Nature Onboarding Humans. Mission: Ecosystemic Regeneration

Many entrepreneurs on Texel want to onboard nature into their business. While a legal toolkit is available (“Onboarding Nature”), they still struggle to bring in the perspective of nature and future generations into their activities in a meaningful way. Representing this shared need, the National Park Duinen van Texel initiated a quest:

How can local businesses (including the National Park’s Gastheren) on Texel
effectively onboard Nature and Future Generations
into their companies in order to secure thriving ecosystem?

Realizing that a growing number of businesses are ready to consider an eco-centric perspective on how they run their operations, they feel unequipped to make the change. Therefore drawing on the “Onboarding Nature” toolkit (www.onboardingnature.com), the research team seek to tackle the question:

How can we establish new methodologies for mindset shifts
that help local businesses on Texel
move from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric perspective
that fosters ecosystemic regeneration
for Future Generations of all Life?

Through participatory, art and design-based research methodologies the project explores how entrepreneurs incorporate nature’s voice into both their strategic planning and daily operations. The expected result is a guidebook with practices and materials that support reframing towards an ecocentric perspective when Onboarding Nature. Results will complement the existing “Onboarding Nature” toolkit.

By the end of the project, Texel’s entrepreneurs will co-develop the tools and gained experiences to become guardians of a thriving ecosystem, including (future) humans. This initiative will serve as a scalable model for other National Parks, empowering them to adopt a similar transformative approach.

Partners:
• Center of Expertise Wellbeing Economy and New Entrepreneurship Avans University of Applied Sciences
• Center of Expertise Digital Operations & Finance The Hague University of Applied Sciences
• De Organisatie Activist,
• National Park Duinen van Texel
• World Ethic Forum,
• Nyenrode Business University
• Nature