Pre-Solarpunkification Workshop on Regenerative workplaces: Everyday Choices That Shape the System at Work
Pre-Solarpunkification Workshop on Regenerative workplaces: Everyday Choices That Shape the System at Work
Join us for a two hour connection based workshop before Solarpunkification 2026 officially kicks off: 1-3pm on 6 March.
We’ll be exploring how much of modern work, whether inside organisations or carried out alone, has been shaped by extraction of time, energy, attention, and care. And how under pressure, it is easy to slip into speed, over giving, self neglect, or constant responsiveness. These habits are understandable, but when they become the default, they quietly erode our capacity to imagine, create, and sustain ourselves.
This session invites participants to explore how small, everyday choices shape the systems we live and work within. For some, that system is an organisation or team. For others, it is a studio, a practice, a home workspace, or a creative life largely held alone. In all cases, even modest shifts can begin to move work from extractive toward regenerative.
Through a solarpunk lens with hope, imagination, and responsibility, we explore how regeneration does not begin with grand redesigns, but with deliberate micro moves each of us can make that restore energy, dignity, and possibility.
Why this matters
We spend a large part of our lives working — creating, caring, producing, making sense of the world. The conditions under which we do that work shape not only our output, but our health, our relationships, and our capacity to contribute to the futures we long for. When work is regenerative, people leave it with enough life left to participate in their communities, their creativity, the people they love and the world around them.
What we will explore
We will work with three simple but powerful lenses, applicable whether you work in a large organisation, a small collective, or largely on your own.
Holding up the mirror
Noticing how you are showing up in your body, your rhythms, your self talk, and your creative or professional habits. Where might small shifts in pace, boundaries, or attention help your work become more sustaining rather than draining.
Shaping the system
Recognising that every work context, even a solo practice, is a system. This includes routines, expectations, financial pressures, tools, deadlines, and internalised norms. We explore how these systems may currently lean toward extraction, and where gentle experiments could invite regeneration instead.
Fierce love
Choosing care and courage for yourself and for others you interact with. This may mean resting when the culture says push, setting boundaries, honouring limits, or asking for support. Fierce love is about taking responsibility for the human impact of how work is done, including on yourself.
How the session works
Participants will be guided through reflection using the three lenses, followed by small group dialogue. Each person will then distil their insights into one or two practical micro experiments, a small habit, shift in practice, or act of care they can carry into their work and daily life.
You will leave with
A personal regenerative experiment suited to your way of working
A deeper understanding of how presence, care, and systems are intertwined
A felt sense that shaping better futures begins with small, intentional acts, right where you are
About Leanne Holdsworth
Leanne Holdsworth is joining us from Aotearoa, New Zealand and is a leadership consultant, speaker, and author and co-author of books including Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising Workplaces. She works with senior leaders and organisations globally to help them design work that is both effective and deeply human.
Leanne’s work sits at the intersection of leadership, systems, and care. She is particularly interested in how everyday decisions inside organisations shape human lives — and how leaders can act with greater responsibility, courage, and imagination in the face of complexity, pressure, and change.
She is an Associate and member of the leadership team of Cultivating Leadership and a long-time contributor to conversations about regenerative, human-centred futures of work.
This event is happening before the Solarpunkificaton festival-
Solarpunkification 2026 Mabuhay Gardens, March 6th, 7th, 8th
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