Upcoming Events
Join us for gatherings, workshops, and explorations. Each event is an invitation to slow down, connect, and tend to what matters.
Building IRL communities - why, how and with what
A day for community builders exploring community health, tooling, governance, and stewardship — guided by the principles of Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom.
Who is this for?
Community builders of in real life communities interested in community health, tooling, coordination, governance, shared responsibility, stewardship and managing resources.
Vibe of the day
We begin the day with an immersive, interactive game that invites deep conversation and shared reflection. In the afternoon, we shift into an Open Space session, allowing participants to further explore and deepen the questions, tensions, and insights that emerged during the morning experience.
Throughout the day, we are gently guided by the work of Elinor Ostrom, the political scientist and economist who devoted her life to studying how communities successfully govern shared resources and shared goals. Her eight principles for healthy commons form a quiet but steady backbone of the day's journey. In recognition of this work, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009.
Program
Before the pond runs dry
From shared goals and resources to shared responsibility. A game about cooperation, care, and consequence.
A two-hour immersive simulation where participants step into village life around a shared fishpond. Through play, deep conversation, and decision-making, you'll experience in practice the core principles identified by Elinor Ostrom for avoiding the tragedy of the commons and building communities that last.
Facilitation: The Weaving Wolves
Communities present
These in real life communities will be present:
Practical details
Coffee, tea, simple lunch
Hosted by Commons Hub Brussels, Weaving Wolves, Enspiral and Luminal Village Italy
Balancing being and doing in your workflows
Discover inner dynamics between yin-yang energies in yourself, work and teams. Explore how to balance reflection and inspiration, setting goals, action and care for yourself and your project.
How do I lead, work and interact without burning out and how do I balance reflection and inspiration, setting goals, action and care for myself and the project?
What we will do
This workshop starts with a deep dive into an interesting model created by Fanny Norlin - LifeForce Leadership. Through exploring 4 archetypes: the creative and holding feminine (yin) and creative and holding masculine (yang), and the relationship between them, we get a deeper understanding of the creative processes in ourselves, our work and organisations, and of societal patterns around us.
In the afternoon we work with every individual participant to visualise, through constellation and mirroring, how the 4 archetypes relate to each other in your personal and professional life.
The day will bring you insights in what might be missing in your creative process (inside yourself or in your environment), which dynamics need attention, and support from the group to move through tensions.
Focus of this workshop
- •Your Yang energy and how that is showing up (doing, pushing, structuring, action)
- •Your Yin energy presence (being, sensing, receiving, slowing down)
- •Personal energy patterns and work patterns
- •Inner permission to slow down OR to step forward into action
- •Discover inner dynamics between yin-yang energies in yourself, work and teams
Outcome:
You leave with deeper insights on balancing action/reflection, being/doing for leading your projects, workflows and yourself.
Who is this for?
Coordinators, team leaders, freelancers, entrepreneurs, high-autonomy, self-directed professionals and community builders:
- •You define your own priorities, responsibilities, workflows and success metrics - or you have high-autonomy within an organisation to do this.
- •You look for balancing execution and reflection in your work and your days.
- •You operate without a formal, fixed playbook, but from a more intuitive, self-aligned space. There is no one solution for you, yet you would like a clear direction.
- •You are curious about how reconnecting to nature can inspire you to work in a more (re)generative, aligned way.
About these workshops
Workshops by the Weaving Wolves will help you create deeper clarity and direction in your work by reconnecting with nature, with yourself, the others and the systems you are part of.
More specifically, you will:
- •Step out of reactive doing
- •See your projects as living systems
- •Align your purpose, your energy, and action
- •Set goals that feel grounded, sustainable, aligned
- •Feel less alone in your leadership
This is not productivity training. It's ecological sense-making for self-directed leaders.
Practical details
Please provide your own lunch. Coffee and tea are included.
Workshops designed by the Weaving Wolves - Leen Schelfhout, Catherine Cattaruzza and Inge Wiame
Ecocycle mapping - natural flow, creative destruction and timing in your projects
View your life and work as a living system moving through cycles of birth, maturity, creative destruction, and renewal. Includes a forest walk, ecocycle mapping, and a creative afternoon session.
Where is this project in its life cycle? And where is this project in my life? Where do I feel trapped? Where does it flow?
What we will do
Ecocycle mapping helps you view your life as a living system moving several times through cycles of birth, maturity, creative destruction, and renewal.
We start the day outside, with a walk in the forest that will bring you closer to yourself and to nature through reflection and a guided exercise.
After the walk we return to the city, share a lunch together and dive into the actual ecocycle mapping. The tool helps reveal where energy is flowing or stuck, guiding decisions about what to sustain, release, or regenerate. By aligning with these natural patterns, you tap into your own natural forces of resilience, adaptability, and continuous renewal.
Huge papers, colours and pens are provided for a creative, insightful afternoon. You will leave understanding the cyclical aspect of projects and workflows, what actions are appropriate in every stage and which are premature or totally... outdated.
Focus of this workshop
- •Growth, maturity, creative destruction, renewal
- •Letting go of what no longer serves
- •Naming stuckness, scarcity or overextension and rigidity
Outcome:
You will understand what actions are appropriate now -- and which are premature or outdated.
Who is this for?
Coordinators, team leaders, freelancers, entrepreneurs, high-autonomy, self-directed professionals and community builders:
- •You define your own priorities, responsibilities, workflows and success metrics - or you have high-autonomy within an organisation to do this.
- •You look for balancing execution and reflection in your work and your days.
- •You operate without a formal, fixed playbook, but from a more intuitive, self-aligned space. There is no one solution for you, yet you would like a clear direction.
- •You are curious about how reconnecting to nature can inspire you to work in a more (re)generative, aligned way.
About these workshops
Workshops by the Weaving Wolves will help you create deeper clarity and direction in your work by reconnecting with nature, with yourself, the others and the systems you are part of.
More specifically, you will:
- •Step out of reactive doing
- •See your projects as living systems
- •Align your purpose, your energy, and action
- •Set goals that feel grounded, sustainable, aligned
- •Feel less alone in your leadership
This is not productivity training. It's ecological sense-making for self-directed leaders.
Practical details
Hermann Debroux Metro Station at 10:00
The walk is about 7 km. We make a loop back to Hermann Debroux metro station. From there we take the metro to Commons Hub Brussels for lunch and the afternoon session.
Wear boots and a raincoat - the forest can be muddy. Bring a small notebook and pen for insights.
Please provide your own lunch. Coffee and tea are included.
Workshop designed by the Weaving Wolves - Leen Schelfhout, Catherine Cattaruzza and Inge Wiame