WAVES is a 2.5-day gathering of first movers beyond political and sectoral divides. We gather from all over the world to wrestle with the complexities of shifting societal systems through shared inquiry and practical action.
📍 Location: Hanasaari, Helsinki, Finland
🗓 Dates: September 11-13, 2025
The ground is shifting
We are living through a civilization-scale transition. The systems we rely on are failing. The future is being shaped right now—not by legacy institutions, but by those willing to move differently.
Our current responses accelerate us towards either ecological collapse or a techno-fascist dystopia.
At WAVES, we ask: Is there another way?
🌊 Waves 25 Program 🌊
Day 1 | Thursday, September 11th
Unlearning — A day to engage with the most consequential questions, challenge assumptions, and expand our capacity to deal with complexity.
Day 2 | Friday, September 12th
Working Together — Spaces to explore new ways of collaborating and shifting systems—empowering and resourcing emerging possibilities.
Day 3 | Saturday, September 13th
Finding New Ways — Integrating all the new learnings and meanings and converging towards new responses and explorations.
🌍 Confirmed speakers:
Vanessa Andreotti (CAN/BRA)
Cultural theorist, educator, and social activist reimagining relational ways of learning and at the edges of modernity.
Nora Bateson (US/SWE)
A transcontextual thinker and creator of Warm Data Labs, inviting us to sense the complexity of life through questions that are alive.
Dave Snowden (UK)
Creator of the Cynefin Framework, Sensemaker, and Estuarine Mapping. A leading voice in applied complexity science, inviting us to navigate uncertainty without defaulting to false simplifications.
Samantha Sweetwater (US)
Gaian futurist, thought leader, educator, and leadership coach.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective
An art and research collective experimenting with art, pedagogy, and relational practices to hospice what needs to die in the old system and imagine decolonial futures. They will facilitate collective transformation processes at WAVES 25.
…and more, soon to be revealed.
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