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Who we are and what we do

Naturakademin Learning Lab has been guideing management teams in the creation of more efficient and sustainable decision making processes – to recognize and seize upon challenges and thus reach actionable conclusions more rapidly, since 1990.

The modern world is a complex system of natures processes, human ambition and socio-cultural evolution, where adaptation and learning is the key for survival, both for species in nature, (of which the human is one) as well as for organizations and their management teams.

Naturakademin combines and employs a unique set of methodologies: modern management theory, systems thinking grounded in ecological principles, as well as organizational learning and understanding of the human self. The firms experience brings together a diverse network of practitioners who have jointly contributed to Naturakademin’s working method for assisting management teams.

Naturakademin has worked closely on sustainability issues with The Natural Step (www.naturalstep.org) In the mid-nineties, and brought the theories and methods of the Society of Organizational Learning to Sweden (www.solonline.org) focusing on the aspirations of individuals in corporate systems and their organizations ability to generate learning for sustainable development.

Together with, and inspired by, professor Oren Lyons and John P. Milton, Naturakademin has explored methods of management training for corporate leaders that resulted in the Sustainable Leadership concept based on Wisdom, Leadership and Dialogue (WiLD). Take a look at the Learning Tools.

Naturakademin has since 2006 been associated with Tällberg Foundation (www.tallbergfoundation.org) generating a wide range of perspectives and in-depth experiences to explore the unpredictable future together.

Nature as a blueprint
When we experience the dynamics of life and nature we also get the opportunity to re-learn and meet ourselves through the renewed contact with our slumbering senses, our atavistic instincts and natural intuition. The ability to develop an organization depends on the inner state of mind of the individuals.

Our idéa

The fundamental idea in Naturakademin is that nature is our best teacher in a world in constant change. The coordinating principal of nature is the relation during change: individuals, systems, the environment, rules and the processes of evolution. Even change changes. Life makes use of this chaos to create functional solutions. Life itself is formed around identity. Every living creature acts to develop and to preserve it self. Identity is a filter every organism uses to make the world understandable. New information, new relations, changing environments all is interpreted through the filter of identity.
What we do

When we begin to regard ourselves as apart of wholeness, when we dare to let go, things around us start to happen. There is a flow of meaning around us, as if we were part of a greater conversation, sometimes called ”the flow”. The exercises practised at Naturakademin aim to give the whole of man nourishment and energy. We supply the place, the tools and the knowledge for body, senses, intellect, feelings and spirit.

”Scientists have been saying for years that deep-seated, far-reaching benefits come from being in the alpha state of mind. That is, when your brain generates fewer beta brain waves and more alpha brain waves, you can perform better in most any area of life. You can read at superfast speeds. You can write quicker and clearer. You can learn up to 50 times more efficiently. This is also the flow state where athletes break world records, actors move audiences to tears, scientists make stunning discoveries, business people make far-reaching decisions — where human beings perform almost supernaturally”.
Our Vision – Re-connect man and Nature
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A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
Our vision is that knowledge of the basis of life and nature are as equally self-evident to learn and to teach as the alphabet and fundamentals of mathematics are to the children of the world and as profitability, leadership and politics are to decision-makers. In our vision people learn in and from nature, we let ourselves be inspired to new exciting developments and innovations from the genius of life and nature. With this attitude we begin to respect, revere and be thankful for life for generations to come. In our vision we all have, through our insight and knowledge about how everything is interconnected and all of our need of each other comes from the optical illusion of which Einstein wrote – ”widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”