Capabilities for Transformative Change: Harmonising & Reconciling.

Due to the success and feedback of our launch webinar held on September 11th 2025, we have been encouraged to offer additional participatory webinars to take a deeper look at what is in each pillar of the report.

Each exploration will contain theoretical grounding, dialogue in small groups and practice of the theory so that there is an opportunity to practice in real-time. In some of these explorations we will invite in someone from the field with deep experience in the subject co co-contribute their insights, in others Jenny, Josie or Al will host.

This webinar focuses on the Capabilities we call Harmonising & Reconciling

Dilemmas around seemingly impossible choices was a recurring theme across everyone we interviewed. Harmonising and reconciling paradoxes, dilemmas, blind spots, double binds and other similar traps so that a system or community can move forwards into the future – again and again – seems to be a core need of place-based community-led regeneration. Whether it is reconciling the challenge of a community that doesn’t want more housing versus the socio-economic need to house more people well; the dilemma of work on improvement of the social foundations at the expense of ecological ceilings, or the challenge of vested interests – the practice of harmonising tensions and regenerative reconciling will continue to be a core skill.

Regenerative reconciling is not compromise or conflict resolution. Rather, it is creating an evolution in the context which generates something entirely new and evolved the systems with which it interacts.

In this lunchtime practice session, we will look at ways in which regenerative work reconciles seemingly impossible dilemmas. Bring your own with you so that we can collectively work on your challenges together.

As with our first study, we have supplemented the content with Really Regenerative and our founder Jenny Andersson’s own decade-long study of place-based regenerative design and development, much of which was documented for her study: Places For Life. We have also been allowed to bring in some critical illustrative case studies from other sources such as the research study by Leen Gorissen, Karla Bonaldi, Piet Haerens and Lénia Rato, commissioned by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment.

Really Regenerative’s own journey, studying and supporting many place-based community-led regenerative projects around the world helped to to deepen our understanding across the different fractals of place, from neighbourhood to bioregion.

The full five pillars are:-

Capabilities and Qualities that Awaken and Disrupt
Capabilities and Qualities that Heal and Stabilise
Capabilities and Qualities that Strengthen and Nurture Relationship
Capabilities and Qualities that Weave and Grow The Future
Capabilities and Qualities that Transform Systems

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TICKETS ARE BY DONATION TO REALLY REGENERATIVE'S WORK and we hope are scaled in a way to make practice accessible to everyone who wants to join.

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