Who We Are and Why This Work Matters
We design regenerative systems that restore connection, capacity, and purpose.
Organizations and communities are living systems.
When they’re designed for extraction, urgency, or control, people burn out and meaning erodes. When they’re designed for regeneration, systems restore vitality, coherence, and purpose.
We partner with mission-driven organizations and communities to move beyond reactive problem-solving and surface-level change. Grounded in Regenerative Psychology™, our work integrates organizational psychology, living systems thinking, and human-centered design to cultivate change that is sustainable, embodied, and deeply human.
What We Bring
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Evidence-based strategy rooted in human behavior — not abstract models
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Whole-system insight across culture, leadership, workflows, and data
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Regenerative frameworks that build capacity over time, not dependency
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Practical tools and rhythms that support alignment, resilience, and renewal
Designing Systems That Serve the People Within Them
How Regenerative Systems Take Root and Grow
At Living with SHAPE, we design regenerative systems that support meaningful, lasting change. Our work blends evidence-based practice with deep listening, systems insight, and human-centered design, so change doesn’t just look good on paper, but takes root in the lived experience of people and communities.
When systems are built to support people at every level, impact becomes sustainable...and transformation becomes possible.
What We Do
How We Do It
Why We Do It
We design regenerative systems that support people, organizations, and communities to grow, heal, and flourish. From strategy to culture, we support meaningful growth that’s both human-centered and built to last.
We work alongside you through deep listening, systems mapping, and iterative design. By aligning strategy, culture, and everyday practice, we help create rhythms and structures that support real, lasting change.
We believe systems should be worthy of the people within them. When individuals are supported to thrive and organizations are designed with care, lasting impact isn’t forced...it emerges.
Who We Work With to Shape Meaningful Change
We work with people who believe change is possible and are ready to design it together.
Regenerative change happens when the conditions are right. We work with organizations and communities to uncover root patterns, realign purpose with practice, and redesign systems that support clarity, care, and sustained momentum.
Community Leaders
You lead coalitions, grassroots networks, or cross-sector initiatives focused on social impact or systems change.
You're often working across differences, navigating complex relationships, shifting power dynamics, and building toward collective action. We help you cultivate shared purpose, foster trust across difference, and design structures that support meaningful, community-rooted change.
Network & Program Leaders
You lead behavioral health or human services networks, programs operating within complex care and support systems.
You’re balancing human need, organizational demands, and system-level pressures—often while coordinating across roles, disciplines, and institutions. We help you strengthen alignment, support leadership capacity, and design people-centered structures that enable sustainable, system-wide impact.
C-Level Executives
You’re stewarding an organization through growth, transition, or realignment, often while navigating pressure, and competing demands.
We partner with you to align vision with lived practice, redesign systems that no longer serve, and build the conditions for change that can be sustained internally and externally. Our work supports executive leaders navigating complexity, accountability, and transformation, strengthening alignment across strategy, culture, and operations.
Team Leaders & Managers
You manage teams navigating change, complexity, or just too much at once.
Whether your team is newly formed, overstretched, or evolving, we help you build rhythms, relationships, and clarity so your team can work well together, even under pressure. Our work supports team leaders in strengthening communication, shared accountability, and day-to-day practices that sustain performance and trust.
We work across systems, always with the humans at the center. Because when the right conditions are in place, people don't just adapt to change. They SHAPE it.
Whether you’re a team of 5 or a network of 5,000, we help you shape the conditions for alignment, clarity, and momentum.
How We Support Systems Through Transition
Two pathways. One philosophy. Both shaped by our six core elements.
No matter where you begin, at the system level or within a single team, our work is rooted in the same regenerative principles.
Regenerative
Systems Design
Organizations and
Systems
We help communities and organizations shift from reactive cycles to aligned, life-giving systems. This work redesigns structure, strategy, and culture through a regenerative lens, centering human behavior, equity, and trust.
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Strategic pivots, leadership transitions, or post-crisis recalibration.
