WAVES | Gathering for Change

🌊✨ Regenerative Economics – Inquiry Track 2 ✨🌊 On Day 2, we’ll gather in four inquiry tracks. For the Regenerative Economics track, we’ll be held by: 🌍 Adam Purvis – partner at Dark Matter Labs, cultivator of mission-led movements for a regenerative economy 💰 Erika Hombert -  startup operator-turned-investor rethinking finance as regenerative practice 🌱 Michaela Ramm-Schmidt – regenerative entrepreneur supporting changemakers in deep transformation 💫 Nils von Heijne – entrepreneur, coach, and practitioner weaving business with emergence and transformation Together, we’ll sit with broad living questions such as: ✨ What does it mean to reimagine economics as a regenerative force rather than an extractive one? ✨ How can we sense and practice new patterns of value, reciprocity, and sufficiency amidst planetary transition? This isn’t a panel of experts—it’s a chance to practice a new pedagogy: refining questions, exploring tensions, and carrying insights across domains, like in a world café. Come sit with us at the shoreline of the possible. 🌊 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 🔗 Get your ticket via link in bio! We start tomorrow! #Waves25 #SystemsChange #MetaCrisis #Regeneration #Futures #SystemsThinking #LivingSystems #SharedInquiry #Earth #Humanity #RegenerativeEconomics

🌊✨ Institutional Design & Collective Intelligence – Inquiry Track 4 ✨🌊 On Day 2, we’ll gather in four inquiry tracks. For the Institutional Design & Collective Intelligence track, we’ll be held by: 🌎 Lucas Matarazzo – co-founder of Mútua, reimagining data intelligence for collective action 🤝 Ollie Bream McIntosh – researcher of democratic innovation and collective agency 💫 Sanna Rådelius – facilitator of deep dialogue and relational repair Together, we’ll sit with living questions such as: ✨ What kind of sensemaking and choicemaking can hold us through planetary turbulence? ✨ How might we design not for control and efficiency, but for humility, trust, and regenerative possibility? This isn’t a panel of experts—it’s an invitation to practice a new pedagogy: refining questions, exploring tensions, and carrying insights across domains like in a world café. Come sit with us at the shoreline of the possible. 🌊 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 #WavesGathering #InstitutionalDesign #CollectiveIntelligence #LivingQuestions #SystemChange #RegenerativeFutures #DemocraticInnovation #Regeneration #Metacrisis

🌱 How might we unlearn the reflex to “fix” complexity, and instead compost its contradictions into fertile ground for new possibilities? We’re honored to announce Camilla Ribeiro da Costa Cardoso and Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti, members of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective, as contributors for WAVES 25. Camilla and Giovanna bring years of experience in decolonial pedagogy, in-depth inquiry, and the art of navigating the discomforts of modernity with courage and compassion. Their facilitation is less about solutions and more about invitations: to sit with paradox, to stretch into entanglement, and to explore what becomes possible when we stop pretending to be separate. ✨ About GTDF The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective is an arts/research collaboration of educators, artists, and knowledge keepers. Their work invites us to face the entanglements of colonialism, modernity, and systemic harm with humility, accountability, and imagination. The waves are not only rising — they are teaching. 🌊 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 #Waves25 #SystemsChange #MetaCrisis #Regeneration #Futures #LivingSystems #SharedInquiry #Earth #Humanity #GTDF #DecolonialFutures #Complexity #Relationality

🌊✨ Education & AI - Inquiry track 1 ✨🌊 At this year’s gathering, we’ll divide into four inquiry tracks on Day 2. Each track is anchored in a specific domain. Pioneering practitioners bring their most alive questions as starting points, and dedicated spaceholders support the dialogue. For the Education & AI track, we’ll be supported by: 🎙 Tim Logan – education leader, facilitator, connector, and host of @futurelearningdesign 🌱 @erikaevacom – futures artist, educator, and educational designer working in the times between worlds Together, we’ll hold broad living questions such as: ✨ What is education & AI in between worlds? ✨ How do we learn, with and beyond machines, in the midst of planetary transition? This is not a panel of experts delivering answers—it is an opportunity to practice a new pedagogy: refining questions, exploring tensions, adding perspectives, and sensing the underlying patterns that shape our time. Like a world café, you can choose to stay in one track or switch after the break to carry insights across domains. Come sit with us at the shoreline of the possible. 🌊 #waves #systemschange #relationalleadership #education #ai #metacrisis

