practice. 

come for  

stay for  

community. 

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
Apr
17

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.

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To Live: Possible paths on a damaged planet
Nov
20

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.

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To DREAM: Possible paths on a damaged planet
Nov
19

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.

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To Die: Possible paths on a damaged planet
Nov
18

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.

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Dismantling Unsustainable Structures & Patterns: Part two
Oct
2

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.

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Dismantling Unsustainable Structures & Patterns: Part One
Sep
25

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.

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Fall Recharge in North Vancouver
Nov
14

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.

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SPEAKING

ENGAGEMENTS

We occasionally speak about our work at conferences and online