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Rebuilding trust and belonging after cultural drift.
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Community or cross-sector collaboration initiatives.
Use Cases:
Teams and
Individuals
This path focuses on the inner dynamics of performance, motivation, and sustainability. We support individuals and teams in shifting their roles, habits, and rhythms, enabling them to blossom within changing systems.
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Burnout, disengagement, or "quiet quitting" in high-performing teams.
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Role confusion or lack of shared rhythm.
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Leadership development and team coaching.
Use Cases:
Regenerative
RolePotential
Real change doesn’t happen in isolation. It grows through aligned structures, supported people, and shared purpose.
Lasting Change Starts Beneath the Surface
The system is speaking. We help you listen and redesign it, together.
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Identifying the Best Change
Not All Change Builds Capacity.
We help you step back and see the system clearly, surfacing patterns, listening for signals, and naming what’s no longer serving the whole. Together, we identify the shifts that will create the most meaningful and sustainable impact for your organization, community, or ecosystem.
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Implementing the Change
Make It Real, Without Burning Out Your Team
We support implementation with rhythm, structure, and care, turning insight into action, and action into practices your system can actually sustain over time.
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Designing the Change
Change that's Co-Created, Not Imposed.
We design with you, not for you, bringing people into the process early to build shared ownership, surface blind spots, and align strategy with lived values, culture, and real-world capacity.
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Creating Change Champions
Grow the People Who Carry the Change Forward
We cultivate leadership at every level by building clarity, confidence, and connection—so change doesn’t depend on a few individuals, but becomes embedded in the system itself.
How Regenerative Change Takes Root
We use Regenerative Psychology to design the conditions where change can take root.
The Elements
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Plant for Resilience
Incorporate a variety of perspectives, shared leadership, and collaborative innovation to strengthen resilience across the system.
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Water Regularly and Thoughtfully
Schedule time for reflection, support, and skill-building. Growth needs tending.
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Welcome Pollinators
Build visible channels for learning, sharing, and celebrating across roles and boundaries.
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Prune to Promote Growth
Encourage blameless learning by simplifying what’s overgrown or no longer serving the system.
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Recycle the Waste
Reflect, compost the learnings, and let them feed future growth.
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Nourish the Soil
Create spaces where people feel safe to speak up, experiment, and connect authentically.
These aren’t steps to follow; they’re conditions to cultivate, revisited over time as systems grow and evolve.
What It Feels Like When Systems Begin to Regenerate
A regenerative system is one where people collaborate with ease, and work flows with clarity and care.
When Systems Are Strained | When Systems Are Regenerative |
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Surface-level fixes. | Conditions that support real change. |
Burnout and turnover. | Energy, trust, and renewal. |
People feeling isolated. | Culture of connection and care. |
Signs of misalignment. | Shared rhythm and ownership. |
Everything feels urgent. | Clear priorities and sustainable pace. |
This isn’t a future state to force, it’s what emerges when systems are designed to support the people within them.
Visionary Thinking, Grounded in Execution
It is a true privilege working with Priya. She is an excellent thought partner that has helped to strategically elevate and innovate the way in which we can provide impactful behavioral health engagement platforms for families in need. Her expertise and clinical rigor ensured that we were able to build the partnerships we require to be successful and secure state funding to move our invaluable work forward. Her bold vision paired with her ability to set ambitious targets and meet them are sure to make our work succeed.
Senior Director at the Gates Foundation
The System Can Change...When They're Designed with Care. Let's Design That Change Together.
It's not about doing more; it's about designing a system that works for your people and your purpose.
Living with SHAPE
Ready to Build a System that Holds What Matters Most?
We bring clarity, care, and deep systems expertise to help design change that lasts...rooted in trust, purpose, and momentum.
Let’s create the conditions where your people and your mission can truly blossom.
Still Wondering If This Work Is For You?
What you're wondering is probably what matters most. Let's start there.
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Systems Change Rooted in Humanity
A framework for Healing Systems and Cultivating Human Flourishing.