Invisible Infrastructures

In today’s world, the need to respond to complex social, economic and environmental challenges is bringing people together across lines of difference, and calling for new ways to organise and act together in service of our local communities and the world. The need for practical and versatile skillsets for collaboration – with our friends, families, colleagues, and communities – is greater than ever.  However, cultural expectations are developed and carried beneath our conscious awareness and are often more “felt” than “known.”  These invisible infrastructures require our attention, just as much as the visible structures.

Culture Garden helps groups to learn the skills and practices required to understand and engage with this hidden landscape: to identify the dynamics, needs, and issues at play in their cultural field; to compassionately release patterns that no longer serve their wellbeing; and, to become active participants in co-creating healthy group cultures that express their values and empower their work in the world.

Simultaneously, we support groups to plan and enact the structural and systemic changes over time which allow their healthy group cultures to flourish. This is a multi-dimensional process which can include governance and decision making systems, strength based mapping of the organisational assets and needs, action planning, and role/task descriptions & supportive review processes to name a few structural supports. A healthy culture functions best when it is in a reciprocal and harmonious relationship with these more formal group visible structures, as well as the informal, invisible infrastructures, allowing them to be rooted, vital and expansive as an ecosystem.

We call this practice Culture Gardening —  going beyond the map, to explore and repair the deeper mycelium foundations of our culture, understanding how our ways of being & doing together impact our capacity for success by developing the tools, knowledge and wisdom to enable, support and nourish the regenerative work of communities and organisations.

Culture Garden supports great teams to become the best versions of themselves, by implementing the visible and the invisible infrastructures that invite the greatest amount of alignment and team unity, while increasing trust, vulnerability and healthy group cultural strength. The world is asking humanity for healthy group cultures who can best Connect, Create & Collaborate for a better world.

Please see our Tools page to support your journey.