LEADING THROUGH NATURE // FD 2025
How can nature teach us to lead in an era of complexity and change?
Traditional governance structures — built on control and hierarchy— often struggle to adapt to today’s complexity. In contrast, nature has been organizing itself for billions of years, evolving systems that are resilient, adaptive, and interconnected. What if we took inspiration from ecosystems to create leadership and governance models that are more flexible, decentralized, and regenerative?
In this session, we'll explore questions like:
👉 How can we unlearn outdated leadership models and reimagine governance inspired by the principles of nature?
👉 What can ecosystems teach us about resilience, adaptability, and collective intelligence?
👉 How do we create organizations that serve life rather than extract from it?
This immersive workshop explores living-systems thinking and nature-inspired leadership as a new paradigm for guiding ourselves, our communities, and our organizations. Through futures techniques, embodied practices, and multi-sensory experiences, we’ll learn from nature how to lead and organize in more adaptive, regenerative, and collaborative ways.
This workshop is designed for activists, futurists, artists, entrepreneurs, and changemakers ready to move beyond mechanistic leadership and embrace symbiotic, nature-inspired ways of organizing and leading—drawing wisdom from ecosystems to cultivate resilience, adaptability, and transformation.
📅 Date: April 29th, 2–5 PM
📍 Location: Parque das Necessidades (coordinates will follow)
✨ Facilitators: Lisa Jikeli & Alex Wolf
💸 Costs: We encourage donations between 15-25 € per participant, please bring in cash.
🌿 Join us for an interactive session on reimagining governance and community-building through nature’s wisdom.
📢 Spaces are limited — sign up now to explore how living systems can reshape the way we govern, collaborate, and design for the future.
Workshop Agenda
🌿 This is an interactive session on nature-inspired leadership and systemic transformation.
🔹 14:00 – 14:15 | Arriving & Orientation
Settling into the space, connecting with the environment, and framing the session.
🔹 14:15 – 16:30 | Workshop: Leading Through Nature
Part 1: Breaking Old Patterns – Rethinking outdated governance and leadership models, explore grief and fear, create spaciousness for transition
Part 2: Learning from Nature – Imagining Other Forms of Leadership, discover leadership rooted in resilience, interdependence, and service to life
Part 3: Finding a New Language – Co-create metaphors and new vocabulary for regenerative leadership
🔹 16:30 – 17:00 | Closing & Exchange
Integration – Reflections, key takeaways, promises
Networking & Open Conversations – Connecting, exchanging ideas, and exploring future collaborations
About the Facilitators
Lisa Jikeli
Lisa Jikeli is a Social Entrepreneur, Change Facilitator, and Systemic Organizational Consultant, led by the question: How can we design organizations in a way that serves life? She has supported over 500 leaders and teams in building resilient and equitable work cultures and exploring new ways of collaboration that foster regeneration and systemic change.
As co-founder of THE GOOD CHANGE, a Berlin-based agency and academy for transformation, she co-developed a free training on transformation competency, officially licensed by the German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, empowering individuals to drive organizational change from within.
Alex Wolf
Alex Wolf is a strategic designer, narrative crafter, and systems thinker dedicated to transforming the way we understand and shape the future. Working at the intersection of storytelling, systemic change, and regenerative design, she helps mission-driven organizations navigate complexity and craft narratives that challenge dominant paradigms. She is the founder of a small Berlin consultancy, realutopia and has contributed as a founding member to projects such as the New European Bauhaus Prize-winning Transformation Lab and Network of Empathy. Rooted in intersectional feminism and social justice, her work explores how storytelling can rewire systems, foster deep interconnection, and open pathways to equitable, regenerative futures.