Our Design Approach
At Bounce Beyond, we work at both the edge and the core of transformation. We approach our work as designers and collaborators – grounded in living systems thinking, deep listening, and transformative design. Our processes are whole-system and whole-journey, guided by an appreciation for emergence, intergenerational wisdom, and broad cultural insight. Whether we’re stewarding a multi-year transformation arc or hosting a single catalytic intervention, we design, curate, and steward living action learning processes that respond to the complexity and potential of each unique context.
Our work begins with three interlinked entry points: Individual Transformation, Organizational Transformation and Large-Scale System Transformation. From these foundations, we offer seven interconnected services designed to cultivate new capabilities, unlock potential, and enable transformative regeneration.
One Approach.
Three Entry Points.
Seven Core Practices
A Cookbook of Tools.
Our Three Scales of Transformation
Transformation happens across different scales – and we design differently for each:
Individual
Unlocking leadership potential, inner-outer coherence, and the personal practices that enable transformation.
Organization
Reshaping culture, governance, and strategy so organizations can embody transformation rather than just advocate for it.
System
Convening actors, creating governance frames, and shaping financial and relational flows that allow ecosystems of change to move together.
Our Practices
We don't frame these as "services" but as the practices through which we steward transformation. These practices can stand alone or interweave in a longer arc of work.
Transformation Strategy
Transformation is a living journey. We support organizations and systems to navigate evolutionary arcs of action and intervention. This includes designing strategies that embrace uncertainty and complexity, using a diverse range of methodologies, which can be seen in our tools section below. We help turn breakdowns into breakthroughs and cracks into openings – seeing the potential in what is emerging.
Governance Strategy
We support the development of transformational governance – rooted not only in structure, but in context, relationship, and action. This work includes collective direction-setting, decision-making, and sensemaking. We help groups define how to act based on the shifting conditions around them, and create governance strategies that are dynamic, participatory, and fit for complexity.
Transformative Coaching
This is intimate, developmental work that deepens the capacity of individuals to lead, support, or hold transformation at both organisational and systems levels. We work with individuals stepping into complexity – often navigating healing, power, purpose, and transformation at once. These journeys are relational and bespoke, helping people embody the systemic change they are part of enabling.
Leadership and Culture
Culture and leadership sit at the heart of any transformation. We support cultural transformation and leadership cultivation across teams, organizations, and ecosystems. This includes using assessment tools and participatory methodologies to grow cultures that are inclusive, self-aware, and regenerative – anchored in shared purpose and a capacity to navigate complexity together.
Financing Systemic Change
We co-design financial ecosystems that can enable long-term, systemic transformation – beyond individual project or programme investments. Our focus is on creating the conditions – governance, relationships, infrastructure, and design – so that financial resources align with regenerative outcomes and transformation can take root and scale, with power held away from the financier.
Facilitation & Design
We design and facilitate spaces that are designed for transformation – whether convenings, labs, events, conferences, or retreats. These are more than one-off experiences. They are crafted to catalyze connection, insight, and momentum. We work with emergent design, warm data, and transformational facilitation to support gatherings that activate the highest potential of a group or moment.
Advisory Research
Our research approach is grounded in a transformation systems (T-system) perspective, combining warm and cold data, action research, and systems storytelling. We work with triple-loop feedback cycles to surface insights that are both strategic and embodied. Tools like StoryMapping allow us to sense patterns, track shifts over time, and support learning across scales.
Our Tools
Our work is rooted in a diverse body of transformation methodologies – some our own, and some well-known approaches we have adapted. We don’t apply them mechanically, but instead curate, blend, and adapt them to the unique context of each journey.
We draw on three broad domains. The first is Transformation Frameworks & Systems Practice, which helps us understand how change unfolds over time, where to intervene, and how to make visible the relationships and flows within complex systems. The second we call Cultural & Consciousness Tools, which support the human and organisational side of transformation – from culture, governance, and leadership to the deeper values and mental models that shape how change takes root. The third group is Innovation & Nature-Informed Practices, which combine experimentation and adaptation with ecological metaphors and principles to design transformation that is both creative and regenerative.
At the intersections of these domains we create Curated Transformation Journeys – adaptive pathways that weave together frameworks, systems, culture, consciousness, innovation, and nature into living practices of transformation.
Core Concepts
At Bounce Beyond, our work is shaped by a set of core concepts that guide how we think and act in the field of transformation. These are not rigid models or off-the-shelf solutions, but living ideas that help us see patterns, navigate complexity, and design for change. They provide the common language and orientation that underpin our partnerships – whether we are working with individuals, organisations, or whole systems.
The Spirit of Our Work
Each piece of work is an arc of inquiry and action. We design with the system, not for it. We create space for emergence while stewarding coherence. And we honour the truth that transformation is both practical and deeply human – rooted in culture, relationship, and imagination as much as in structures and strategies.