Butterfly School

10-week digital course:
Introduction to regenerative business

A regenerative company is designed and organises itself as a living system, operating within planetary boundaries.
Regenerative companies serve the capacity of living systems – both human and non-human – to regenerate the conditions conducive to life on Earth.

Whatever its size, place or sector, your company can embark on the path of regeneration and change its economic model, culture and organisation.

WATCH TRAILER

This course is designed for companies who are ready to go beyond reducing negative impact. It will provide you with concrete tools to start implementing transformational processes within your organisation right away.

10
weeks

100%
digital

4h
per week

Cohort
of pioneers

Curriculum

60+ microlearning videos, applied learning exercises,
weekly live sessions, 25+ pathfinder interviews

Week 01

Drawing on the principles of life

We will connect you to the tremendous creative capacity of living systems, and help you adopt principles that govern living entities, by applying them in your daily life.

Week 02

Deconstructing volumetric growth

With simplicity, humour and empathy, we will understand and deconstruct the volumetric logic at work in most of our companies today. This logic is largely responsible for the ecological crises of our time.

Week 03

Encountering regenerative business (1/2)

We will learn to replace this volumetric growth model with steps and practical tools for regenerative business. You will discover how a company is a living system, intimately linked to living ecosystems, with which it needs to enter into balance.

Week 04

Slow down

We will benefit from a week’s break to slow down, digest what we’re learning, catch up on content… A time to reflect on how our thinking is evolving.

Week 05

Encountering regenerative business (2/2)

You will learn what truly regenerative relationships with living ecosystems are like, relationships that encourage co-creation, and create butterfly effects within and far beyond any company.

Week 06

Analysing live cases (1/2)

We visit some regenerative businesses and learn to discern how they put living principles into practice

Week 07

Slow down

Another week’s break to slow down, catch up, reflect and practice what you’re learning.

Week 08

Analysing live cases (2/2)

We visit some regenerative businesses and learn to discern how they put living principles into practice

Week 09

Slow down

A final break to slow down, catch up, reflect and practice what you’re learning.

Week 10

Preparing for tomorrow

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Applied learning

Concrete situations will allow you to develop your observation skills, to adopt living systems thinking and to change your view on your company, on the world and on yourself. The intention is to support you to become an changemaker in your organisation.

Applied learning

Concrete situations will allow you to develop your observation skills, to adopt living systems thinking and to change your view on your company, on the world and on yourself. The intention is to support you to become an changemaker in your organisation.

Weekly “Live”

Each week, “Live” sessions with your cohort will allow you to take a look together at the past week, to confront your assumptions about existing business models, to imagine new avenues, and to question in depth your view of the current world.

Weekly “Live”

Each week, “Live” sessions with your cohort will allow you to take a look together at the past week, to confront your certainties about existing business models, to imagine new avenues, and to question in depth your view of the current world.

Enlightening pathfinders sharing their journey

International practitioners will enlighten you through their experience via audio or video podcasts. You will discover their vision, they will share their learning, their advice.

John Fullerton is the founder and president of Capital Institute and is a former Managing Director of JPMorgan, where he worked for 18 years. Subsequently he was seed investor and CEO of an energy-infrastructure-focused investment management company. He is the author of Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles and Patterns Will Shape the New Economy (2015). As the principal of Level 3 Capital Advisors, he is also a recognized “impact investment” practitioner.

John Fullerton

#regenerativeeconomics
Karina Raskin is CEO and co-founder of Ceebios, France’s think-tank dedicated to Biomimicry. She graduated from ESPCI-Paristech as a physico-chemical engineer; and holds a PhD in neurosciences from Sorbonne University. She has contributed to the ISO standard for biomimetics and participated in the “Nature-based solutions” expert group at the European Commission. She advises major public and private organisations on applying biomimicry to accelerate societal transitions inspired by nature, in coordination with her international counterparts.

Kalina Raskin

#biomimicry

Giles Hutchins is a pioneering practitioner and senior adviser at the fore-front of the [r]evolution in organizational and leadership consciousness and developmental approaches that enhance personal, organizational and systemic agility and vitality. He is author and co-author of several leadership and organizational development papers, and the books The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014), Future Fit (2016) and Regenerative Leadership (2019). Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy and Founder of Leadership Immersions, co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation and Regenerators, he runs a 60 acre leadership centre at Springwood Farm, an area of outstanding natural beauty near London, UK.  Previously held corporate roles – Head of Transformation Practice for KPMG, Global Director and Head of Sustainability for Atos (150,000 employees, over 40 countries). He provides coaching at individual and organizational levels for those seeking to transform their personal and/or work lives. Giles is a keynote speaker on the future of business and regenerative leadership. He is also a Reiki Master, a certified advanced coach, and trained in advanced Integral Solonics leadership development as well as other modalities.

