Communities of Practice
What is a community of practice?
You don’t need to have all the answers.
You need a space to learn how to think, dialogue, and act together.
Communities of practice are sustained, local spaces where a group of people meet weekly over time to develop their capacity to observe, reflect, and transform how they think, relate, and act.
Over time, they activate the ability to imagine, collaborate, and participate coherently in transforming their territories.
They are not isolated workshops.
They are a living practice.
Who is this for?
For people who feel something needs to change,
but don’t know where to start.
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Neighbors who want to get involved in their community
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Leaders who sense the complexity of the moment
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People seeking more conscious ways to participate
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Social organizations aiming to strengthen their impact
You don’t need prior experience.
Just a willingness to engage.
How is a community of practice formed?
A community begins with a small, committed group.
Minimum: 5 people
Ideal: 6 to 12 people
This size enables something essential:
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Real listening
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Trust
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Cohesion
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Vulnerability
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Depth in conversations
When the group grows too large,
these qualities fade.
What's needed to begin?
More than experience, you need willingness.
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A group of people with genuine interest
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Commitment to dedicate ~3 hours per week
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Openness to question how you think and relate
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Willingness to practice together — not just learn
It’s not about having answers.
It’s about being available to explore.
How does the process begin?
The first communities are activated through an in-person gathering.
A 3- to 4-day retreat in the local area
where the group seeks to emerge.
This space enables:
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Building trust
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Aligning intention
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Starting relational practice
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Establishing a shared foundation
From there, the community continues its process regularly.
How does it work?
The practice is simple, but deep.
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Weekly meetings (~3 hours)
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Spaces for dialogue, reflection, and practice
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Exploration of real-life experiences (not theory)
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Integration into daily life
It uses a semi-structured framework based on the Toolkit: Journey from Ego to Eco.
It’s not theory.
It’s about observing what happens within us, in our territory, in daily life, and learning to relate in new ways.
Can this scale?
Yes, but not as a centralized structure.
Over time, within each community,
new facilitators can emerge.
People who:
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Have practiced
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Have integrated the experience
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Have deepened their presence
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Have expanded their perception and perspectives
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Have allowed other perspectives to exist
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Have learned to inhabit complexity and uncertainty
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Can now support others
This allows new communities to arise,
while preserving the depth of the work.
A network of interconnected communities
Islands of Coherence
The goal isn’t just to create isolated groups,
but to build a living network.
Communities that:
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Share learnings
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Document their practices
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Exchange experiences
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Support each other remotely
Using platforms like Hylo, we can weave a glocal network:
globally connected,
locally rooted.
Intention of the process
This work aims to strengthen key human and collective capacities:
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Imagining shared futures
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Sustaining conversations across differences
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Coordinating action at the local level
With the intention to:
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Increase meaningful civic participation
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Rebuild trust in collective action
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Strengthen territorial cooperation
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Develop regenerative practices in communities
Ongoing Projects
General Objective
Recover individual and collective capacities of imagination, generative dialogue, and coordinated collaboration to increase meaningful civic participation. As well as strengthen the sociocultural infrastructure for territorial cooperation in the Xalapa-Coatepec-Xico-Teocelo Bioregion. Rebuild trust in public processes and develop regenerative cultural practices that enable effective collective action in response to ecological and social challenges, participatory governance, and territorial sustainability.
This objective aims to serve as a prototype for creating “Islands of Coherence” that can be replicated in other bioregions of Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as in organizations, institutions, and private and governmental enterprises.
The project is based on the premise that transitions toward sustainable futures depend not only on technical solutions or public policies, but also on societies’ ability to imagine shared horizons, sustain constructive conversations among diverse actors and perspectives, and coordinate collective actions in their territories.
This objective recognizes that: Systemic transformation is not possible if those driving it do not recognize themselves as part of the system to be transformed. Public policies, regulatory frameworks, and funding alone do not generate social cohesion or collective agency. Modern culture —characterized by digital hyperconnectivity, attention crisis, induced polarization, and epidemic loneliness— has eroded the foundations upon which any lasting change must be built. Bioregions are the privileged scales for rehabilitating these capacities, as it is at the local level that relationships are woven, narratives are embodied, and collective action becomes tangible.
Specific Objectives
Specific Objective 1
By the end of Year 1 (2027), establish and consolidate at least 6 Communities of Practice (CoPs) in Xalapa, Coatepec, Xico, and Teocelo, where at least 60 participants sustainably practice the three pillars of the Human Tripod (collective imagination, generative dialogue, and structured collaboration), measured by monthly attendance and continued participation.
Specific Objective 2
Before the end of Year 2 (2028), collectively update, validate, and systematize the “Tool Backpack” as an operational instrument of the Human Tripod Pedagogy, ensuring its applicability in at least three distinct community contexts.
Specific Objective 3
By mid-Year 3 (2029), co-create and activate a physical sociocultural infrastructure space in the Xalapa–Coatepec–Xico–Teocelo bioregion that functions as a hub for human reconnection, collective learning, community library, and cultural experimentation space for transitioning toward regenerative futures.