Resources
Wild Hazel offers downloadable workbooks and a book
as well as links to videos, articles, and podcasts.
as well as links to videos, articles, and podcasts.
Workbooks
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This self-guided workbook will give you tiny peeks into the Conventional Paradigm and Natural Paradigm, and then a tiny taste of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm. I hope this workbook will help you discover why tapping into the inspiration, creativity, and wisdom of your natural self allows you to be your best self.
This workbook is composed of three lessons. Each lesson can be done in less than an hour, but I encourage you to spend more time, and revisit each over and over again. |
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Fill out the information to the right to get your free copy of the Tiny Transformation Workbook.
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Book
Videos
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Nature's Paradigm | Shifting Mindsets to Re-Align with Nature It is my belief that if we, as sustainability leaders, could re-discover our deep and collective belief in the value of abundance and curiosity, systems and synergies, trust and resilience -- if we operated from our Natural Paradigm — then we could begin to achieve our sustainability goals, together. Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Innovation Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University | Huxley Speaker Series, January 26, 2017 Denise DeLuca discusses her book, Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Innovation |
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Nature of Change: Biomimicry for Resilience Amani Institute, Summer 2020 2020 began with wildfires destroying a continent, and yet that seems a lifetime ago, doesn't it? Because nature was just getting started. Our signature Bio-Empathy program at Amani Institute looks to nature for inspiration towards designing social impact and building resilient leadership. Any post-covid world must reckon with building a better relationship with the natural world. So what can we learn from nature about change? |
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A very short biomimicry workshop! In this short self-guided workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to take on a sustainable design challenge by using one of the tools that we teach in MCAD's MA in Sustainable Design program - biomimicry. |
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Pinecones + People = Co-Creating Radically Innovative Sustainable Design Ideas VentureWell's OPEN21 conference 19March2021. The goal of the session is to show that Biomimicry is not just about inspiration -- it is a fantastic tool for teaching and practicing co-creativity, radical innovation, and sustainable design. Participants will leave with a simple tool they can use and information on where they can learn more. |
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NESTA Hot Topics: Biomimicry — Denise DeLuca
In the future, with engineers and designers looking for ever more efficient and sustainable solutions, will biomimicry have an ever more important role in innovation? |
Articles
Re-Aligning with Nature: A Q&A with author Denise DeLuca
by The Biomimicry Institute | Blog, Biomimicry and Climate Change
by The Biomimicry Institute | Blog, Biomimicry and Climate Change
The Power of the Biomimicry Design Spiral
by Denise DeLuca, for The Biomimicry Institute
by Denise DeLuca, for The Biomimicry Institute
Podcasts
Rethinking Business Podcast with Laura James
Episode 1 — Denise DeLuca [47 min]
In our first episode, we invite Denise DeLuca, author of Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation, to talk to us about her book, her journey and how we can rethink business for a changing world.
Together, they explore what Denise calls the 'Conventional Paradigm' and how this way of living and being (aka the 'real world') lies at the heart of many of our current global challenges. In turn, she suggests one way out of this is to understand and re-embody our Natural Paradigm - our true authentic self - which enables us to flourish in harmony with the natural world.
Episode 1 — Denise DeLuca [47 min]
In our first episode, we invite Denise DeLuca, author of Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation, to talk to us about her book, her journey and how we can rethink business for a changing world.
Together, they explore what Denise calls the 'Conventional Paradigm' and how this way of living and being (aka the 'real world') lies at the heart of many of our current global challenges. In turn, she suggests one way out of this is to understand and re-embody our Natural Paradigm - our true authentic self - which enables us to flourish in harmony with the natural world.
Your Natural Paradigm - With Denise De Luca Founder of Wild Hazel
In Episode 19 of the Human Animal Show. Frank and Rodney chat with Denise DeLuca [66 min]
Together, they explore what Denise calls the 'Conventional Paradigm' and how this way of living and being (aka the 'real world') lies at the heart of many of our current global challenges. In turn, she suggests one way out of this is to understand and re-embody our Natural Paradigm - our true authentic self - which enables us to flourish in harmony with the natural world.
Check out their website: https://human-animal.captivate.fm/
In Episode 19 of the Human Animal Show. Frank and Rodney chat with Denise DeLuca [66 min]
Together, they explore what Denise calls the 'Conventional Paradigm' and how this way of living and being (aka the 'real world') lies at the heart of many of our current global challenges. In turn, she suggests one way out of this is to understand and re-embody our Natural Paradigm - our true authentic self - which enables us to flourish in harmony with the natural world.
Check out their website: https://human-animal.captivate.fm/
Coconut Thinking, with Benjamin Freud, PhD
guest: Denise DeLuca [59 min]
How might we approach life from Nature's paradigm rather than from the dominant paradigm?
In this episode, I speak with Denise DeLuca. Denise is the founder of Wild Hazel. She is an adjunct faculty and the former Director of MCAD’s Sustainable Design program. She was co-founder of BCI: Biomimicry Creative for Innovation, a network of creative professional change agents driving ecological thinking for radical transformation. Denise is the author of the book Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation. She also teaches with the Amani Institute.
Denise’s previous roles include Education Director for the International Living Future Institute, Project Manager for Swedish Biomimetics 3000, and Outreach Director for The Biomimicry Institute. Denise is a licensed civil engineer (PE) and holds a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering with a focus on modelling landscape-scale surface and groundwater interactions. In addition, Denise is a Biomimicry Fellow and a member of the Advisory Council of The Biomimicry Institute, Board Member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), on the editorial board of the Journal of Bionic Engineering, and anExpert with Katerva.
We discuss:
🥥 Emergent abundance as means of cultivating ego-less, curious, and thriving relationships, thinking, and feeling;
🥥 How we can learn as Nature, not always from or about Nature, which is a shift in how we respond to the world (away from problem-solution mindsets)
🥥 How imagining and describing the world we want to create opens up new possibilities for non-linear thinking and ways of becoming.
Check out our website: www.coconut-thinking.com
Enlightened Leadership, with Ryan Branch
guest: Denise DeLuca [50 min]
Join me for a very powerful conversation with Denise DeLuca. Denise is the Sustainable Design programme director at the College of Arts and Design in Minneapolis. And she's also the author of the wonderful book realigning with nature.
On this episode you will discover:
- How, looking through the lens of, and realigning with nature is the most effective way to find solutions in life and In business.
- How to connect with the fundamental truth that we are a part of, not a part from nature
- How biomimicry works and what its key roles and functions are in supporting life and leadership
- How Denise found herself involved in the field of Impact driven leadership, and her journey from engineer to nature loving scientist, to impact leader.
- Some powerful tools you can use right away to start finding solutions to key problems in your life or business.
LIKOLAB Life-Centered Podcast
Episode 3: Denise DeLuca [66 min]
Welcome to Life-Centered, a podcast about how looking to the natural world is impacting technology, society, and how we live our lives.
In this episode Amelia Tracy and I had a chance to catch up with Denise DeLuca. Denise has been an inspiration and instructor to many over the years as both a faculty member at Minneapolis College of Art and Design as well as co-founder of several organizations including Biomimicry for Creative Innovation. Today we learned more about her journey with biomimicry, her thoughts on biomimicry as a tool for social innovation, and the tools she has developed over the years that she has seen make a big impact.
This episode dives into fascinating details of biomimicry and challenges in the field. If you love the 'how to' of biomimicry this is the episode for you.
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