Cultural Wayfinding
Leadership from the World As It Is to the World As It Could Be
From being led by stories to becoming the storyteller.
Cultural Wayfinding is a foundational course for those who want to lead from an emerging, regenerative paradigm.
It’s the inner work that helps you get free from inherited patterns, unlearn old stories, and begin reimagining what life-giving leadership looks like.
Over twelve weeks, we explore how cultural stories of separation, domination, and scarcity shape the ways we lead, relate, and shape change. These stories are at the heart of the metacrisis, both keeping us caught in cycles of exhaustion, self-doubt, and disconnection, while also driving the larger crises of our time - climate breakdown, inequality, and systems of violence.
Through honest conversation, somatic and reflective practice, and systems thinking, you’ll learn to identify and compost the stories that no longer serve, reconnect with your own compass, and begin shaping new stories that root your work in integrity, connection, and vitality.
Cultural Wayfinding is for those ready to move from reacting to the systems we’ve inherited to reimagining how we live and lead within them - cultivating the grounded presence and imagination needed to foster change that’s regenerative, relational, and real.
We are living in a time of deep transition - socially, ecologically, and culturally.
The narratives that built our world are unraveling. What comes next depends not only on new systems or policies, but on new ways of seeing, relating, and being.
Capitalism, domination, and the myth of separation are not only external forces. They live within us, shaping how we think, lead, and hold power.
Cultural Wayfinding is not about learning more theory. It’s about transformation, so we no longer reproduce what we’re trying to change.
It’s about reclaiming power, not as control, but as the capacity to create, to care, and to contribute to collective freedom.
This work invites you to listen inwardly, so the choices you make in your life, work, and leadership don’t just sustain the world as it is - they help seed the world as it could be.
The Stories That Shape Us Are Changing
By the end of this course, you will:
Recognise and release the internalised stories of scarcity, domination, and separation - and how they relate to capitalism, patriarchy and supremacy culture.
Develop practices that support calm, presence, and the ability to stay with complexity.
Engage with conflict and exhaustion as information that can guide your growth.
Cultivate your imagination as the greatest tool for change we have.
Join a community of peers who are also learning to embody this emerging paradigm.
From Monoculture to Living System
Our dominant culture behaves like a monoculture: efficient, but fragile. It resists diversity. It collapses under pressure. It needs more force, more control, more extraction to survive.
Many changemakers have absorbed this logic.
When change is slow, we push harder. When conflict arises, we fight. When we burn out, we keep going.
We use the same energy of control to try to create liberation.
But monocultures die - and ours is cracking.
This course asks a different question:
What if, instead of fighting weeds, we plant seeds?
It’s not about doing different work. It’s about doing your work differently.
Course Overview
Program Details
Weeks 1 - 5: Getting Free
We break down the relationship between self work and world work as you learn the stories that shape our world.
Laying the groundwork of ‘getting free’ you’ll learn to identify the stories of growth, scarcity, separation and domination and the ways we have internalised them, as well as how story and system interconnect.
You’ll also get a good opportunity to connect with your fellow cohort and set some group intentions for the program.
“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.” - Rudolf Bahro
Weeks 6-7: Composting the Old
We slow down. Grieve. Burn what needs burning.
Then we listen for what wants to grow in the dark; imagination as a muscle, possibility as practice. Not a utopia, not a five-step plan, but small, living threads we can begin to weave into our daily lives.
Weeks 8-12: Re-Imagine Everything
We explore what it looks like to live from new stories:
Self: how these stories live within the body, our rhythms, our work.
Relationships: how they reshape relationships and community, and how to uproot stories in our communities.
Systems: how we can gently “disturb” the systems around us with beauty, courage, and care.
As cultural wayfinders, we’re making the map as we walk. You’ll start to vision the world as it could be and unpack your role in birthing this world.
Who is this for?
We follow Joanna Macy’s understanding of an activist:
anyone acting for something larger than personal gain.
You might be an impact leader, creative, entrepreneur, organiser, sustainability professional, or community builder. If your work (paid or unpaid) is about regeneration, justice, or care, this course is for you.
Cultural Wayfinding is for those ready to move from reacting to the systems we’ve inherited to reimagining how we live and lead within them - cultivating the grounded presence and imagination needed to foster change that’s regenerative, relational, and real.
Lucy, United States
“From the readings, to the discussions, to the facilitation and pace, this course offers an opportunity for both seasoned activists and newcomers to find a reflective place to deepen their understanding and practice, while leaning into envisioning new possibilities...”
Ruth, Australia
“Every session left me full of ideas, thoughts, questions, and a much deeper understanding of myself and my purpose in this world. I loved this course - and all the wonderful people from all over the world who shared this space - and, while so thankful to have been involved, I'm quite sad that it has come to an end.”
Facilitator
Hey, I’m Laura, the founder of the Scintilla Centre.
I started working with changemakers through my own experience as a climate and environmental activist. I understand the challenges that change-work can bring, and the skills required for our work to be impactful: relationship building, creativity, conflict reconciliation, storytelling.
My intention - as a coach and as the founder of Scintilla Centre - is to support changemakers in developing the skills, wisdom and community needed to remake the world.
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✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Live sessions are 90 minutes, and this is where the majority of the content is delivered. Allow about 30 minutes per week for the workbook and reflection prompts.
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No problem. Each session will be recorded and you can watch the replay. Each week will have an accompanying workbook you can also follow along in.
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We start on Wednesday, March 26 2025. Sessions are at 6pm UK time, which is generally 10am Pacific | 1pm Eastern | 7pm CET. There is some variation in weeks 1 & 2 for daylight savings changes.
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Refunds are not permitted for change of mind. If your circumstances change please email us to discuss.