Towards Ecologicalness

You’re warmly invited to join Towards Ecologicalness, a primer for working with Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens. 

The story of ecological organisations recognises organisations as deeply and necessarily entangled with place, neighbourhood, social systems, ecosystems, ancestral and collective histories, cultural stories, possible futures, the more-than-human, this planet, and so much more.

To travel towards ecologicalness is a multicultural, multigenerational, multispecies endeavour that invites us to delve into our humanness while delving into tending to, and being in relationship with, the living system that is an organisation.

During this rich two-hour session, you will meet ecological enquiry, the underlying foundation of the lens, through embodied practise and theory, ensuring that you are equipped to engage more deeply in organisational enquiry and bring others on the journey with you.

We’ll then explore the design lens through some of your current organisational questions, challenges, or projects, so that you leave the session ready to start applying the lens in a meaningful way.

 

TRAVELLING TOWARDS ORGANISATIONAL ECOLOGICALNESS THROUGH OUR HUMANNESS.

AS A PARTICIPANT IN TOWARDS ECOLOGICALNESS, YOU WILL BE:

  • * Meeting the theory of ecological enquiry, giving you a grounding in its foundations.
  • * Experiencing ecological tracing, bringing insight into personal and organisation-wide worldviews and cosmologies, cultural framings, stories, and other lived experiences.
  • * Spending time in dialogue with the author of the lens.
  • *Receiving post-session access to an introductory guide.
  • *Meeting with a small group of fellow organisational leaders, founders, and stewards (capped at 8 participants per session).
 

"Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens is an incredible tool! I have shared it with my college students to help them explore their relationships with the land and holistic organisational dynamics. The EO lens allowed students to navigate the complexity of our regional systems with hope instead of despair, and inspired them to act locally within their own organisations. Anna-Marie is also a beautiful facilitator and guide of this work, and has been inspiring to work with."

"I and some amazing colleagues of mine are in the early steps of creating an ecological organization and this is an amazing resource. Answers so many questions of ours and sets us in the right direction!"

 

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ABOUT ECOLOGICAL ORGANISATIONS: A DESIGN LENS

The design lens is birthed from over ten years of study and working in systems thinking, self-organisation, living systems, emergent strategy, organisational design, decentralised and participatory governance, and organisational stewardship, a thirty-year enquiry practice, and a fascination with animism, interbeing, wisdom, and multispecies kinship.

It is formed entirely of enquiry prompts, designed to guide organisational founders, leaders, and stewards into closer relationships with the unique experiences, arrangements, languages, and stories within an organisation, from internal flows of relationship, care, information, and intelligence to how we are attuning to, and being within, wider ecosystems and social systems.

The design lens has been applied in different ways throughout the world, including at the University of Portland, in a British museum, and within a Scottish-based organisation asking: ‘what would Earth do?’.  In January 2026, the lens was introduced to 80+ senior charity leaders as part of Good Innovation’s day-long Navigating Uncertainty: Lessons from Nature.

Shared freely as creative commons, the lens is accompanied by an extensive online guidebook that offers the design lens in multiple formats, along with educational materials and other guidance, all entirely self-funded.

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APPROACH FIT

My way of travelling towards ecologicalness is generally a really good fit for organisational founders and leaders that:

  • Are drawn towards, or are already, travelling into the mystery that lies beyond the edges of how and why organisations are currently organised.
  • Are excited by relating to organisations through an expansive and poetic lens while also rooting into current realities.
  • Recognise, or are curious to explore organisational borders as impactful and a co-created story.
  • Are curious about personal and collective language, cosmologies, stories, and assumptions, and enjoy disrupting these when appropriate.
  • Are leading organisations that are financially or culturally fairly stable, so that this work isn't unhelpfully disruptive at such a tender time.

"Wow. WTF. This is incredible. This is what we’ve been trying to do all along but didn’t have the framework for!"
"An exceptional resource for ecological design (and planning) thinking, presented in the form of a beautiful, engaging, accessible infographic."
"Anna-Marie, this is amazing. Thank you for intuiting this incredible framework."

 

 

 

PREMISE AND INVITATION ROOTING THIS WORK

The design lens, and the underlying story of ecological organisations, is rooted in the following premises and invitations:

1. Organisations are innately ecological in nature; and, the way that current systems are arranged mean that very few organisations are able to be ecological in practise. However, when we start to embody organisations as innately ecological, we are now travelling towards organisations being ecological in practise.
 
2. Since organisations are living systems (i.e. ongoing, complex rearrangements of relationships, processes, outcomes, and actions), being ecological as innate nature and practise is an ongoing unfolding with no arrival point.
 
3. Truly ecological organisations are, therefore, the work of decades, if not generations, and, this knowing holds the invitation to start the work now.
 
"A real contribution to all of us thinking of how organizations can evolve in healthy ways. A beautiful rendering of the dimensions."
"Wow! What a beautiful set of offerings, and framework for thinking about wholeness."
"Really, really gorgeous in every way."
"What a beautiful framework to pin lots of deeper insight to and in order to create more inner clarity, integrity and possibility. Thank you for sharing this."
 
 

 

 

SUGGESTED SESSION PRICING

You are invited to choose your session price directed by the below imperfect categories. If you find yourself in two categories, the suggestion is to situate yourself in the higher category. (If the lowest amount isn’t available to you, you’re welcome to reach out with a gift that you can offer.)

Please note: Along with your ticket price, which I receive, Humanitrix charges a booking fee, which is 4.67% of your ticket price plus £0.46 ex. VAT (which they then donate).

Towards Ecological Organisations is offered under my participation and refunds policy.

ORGANISATIONS WITH LOWER ACCESS TO FINANCIAL WEALTH: £40 - 60

This generally includes charities and not-for-profit organisations situated in the Global South.

ORGANISATIONS WITH ACCESS TO FINANCIAL WEALTH: £75 - 125

This generally includes charities and not-for-profit organisations situated in the Global North and for-profit organisations situated in the Global South.

ORGANISATIONS WITH HIGHER ACCESS TO FINANCIAL WEALTH: £140 upwards

This generally includes for-profit organisations situated in the Global North.

 

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SESSION DETAILS

Meeting place: ZOOM
Length: 2 HOURS
Main language: ENGLISH (other languages are warmly invited and celebrated)
Tickets available: MARCH, APRIL, and MAY 2026

1st WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH

9.30 - 11.30am PST / 11.30am - 1.30pm CST / 5.30 - 7.30pm GMT / 6.30 - 8.30pm CET / 7.30 - 9.30pm EET

2nd TUESDAY OF THE MONTH

9.30 - 11.30am GMT / 10.30am - 12.30pm CET / 11.30am - 1.30pm EET / 3 - 5pm IST

(Note: many of us have clock changes in March and April, so please consider that when considering your availability).

 

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