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Designed rooms to practice what you are trying to nurture
The work of transforming ourselves to transform systems is slow and cumulative. It needs expansive containers to stay with the trouble and unlearn in layers and at depth. While many of our spaces are in closed rooms for client engagements, our team dedicates significant time and energy to designing and facilitating public programs that expand the reach of our work and deepen its effects to build new capacities and increase stamina. Each year we offer online dialogues, workshops, retreats, and learning journeys brimming with curiosity, insight, foresight, and solidarity. The Solvable team remains committed to making these programs financially accessible so anyone can attend regardless of access to wealth.
Ongoing
Programs
regenerar
How do we understand and shift the relationship between colonial modernity and the climate emergency? This ongoing series builds from inspiration in the documentary feature—Regenerar: Possible Paths on a Damaged Planet—through explorations of dying, dreaming, and living.
New Works
This series celebrates important new written works that shift possibilities in our social and ecological relations. Sessions invite the authors into a space of community conversation about their work and its significance.
Educational Futures
This series inquires into how we educate our way out of the polycrisis, and what stands between education-as-usual and transformational educational futures. Its aim is to identify the different paradigms in post-secondary education and map transition possibilities for hospicing what is ready to die and midwifing what is ready to be born.
Dismantling Unsustainable Structures & Patterns
This workshop series invites the identification and divestment from unsustainable organizational, cultural, relational, and personal patterns by contextualizing them within the structures where they thrive. Identifying interventions to dismantle and dissolve that which perpetuates business-as-usual and iterative change.
civic solidarity
In partnership with the Transition Bridges Project, we are hosting personal and collective spaces within communities across Canada to foster regenerative social and ecological relations. Our first experiment was in November 2024 with more coming in 2025.
Upcoming & past
workshops
We believe fostering interconnection and resilience are integral factors in our collective abilities to improve social and ecological relations. Each of our workshops is designed to cultivate skills, capacities, and dispositions to navigate the challenging spaces of change personally, organizationally, and within systems. We make space to build relationships that can sustain us in practicing that which is difficult.

The Marionette Pt 2 & Feedback Loops of Transformation
Part Two will primarily focus on the transgressive > transformational feedback loops on the left side of The Marionette. We will explore constrained and expressive agency within our organizations. We will also inquire into why some people embark on prosocial institutional change, and what capacities and stamina are required as they do.

The Marionette Pt 1 & Feedback Loops of REPRODUCTION
It’s show time! Please join us for the public unveiling of The Marionette and a workshop exploring how each of us is constituted through the organizations we seek to shape. See what happens as feedback loops take us deeper into reproducing systems.

Victoria as Civic Solidarity Ecosystem
Please join us in person November 22nd to collectively pursue Victoria as a community of Solidarity in regenerative social and ecological relations. The focus is to build power from within to drive better conditions for all.

To Live: Possible paths on a damaged planet
The second workshop in the Regenerar series invites dreaming as an enabling space for imagining and regenerating new communal relations. Dreaming and its precursor of sleep have been identified as a liberatory act of transformation because of their power to envision new structures and relations apart from Capitalistic functioning.

To DREAM: Possible paths on a damaged planet
The second workshop in the Regenerar series invites dreaming as an enabling space for imagining and regenerating new communal relations. Dreaming and its precursor of sleep have been identified as a liberatory act of transformation because of their power to envision new structures and relations apart from Capitalistic functioning.

To Die: Possible paths on a damaged planet
The first workshop in the Regenerar series surfaces what needs to be hospiced within ourselves, our organizations & institutions, and our communities to interrupt structures and patterns of harm. While death is often observed and avoided, in this workshop we will invite the sitting with death as a vital component of regenerative cycles.

Dismantling Unsustainable Structures & Patterns: Part two
Iterative changes are not enough to save unsustainable structures and patterns from their own toxicity. They require dismantling and dissolution in order for something else to be created in their place. However, to divest, we need to be able to identify where the unsustainability resides and engage in processes for dislodging it. This is not a solo practice. This is collective work that is supported and held in community.

Dismantling Unsustainable Structures & Patterns: Part One
Iterative changes are not enough to save unsustainable structures and patterns from their own toxicity. They require dismantling and dissolution in order for something else to be created in their place. However, to divest, we need to be able to identify where the unsustainability resides and engage in processes for dislodging it. This is not a solo practice. This is collective work that is supported and held in community.

REGENERAR DOCUMENTARY SCREENING + DEATH, DREAM, LIFE WORKSHOP
Regenerar is a documentary that investigates the relationships between colonial modernity and the climate emergency. We’ll be hosting a screening followed by a workshop exploring the film’s three themes of Death, Dream, Life.

Transitioning Educational Futures Workshop
Join us for a 75-minute virtual workshop creating space for new educational paradigms using Bill Sharpe's Three Horizons model to identify levels of systemic disturbances in the field of education

Transforming Educational Futures Workshop
This workshop will inquire into how we educate our way out of the polycrisis, and what stands between education-as-usual and transformational educational futures

Fall Recharge in North Vancouver
This North Shore retreat will help you replenish your own energy so you can show up more fully for your larger purpose in working with others. The experience will also provide the chance to build your personal and leadership capacity with other local leaders looking to do the same.
SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
We occasionally speak about our work at conferences and online
National Sustainability Society Conference
The Great Reset: The Case for Climate Action as Key to Economic Recovery
McCombs School of Business BBA & MBA classes