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TO NURTURE SOCIETY TOWARDS A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY

WHO WE ARE

We are an innovative consulting and research firm specialising in living systems and regenerative design.

This means reconnecting human progress with the functions of nature, place and community. To HYPHA, regeneration is shifting from an industrial civilisation to an ecological civilisation. Based on the Isle of Jersey, we are committed to facilitating this transition towards a more sustainable, resilient and prosperous economy.

WHAT WE DO

Regeneration:

The Evolution of Sustainability

We work with policy makers, designers, community projects, art directors, investors, entrepreneurs and organisations seeking to innovate their sustainability practices. HYPHA supports brave leaders and decision makers to build impact using systems thinking, while focusing on intricate details that are unique to place. We create the conditions for in-depth knowledge sharing so strategies can be designed for an unpredictable future. Our approach is based on tested models, research, and internally developed frameworks. We work in an interconnected way, integrating our knowledge and experience through a global network of regenerative practitioners.

WORK AREAS

RESEARCH

If your organisation is to function as part of a larger ecosystem, you have to understand the ecosystem. We conduct comprehensive market and landscape analysis to help your organisation maintain a role that allows the whole environment to prosper.

WORKSHOPS

Tailored workshops and facilitation based on bespoke frameworks and regenerative design. By bridging the gap between understanding and implementation, we bring your team on a journey to transition towards a new paradigm.

EVENT CURATION

We work with highly creative and experienced event designers who understand the power of storytelling and design to cultivate new and more inclusive ideas.

IMPACT REPORTING

Moving away from targets, we scan for indirect impacts to align all work areas with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We help your organisation embed multiple sustainability factors into your processes. HYPHA produces reports so clients can find unexpected opportunities to tackle today's most pressing issues.

DESIGN

As experienced project leaders and entrepreneurs, we understand how to develop and implement circular systems, technological and policy design innovation, biotech and social health, cultural arts and science events, and holistic food system designs. Rather than focusing exclusively on scale, we strive to balance efficiency, resilience and purpose within the community.

STRATEGY

We help you identify systemic and structural barriers and unlock potential opportunities within specific contexts. Well-designed regenerative strategies are collaborative and often at odds with market signals, because they truly reflect what your business and community needs. Based on experience working across diverse sectors, we align multistakeholders and create localised, resilient strategies that maximise positive impacts on whole communities and organisations.

PUBLICATIONS

HYPHA publications follow the rules of regenerative design, a process-oriented whole systems approach. We take global issues and make them relevant and useful to a unique local context. We research and aggregate the best in practice and opportunities for change that can be activated by local stakeholders.

REGENERATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Economy as Nature Intends

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED. HUMANS ARE PART OF NATURE. WE NEED TO OPERATE AS PART OF A LARGER ECOSYSTEM

SMALL SCALE IMPACTS THE LARGE.  What we practice at the small scale sets the pattern for the whole system 

OLD THINKING

Problem solving in a linear and siloed way to reduce negative impact and reach sustainability targets

NEW THINKING

Accepting that everything is connected, working with complexity, and implementing systems interventions to leverage points for maximum impact

EMPOWERING THE Willingness to embrace diverse perspectives and new ways of thinking

I have been privileged to mentor India during her journey with SCOOP. I have also witnessed her unique capacity to understand food and political systems dynamics beyond systems change, during several learning journeys that Really Regenerative hosts where she led several different teams from Jersey. She has the ability to identify the critical acupuncture points that are most likely to evolve those systems towards regenerative impact.

JENNY ANDERSSON

Founder, Really Regenerative Centre CIC

HYPHA brings passion and creativity to work in regenerative economics and combines this with the rigour of an evidence-based approach. a rare but crucially important combination given the challenges our world/island is facing.

KEVIN KEEN

Non-Executive Director and Chair, Jersey Dairy

A community actor who engages and aligns with local needs, Taylor is both deeply committed to the regenerative agenda and an exceptional presenter and facilitator of corporate workshops. It is quite rare to see a combination of these skills! As a core team member of NELIS (Next Leaders' Initiative for Sustainability), I have had the pleasure to work with and mentor her for the past few years.

