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Summer greetings from the Falay Transition Design Collective!

As we wind down for some regenerative months, we hope you find our June newsletter to be a bit of light and refreshing summer reading. In this issue we’re sharing:

• Our fruit trees: Foraging as Collective Learning

• Our new shoots: Accelerating transitions through the music industry

• Sowing seeds: New conversations, and exploring our working model

We see this newsletter as a catalyst for conversations, relationships and collaborations - so we’d love to hear from you! If anything resonates with you, don’t hesitate to drop us an email at collective@falayconsulting.com

Hyvää juhannusta! ☀️

Fruit trees: Foraging as Collective Learning

Ideas, projects and practices that are active and already fruitful with learnings and impact.

To celebrate Spring, and find a moment for team building and connection, our collective members Andrea and Sara ran a foraging session in our local Helsinki surroundings.

As we learned about our nonhuman neighbours, the green blanket of the forest floor began to separate out into nettles, ground elder, sorrel, fireweed and more. Together we gained new knowledge, nurtured our relationship with other and our natural environment, and cooked a nourishing meal.

Read more about what we foraged, learned and cooked together in our blog:

We are exploring foraging as a regenerative team building offering, to help organisations connect with each other, whilst discovering the natural systems which support us, and creating deeper value connections with non-human collaborators.

Get in touch below to find out more and book a regenerative foraging experience for your team.

New shoots: Accelerating transitions through the music industry

Emerging work that’s inspiring us, or that we are beginning to nurture

At the end of May we submitted a proposal for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s emerging Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC), “Culture and Creativity”.

Together with Open Creative House, and a multinational consortia of partners, our proposal asks what external societal role the music industry can play in accelerating green and social transitions.

Find out more in our project proposal video:

As we wait to hear the outcome of our KIC application, we are on the lookout for other avenues to explore this project work. If you are interested in funding or collaborating on the project, we’d love to hear from you!

Sowing seeds: Imagining the projects and change the world needs

1. Let’s start a conversation
   We’ve recently started using Calendly as a way of being open to new relationships, conversations, clients and collaborators. If you’re interested in one of our services or project ideas, directly book a 30 minute meeting with our team here.

2. Our Collective as an experimental working model
   We are learning about decentralised autonomous organisations and other emerging working models. We’re keen to create a dedicated internal project to exploring our collective as a new way of working, that would allow us to properly vision and design our own unique processes, culture and approach.
   
   We’d love to hear from other collectives on how they’ve funded this kind of work - or from different funds and research channels that might support this.

Sunshine: A dose of energy, uplift and hope

Each newsletter we want to share something that has given our community some sunshine in the past month - nurturing our hopefulness and balancing the doom and gloom of the world.

This month, we want to share the inspirational Collective Imagination Practice Community - an incredible network of imagination practitioners, learning together and evolving the practice of collective imagination.

Our collective members Andrea and Sara will be hosting a huddle in the Autumn around the theme of “Our Hopeful Climate Futures” - so stay tuned for more information on how to apply soon, but for the time being we recommend exploring the rest of the community, reading blog posts and watching back their inspiring imagination events.

Let’s build a better future together.