These resources support the personal, cultural, and collective capacities needed for regenerative futures. They explore how individuals and communities learn, grow, connect, and engage — enriching climate and systems work with purpose, presence, creativity, and relational intelligence.
Foundational Frameworks
Core ideas and frameworks that shape learning for transformation and regenerative culture.
Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
Personal and community capacities for transformation
The Inner Development Goals framework offers a globally recognised approach to the inner capacities needed for sustainable futures — integrating self-awareness, empathy, collaboration, and stewardship.
→ View the Inner Development Goals Whangārei Community Hub
Designing Regenerative Cultures
Regenerative learning and cultural change
This book by Daniel Wahl provides frameworks for understanding how education, culture, and systems interact in the creation of regenerative ways of being.
→ More information
Learning, Leadership and Systems Change
Resources that deepen capacity for intentional change, reflection, and collective action.
- Presencing and Systems Change
Theory U and transformative leadership
The Presencing Institute explores how inner awareness and listening processes support deep innovation and systems change — tools that help individuals and groups sense emerging futures.
→Visit the Presencing Institute - Systems Change for a Cooler Climate
Integrating inner work and action
This Climate Action Tai Tokerau post draws on Otto Scharmer’s approaches to systems change to explain how sensing, reflection, and co-creation enable effective climate engagement.
→ Read the post
Culture, Communication, and Creativity
Resources that highlight how culture, narrative, and creative engagement strengthen community practice and shared meaning.
- Climate Action Film Contest
Youth creativity for climate storytelling
Since 2023, our regional film contest invites young people to explore climate action through storytelling, participation, and creative practice.
→ View the competition - Climate Conversations: Exemplary Communicators
Stories of engagement and connection
This post highlights ten communicators whose work exemplifies effective engagement, narrative craft, and relational climate action.
→ Read the post
Community and Relational Practice
Resources highlighting social infrastructure, belonging, and community building — the relational underpinnings of sustained change.
- Community building insights
Growing connection and capacity
This post explores practical and cultural dimensions of community building, charting how relational practices support resilience and collective participation.
→ Read the post
Supplementary Perspectives
- Berkana Institute — perspectives on community leadership and change networks.
- Active Hope — emotional and ethical grounding for regenerative engagement.
Climate Action Tai Tokerau 