Skills for Collective Renewal

We are living in a time of polycrisis - overlapping ecological, social, and cultural breakdowns that no single solution can fix. For many changemakers, the instinct is to work harder, move faster, or come up with the next big idea. But what if the real challenge isn’t what we build, but the stories and ways of being we build from?

At Scintilla, we call these “monoculture stories”:

• Scarcity & Urgency: never enough, always more, faster is progress

• Supremacy: domination, hierarchy, power as a weapon

• Separation: apart from nature, apart from each other, apart from ourselves

These stories don’t just live “out there.” They show up in us - in exhaustion, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, conflict, and even in the systems we’re trying to change.

This workshop invites you to pause and step into a different kind of leadership. Together, we will:

• Surface and name the cultural stories shaping our projects and lives

• Notice how these patterns live in our bodies, teams, and collaborations

• Experiment with embodied and reflective practices for “re-storying” leadership - shifting toward ways of working that support resilience, creativity, and collective renewal

You’ll leave not only with insights, but with practical tools you can bring back into your change-work, your partnerships, and your community.

This is not about adding more to your to-do list. It’s about discovering fresh capacities for leading differently in a time that demands something new from all of us.

Facilitator: Laura Hartley