Are you a narrative practitioner, artist, academic, journalist, storyteller, or activist working at the intersection of reimagining cultural narratives and systems change? Do you believe in the power of narratives to challenge dominant paradigms and co-create regenerative futures?
The Rhizome Fellowship 2025 is a program offered by Culture Hack Labs. Twenty organizations and forty fellows have been admitted to this year’s cohort.
The Rhizome Fellowship is designed to equip you with tools and accompany you through a process of narrative-led systems change. Rooted in the Culture Hack Method, this fellowship provides a structured yet experimental space to develop and prototype narrative interventions that disrupt extractive models and seed regenerative futures.
This gathering is held for the 2025 cohort of the Rhizome Fellowship.
Pathways To Regenerative Futures
This year’s fellowship is centered around Pathways to Regenerative Futures. These pathways emerged from a narrative research series Beyond the Carbon Fixation: Pathways to Regenerative Futures that set out to find pathways to liberate land, waters, ecosystems, and communities from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism.
Through this research we found that beyond the carbon-centered approaches to the climate crisis limited by reductionist metrics and market-driven solutions are alternate pathways already embodied by living examples. These pathways, when interwoven, can serve as a navigational tool for systems change.
The Pathways to Regenerative Futures are:
Restoring Justice, Restoring Life – This pathway emphasizes the inseparable connection between ecological restoration and social justice. Addressing colonial and capitalist exploitation is necessary for healing ecosystems.
Economies of Regeneration – Moving away from extractive economies toward regenerative, circular models that prioritize community resilience and ecological wellbeing.
Land Back to Right Relationship – Advocating for collective ownership models, like Community Land Trusts, to return land to the stewardship of communities rather than corporations.
Bioregional Community Governance – Promoting decentralized, participatory governance structures that empower communities to manage their resources and environments in ways that align with ecological limits.
Healing the Spirit, Healing the Earth – Reconnecting with spiritual and cultural practices that honor the Earth and challenge the disconnection and alienation that drives exploitation.
Fellowship
The Rhizome Fellowship is an annual program that admits 20 organizations and this gathering brings together those fellows.
For those who are interested in learning more, Culture Hack Labs offers a self-paced track to learn the methodology for narrative-led systems change through:
Access to the Self-Study Curriculum
Each month we’ll share the theme and content of the Rhizome learning arc, allowing you to explore the same module as the fellows.
Open Monthly Drop-In Space
Once a month, we’ll host an open Zoom room where one of the Rhizome team will be present to offer support, reflections, or answer any questions you have about the learning materials or your own process.
To Learn more you can view these webinars and sign up to the CHL newsletter
Open Session 01: Narratives for Systems Change
Open Session 02: Pathways for Regenerative Futures
ABOUT : CULTURE HACK LABS
Culture Hack Labs (CHL) is a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. Our mission is to change the cultural narratives
that create and justify ecological breakdown, extraction, and structural inequality.
Our process is based on an integrated set of tools and techniques to track, research and intervene in cultural narratives. We capture and map large volumes of social data using the Culture Hack Platform. We then analyze the networks, language, and deep logics to develop insights and content to evolve culture.