Circadian Lab
We embrace whole planet thinking, that centers on integrated practices, respect, and contextual innovation.
Through the development and application of indigenous technologies, Circadian is evolving a conscious approach to leadership and new competencies. We develop programs and practices around tools like dreamwork and storytelling, and create a collaborative model for learning and knowledge creation. This toolkit helps with managing complexity and prototyping collective solutions while circumventing dominant narratives of progress and linearity.
ICEERS Workshop (Int’l Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service)
Circadian works closely with the Center on rapidly changing issues involving Indigenous Communities in the Global South focused on research, education, community building and human rights. We were invited to the Center’s recent International Conference in Spain to lead a day-long program on Integration and Systems Change for emergent communities; it was very well received. Recently, Circadian brought together two partners-the Ketamine Research Foundation and ICEERS-to launch a European based training program on new approaches to trauma and healing. Circadian is designing the module on integration and consciousness.
Harvard Center for the Study of Values in Public Life
Advisory Council, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School. Council member, with visionary business leaders, helped execute a Development Strategy to fund a Center for Corporate Ethics and Values.
DeYoung Museum
Social Dreaming Project, DeYoung Museum: In service to developing greater capacities of resonance and somatic guidance, as well as the ability to hold paradox and uncertainty in deeper processes. Circadian has facilitated a decade long social dreaming initiative which includes regular ‘projective’ dream circle gatherings and multi-stakeholder convenings. (co-facilitated by Zara Zimbardo, Lecturer at CIIS). Circadian has taken it’s dream project initiatives to numerous international gatherings (including Bioneers, SOCAP, Burning Man and, for 30 days, to the DeYoung Museum) where multi-day immersions led to prototyping new approaches to complex societal issues. The programs engaged change makers, creatives and young leaders in community practices for personal and collective transformation.
Leadership Retreats
Our Leading With Wisdom journeys take North American leaders to the Amazonian rainforest for an immersive set of learnings and interactions. Participants learn from the collective wisdom and leadership practices of the indigenous tribes who are stewarding their land and culture through a period of intense ecological peril.
Leading With Wisdom helps participants map the complex economic, political, and environmental networks that connect us all.
Inspired by the relevance of traditional ecological knowledge, Jeff stewarded a delegation of impact investors and leading executives in an immersive journey to the Ecuadorian amazon. Participants were moved to action by the long term utility of restorative design, ethnographic mapping and regenerative systems.
