In November/December 2024, we held our first workshop “Embodied Ways of Knowing”on systems thinking and systems being. In this workshop, you are invited to step beyond traditional frameworks of thought and explore a holistic approach to understanding the world. Through systems thinking and systems being, we will journey into the art of ‘staying with the trouble,’ learning to remain fully present and engaged in an ever-evolving reality.

Collaborations with universities and higher education institutions are an important part of our work, fostering awareness-based and systemic approaches to sustainable change.

These monthly online gatherings, designed, facilitated, and hosted by collaboratio helvetica from 2022–2024, were spaces where we explored topics of actuality and around systems change, co-created and hosted with practitioners and experts from our community. In total, we have organised and held over 20 community calls, reaching over 300 community members.

The Changemaker Workshop “Bundling Forces” has been brought to life in collaboration with One Planet Lab and Impact Hub Zürich. The event brought together representatives from foundations, institutions, NGOs, NPOs, SMBs, start-ups and project leaders. In a moderated format, we focused on key questions around funding, impact, and the necessary networks for systemic change.

We collaborated with ZHAW sustainable from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) to create “Re:Act”, a dialogue series, designed to increase sustainability awareness and foster project initiatives across the ZHAW community.

The Catalyst Lab is a 9-month-long learning process, designed to empower changemakers and enables collaboration toward the SDGs. The process is intended for dedicated individuals (Catalysts) and their teams, who are committed to implementing the 2030 Agenda in Switzerland.

Plastic pollution is a global challenge and in its 2021 Sustainability Mission Report, Breitling committed to achieving zero plastic waste across operations by 2025. To engage key internal and external stakeholders on this ambitious goal, Breitling has collaborated with collaboratio helvetica and Let's Talk Waste to effectively address the topic with the relevant stakeholders.

The Funding Systems Change Initiative is a collaborative effort driven by a coalition of foundations and changemakers in Switzerland, and led by Ashoka Switzerland and collaboratio helvetica. Recognizing the need for systemic solutions to tackle complex challenges, this initiative seeks to transform conventional funding practices and empower foundations to adopt and embrace transformative funding mechanisms.

ChangeNOW 2022, one of the world’s largest events addressing our planetary challenges, hosted a panel discussion with change-makers of our time. Collaboratio helvetica was represented by Nora Wilhelm, who engaged in an inspiring discussion with Satish Kumar from Schumacher College, proposing the systemic approach to the environmental challenges.

These quarterly in-person gatherings, designed, facilitated, and hosted by collaboratio helvetica from 2022–2024, were spaces where we got to know each other, exchanged ideas, knowledge and learned about different projects.

Systemic change is needed to successfully implement the 2030 Agenda and achieve the SDGs in Switzerland as well as to tackle the deeper laying root causes that are driving today's polycrises.

Our vision is that organisations in Geneva and beyond leverage their full potential to use innovation to respond to societal needs by transforming their employees into intrapreneurial leaders, connected to a wider community of changemakers and disruptors that are paving the way for the new economy.

Foundations play an important role in enabling and guiding action towards a more sustainable and ethical future. The increasing complexity of the challenges we are facing and the need to work towards systemic change has motivated us to convene actors from the field that are interested in exploring this topic further. Our intention is to co-create a series of stakeholder dialogues with the aim to ideate and prototype novel modes of collaboration and funding to enable and enhance social innovation and systemic change at scale.

Our systems and societal structures are based on stories, narratives, paradigms, even though most of the time we are not aware of it.

An explorative journey to a healthy post COVID-19 Switzerland - With the Corona crisis, we are facing an unprecedented disruption. Systems we relied on before are on the brink of collapse and immediate actions were needed on multiple levels.

Lowering the barriers to collaboration! Collaboratio helvetica is cultivating the conditions for collaboration towards systemic change, and activating ecosystems is a key part of this.

A platform to connect, share and co-create! In August 2019, collaboratio helvetica launched its online community platform.