HUMAN BY DESIGN™ · ONE-DAY IMMERSION
THE WORLD IS CHANGING. ARE WE?
One day · New perspectives · Lasting transformation
BEYOND RESILIENCE.
RESILIENCE IS NOT WHAT WE THINK.
We have been taught that resilience means standing strong, recovering quickly and returning to the norm. But what if the norm is part of the problem?
A forest does not survive by keeping everything unchanged. It evolves through diversity, interdependence and renewal. What appears to be an ending can become the beginning of something entirely new.
Perhaps human resilience works the same way.
What if resilience is not about becoming harder, but becoming more connected?
To ourselves. To one another. To the living world. And to the future we are helping create.
FOR THOSE WHO SENSE SOMETHING IS SHIFTING.
For leaders navigating uncertainty. For coaches and facilitators supporting change. For change-makers questioning established systems. And for anyone, regardless of age, background or experience, who senses that the world is asking us to fundamentally rethink how we live, work and relate.
You do not need to have the answers.
Only the courage to question what you thought you knew.
One-day programme
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01 — The World Is Shifting
10:00–10:45 What happens when the familiar no longer holds?
Opening provocation on disruption, uncertainty and the limits of conventional resilience. Participants explore what is changing around them and what they are being asked to reconsider.
Experience: The Shifting World Map — personal, collective and planetary changes
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02 — What Does Nature Know About Resilience?
10:45–12:00 Why do living systems survive through relationships?
Explore interdependence, diversity, adaptation and regeneration. Connect ecological principles with Indigenous relational perspectives and Pogačnik's artistic view of Earth as a living whole.
Experience: Living Systems Walk — noticing resilience, vulnerability and interconnection
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03 — The Resilience Within
13:00–14:15 What remains steady when everything changes?
Explore attention, emotional flexibility, values, embodied awareness and the difference between genuine stability and rigid control.
Experience: Grounding and embodied awareness followed by individual reflection
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04 — From Individual Survival to Collective Strength
14:15–15:15 What if resilience is something we create together?
Examine belonging, reciprocity, mutual support and the importance of community. Explore how collective relationships can support transformation.
Experience: The Web of Resilience — mapping support, dependencies and opportunities for reciprocity
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05 — Designing for a World in Transition
15:30–16:30 What needs to end, what needs protecting, and what wants to emerge?
Use a guided future-oriented design exercise to translate the day's insights into practical choices, relationships and experiments.
Experience: The Renewal Canvas — one personal commitment and one collective action
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06 — A Different Way Forward
16:30–17:00 How do we carry this into everyday life?
Closing dialogue, shared commitments and reflection on the capacity to meet change without losing connection.
Experience: Collective closing circle
Five signature experiences that make it memorable
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What appears to be an ending can also become habitat, nourishment and the beginning of something new.
Provocation: What in our lives or organisations are we trying to preserve that might need to transform?
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Participants map the relationships, places, communities and living systems that sustain them. They identify where resilience is strong and where disconnection creates vulnerability.
Provocation: What if independence is not strength, but an illusion?
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A guided outdoor observation and sensory awareness practice, inspired by nature-connection work to engaging with landscapes.
Provocation: What becomes visible when we stop trying to control and begin paying attention?
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Participants create a symbolic image of the future they wish to help bring into being, followed by dialogue and a concrete translation into action.
Provocation: What are we becoming through the choices we make today?
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Each participant identifies something they can offer and something they need. The group explores how resilience grows through mutual contribution rather than individual endurance.
Provocation: What becomes possible when we stop carrying everything alone?
LEAVE WITH MORE THAN INSPIRATION.
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SEE DIFFERENTLY.
Understand resilience beyond endurance, through the interconnected nature of people, communities and living systems.
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CONNECT MORE DEEPLY.
Discover practices that strengthen awareness, grounding and meaningful relationships in times of uncertainty.
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MOVE FORWARD WITH INTENTION.
Leave with your own Resilience & Renewal Canvas and a practical 30-day experiment to bring new insights into everyday life.
Tangible outcomes.
Participants leave with:
A new understanding of resilience as personal, relational and systemic.
Practical awareness and grounding techniques for navigating uncertainty.
A map of the relationships and conditions that support their resilience.
A clearer understanding of what they need to release, preserve or renew.
A personal Resilience & Renewal Canvas, including one meaningful experiment to undertake within 30 days.
GUIDED BY MIKHAËL AKASHA.
Where human transformation meets systems change.
Mikhaël is an innovation strategist, MBA lecturer and facilitator working at the intersection of leadership, organisational transformation and living systems.
His work brings together international business experience, systems thinking, contemplative practices and perspectives learned through direct encounters with Indigenous teachers.
Beyond Resilience emerged from a growing question at the heart of his work:
What if our greatest challenge is not learning to survive a changing world, but remembering how to live meaningfully within it?
OPEN COHORT
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Beyond Resilience
€295
Per participant · Excluding VAT
One day · 10:00–17:00 · 10–16 participants
A guided experience combining provocative perspectives, nature-based inquiry, embodied practices, group dialogue and practical tools.
Includes a Resilience & Renewal Canvas, workshop materials and a 30-day reflection guide.
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Beyond Resilience (in-company)
One-day in-company version
€3,950 excluding VAT and venue costs, adapted to the team's particular challenges.
Bring Beyond Resilience into your organisation to strengthen collective adaptability, deepen collaboration and rethink how teams navigate uncertainty.
Through fresh perspectives and practical experiences, participants explore how to move beyond individual coping towards creating the conditions for lasting organisational resilience.