community, across time zones and circumstances to engage with this work together, all while remaining rooted in their own communities and places.

Our Foundation Training is for those navigating uncertainty, multiple perspectives, and complex systemic challenges. As many of the systems we are part of, including: social, organisational, ecological, come under increasing strain, familiar ways of leading and collaborating are no longer enough. Our Foundation Training introduces a deepening of perception, of presence, and of our capacity to meet the complexity of these times with greater care and coherence.

Across four online sessions, we’ll explore systems sensing, systemic constellations for societal change, and relational engagement with land, place and the ‘more-than’human’ to learn new ways of perceiving and working that better equip us individually, and collectively, to meet with complexity of systemic challenges.

You can also join our Foundation Training in-person at the following locations and dates:

• UK: 23 – 25 September, 2026 at Oasis Human Relations

  Find out more.

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

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Deepening the practice: Advanced Training I

Hosted in English

There comes a point when learning shifts from understanding a practice to really embodying it. If you’ve already completed our Foundation Training and are feeling called to deepen your capacities for presence, and abilities needed to accompany complex societal change processes with greater depth and integrity, then we’re excited to welcome you to join our Advanced Training I.

This training is designed for leaders, facilitators, activists, creatives, and practitioners working at the edges of socio-ecological transformation. Together, we’ll apply systemic constellations for societal change and systems sensing methods across diverse contexts, strengthening fluency in regenerative and embodied systems change and refining our ability to relate to land and place. We’ll also deepen and expand perception and sensing capacities, hone inner relational capabilities, and cultivate grounded presence and trauma-sensitive awareness.

We are delighted that this training is now being offered in-person in Switzerland and, through our growing partnership with Oasis Human Relations, in the UK. What makes these trainings particularly special is the learning community that grows from within it: a committed circle of practitioners learning alongside one another and offering mutual support and collective knowledge building.

Advanced Training I in Switzerland

• Four immersive learning modules running September 2026 – September 2027. Hosted at Waldhaus, Lützelflüh-Goldbach.

Advanced Training I in UK

• Four immersive learning modules running April 2027 – January 2028. Hosted at Oasis Human Relations, Boston Spa.

Inspiration

Societal Transformation & Systems Change: Exploring Challenges, Capacities & Insights

As the pace and complexity of change continue to grow around us, we often find ourselves asking not only what needs to change, but who we are being as we participate in that change. This blog post from our archive explores the capacities required to accompany societal transformation with greater presence, resilience, and care, offering a set of practical questions spanning inner and outer dimensions that invite reflection.

Whether you're leading a team, stewarding a project, or working within a wider movement for change, we hope these reflections provide a moment to pause, recalibrate, and deepen your practice. Sometimes, the most valuable resources are the ones we return to again and again.

Thank you for being with us in the turbulence,

Luea, Natalie and Kate