Collaborations
Youth Negotiators Academy
The Youth Negotiators Academy emerged from an urgent need: to empower young people to participate meaningfully, not merely symbolically, in multilateral climate negotiations. Across many UN spaces, young adults still lack real negotiating power, structural access, and the cultural and systemic conditions required for equitable participation, intergenerational dialogue, and justice.
YNA responds to this gap by equipping young negotiators from around the world with the systemic understanding and negotiation skills needed to stand firmly, act with clarity, and foster a more-than-human and conscious negotiation culture within the multilateral processes of all three Rio Conventions. At the same time, YNA cultivates a global community spanning more than 80 countries, placing care, partnership, and mental well-being at the heart of its work.
Within this context, Luea works alongside other to support the creation of a professional and deeply human field in which young delegates can grow and act with clarity and coherence. Through community-building, training, coaching, and team facilitation, we help nurture trust, resilience, and collective capacity — supporting participants to meet high-pressure environments without losing connection to themselves or each other. This work strengthens not only individual leadership, but also the relational fabric between participants, enabling collaboration across difference and contributing to a more inclusive and life-serving culture of negotiation.
Read more about how a culture of care and solidarity is created and sustained for YNA delegates at COP each year, in this blog post.
COP30: A collaborative event with the UNFCCC Secretariat
At COP30 in November 2025, Collective Transitions partnered with the UNFCCC Secretariat to co-host an interactive event titled Islands of Coherence: Building Trust and Alignment in the UNFCCC Process. The event created space to slow down, listen deeply, and explore how trust and coherence might be strengthened across the UNFCC multi-stakeholder processes in support of shared climate action.
Rather than a panel or lecture, the session was designed as a hands-on, participatory space. Delegates were invited into facilitated small-group conversations focused on collective reflection and problem-solving within the UNFCCC’s multi-stakeholder processes.
Calling question
The session was orientated around a specific calling question: What is calling to be brought forth so that we jointly deepen trust and coherence in how we collaborate meaningfully across the UNFCCC process?
Small group discussion
Within the small groups, delegates discussed the following points:
What nurtures or limits trust and coherent collaboration?
What is calling to be strengthened to enable coherence and alignment?
What small actions could we bring into motion?
Through this guided dialogue, participants brought to the surface what they felt supported or limited trust, and together we explored what can be enabling factors and structures to foster more effective and connected collaboration within the climate community, working towards long-lasting and generative impact for planet and people.
Outcomes for delegates
Renewed sense of connection, care and encouragement among participants.
Emerging insights and practices for trust-building within and beyond negotiation spaces.
Strengthened network of actors committed to cultivating “islands of coherence” as a practice within the climate change process.
We’ve included a link to a video of the event below. It captures a live, collaborative working session in which much of the time is spent in small-group discussions and facilitated exercises, offering a behind-the-scenes view of how meaningful dialogue and collaborations in multi-stakeholder processes can unfold.
Highlights to look out for:
05:55 – 10:15 | Welcome and intention setting from Luea, Collective Transitions
10:15 – 13:25 | Welcome from Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, Director for Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress at the UNFCCC
13:25 – 18:30 | Cultivating presence and framing the collaborative intent
18:30 – 36:10 | Breakout group work
36:10 – 46:40 | Breakout groups report back
46:40 – End | Closing words
Soul Shivers Podcast
Soul Shivers hosted on The Stoa captures seldom heard stories from women around the world working on earth regeneration in different ways. Stories are intimate, translocally interconnected, and impactful. Dialogues 1-4 feature Jane Ruka, Alexandra Gavilano, Naomi Mwangi, Amber Tamm.
Podcast co-created and hosted by Freya Yost and Luea Ritter
Images by Viscaya Wagner @viscaya_wagner
For more info see https://soulshivers.org/ and watch on The Stoa’s YouTube channel.
Ancestry
February 10, 2021
KOSMOS JOURNAL
Featured dialogues from Soul Shivers: Ep 1
Trauma
February 18, 2021
Connection to Place
February 24, 2021
Peace
March 3, 2021
Other Podcasts
The Stoa: Stewards on Stewardship
May 12, 2021
A dialogue amongst the Stewards on Stewardship: Peter Limberg of The Stoa and Luea Ritter and Nancy Zam. of Collective Transitions
Questions we explored: What does it mean actually to steward a "field" or "organism"? What does Stewardship require? What does it mean to us in our respective roles and also as a role that these times call for as we transition from one paradigm to the next? What are we stepping out of and what are we stepping into when we are called and invited to take on a role as a steward?
Green Dreamer Podcast
Luea Ritter: Recreating regenerative patterns as ancestors of the future (Ep304)
“We cannot move forward if we continue to pretend that we are separate from nature. We cannot create a new paradigm if we are still highly rooted in the sense that we are on top and can exploit and design whatever we want. We cannot create healthy solutions if we don’t start loving complexity and embracing the ‘not knowing’ as a truly lived experience.” ~ Luea Ritter
The Facilitators Podcast: A conversation on multiperspectivity
Luea joined Chisom Udeze on The Facilitators Podcast for a regenerative conversation on multiperspectivity to contextualise this skill and explore its relevance for facilitators, weavers, and stewards at a time of intense polarisation and deep fragmentation in society.
Listen to the episode on Spotify here.
Watch the episode on YouTube here.
Action Research Plus (AR+) Blog
AR+ supports a global community, online and face to face, so that action-oriented scholar practitioners find community in response to the call of our times.
Systems Sensing: Making what’s implicit explicit. Collective Transitions with Hilary Bradbury and AR+
During the AR+ Gathering/ eCO Retreat 2021, Collective Transitions brought systems sensing to a practice session with 12 other participants. Hilary Bradbury shares her experience as the case giver.
Hilary Bradbury of AR+ Interviews Luea Ritter and Nancy Zam
In this interview, hear about the origins of Collective Transitions, how we came to this work and what we are excited about now, namely system sensing and systemic constellations for societal change.
Conferences
Sense of Belonging: A Core Condition for Societal Transformation
ISCA Conference
2 hour experiential workshop 04/15/2021