LAB Results
Real-world applications, research, and regenerative ecosystem examples emerging from the SPARK community.
Metric Makers
We each run on five energy sources — physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social. Most of us know which one is running low. Few of us do anything about it for more than a week. Metrics Makers is a year-long community practice that changes that. One focus. Real accountability. Measurable results. These are the stories. Inside the DRIVEN Community LAB — where one person, one energy tank, and one year of commitment become a case study in what's possible.
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Paula Jackler
“I came in thinking this was going to be a productivity hack experiment. This has been a profound mindset transformation.”
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Shelly Smith
“Life is short. I’ve taken all this time to work hard and earn this money, and now I want to use it for something I enjoy.”
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Alissa Perrone
“I have tried over and over again to change my lifestyle when it comes to nutrition and activity. And I haven’t succeeded like I have succeeded now. This is me. It’s part of me.”
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Deborah Goldstein
“I wasn’t having a regulation problem. I was living someone else’s story of who I was.”
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Phyllis Thorne
“This community provides the space for us carve out time to think about ourselves. That was the beginning.”
Citizen Science
What happens when a small group of leaders agrees to test whether "regenerative" is more than a word? The ReCap HUDDLE is a six-month citizen science experiment — six practitioners, one question each month, real conversations pressure-tested in real time, including our own Operating Principles. We're not just teaching regenerative capitalism here. We're finding out, in public, whether we can practice it. These dispatches are the field notes
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Session 1 — Foundation + What Do You Want?
The group began where all regeneration begins—with trust. Using Judith E. Glaser’s Conversational Intelligence TRUST model (Transparency, Relationship, Understanding, Shared Success, Testing Assumptions), participants explored what each dimension means in their own contexts. They considered where trust is strong, where it is missing, and where the gaps might be holding back meaningful connection, collaboration, and regeneration.
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Session 2 — Trust as Foundation (Transparency & Relationship)
A group of community members is midway through a six-month citizen science project exploring Responsible Capitalism (ReCap)—the Institute’s framework that braids Conscious Capitalism with Regenerative Capitalism. Through the project, participants are exploring what these principles look like in practice, bringing their own experiences and perspectives into a shared inquiry about how capitalism can better support people, communities, and regeneration.
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Session 3 — Agency & Empowerment (Power Distribution)
Drawing on Julie Diamond’s framework, the group anchored in a working definition: personal power lives at the intersection of values and agency. It is the muscle that lets us act in alignment with what matters, even when we do not have positional authority backing us up. And it is also the muscle that can disappear the moment our values come under fire and our nervous system takes over, making it harder to act with intention.
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Session 4 — Power in Practice
A small group of community members, leaders, and practitioners has been meeting monthly since March 2026—not as students in a course, but as citizen scientists. Their shared question is simple but significant: can exploring Responsible Capitalism (ReCap) principles together create meaningful transformation in how we lead and build community? The group is using its collective experience to explore that question through ongoing reflection, experimentation, and learning.
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Session 5 — Shared Success
We began with a question that sounds simple: what does SUCCESS mean to you? The chat box filled within 30 seconds: Alignment. Values alignment. Teamwork. Regeneration. Contentment. Growth. Trying hard things. Courage. Feeling larger after a challenge. Doing your best. As one facilitator observed, when you know one family office, you know one family office. The range was the point. Success is not one thing. It was never one thing.
Regenerative Ecosystem
Every experiment in The LAB — from a single meeting to a community resilience partnership — operates as a circulatory system, not a transaction: value flows to the individual (skill, belonging, self-awareness), to the member community (collective wisdom, trust), and to the Institute itself (contribution, capacity). Below, a few case studies show what that circulation looks like in practice.
