The BILD     

a Field School for Living Design

in collaboration with Geoversity Foundation, Seeding Change, Brand Earth, One World and more

501(c)(3) status pending

with evolutionary anthropologist and biomimicry pioneer

Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker

more than just habitat conservation, cultural preservation, sustainable business, or climate restoration

Living Design

means remembering our role in the living systems we are part of and depend on.

Your donation helps leaders connect their purpose to the unique potential of place and people, through biocultural knowledge and practice.

Discover Living Design at the BILD

2 hours East of San Diego, 90 minutes South of Palm Springs, surrounded by the

Anza Borrego Desert State Park

California’s largest, known for its stunning wildflower displays, otherworldly badlands, thrilling hawk migrations, and iconic bighorn sheep

an 86-acre wilderness ranch dotted with the morteros, hearths, and hand tools of the Kumeyaay, Cupa, and Cahuilla people who continue to call this region home for some 12,000 years.

a place outside of time, where we work to remember human being and doing

  • Nature of Place

  • Campfire Cosmology + Storytelling

  • Biomimicry Exploration

  • Naturalist Skills + Bushcraft

  • Track + Trail

  • Traditional Archery + Flintmaking

  • Plein Air Drawing

  • Harvesting + Care

  • Living Mythology

  • Place-Sourced Arts

  • Teeming

  • Place-Aligned Design

  • Dark Sky Camping

  • Close-up of Borrego Springs Residence - Borrego Institute for Living Design

    Creative Residencies

  • Historic Rooms

  • Events

  • Retreats

  • Wide view of Borrego Springs Residence - Borrego Institute for Living Design

    Internships

Learn to nurture your nature of place through proven biocultural knowledge, practice, and leadership.

Don’t miss our Purpose-to-Potential Cohort in May

Get clear on your why and put the power of collaboration to work.

Bring Your Purpose to Life is a developmental journey with Tamsin Woolley-Barker and host Jon Ramer in One World, an Impact Hub.

Each week features a cascading series of provocations, prompts, and insights designed to help you grow clarity, strategy, capability, and will in your work.

Sessions feature small group breakouts, personal reflection, and invitations to greater synergy in this action-oriented, purpose-driven community. Change how you see and se what changes!

What You’ll Get

  • Get crystal clear on your work, your “why,” and what’s in the way

  • Experience transformative insights that turn impenetrable gloom into irrepressible blooms

  • Surf for free on synergy: work smarter not harder

  • Turn problems into magnetic possibilities

  • Enjoy more collective intelligence, mutual support, and synergy with diverse and like-minded folks

  • TEEM Up for Radical Collaboration so we can make real change

May 2-23 10-11:30am PST $259

Want a taste? You can take our FREE online course in One World, distilled from last Summer’s powerful “99 Days of TEEMING Up for Radical Collaboration” experience.