🌿 What happens when we slow down to attune to the deeper rhythms of life? What kinds of possibilities, leadership, and belonging can appear when we listen to the wisdom of Earth? We’re honored to announce @samanthasweetwater , Gaian futurist, systems weaver, and transformational guide, as a confirmed speaker for WAVES 25.   Samantha’s work lives at the edges where systems unravel and new forms of kinship, leadership, and belonging take root. For over three decades, she has accompanied individuals, communities, and organizations across five continents in processes of regeneration—personal, cultural, ecological, and spiritual. She invites us to fully arrive here, remember our connection to the web of life, and embody new forms of leadership grounded in humility, wholeness, relationality, and responsibility. ✨ Samantha helps us to embrace complexity with courage, compassion, and clarity. Not to fix the world, but to be wisely engaged in its becoming. 🌊 The Waves are moving. Come listen. Come lead. Come co-create. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 🔗 Get your ticket: 🔗 Learn more about Samantha’s work: 🌍 📘 Soulstice (forthcoming) 🖋 enlifenment.substack.com 🌀 @samanthasweetwater #Waves25 #RegenerativeLeadership #SystemsChange #FutureFluency #TransformationalLeadership #RelationalLeadership #Regeneration #Changemakers #SamanthaSweetwater #MetaRelational #WavesGathering #SomaticWisdom #GaianFutures #SacredActivism #SoulRooted #ecologicalbelonging

🌀 In times of disruption, clarity doesn’t come from control; it emerges through our relationship with complexity. We’re honored to announce Dave Snowden, creator of the Cynefin Framework, Sensemaker, and Estuarine Mapping, and a leading voice in applied complexity science, as a confirmed speaker for WAVES 25. Dave’s work equips leaders, networks, and institutions to navigate uncertainty without defaulting to false simplifications. Through The Cynefin Company, he offers strategic pathways for acting wisely amidst complexity, where cause and effect are entangled, and patterns must be sensed before they can be shaped. The Waves are not waiting for certainty. They are already moving. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 🔗 Get your ticket: wavesgathering.com  Learn more about Dave’s work: 🌍 www.thecynefin.co 📘 Managing Complexity (And Chaos) in Times of Crisis (2020) 📘 Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World (2020) 🖋 As through a glass darkly: a complex systems approach to futures (2024) #Waves25 #Complexity #Cynefin #SenseMaking #SystemsThinking #Futures #NavigatingUncertainty #DaveSnowden #LivingSystems #LeadershipInCrisis

🌊 An opportunity for students to participate in WAVES 25 Dear students & youth ✨ Are you feeling the intensity of the world right now? A sense that old systems are dying and something new wants to be born. Do you feel confusion, maybe fear, and overwhelm, but at the same time a pull to be part of the new, with creativity and joy? If so, Waves might be a great place for you to commune. We are gathering across political and sector divides to meet the complex challenges with shared inquiry and practical action. In times of deep uncertainty, intergenerational dialogue is not optional; it’s essential. Different generations carry distinct stories, traumas, imaginations, and thresholds of experience. When these perspectives meet in authentic, reciprocal exchange, we don’t just bridge gaps, we weave new capacities to navigate collapse, grief, and emergence together. This year, with the support of the BMR Foundation - Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds Minne (🙏💙), we are thrilled to offer sponsored tickets for youth who feel called to step into this space. 👉 You can apply for a sponsored ticket in our ticket service: https://lnkd.in/dghXe7VC Already registered? We’ll be in touch with the next steps soon. ✨ Besides the experience of the main program at Waves, for students & youth we offer:  - Pre and post-event meet-ups  - Daily check-ins with experienced mentors and with your fellow youth participants - Invitations to participate in intergenerational dialogue formats 🌊 Waves is a transformative space where your presence, your questions, and your way of being matter. This is an opportunity to unlearn, learn, network with pioneering professionals, and get to know students from other schools and disciplines who can enrich your perspectives. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11-13, 2025 🔗 wavesgathering.com #Waves25 #SystemsChange #MetaCrisis #Regeneration #Futures #SystemsThinking #LivingSystems #SharedInquiry #DeepEcology #Youth Thanks to Ashoka Nordic, Ninni Norra, and Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti for co-designing the Waves Youth Program.

