An inquiry and collaboration for ecocentric futures.

At Ecocentric Futures, we invite a shift in how research, leadership, policy, and community are imagined — towards futures that serve both people and the planet. With humility and through shared journeys of learning we support researchers, practitioners and professionals to explore and enact ecocentric ways of being and doing.

Tools for regenerative practice: 30 frameworks, exercises, and methods in service of human and planetary flourishing

How do we begin to practice regeneration in a complex and rapidly changing world?

This guide brings together 30 tools, exercises and frameworks designed to help people navigate complexity, deepen collaboration, widen imagination and support meaningful transformation.

A practical companion for people working towards regenerative futures.

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Latest Insights

Read short articles on transformational change, regenerative systems, and ecocentric ways of being and doing. Each piece offers insights and inspiration to support your work and efforts to bring about a positive world.

Where can we find regenerative dynamics?

Sam Buckton reflects on what Ecocentric Futures' journey has taught us so far about the nature of regenerative dynamics.

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A blossoming of practice: Launching our guide to tools for regenerative practice

As spring unfolds in York, Sam Buckton reflects on regeneration as a living process woven through nature, communities, and human systems.

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Transformation is political

This article explains why transformation is always embedded in political processes, and what that means for how change can be effectively supported.

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About Our Initiative

Ecocentric Futures is a collective of researchers and practitioners dedicated to exploring how ecocentric consciousness, deeper connections with nature, knowledge systems, and future-oriented design can reshape the ways we live, learn, and lead.

Based in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York, we bring together curious individuals working to reimagine human systems in alignment with the living world. We believe transformation begins with recognising our interdependence with the ecosystems around us and designing our institutions, policies, and practices to reflect this relationship.

Through our research, tools, and storytelling, Ecocentric Futures seeks to support those leading change across sectors to cultivate regenerative patterns and ecocentric ways of being and doing.