Beyond Studio
Working with place. Leading from potential.
What if the way forward isn’t a new checklist or toolkit, but a new way of seeing — a shift in how we relate to place, our work, and to the future we’re shaping?
IBE’s Beyond Studio is for professionals who feel the limits of conventional solutions — and are ready to develop the deeper capacities needed to meet complex challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and social injustice. These are not “problems” to be solved — they are symptoms of deeper patterns and require us to evolve how we engage with the living systems we are a part of.
In Beyond Studio, together, we are growing our individual and collective ability to innovate — through the lens of local, dynamic evolution – in response to pressing global and regional forces.
What makes Beyond Studio different?
Beyond Studio is not your typical learning or professional development opportunity. That’s because it:
Is rooted in regeneration: Our approach draws on living systems thinking to help you reframe your role, re-source your work from place, and expand your capacity for co-creative action.
Goes beyond best practices: While conventional courses offer new tools, Beyond Studio fosters paradigm shifts — spaces where deeper seeing, reflection, and discernment lead to systems evolution.
Offers transformative learning, not transactional training: You’ll stretch your thinking, build authentic relationships, and return to your work with more clarity, creativity, and respons-ability.
Past Offerings
IBE and the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice are partnering to offer this team-based course focused on applied regenerative practice for local government planners, landscape architects, and other land stewards. Participate with your team to generate new capabilities to lead place-sourced work grounded in the principles of living systems and to increase your capacity for co-creating places that harmonize with the local ecology and lift up the local community
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.