🌀 The metacrisis is not just a collection of problems—it is the crisis driving all crises. In his previously unpublished WAVES 2024 keynote, Daniel Schmachtenberger invited us to see why and how we must innovate in how we innovate to meet the #metacrisis. ✨ Drawing from his work on civilizational risk, coordination failures, and generator functions of existential risk, Daniel outlines why the Nordics are uniquely positioned to prototype fundamentally new responses to the metacrisis rather than getting stuck in fragmented problem-solving. A year later, his talk feels more relevant than ever. The ground is shifting. The Waves are moving. We invite you to step into the current. 🌊 WAVES 2025 deepens this call, not with answers, but with embodied experiments in composting denial, re-weaving trust, and co-stewarding futures beyond collapse. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11–13, 2025 🔗 Ticket & info: wavesgathering.com (link in bio) 🎬 Watch Daniel´s keynote on YouTube 👉 link in bio. Explore Daniel’s work: 📹 War on Sensemaking on Rebel Wisdom 📹 An introduction to the metacrisis, Norrsken Foundation 📹 AI, Moloch and Capitalism with Liv Boeree, Win-Win Podcast 📹 A vision of Betterment with Nate Hagens, Great Simplification Podcast 🌏 civilizationemerging.com 🌏 consilienceproject.org #Waves25 #MetaCrisis #SystemsChange #DanielSchmachtenberger #LivingSystems #SharedInquiry

🌊 How might we learn to see ourselves not as separate agents in a broken world, but as a living ecology, moved by the tensions and contradictions of our times? We’re thrilled to announce Nora Bateson, award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and systems thinker, as a confirmed speaker and contributor for WAVES 25. Nora is known for her pioneering work on #WarmData and transcontextual research. As President of the International Bateson Institute, she invites us into new ways of perceiving complexity, interdependence, and ecological wisdom. Her unique blend of poetics, systems theory, and deep relational insight inspires a more nuanced, humane engagement with the crises of our time. The Waves are moving. Step into the current. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11-13, 2025 🔗 Get your ticket now via wavesgathering.com 👉 Early Bird Price is available until the end of today, the 23rd of June! 🔗 Learn more about Nora´s work:  📘 Combining (2023/’24) 📘 Small Arcs of Larger Circles (2016) 🎥 Documentary: An Ecology of Mind (2010) 🌍 🌍 #Waves25 #SystemsChange #MetaCrisis #Regeneration #Futures #SystemsThinking #LivingSystems #SharedInquiry #Earth #Humanity #WarmDataLab #NoraBateson

📖 Our positional paper is out! 🌊 WAVES25: Learning to surf destabilisation 🌊 “We need to learn how to be together in the face of destabilisation without dissociating or falling into despair. Building this capacity is what the Waves gathering is fundamentally about." We are thrilled to have Amit Paul, a multifaceted entrepreneur and systems thinker who fosters regenerative futures, as one of our co-creators of Waves. Read the full positional paper written by Amit below. 🌊 WAVES is a 2.5-day gathering of first movers beyond political and sectoral divides. We gather from all over the world to wrestle with the complexities of shifting societal systems through shared inquiry and practical action. 📍 Hanasaari, Finland | 📅 Sept 11-13, 2025 👉 For Wavefinders, Tide Riders, and Deep Divers - those sensing the shifts, navigating uncertainty, and leading change. The Waves are moving. Step into the current. 🔗 Get your ticket via wavesgathering.com Early Bird Price is available until the 20th of June. #Waves2025 #WavesGathering #SystemsChange #Unlearning #RegenerativeFutures #MetaCrisis

What if our job isn’t to save the world - but to compost the habits that keep us stuck? We’re thrilled to announce our first confirmed contributor for WAVES 25: Vanessa Andreotti - author, educator, and internationally respected voice in the field of global education, complexity, and deep systems change. Vanessa is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Canada, and co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective. Her work invites us to hold paradox, face the cracks in our civilizational stories, and co-sense what lies beyond reform-as-usual. At WAVES 25 (Sept 11–13, 2025, Hanasaari, Helsinki), Vanessa will hold space for deep unlearning and reorientation. This isn’t a traditional keynote. It’s an invitation to shift how we relate to the unknown, to ourselves, and to one another. #WAVES25 #VanessaAndreotti #HospicingModernity #SystemsChange #Unlearning #RegenerativeFutures #MetaCrisis

🌊 Announcing WAVES25 🌊 We are living through a civilization-scale transition. The systems we depend on are failing, and the future is being shaped - not by legacy institutions, but by those willing to move differently. Waves Gathering is a space to explore change - not by resisting or rushing forward, but by aligning with the shifts already in motion. To navigate this complexity, we must find new ways of working together. At WAVES, we ask: Is there another way? WAVES is a 2.5-day gathering of doers and first movers from the Nordics and beyond. It unites individuals across sectors and perspectives, all committed to reshaping societal systems. 📍 Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland 📅 September 11-13, 2025 The Waves are moving. Step into the current. Get your ticket now via wavesgathering.com or via link in bio. #Waves2025 #GatheringForChange #Innovation #Collaboration #Sustainability