A six-month course for planning and place stewardship professionals
The Institute for the Built Environment and the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice are offering a new course focused on applied regenerative practice for local government planners, landscape architects, and other land stewards.
As a participant, you will generate new capabilities to lead place-sourced work grounded in the principles of living systems. Alongside your colleagues, you will develop increased capacity for co-creating places that harmonize with the local ecology and that seed new, more holistic, innovative patterns for lifting up the local community. Together, we will grow our individual and collective ability to respond to pressing global and regional forces through the lens of local, dynamic evolution.
By directly applying what you learn in this course, you will…
- Deepen your understanding of living system principles, including experiencing and sourcing inspiration from place as a living system and seeing the inner workings of the local ecosystem
- Grow your capacity for designing with the local living ecology (human and greater than human), with an emphasis on growing co-creative capabilities
- Upgrade your patterns for discovering potential, including redesigning or upgrading your workflow, processes, and how you identify strategic interventions and where to invest resources
- Experience the value of working from a regenerative mindset while growing your inner and outer capacity for applied planning and place stewardship work
- Develop a deeper regard for the greater potential of your work and role
Course Syllabus
- Seeing Place as a Living System
- Analyzing the Patterns That Shape Place
- Identifying the Unique Significance of Place
- Understanding the Vocation and Purpose of Place
- Co-Creation in Practice: Working with the Life of Place
- Revealing Pathways for Emergent Potential
- Sustaining Regenerative Momentum Over Time
- Bringing Regeneration into Ongoing Practice
Faculty
Josie Plaut is Associate Director of the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University and a national leader in regenerative design and living systems thinking. She partners with local governments, land stewards, and organizations to develop place-sourced approaches to planning and community wellbeing. With 20+ years of experience, Josie is known for designing and facilitating developmental processes that elevate collective insight, bridge boundaries, and help teams co-create regenerative outcomes. A published author and frequent speaker, she brings a practical approach to applying regenerative principles to complex, multi-stakeholder challenges.
Nicholas Mang is a Principal at Regenesis Group and core faculty at Regenesis Institute. A leader in regenerative development education, he helps practitioners and communities cultivate the capabilities needed to engage in the long-term stewardship and evolution of place. With roots in community planning and organizing, Nicholas designs catalytic, place-sourced processes that strengthen local agency and reveal the unique potential of communities and landscapes. His academic work spans living systems thinking, cross-cultural studies, ecopsychology, and social transformation theory.
Team or Individual Learning Tracks
Team Learning Track (3 or more people)
This course is designed for several people from one firm (or department) to participate together. We believe that the opportunities for learning and integration are greater when you learning and apply the coursework with your coworkers. By creating a shared experience, learning as a team increases opportunities for collaboration, mutual accountability, and co-evolution.
Each team will be paired with an experienced regenerative practitioner who will support them during breakout sessions to support and accelerate their learning. Teams are encouraged to meet during the off-weeks between sessions and may invite their assigned practitioner to join these meetings at no additional cost.
All levels of experience are welcome, ideally with a mix of experience levels participating across a given team. This course is a great way to build camaraderie by being in a learning space together, breaking down barriers, building connections, and stretching everyone’s thinking together.
Individual & Paired Team Track (1 to 2 people)
Individual practitioners and pairs of practitioners are welcome to join the course and will be placed in a group with other individuals or small teams. These “collections” of individuals and small teams will work together in a similar fashion outlined above.
Schedule
Wednesdays, 9-11 am MT:
- Session 1 – Jan 21
- Session 2 – Feb 4
- Session 3 – Feb 18
- Session 4 – Mar 4
- Session 5 – Mar 18
- Spring Break
- Session 6 – April 15
- Session 7 – April 29
- Session 8 – May 13
Registration & Pricing
- 1 to 4 people: $950/person
- Team of 5 or more: $4,450 ($890/person) for first 5 people, plus $800 for each additional person
- Fees include a dedicated regenerative practitioner who will serve as a learning resource for each team
- Deadline to register: January 14, 2026
Ready to sign up? Enroll here.
Questions? Send us a note.
