Certificate in
Regenerative
Entrepreneurship

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This is how the Certificate in Regenerative Entrepreneurship was born in 2019, under UCI’s founder leadership Eduard Müller, as a transdisciplinary program to co-create a better future for all forms of life.

The core of this program is based on Biomimicry. Nature offers us solutions to our challenges, which we only know by consciously emulating its wisdom. Biomimicry seeks to reconnect the human being with nature itself, with life and with what emerges from that connection. Then everything we do, will work within the planetary logic. The biomimetic process goes from challenge, to biology, to design. In this program we offer you a naturalistic, constructivist and holistic approach, where the complexity, interconnection and wisdom of nature are celebrated. Our purpose is that you can identify the relationships of the ecosystems, represented in the four modules of the program: Discover, Transform, Connect and Transcend. And at the same time, you are invited to put into practice all the shared knowledge, to generate a lasting impact for the planet.

Why Regenerative Development?

Environment

Understanding basic ecological principles and the use of nature-based solutions to regenerate degraded territories into functional landscapes and seascapes. Biodiversity and ecosystem management and the provision of ecosystem services will be covered through different methodologies such as the Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystem based adaptation, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, holistic cattle management, connectivity conservation, among others. Ecological economics, payment for ecosystem services and other tools will allow these aspects to be contemplated in the different areas of project management. A strong focus will be placed on carbon cycle, capture in soils and increase in biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Society

How to transform current social structures into active, responsible and democratic societies. Tools for collaborative planning and co-creation will allow better adjustment of project scope and other knowledge areas to the requirements of communities and territories.

Economy

Delving into the guiding principles of Regenerative Economics through different approaches such as circular economy, Doughnut Economics, The Economy for the Common Good and other related frameworks. The Wellbeing Economy and the WE Alliance will be incorporated into broader project management.

Culture

Principles of applied cultural evolution and regenerative design will give insights on how human behavior has evolved into the current global situation and how we can transition into a new paradigm of elevated consciousness to achieve changes in human behavior in the time frame required.

Politics

An analysis of the rapidly changing global, regional and national politics will allow for a better understanding of the impacts, decision making and action on emerging issues. A deeper understanding on how generational shifts in power are allowing faster changes in national and global policies.

Spirituality

Technocratic approaches have not allowed our civilization to transform into a different paradigm. Spirituality (in this case, not related to religion) has an important role to achieve the massive change required to keep humanity’s safe operating space. There are close bonds with the Earth Charter and the application of its principles. Also, different insights on indigenous spirituality and knowledge and the relationship between humans and all non-human life are analyzed.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology are important components of regeneration. You will be immersed in the use of new approaches to solve social, environmental and economic problems. Different aspects of social entrepreneurship will be analyzed in order to understand what may or may not be successful. Regenerative entrepreneurship requires integrated competences, beyond knowledge and skills. Attitude, consciousness, mindfulness and passion are highly relevant. Wellbeing of all life forms replaces traditional measures of success. The practical integration of the above components will allow for new mindsets that will foster innovative approaches to local territorial development.

OVERVIEW

Modality	Online program
Program language	English
Modules	4
Length	10 months
Time dedication	5 hours per week
Start date	February 27th, 2024
Live sessions	Tuesdays 13:00 – 14:30 (CST time zone)

If you are interested in the CRE – Spanish edition, the next opening is scheduled for September 2024.

METHODOLOGY

This regenerative path will take the participants through:

Onboarding session.
24 vibrant live sessions with guest speakers.
8 co-creation sessions facilitated by the Program Manager.
Development of a regenerative action or project, to put into practice the knowledge, tools and exchanges generated during the program.
4 small-group mentoring sessions according to the topics of interest.
24/7 access to moodle platform with curated materials, tools and recordings.

