Why regeneration? Why now?
The dominant leadership model in many schools still revolves around performance: outputs, outcomes, evidence. But the global conversation is shifting. Educators like Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins argue that our leadership models must now mirror the wisdom of living systems. In Regenerative Leadership (2019), they write:
“Regenerative leadership is leading in a way that is life-affirming – for ourselves, our teams, our organisations, and the wider systems we’re part of.”
In short: if your leadership is depleting you, it’s likely depleting others too.
Regeneration offers a counter-cultural path. One that begins not with doing more, but with reconnecting to who you are, and how you lead, when you are most resourced.
This is not soft. It’s strategic. This is not new-age. It’s deeply human. We call our way of working resourcing. That means helping leaders map their internal and external sources of strength – body, mind, spirit, emotions, and environment. And along the way, in resourcing ourselves to work in more regenerative ways, we’ve learned a few lessons we think are worth sharing.