True...so much to mend and put to rights!

Yet looking deeper, we can see there is "in all things a hidden wholeness."

We tap into it through regenerative practices.

Driftless bioregion ag land contours (photo by stargazerherman)

Biologists and native people say that two-thirds of the prairie lies underground, its wondrously deep roots hidden from view. That same subterranean vitality, which gave rise to our fertile soils and tallgrass prairie culture, lies deep within each of us, too. As our logo suggests, this vitality runs through soil, soul, and society.

The Center for Regenerative Society provides leadership renewal programs for people and institutions playing an important role as catalysts in shaping a more just and sustainable economy and communities, both nationally and regionally in the Driftless Area of the Upper Midwest.

Through nomination and application, we gather and mentor diverse groups of activists, citizens, social and business entrepreneurs, youth, and religious leaders from all traditions who are generally recognized among their peers as having considerable influence given the catalytic role they play in social change and social innovation.

The programs we offer feature secular and spiritual leaders of national stature who help us deepen our public conversation about the patterns to our problems, and how we might together go about “solving for pattern” more effectively within the framework of a socially just and ecologically sustainable culture and economy. In doing so we work with people of all faiths and none, and with each program encourage collaboration across all sectors of our society and economy.

By design, our programs are always mindful that a regenerative society cannot be sustained around us unless it is also being cultivated within us. Good leadership, and leadership renewal, comes from living and leading from within. Our unique niche in this broader movement for a healthy, just and sustainable future is a combination of the particular leaders, programs and territory served by the Center for Regenerative Society.  We are here to sustain the sustainers, renewing the leaders restoring our world.

By intentionally supporting the development and interaction of transformative leaders in our region, who have the greatest capacity of advancing the pace of change in this direction and motivating others to join them, we are fostering a broader movement for regenerative society in which more and more people feel empowered to become effective changemakers.

Learn more about our program plans, which begin in the Spring of 2010, and check back often for updates.

Learn more about the motivations and philosophy behind our work on behalf of those working "upstream."

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