PETER DAVID PEDERSEN

Co-Founder, NELIS (Next Leaders' Initiative for Sustainability), Professor at Shizenkan University & Center Leader, Center for Sustainability and Innovation (CSI)

CASE STUDIES

SCOOP

JERSEY, UK

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH, DESIGN, CONSULTING

Leveraging community values to nurture a resilient food system on the island of Jersey

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effective TRIAL OF SYSTEMIC DESIGN MODELING

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embedded systems approach involving 104 local businesses

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DEVELOPMENT OF RADICAL BIODIVERSITY DESIGN

CLEAN CITY

CHITWAN, NEPAL

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH, DESIGN, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, EDUCATION, ART CURATION

Not-for-profit social enterprise focused on implementing community-led solutions to waste management, food abundance and water security

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RESTOREd communities & ECOLOGIES

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implemented environmental education in 120 schools

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createD economic opportunities for the most marginalized women

REWILD MY PLATE

JERSEY, UK

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH, DESIGN, TEACHING, CURATION

Taking a conservation approach to the food value chain

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harvesting meals from 3000 edible crops

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making biodiversity the design brief

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linking soil health to public health

CASE STUDIES

SCOOP

JERSEY, U.K.

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH, DESIGN, CONSULTING

Leveraging values in the community to push towards a resilient food system on the island of Jersey

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effective TRIAL OF SYSTEMIC DESIGN MODELING

+

embedded systems approach involving 104 local businesses

+

DEVELOPMENT OF RADICAL BIODIVERSITY DESIGN

CLEAN CITY

CHITWAN, NEPAL

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH, DESIGN, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, EDUCATION, ART CURATION

Not-for-profit social enterprise focused on implementing community-led solutions to waste management, food abundance and water security

+

RESTOREd communities & ECOLOGIES

+

implemented environment education in 120 schools

+

createD viable jobs for the most marginalized women

REWILD MY PLATE

JERSEY, U.K.

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

RESEARCH • DESIGN • CONSULT

Taking a conservation approach to the food value chain

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harvesting meals from 3000 edible crops in jersey

+

making biodiversity the design brief

+

linking soil health to public health

MEET THE TEAM

Leadership

India Hamilton

CATALYST

India is an experienced entrepreneur, chef, creative and systems designer. She has worked in three different continents to build innovative businesses and events. She is focused on understanding economics of scale within her PhD.

Taylor Smythe

REGENERATOR

Taylor is a systems thinker, climate researcher, ecosystem builder, and social entrepreneur. She has worked extensively in communities in Nepal and Sri Lanka to implement community-led solutions to climate, circular economy, waste, food and water security. Her dynamic curiosity has led her to develop disruptive organisations that are challenging traditional notions of economics and using finance as an instrument for change.

International Regenerative Practitioners & Non-Executive Directors

MARGARET COONEY

Director & Co-founder, Pilao Labs, Associate, Brand Ethos & Kando by Design

Margaret is an experienced leader in the public, cultural and third sector. She has developed strategic policies for major funders and created one of the most pioneering Lottery-funded initiatives, Local Trust. She is a content strategist for several communications agencies, and in 2020 co-founded Pilao Labs, a digital service specialising in accessible and inclusive online communications. Chair of an award winning food poverty social enterprise, Bags of Taste, through the two years of COVID.

THERESA COOMBS

Non-Executive Director, Finance Compliance Officer

Theresa is a highly experienced risk and compliance practitioner and a Fellow of the International Compliance Association, working in the private sector She conducts analysis of regulations and risk to construct, manage and test effective risk management frameworks, systems and controls, working with all relevant stakeholders in embedding and managing risk management through an integrity driven culture and ethical values. Theresa has always been passionate about natural and social history and the interplay of the two.

KATIE CONLON

Director Ecoseva Institute, National Geographic Explorer, Researcher, Writer, Yogini

Katie researches waste streams from the perspective of reconnecting an awareness of waste with social and ecological systems, and closing the loop on waste externalities. She is a zero-waste advocate, Ph.D. candidate, Fulbright Fellow, and National Science Foundation Fellow from Portland State University in Oregon. She has worked and researched waste and sustainability issues across Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Vietnam, Japan, Nepal, and India. Conlon completed her master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where she focused on the nexus of climate change and peace studies. She is a member of Break Free From Plastic, a 5 Gyres Ambassador, a Portland State Institute for Sustainable Solutions Ambassador, and a Board Member of the Marine Debris Foundation.

CAROLINE HARGREAVES

Former Diplomat & Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Founder of Pinecone Leadership & Norwegian Sage

Caroline is a systems designer, wholeness therapist and transformation guide. She has extensive experience in the fields of international development, human rights, global peace processes and diplomacy. She holds an MA in International Relations from University of St. Andrews, an MSc in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies from London School of Economics (LSE) and has completed the Diplomatic Training Programme with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In recent years she has dived deeper into heart-based leadership and explored indigenous approaches to health and peacebuilding. She is a certified forest therapy guide with Association for Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT), quantum healer with Gilalai Institute for Energy and Consciousness, and an avid student of yoga sciences and craniosacral therapy. She is the founder of ecotherapy practice Norwegian Sage and co-founder of Pinecone Leadership, a regenerative leadership consultancy based in Oslo, Norway.

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