Systems Learning
For a flourishing future.
Without Learning There Can Be No Adaptive Change.
The Wolf Willow Institute is dedicated to cultivating the leadership capabilities required to address our most critical and complex socio-ecological challenges.
We exist to serve complexity leaders of all kinds who are dedicated to the co-creation of a flourishing future for all. As a charitable organization, our work includes transformative education, field-building and applied research.
Cascading complexity and relentless exponential change have brought us to a collective threshold where we are faced with profound socio-ecological challenges. Challenges that require us to ask not only what we must do but who we must become to address them well.
We find ourselves at a critical inflection point as a species. An extended liminal era between distinct civilizational arcs. Something is collapsing, unravelling and dying at a meta-level while a new kind of world is being born.
Ecology, Consciousness & Culture.
At the Wolf Willow Institute, we understand ourselves to be part of a nascent global movement that supports those dedicated to the emergence of a different kind of world. Such work unfolds over a long historical arc; we understand ourselves to be engaged in a deep time, generational endeavor.
To establish the foundations for a viable bio-regional planetary civilization that can honour our unique individuality and cultural diversity, while offering ways to live peacefully with each other and thrive sustainably within our planetary ecosystem is the great challenge of our times. Some would say we have many, if not all, of the resources, technologies, and abilities necessary to do all these things. But something is missing. We have the means – but not the capabilities. The knowledge but not the wisdom. Our inability to put self-interest and difference aside and work together towards a shared vision of a flourishing future is terrifying to watch.
And it reveals a learning and human development gap that threatens the viability of our collective future.
“I often feel I am trapped inside someone’ else’s imagination, and I must engage my own in order to break free.”
— adrienne maree brown
Education
We offer unique nature-based transformative learning experiences to cultivate the competences and capacities required to address complex challenges and guide systems transition.
Research
We’re committed to generating and sharing applied research and practice wisdom related to mindset transformation, systems education, complexity leadership and change processes.
Field-Tending
We endeavour to act as a culture-shaping catalyst, hub and conscious community of practice within the broader fields of systems learning, human development, and social change work.