From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems

You know your work is powerful. Your methods are solid, your impact is real, and you’re making a difference. But here’s the thing we’ve both noticed after years of working with organizations, activists, artists, and changemakers: too often, doing transformative work comes at a high cost to our own wellness and that of our teams.

This workshop is for leaders and organizations who are tired of that trade-off, and want to co-imagine something more with a community of leaders who are willing to work together to find a new way of being together.

From Roots to Reach explores how the best methods for creating change can flow through an entire organization or community. Think of it like transpiration in plants: water doesn’t just solve one problem and disappear. It gets absorbed by the roots, carries nutrients throughout the whole system, and then flows out through the leaves, into the atmosphere to nourish the broader ecosystem and eventually land back in the ground, ever more rich, ever more sacred.

Why This Matters Now

Most approaches to organizational and community change fail because they’re designed for scarcity thinking—focused on immediate outcomes, competition for resources, and solving problems in isolation. But what if we thought about our methods differently? What if, instead of applying solutions topically when issues surface, we integrated our most effective practices throughout the entire ecosystem of our work?

This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about making sure the powerful work you’re already doing actually sustains and nourishes everyone involved, including you.

What We’ll Explore Together

Over five days, we’ll dive into practical approaches for working with the different layers that make up our communities and organizations—the energy of places, the worldviews people hold, the skills we build, how we form relationships, and the culture we create together.

This isn’t theoretical. We’ll work with real case studies and actual situations you’re facing. And we’ll do it through art, dialogue, movement, nature connection, and the kind of deep restoration that actually allows you to go back to your work refreshed rather than depleted.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A New Framework: Understanding transpirational growth as both a concept and a practical method you can adapt to your specific context.
• Integrated Methods: Tools and approaches that work across different aspects of your organization or community, not just in isolated situations.
• Real-World Applications: Experience working through case studies and actual challenges, so you know how to apply what you’re learning.
• Systems Perspective: Ways to think about replication and scaling that honor your visions and the complexity of the communities and ecosystems you’re working in.
• Personal Renewal: Practices for collective well-being that you can integrate into your ongoing work, not just use during the workshop.

Who This Is For

This workshop is designed for people who are already doing good work and want to do it more sustainably. If you’re leading an organization, running programs, facilitating community change, or supporting others in transformation work—and you’re tired of burning out yourself and your people in the process—this is for you.

We’ll be working on many levels: art, depth and spirit, nature connection, dialogue, movement, and deep restoration. Come ready to engage fully and leave renewed.

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.