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 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.

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.

Humanity’s current rate of resource consumption eventually means we will run out. In Switzerland we consume 3 times what we should aim for a sustainable development. Meanwhile, we produce “waste” unlike any other species on the planet – it is a man-made problem.

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.

How can we use examples from sports and nature as new ways of sustainable working experiences in organizations?

Crises cause great challenges, conflicts and traumatic experiences. At the same time, however, they create spaces for new opportunities to arise.

Our education system is based on functional and knowledge learning. Plans, instructions, school-clock, time and performance are key. Personal development and natural growth is undervalued in the school and in the company environment. Many sectors of economy are in a huge transformation process and industries are more and more fully automatized.

The COVID-19 crisis offered an unparalleled opportunity to reflect on how we live together in the city: our dependencies, relationships, blind spots and processes, as well as our stories and mental models that hold our society together.

COVID-19 has delivered a stark lesson about the global interconnectedness of the health of humans, animals and our planet, known as the One Health concept. In the times of a drastically warming climate, the decisions that are taken during the next 18 months will fundamentally define the health of all future living beings.

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.

The Dialogue Prototypes are events that developed out of the Dialogue Trainings, where our Dialogue Training participants took their first steps applying their new dialogue skills at practical and real events and topics.

How can we create healthy relationships with work, money and wellbeing?

How can we, as individuals and organisations committed to transforming society, fully practice and embody Gender Equality?

How to find a process that is appreciative and allows to really get to know and understand each others despite limited time available?

Explore career and child care balance from a Gender Equality perspective

In our times, money is omnipresent and when raised as a topic, it does something to us all.cIn our society personal worth is often equated with money, be it through salaries for our work or the worth of things we own.

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Blocked on certain topics and you wish to see more Dialogue around them instead?