Erasmus+ Mobility of Youth Workers
TRANSFORM: Transforming Systems and Leading Bioregional Regeneration
Dates: 01 April - 16 April 2025
The ‘Bioregional Transformation’ is designed as a non-formal learning experience on stewardship, empowering participants and their organizations to lead multi-stakeholder collaborative actions and tackle complex systems, thus increasing the impact and inclusivity of their current work, in line with the regeneration of territories.
Guided by 3 skilled trainers, within the welcoming setting of the Southern Lights farm (Greece), participants will broaden their knowledge of bioregions, permaculture and regenerative design, systems science and change, bioregional weaving, organisational and horizontal team-building capacities, strategic planning and leading multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Participants will acquire a range of personal and professional skills, including:
- Ability to think and design according to bioregions and complex systems;
- Collaboratively find solutions to wide-scale problem
- Maximise partnerships and intersectionality
- Develop a range of soft skills critical to a flourishing regenerative job sector.
Aim
The aim is to develop the capacities of the participants to bring resilience to our bioregions and create locally-embedded but far-reaching impact networks for regenerative transitions across the various sectors within which we work.
Funding
This course is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ framework.
We are deeply grateful for this and we thank the Greek National agency for their great support and their work.
Impact
capacity building, connecting people, improve skills of all involved, bring precious knowledge to our region and influence to regional and national surrounding of all involved participants and partner organisations
For who this is
- For 30 youth workers and leaders from Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and Belgium, who are eager to engage within their local communities or improve the impact and reach of their current work.
- 5 participants per partnering country, including 1 facing fewer opportunities.
- No age limit.
About the trainers
Leon Seefeld
Reframe Ventures; Dark Matter Capital Systems; Ashoka Netherlands
Leon is a certified youth group leader as well as a consultant for systems thinking, sustainability strategy, regenerative & multi-actor business models, B Corp certification, and process facilitation.
He is the the co-founder and director of reframe.ventures focussed on regenerative business models; COO of Dark Matter Capital Systems, focussed on financing the regenerative transition; and manager for corporate partnerships & financing systems change at Ashoka Netherlands for the Bioregional Weaving Labs collective. His work currently spans several geographies including several European countries, Canada, Latin America, and Australia.
Previously, Leon initiated Capacitate, a personal development and life coaching programme for adolescents to find their role and meaning in life.
Academically, Leon is well-equipped with a Bachelor of Science in International Business Management and a Master of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. His educational focus has thus covered traditional business administration, management, and finance as well as complexity theory, systems innovation, and the integration of inner work with participatory leadership, all aimed at promoting holistic sustainable development.
Viliana Dzhartnova
Reimagined Futures; Systems Innovation Barcelona
Viliana is passionate about bringing systems thinking to the field of social and environmental sustainability.
She is the co-founder of Reimagined Futures where a lot of her work is focussed on systems mapping and analysis. In addition, she is the co-founder of Systems Innovation Barcelona – a hub for systems thinking under the larger umbrella of Systems Innovation Global.
Starting her career in the social impact world in 2012, with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhamed Yunus, she has ever since focussed on social innovation and learning about different pathways to systems change. Viliana spent 4 years in different key roles at Ashoka, the biggest global network of social entrepreneurs. There she designed and led network innovations in the UK education system, before she moved to Teach First UK, where she led their social innovation ideation and incubation programme. The Master's of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability programme expanded Viliana's understanding of complex adaptive systems and provided her with thinking models and tools to design and lead social and environmental projects tackling some of the toughest challenges of our time.
In one of her previous roles, Viliana built and headed Glovo's social impact work globally.
Pieter Ploeg