 

Giles Hutchins

#regenerativeleadership

Marine Calmet is an environmental lawyer who works to defend the rights of nature. With one foot in Amazonia and the other in France, Marine is developing new responses to the ecological crisis, inspired by the intelligence of ecosystems and the knowledge of indigenous peoples. She is the president of Wild Legal, a French non-profit organisation whose mission is to be a school and an incubator for the next generation of lawsuits in defence of the rights of nature. She is an expert at the French Citizens’ Climate Convention and fights for the recognition of the crime of ecocide.

Marine Calmet

#rightsofnature

Physicist and systems theorist, Fritjof Capra was a founding director (1995-2020) of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He serves on the faculty of the Amana-Key executive education program in São Paulo, Brazil and is a Fellow of Schumacher College in the UK. Capra is the author of several international bestsellers, including The Tao of PhysicsThe Web of Life, and The Science of Leonardo. He is coauthor of the multidisciplinary textbook, The Systems View of Life. Capra’s online course (capracourse.net) and interactive workshop for executive teams (systemsviewlab.net) are based on his textbook.

Fritjof Capra

#systemsviewoflife

Holder of the Chair of Multi-Capital Integrated Performance at Audencia Business School, Delphine Gibassier is a recognized expert on non-financial accounting and reporting, with 20 years of experience in advising large companies on integrating sustainable development accounting into their global performance. She is a member of CSEAR (Centre for research in social and environmental accounting), of the scientific committee of EMAN Europe (Environmental management control and sustainable development network), and of the EFRAG Lab Taskforce on non-financial reporting.

Delphine Gibassier

#nonfinancialreporting

Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration and the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures – so far translated into seven languages. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design. Winner of the 2021 RSA Bicentenary Medal for applying design in service to society. Awarded a two year Volans-Fellowship in 2022.

Daniel Christian Wahl
#regenerativecultures
Kiran is an Indian designer, educationist, education reformer, and social entrepreneur. With a degree in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, she began her career designing restaurants, and later,  writing for newspapers.

It was when her children started going to school that Kiran recognised her true calling. Dismayed by the unfriendly and rigid atmosphere in schools, she set up The Riverside School in Ahmedabad in 2001, which is now viewed as a Laboratory to prototype “design processes” that enables children to better understand their skills, potential, and responsibilities as citizens.

In 2009, Kiran launched “Design for Change” which uses a simple 4 step design framework – FIDS (Feel, Imagine, Do, Share) to cultivate the I CAN mind-set in all children.

Riverside and Design for Change have won several accolades and Awards (The Earth Prize, the Rockefeller Innovation Award…).

Kiran Bir Sethi

#designforchange

Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7 billion year trajectory of cosmogenesis. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.

Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a 10 year collaboration with the cultural historian, Thomas Berry.  Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos (1990), Earth’s Imagination (1998), and The Powers of the Universe (2006).

He lectures widely and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Museum of Natural History.

For further information: www.brianswimme.org

Brian Swimme

#cosmogenesis

Étienne Klein

Physician

Biography

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Put yourself in motion

You are a company already committed to the path towards regenerative business
Train all your employees with the Butterfly School to support your regenerative goal.
You are a team that wants to discover regenerative principles
Enrol your team in a Butterfly School cohort and then practice and get other teams on board.
You are a facilitator of climate workshops
Roll out your own “Regenerative Pioneers” workshops (facilitation materials available in Q3)

Pricing

1000€ excl. tax
for the self-employed / not-for-profit / public sector 

2000€ excl. tax
for companies

Through this course you will develop the ability to :

See

your business as a living system, contributing to wider living systems.

Master

9 living principles in your daily work and life
Discern
how a living company interacts with and impacts its living ecosystems, in a rigorous and structured way
Recognise
the key steps towards regenerative business in your company

Identify

the potential for creating business opportunities by putting a regenerative approach into action.

Foster

a community of pioneers, committed to the path of regenerative business.

F.A.Q

What is the detailed programme?

Download the programme here.

Download the detailed schedule of Zoom sessions for cohort 4 in French (February 8 – April 25)

Download the detailed schedule of Cohort 4 Zoom sessions in English (February 8 – April 25)

Download the detailed schedule of Zoom sessions for cohort 5 in French (April 25 – July 11)

Download the detailed schedule of Cohort 5 Zoom sessions in English (April 25 – July 11)

Are the Lives recorded if I can’t attend?

Yes, all Lives are accessible in replay.

Is the training compatible with CPF, Qualiopi, Opco,…?

Yes. The Butterfly School benefits from the Qualiopi certification.

Does the training lead to a diploma?

No, but at the end of the course we will send you a certificate of participation.