photo by Hannah McCargar
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photo by Hannah McCargar
photo by Bill Witt
photo by Bill Witt
Northeast Iowa food vendor, photo by Bill Witt
(Foreground) Several detainees were still shackled with electronic ankle monitors many months after 2008 immigration raid in Postville, IA, (Background) 2500 protestors rally in Postville, July 2008, in support of the immigrants and the Postville community. Minnesota Public Radio photo by Elizabeth Baier
Big Bluestem after a burn, photo by Hannah McCargar
photo by Hannah McCargar
Upper Mississippi view, photo by Robert Wolterman
A morning session, photo by Hannah McCargar
photo by David Cavagnaro
April 2010 Regenerative Leadership Retreat cohort, photo by Hannah McCargar
Our Mission
The Center for Regenerative Society provides leadership renewal programs for people and institutions playing an important role in shaping a healthy, just and sustainable society.
We offer programs in our service territory that address three interrelated needs:
We shape these programs mindful that a regenerative society cannot be sustained around us unless it is being cultivated within us. This need to cultivate regenerative soils, souls and society requires us to reconnect with that which sustains us, both physically and spiritually – to live and lead from within.
We gather diverse groups of leaders: activists, citizens, social and business entrepreneurs, youth, and religious leaders from all traditions, who play crucial roles in the social change process. (Read more about Who We Serve)
By bringing these vital leaders together, we promote cross-sector relationships, collaborative solutions, and adaptive leadership among those who are working to make our environmental, social and economic life more regenerative in nature.
In order to live in a regenerative economy and society that will endure – that is healthy, just and sustainable – we must go beyond addressing our problems in isolation. Given the deep interconnectedness of our energy and water supplies, our infrastructure and architecture, our chemical processes and products, our agricultural and food systems, our toxics and human health, our educational systems and religious traditions, our business models and missions, our political economy, and employment opportunities, and the strengths and struggles of our communities, we are called to systems thinking and to “solving for pattern.”
In order to renew ourselves, our institutions, and our physical and moral environments, we must honor the dignity of every human being and the ecology of our home. From the fundamental restoration and renewal of those primary earth systems involving soil, air, and water, upon which we all depend, to the careful healing and righting of the wounds of social, racial, and economic inequity and disadvantage, we offer renewal for leaders who are advancing the emerging pattern of regenerativity throughout society.
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. We are here to sustain the sustainers, doing our part by renewing the leaders restoring our world.
Read more about regenerativity, why this work matters, the story behind our logo, and our FAQs.
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