4F REGENERATION
Building capacity for leaders and organizations working for a flourishing planet.
We offer resilience training programs for people and organizations supporting ecological regeneration. Our online classes and in-person workshops provide tools for creative problem-solving in a time of growing hostility toward social and biospheric thriving. Leveraging insights from contemplative research, systems theory, movement-building practice, eco-psychology, and secular mindfulness, our programs help you and your team stay adaptive, focused, and creative in the face of crisis.
Our clients are nonprofits, government agencies, universities, environmental lawyers, individual leaders, and mission-driven businesses dedicated to climate solutions, environmental justice, and regeneration. Fusing research-based inner practices with concrete experience in environmental work, we support our clients in creating a regenerative future.
As the climate crises and ecological loss intensify, many leaders and organizations despair and get stuck. Most organizations are unprepared to work within today's constraints: Conventional environmental strategies seem inadequate, federal funding is diminished, profit-making imperatives are often in direct conflict with ecological limits, and increasingly authoritarian corporate leadership remains bound to fossil fuels.
These circumstances impact all environmental work and can erode confidence and effective action. Facing inner burnout and external obstacles, change makers seek new perspectives and effective methodologies. 4F Regeneration specializes in getting people and organizations unstuck, opening possibilities that were previously unthinkable.
With decades of experience and our unique suite of workshops, coaching, consultancy, and capacity-building training for individuals and organizations, we offer custom solutions for change makers addressing the impacts of climate change, species loss, injustice, and pollution. We build internal capacity for long-term resilience and regeneration.
Services
We provide regenerative workshops, coaching, and capacity building training for individuals, organizations, and communities.
Who We Serve
Government agencies, nonprofits, community organizations, and mission-driven businesses who want to pursue regenerative and just solutions to the climate crisis.
In Person Workshops
Our workshop methodology guides your team through a learning process that produces fresh insights for addressing wicked problems. Participants leave with a set of tools tailored to meeting the challenges of climate crisis and environmental injustice.
Online Training
Online training is an accessible option to guide your team through our signature learning process. Participants leave with a set of tools tailored to meeting the challenges of climate crisis and environmental injustice.
Coaching for Leaders
Individuals and small teams sometimes benefit from more personalized mentorship for navigating the challenges of serving the biosphere amidst techno-authoritarian oligarchy. Contact us using the form linked below so we can craft a service that meets your needs.
We have successfully run workshops and online events connecting or collaborating with:
- Sierra Club
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Massachusetts State Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience
- University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Environmental Justice Summit
- Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania
- World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh
- Oakencroft Farm
- University of Virginia, Generative Contemplative Initiative
- Carnegie Mellon School of Art and Design
- Carnegie Mellon University “Future Lab"
- Phipps Conservatory
- The “Anthropocene” exhibit, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Awaken Pittsburgh
- The Museum of PostNatural History
- One Earth Sangha
- City of Bridges High School
- The Climate Healing Incubator
- and more...
Signature Training: Four Elements of Transformation
This training applies the four elements as metaphors in a skills-based framework to expand resilience and capacity for effective action. Learning outcomes include practical techniques to stay adaptive, focused, and creative in the face of crisis.
Each element—earth, fire, water, space—is associated with a unique set of tools that can be applied at key intervals to projects, programs, campaigns, negotiations, collaborations, and stakeholder engagement to achieve more just, durable, regenerative outcomes. Participants will learn how and when to employ these tools to maximize their benefit.
Our flagship training can be offered as an in-person workshop over 1 or 2 days, or as a virtual 6-week class. An abbreviated halfday version is available for teams with limited availability.
Who We Are
Adam Lobel, PHD practices at the threshold of ecologies, Buddhist-inspired meditation and philosophy, and psycho-social political change. A professor of Ecopsychology at the Falk School of Sustainability at Chatham University, a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, a Greenfaith fellow, and a respected meditation teacher, he leads contemplative ecological workshops and is active in environmental justice movements. Adam regularly presents papers on contemplative environmental philosophy at academic conferences around the world. He lives with his family in Pittsburgh, PA where he protects land from the petrochemical industry.
Gabe Dayley pursues regenerative solutions to the climate crisis. He facilitates workshops on personal, organizational, and community resilience in the face of fraying ecological and political systems, and he supports local governments in crafting equitable strategies to address the root causes of climate change. Gabe previously served as Climate Action Program Manager for Albemarle County, Virginia, where he led interagency collaborations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for local impacts. Gabe brings extensive training in leadership, conflict resolution, and contemplative methods to his work.
