Our Approach

Sustainability is a hugely necessary and valid approach which calls for the safe-guarding of the more-than-human world to ensure that we can meet our needs without impacting the ability of future generations to do the same. Sustainability most often asks  to focus on reducing negative impacts on the environment e.g. reduce or eliminate waste and pollution; recycle or upcycle products that have outlived their usefulness; densify cities to reduce their ecological footprints; encourage public transport and active travel, and improve gas mileage in cars. Altogether, they are a creative response to the call to reduce human impacts. 

Meanwhile, regenerative development asks the opposite question: How do we increase human impacts, but in ways that are consciously beneficial? In other words, how can humans serve as sources of healing and regeneration for every living system they affect?¨ (Gorrisen, et. al., 2024)

At CM Space we approach leadership development as making space for each person´s unique gifts to emerge and inspire collective agency. Leadership is not a scarcity only possessed by a few people. The issues we are facing today require decentralised, self-organising solutions - and this self-organisation is only possible when each of us understands what we have to offer and are brave enough to share that without holding back or waiting for a permission slip.

If infrastructure and the practice of engineering builds our material world, then culture and the practice of imagining weaves our immaterial world. Our ideas, tastes, dreams, desires, emotions and feelings are all largely the result of the culture we have been socialised into. Culture determines the way we live in the material world e.g. how we use the materials we have extracted from the earth. For obvious reasons the dominant western culture of excessive wealth and consumption needs to change. CM Space empowers organisations and communities to create reciprocal and regenerative cultures.

This immaterial world of culture is most often designed through narratives and story, be they visual, theatrical, digital, oral or written. With experience in marketing, communications, writing, oral storytelling and recording, CM Space ensures that your story reaches people in a way that affects the change you want to make and contributes to growing a regenerative culture. We work with gifted graphic designers, graphic recorders, illustrators, and web developers to bring your vision to life and carefully craft the written copy that will timelessly tell your story.

In a western individualised culture, wellbeing has become a multi-billion dollar industry with many indigenous practices and medicinal plants being commodified and unsustainably used in the process. The kind of wellbeing that CM Space creates and evokes is collective organisational wellbeing which is not linked to yoga practices or massages at work. Individual wellbeing budgets or offers can of course be part of a business's wellbeing strategy. 

However, our research and experience shows that organisational culture and design are the most important aspects to sustaining individual wellbeing over time. Having a healthy workplace culture, valuing a diverse team, and ensuring that individuals feel supported while also being challenged to grow / stretch their capacity and learning new capabilities are three elements that are key to employee retention, motivation and productivity. 

We strive to give your employees the tools to effectively communicate through restorative practices for workplace culture; ensuring that employees have the right level of autonomy to keep their motivation and commitment to the business high; offering supports, training and learning opportunities to grow individuals capacity to serve the organisation and the wider systems it is part of. None of this works without leadership being fully onboard, if there is any hesitancy within the leadership team in implementing changes, we will start by working with them before engaging with the wider team.