What if the ecosystem could speak?

Field insights from a systems sensing workshop with immigrant rights leaders.

What would it say about what’s ending—and what’s trying to grow?

In our recent Widening the Lens workshop—hosted with my friend and colleague Gloria Mayne Davó of Glou Studio—immigrant rights leaders came together to sense below the surface. What emerged wasn’t a strategy map, but a forest. Roots whispering. Soil composting. Leaves letting go.

This wasn’t a planning session. It was a practice of listening—to the land, the body, and the movement itself.

The insights that surfaced point to something larger than a single workshop: a living ecosystem in transition. Many of us are navigating endings that feel personal and structural at once, while also tending to the tender beginnings of what wants to grow next. These reflections remind us that renewal is already underway, even when the path forward isn’t yet clear.

We’ve gathered the key images, metaphors, and field-level patterns from this session into a short synthesis report—not as a conclusion, but as an invitation. Our hope is that these learnings spark resonance across movements, helping others slow down, sense their own transitions, and imagine what regeneration might look like in their context.

Read the full synthesis

Widening the Lens is part of our ongoing partnership between Point A Studio and GLOU Studio to bring the practice of systems sensing to organizations and issues shaping social change. If your organization is also in a moment of transition, this is the kind of work we do. Reach out to explore how systems sensing can support your next season.