Optional: 1:1 guidance sessions with the Program Manager
Optional: In-person gathering at the end of the program

Competency-based education, covering experiences, cases, tools and knowledge shared by speakers, mentors, participants and program direction.
Tools such as workbooks, guiding questions, journals, meditations, creative expressions, among others; are catalysts for self-discovery and innovation.
Mix individual and group exercises, contributing to collective intelligence. Several formats ensure a resilient learning environment.
Safe space to be real, vulnerable, creative, to give and receive without limit. Humanization of virtual learning.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Current global and technological changes are now exponential and thus any process for co-creating solutions has to be dynamic. Below is an outline of the Certificate Program. This is not a rigid program and the base of the certificate is an active co-creation process between students, speakers and mentors. One of the fundamental outcomes of the certificate is to have people capable of managing complex challenges in cooperation with other regenerators under permanent changing conditions. Flexibility, creativity and innovation will be standard practice in the discussions and thus will feed into the implementation of the program.

CERTIFICATE DIPLOMA

All participants who successfully complete each module receive a Certificate in Regenerative Entrepreneurship diploma, endorsed by the University for International Cooperation (UCI). When the participants complete the full program, they also receive the corresponding diploma.

To successfully complete each module, the participant must actively participate in the scheduled sessions, present their regenerative project (the progress according to the topics of each module) and have received the mentoring session, provided by the program.

Modules

Module Discover

This module will allow you to question your individual actions and that of society, given global change and the approach to planetary limits. You will be able to delve into key topics such as Biomimicry for system design and System Thinking for project management to achieve regeneration at all levels.

🌱6 live sessions with guest speakers + 2 co-creation sessions + 1 small group mentoring session

Module Connect

This module will make you see Economics and Politics as you have never seen them before. We need to change the way we measure well-being, and through this economic and political reinvention we hope to give you a fresh and hopeful perspective.

🌱6 live sessions with guest speakers + 2 co-creation sessions + 1 small group mentoring session

Module Transform

This module will expand your creative thinking in a transdisciplinary way. The main topics that we will address are Innovation, Technology applied to nature and social behavior, as well as knowledge and tools of Regenerative Entrepreneurship

🌱6 live sessions with guest speakers + 2 co-creation sessions + 1 small group mentoring session

Module Transcend

This module will introduce you to participatory planning, capacity development and consciousness, to lead us as a society towards cultural evolution. We focus in our inner self and connecting with your purpose. You will be ready to transcend!

🌱6 live sessions with guest speakers + 2 co-creation sessions + 1 small group mentoring session

International speakers and practitioners

This program has a network of world-class speakers, combining global, regional and local references, who are regenerating from different locations and fields.

Speakers may vary from one edition to another, considering the topics of interest of the participants and their projects. Here you will find some of those who have participated in previous editions: Allan Savory, Carol Sanford, Daniel Christian Wahl, Kate Raworth, John Fullerton, Anthony Hodgson, Ben Haggard, May East, Carolina Fernández-Jansink, Melina Angel, Hitesh Mehta, among others.

This program belongs to the Faculty of Environment and Development of the University for International Cooperation. It was launched in 2019 by the founder and pioneer in Regeneration, Eduard Müller, and is currently managed and hosted by Karina Víquez.

Eduard Müller

As a seasoned leader in regeneration, he developed the six pillars of regenerative development, based on rethinking our own approaches to environment, economy, society, culture, policy and politics and, spirituality, and how to integrate these through a holistic approach. His areas of expertise involve climate change, decision making, biosphere reserves, protected areas, sustainable tourism, eco and rural tourism, local development, entrepreneurship, nature-based solutions and food security. Extensive trajectory as consultant and invited speaker for several global organizations, companies and governments. He is also the Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair for Biosphere Reserves and Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites, and he is a member of the Global Council of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

For more information, fill out this short form and you will receive the program brochure in your mail.

This certificate program is part of Costa Rica Regenerativa, an UCI initiative that brings together a community with multiple capacities in order to reflect, plan and activate projects that enable the transition towards a regenerative paradigm.

Additionally, this certificate has the support and collaboration of the following partners, who contribute through the participation of leading speakers in regeneration, disruptive tools, methodologies and initiatives shared in the program.