1. Re-relating with Sustainability
- CoCreative Process Inquiry and Regenerative Development & Design
(Co-)Creative Teamwork –course for Master Program of Sustainability
Terhi Takanen, PhD, Developer of CoCreative Process Inquiry

2. Co-CreativeProcess Inquiry (Takanen 2005, 2013)
Becoming aware
Letting go
Attuning
Practicing

3. What is my orientation? Practice of CCPI
This course is an invitation to you to become aware of your orientation and how it is co-shaping groupwork and results
Orientation means here ”colours of your inner landscape”, your way of relating to or with yourself, others and environment. Orientation shapes and colors how you are percepting, interpreting and acting”
We will practice conscious orientation, which is embodied and alive – it is taking different forms in interaction
We will form a shared compass in every small groups, as a ”living tool” to re-orient your thoughts, feelings and actions

5. Regenerative Development and Design
Based on an understanding of the inner working of ecosystems that generates design to regenerative underlying life support resources within sosio-ecological wholes
Evolution is the ability of life to sustain itself
Evolution’s primary driver is cooperation rather than competion

6. Regenerative Development and Design – a framework for evolving sustainability
Invites new ways of thinking-> open-ended, emergent thinking & acting
How we learn to suspend our tendency to focus on content, knowlegde and problemsolving?
How to redirect our energies towards learning in process, emerging potential and holistic understanding

7. Growing together – making a difference
Regenerative Development and Design & CCPI invites students to develop their capability to support their own and other’s evolution ->to make a difference in this rapidly changing world ->seeing the potential ->growing together in the team work ->combining practical/functional and renewing aims

9. The Compass is like a living organ.It
brigdes ”inner” and ”outer”, it supports to re-relate ourselves, other, this place, whole planet…

10. How CoCreative Process Inquiry could enrich regenerative development?
One big challenge of RD is how people can reshape their ways of thinking and acting How to make shift from thinking and acting which derives from mechanistic, or other way narrowed worldviews (eg. green building)

11. A Regenerative Practitioner (Mang and Haggard/Regenesis)
Be someone who awakens caring
Honor complexity
Be a work in progress
A Co-Creative Process Practitioner (Takanen)
Invites many ways of knowing and not knowing
Is willing to practice her values in action
Co-creates with others power with practices
See opportunies of letting go and re-relating with
Works from a mindful orientation

12. Reflections What happens if we set goal without setting aims for ourselves? What are differences between starting at ”regenerate” and ”operate” (Mang and Haggard/Regenesis)

13. Practices to attuning with Suomenlinna
What makes this place unique
What gives it vitality and viability
What is the source of its potential -> capability to evolve
Feel this Place as a living entity, attune with aliveness of the Place
See the patterns of interaction, patterns of nestedness
Feel the energyfield, how this place feels

15. Regenerative Development Framework
Co-CreativeProcess Inquiry
Humans as a part of ecosystem having special role as supporting wealth of this planet
as reflective, developing
participating evolution
key role as partnering, not so much competing
Earth as a living system
-living complexity as a source of innovation and evolution
Humans as relational beings, co-creators – having potential and ethical calling to become conscious co-creators taking responsibility
Different ways of knowing: emotional, intuitive, bodily, intellectual->many ways reflecting (experiential, conceptual…)
Earth as a living being

16. Co-Creative Process Inquiry ways of working in this course
Practicing different ways of knowing
Orientation practices
Reflecting interaction
Experimenting- practicing with compass
Becoming aware
Letting go
Attuning
Practicing
Self-reflective Evaluation
Learning diary

17. A Mindful, Cocreative Visitor?
Being present
in the here and now
Appreciating and attuning with local place/ecosystem
Seeing and feeling the potential
Sensing and intuiting capacities
Listening with compass/future organ ?

18. Criterias for regenerative and cocreative experiments
Is this experiment
aligned with wisdom of nature/local ecosystem
helping improve the ability of everyone involved to generate more value and grow (power with-stance)
emerging from the future (re-relating with)
connected to potential of bigger whole
Are we practicing our living compass/shared orientations throughout whole experiment?

19. After classroom (Practicing)
Spend time together as a team in Suomenlinna with your compass/attune the Place
Create first draft of experiment in the progress -what, how, why and with whom. Do this through compass qualities and practice compass in their group work. Make a visual image of the what and how, who and why -->to share in Tuesday. (Also what materials are needed?) Look videos.
Start personal learning diary how compass qualities are/were practiced in their group and themselves. Compass is used as a self-evaluation tool – (four questions).

20. Our course videos https://vimeo.com/aaltocs
Video 1. Introduction to CCPI
Video 2. CCPI compass and meditation
Video 3. Regenerative development and CCPI
Video 4. How to combine regenerative design and CoCreative Process Inquiry fruitfully?
Video 5. Some ideas how to make your Compass alive in teamwork?

22. Read more about CCPI
Takanen, T. (2013) “The Power of Being Present at Work – Co-Creative Process Inquiry as a Developmental Approach” ( Väitös.
Takanen, T. & Petrow, S. (2013) The Power of Encountering – a Story of Co-Creative Process in OGE. Helsinki: Edita.
Takanen, T. (2011) Letting Go in the Context of Organizational Renewing. In: T. Alasoini & co (eds.): Linking Theory and Practice. Learning Networks at the Service of Workplace Innovation. TYKES Reports Helsinki: TEKES.
CoCreative Process Practitioner’s webpage: