Join the ring
A community-driven masterclass series
An 8 week series for individuals who are ready to expand.
Consider this a crash course in regenerative design strategy that will prepare you to thrive in the world to come.
By the end of the masterclass series each person will grow and a launch a new Earth-healing offering into the world.
This class takes the magic from the one-on-one mentoring program, adds invaluable community, and makes working with me more affordable for more people (the 2-month program costs half of the monthly cost of the mentoring program!).
Like a ring around a tree, you will go through an entire growth cycle and expand your offerings to the world.
I’ll teach you how to work with the ancient medicine wheel as a guide for the creative process. This is the method that I have adopted and built upon for my own creative process.
You will learn the most important things many entrepreneurs overlook as you birth your soul work into the world.
weekly gatherings
Council-style calls are both experiential and chockfull of information. The gatherings move as a journey that we are all on together.
individualized work
You will receive practices to do in Nature between each call as well as homework for each direction of the medicine wheel process.
community support
A tight-knit group to hold you accountable, learn with, and grow with. Meet your new best friends who have the same visions you do!
Maybe you’re wondering what this has to do with forest bathing? Here’s the thing: I’m a design strategist by training and trade. When I launched the Forest Bathing Club, it was a response to the digital and disconnected (from Nature, very connected to technology) culture I experienced in San Francisco.
Over the years, I’ve realized that the skills I’ve honed as a design strategist are the exact skills we need right now to begin to create the world we do wish to see. When you connect to Nature, you begin to realize your True Nature. My biggest desire is to help visionaries like you (yes you!!) birth their work into the world. And when we go to Nature, we start to get that vision for what is ours to do.
So much of what I see in the business world is old paradigm systems that just create the same old business-as-usual b.s. again and again. It’s time to break those patterns. It’s time to create in a better way — by attuning to the Earth and creating in harmony with the Planet.
So now you might be asking, “What does an ‘Earth-healing offering’ mean?” I believe that when we tap into the work we’re really meant to do here on the Planet, it’s inherently good for the Earth too. We’re all here to be a force of healing. So often it’s the people who have the strongest medicine to offer who feel the most blocked. That’s because the current systems don’t support this new (aligned) way of being in the world.
But wait — who is this even for?! It’s for you. Whether you’re already working on a project or business or if it’s but a twinkle in your eye. If you feel like you have more to offer than you’re currently offering, this is for you. It’s for the dreamers, the creators, and the people who imagine a better world — a world that is more sacred, more beautiful, and more just. Whether you’re a healer, an activist, a designer, a forest therapy guide, or currently imagining your next iteration — you will learn how to be more YOU and do what you really love to do.
Here’s how it works:
We meet for one hour each week at 5:30 pm PST on Tuesdays from October 13 to December 1
week 1: Orient
Intention setting, introduction to council, overview of process, and a few big takeaways
week 2: Sprout
Define your vision, mission, and purpose. Attune to the land. Get clear on your values and tone of voice.
week 3: Define
Vision what success looks like to you. Map out your audience and your positioning.
week 4: Embody **
Hone in on what you want to create. Storyboard, dive into look + feel, and imagine the whole experience.
week 5: Prototype
Test your offering out to get feedback, build community, and refine. Research with real people and consult the more-than-human world.
week 6: Offer
Launch your offering into the world. Celebrate!
week 7: Release **
Evaluate, get feedback and insights
week 8: Reset
Rest, reconsider, and reconnect. Prepare for the next cycle.
* * one-on-one peer mentoring session
Space is limited to 20 participants
And here’s what this series includes
Six hour-long community calls with Julia
Three videos with regenerative design experts
Two 1-on-1 work sessions with another Ring member
Design strategy frameworks + best practices
Access to Tree Ring Facebook group
Investment $340
Guest Experts
photo by: Thais Aquino
Ganga Devi Braun
Ganga Devi Braun is a Regenerative Counselor, an Ecological Astrologer, and an Interspiritual Minister who helps people remember why they're here. Driven by an inborn knowing that this world is capable of healing, she weaves archetypal stories, frameworks for restructuring language and thoughts, ancient wisdom traditions, art, poetry, and a lot of compost metaphors into her work in order to bring forward the innate sacred, world-healing nature of every person and project she works with.
Gabrielle Santa Donato
What do you want to be when you grow up? We might get older, but this question certainly doesn’t. And that's just the type of question that drives Gabrielle Santa-Donato in her many applications of design thinking at Stanford's Life Design Lab. As the Life Design Studio Lead, Gabrielle catalyzed and leads the movement to bring life design courses and programs to universities across the world. Her goal? To help people discover their unique learning potential and navigate their way forward. In her spare time, Gabrielle likes biking everywhere, jumping in cold water, hip hop dancing, and writing poetry.
Lauren Magrisso
Lauren Magrisso is a Principal at Jump Associates. She leads the company’s practice areas of Circular Economy and Transformative Innovation. From scaling Customer Centricity to 200,000 employees, to designing confectionary offerings that eliminate packaging, creating climate-beneficial product strategies, and imagining the future of retail, Lauren’s work focuses on helping clients address the world’s most critical challenges through empathy, collaboration and creativity.
While at the University of Cincinnati, Lauren created her own degree in Design Strategy. She holds a Next Economy MBA specializing in B-Corp and regenerative business models from LIFT Economy. Lauren lives in community on an urban farm in Oakland, CA. When not consulting, she can be found milking her goats or teaching yoga.