Reflections on Living With Collapse: an evening exploration
Thank you to every one who came to this evening session as part of the fantastic MovingBeyond 2025. It felt like something real. Here are some reflections from the evening: Every person had a different story of collapse: personal, ancestral, planetary. Some were spoken, some were brought through silence, as breath, as the way a person holds themselves in the room. When we moved our bodies and let these stories shape us physically, we weren't just talking about collapse, we were inhabiting it in movement, allowing it to shape us. Each person had their own shape and form, their own way [...]
Living Systems, Regenerative Collaboration and Conversations that Sustain Change
In a living, interconnected world, organisations and movements are not machines to be controlled — they are evolving ecosystems shaped by relationships, tensions and unrealised potential. As ecological, social and cultural complexity intensifies, many leaders are feeling the limitations of traditional approaches. At Fraendi, we walk alongside leaders, teams and movements to explore more life-giving ways of working — rooted in relationship, complexity, and the capacity to evolve. We believe that thriving systems emerge not through control, but by aligning with the principles of life: diversity, reciprocity, emergence and regeneration. Regenerative Collaboration: A Living Practice Collaboration is not a fixed [...]
Are You Hiring and Promoting Leaders Who Can Meet Today’s Challenges?
Recruiting for senior leadership is one of the most high-stakes decisions any organisation makes. And yet, too often, we hire for ambition and experience — only to discover, too late, that a leader lacks the inner capacity to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and real human systems. At Fraendi, we use Leadership Profiles to help you see beyond the CV. Grounded in robust developmental research from Harvard, these profiles explore how leaders think, grow, relate and lead — not just what they’ve done. Why it matters Today’s leaders must: Make decisions without clear outcomes Lead through uncertainty, ambiguity and pressure Create clarity [...]
Future Ground: Practice for Tomorrow’s Leadership
Future Ground is an immersive experience for senior leadership teams and boards to rehearse the future before it arrives. In the face of climate disruption, technological upheaval, shifting geopolitics, and the wider polycrisis, many organisations are sensing that business-as-usual is no longer enough. Yet the pathways forward can feel unclear, contested, or overwhelming. Future Ground creates a space where clarity can emerge. Grounded in the year 2035, this experience invites your team to step into a simulated boardroom conversation set in a future shaped by transformative adaptation, climate breakdown, systemic risk, and profound possibility. From that vantage point, your team [...]
Family Business as Living System: Strategy that Breathes
Family businesses are not just commercial entities — they are living systems. Shaped by people, history, community, economy, and place, they often defy a simple definition. So instead of asking what a family business is, more generative questions might be: Where are its edges? Or What sustains its vitality? Is the edge the founding family? The wider team? The community and customers it has served for generations? Or perhaps it’s found in its buildings, craft, or culture. When we see family businesses as living systems, strategy becomes something to tend and evolve — not something to fix or contain. Meeting [...]
Somatic Resilience in Times of Change
As you read these words, take a moment to notice the position of your body and the points at which it is in contact with your clothes, maybe your feet on the ground or maybe your legs on a chair. Notice where your hands are resting or perhaps holding a phone as you scan these sentences. Notice if there is tension in your body where that is and pay attention to how you feel for a moment - the emotions you are experiencing, the stories that are alive in you. Take a breath and notice being in your body. Welcome [...]