A way of thinking, inspired by fungi.
WE ARE A REGENERATIVE FORESIGHT PRACTICE
We build the capacity — in leaders and organisations — to acquire sporesight: to imagine plural futures, decompose what needs to rot, and grow what regenerates from the parts.
Our motto? Decompose to recompose.
Who is this for?
For individuals…
Practitioners wanting a shift from dreading endings to authoring them / Futurists, designers, strategists, researchers and founders — inside orgs or working solo — who believe in regenerative change but feel up against a lot. You need imagination renewal and permission to let go.
For teams…
Teams who want to shift from funding what's dead to feeding what's next / Leadership, strategy, sustainability and innovation teams — in orgs of any size — carrying initiatives that need to rot and no permission to let them. You need a function for endings, not another plan for beginnings.
How to sporesight
Sporesight is something you acquire and practice. Four ways in: spark it with a talk, grow it in yourself, put it to work in your organisation, or take it at your own pace. All start the same way: rot before regeneration.
Acquire the capacity to see what needs to rot, let it go, and author endings rather than suffer them. In here: masterclasses and Decomposition Days.
Acquire the capacity for ending an initiative well, redirect value and measure the shift. In here: Rot Retreats, in-org capacity building, and the Spore-Print decomposition strategy.
Acquire sporesight on your own steam — the thinking, the principles, your own pace. In here: our Fungi as your Futurist playbook and recorded masterclasses (coming soon).
Book us for the spark: a provocation on fungal intelligence and why there's no regeneration without rot.
Who we’ve worked with in the past:
Image description: Profile picture of Sporesight founder, Jess Jorgensen, smiling. Her profile overlays a landscape image of the Ugandan countryside, taken during research fieldwork with refugee mushroom growers.
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RESEARCH + ROOTS
Rot before Regeneration
In nature, nothing regenerates without first breaking down. The same is true for strategies, systems, and the assumptions holding them in place.
Five+ years of research on a World Mushroom Tour grew our framework, our principles, and the Spore-co collective who deliver the deeper work with us. It keeps fruiting! Follow our evolving enquiry, reports, case studies and stories as they happen.
Fungi is your futurist.
Want to collaborate?
FOR SYMBIOTIC FUTURES
Playbook
Sharing 12 design principles for regenerative futures. Also, an invitation to think like fungi. Co-created with 18+ global thinkers.
the rot repository
what needs to rot?
a collective map of systems, habits, structures, narratives, industries. anything you’re ready to let go.
Subscribe to Spore-drops
Field notes on fungi intelligence from a 5+ year, 100+ interview world research tour: for the futurists and imagination architects shaping regenerative futures.