Beyond Studio
If you sense that our current sustainability efforts aren’t going far enough and you’re looking to deepen your practice, read on…
IBE’s Beyond Studio offers in-depth developmental education for professionals who are looking to what’s beyond – beyond best practices, beyond the status quo, and beyond problem solving.
Each Studio is designed to cultivate the understanding, motivation, and discernment required to respond to global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and social justice. These are not problems that have tidy solutions or that can be addressed in isolation. We need to grow our individual and collective capacities to work holistically, to source our actions from living systems understanding, and to engage in local efforts that are sourced from a specific place.
IBE’s Beyond Studio offers an alternative to frenetic industry conferences or short courses that deliver a few ideas or best practices. Beyond Studio provides structured space for deep reflection, dialogue, mindset shifts, and authentic connections with other humans and places. Participants can expect to stretch their minds, develop new capabilities, and connect with others who are looking to delve deeper.
Registration for the 2025 course, Beyond Hope & Despair: Discovering the Potential of Living in Transformative Times has closed. Please check back soon for new Beyond Studio offerings.
Josie Plaut
Josie serves as the Associate Director for the Institute for the Built Environment. Her recent work spans regional and national clients with a focus on place-based climate response, community planning, equity, and regenerative development. She has designed and delivered hundreds of strategic planning processes, workshops, and organizational development programs, including a wide variety of public and private stakeholder engagement initiatives. Josie is an internationally recognized leader and frequently cited author in the field of regenerative practice. She is a lineage member of the Carol Sanford Institute and former faculty for the Regenesis Institute’s Regenerative Practitioner Series.
Clayton Bartczak
Clayton serves as Community Engagement & Sustainability Specialist for the Institute for the Built Environment. His facilitation and engagement skills are informed by 11 years as a sustainability consultant; leading 12 Habitat for Humanity Global Village build trips around the world; and three years as a board member for EarthLinks, a nonprofit social enterprise that reduces isolation for people experiencing homelessness through earth-centered experiences. In 2010, Clayton helped coordinate and co-facilitate CSU’s first week-long Sustainable Design & Construction course taught in Costa Rica, and he has co-facilitated a multi-day ReWilding Dads retreat in which 16 fathers joined together in nature-based therapy, forest bathing, and exploration of social norms to re-imagine masculinity and fatherhood. Clayton is a fluent Spanish speaker.
