BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Join us as Biomimicry 3.8, Biomimicry for Social Innovation, and Biomimicry Netherlands collaborate to explore the fusion of biomimicry and social innovation this summer, bringing the highly acclaimed Biomimicry Thinking for Social Innovation workshop to Europe for the first time. During an immersion experience that will take place among the moorlands and heather fields of the Netherlands, workshop participants will explore the lessons nature has to teach us about thriving in a more adaptable, resilient, cooperative, and networked world.

This immersion workshop cross-pollinates the fields of social innovation and biomimicry by applying design lessons from nature to help grow resilient organizations and foster a regenerative society abundant with innovative leaders.

Over the course of the workshop, experienced biomimics will teach participants to:

• Practice applying biomimicry thinking toward individual and team challenges
• Define leadership challenges for which nature’s examples can best provide solutions
• Re-imagine organizational leadership, strategy, planning, and operations with inspiration from healthy and evolving ecosystems
• Conduct an ecosystem-audit of an organization or social-change endeavor
• Apply the biomimicry process to model teams and organizations after healthy and evolving ecosystems and to become skillful at adaptive change
• Be part of a diverse learning network guiding the growth of biomimetic applications for organizational development and social innovation

• Apply design lessons from nature that can help grow resilient organizations and foster a regenerative society