Life creates conditions conducive to life.
I could never have imagined a straight-line path to the life I have now.
Author. Innovation consultant. Dean of an international school.
Founding Director of my own institute.
But I always knew what I wanted to do when I grow up.
To create in wild places the same way other living things do - the art of our lives unfolding alongside them, as equals, aligned with the places we live.
It was just a matter of good design.
Living Design uses life’s proven patterns to bring the things we care about to life
with Evolutionary Biologist, Biomimic, Author
Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker
BILD Founder and Director
design with intention, grow possibility.
What’s your big vision?
Living Design Lab
An 8-week intensive
Bring your big vision to life through life’s proven patterns
You’ve got a big vision.
But the distance between what is and what could be is a little daunting.
Living Design helps you see what’s possible, what’s in the way, the capitals you might have overlooked—and where small shifts could have the power to unleash big effects.
Experience Living Design
see what’s possible and create the conditions for it to bloom.
Living Design Capacity Builder
BILD works with organizations, collaboratives, communities, and initiatives to grow the capacities the system needs to accomplish what its mission requires.
Your donation helps us grow and share Living Design, at the BILD and beyond.
The BILD is sited on 86 acres of critical endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep habitat, at the confluence of four major canyons. The Kumeyaay, Cupa, and Cahuilla made their seasonal camps here at this spring, regarded as sacred, for 10,000 years or more. Their lifeways are still evident, and the canyon’s higher biodiversity is a result.
This is what lasts.
Visit the BILD
Come see differently.
Diverse creators, builders, and practitioners can spend focused creative time.
Stay in the ranch house or camp under our International Dark Sky.
Share food and fire. See what emerges.
Groups can book BILD for their own retreats, or add Living Design facilitation and programming around a big vision.
