‘What you seek is seeking you’
Rumi
Our purpose is to support the exploration of what more harmonious, inclusive and nurturing ways of living, working and organising could be like, primarily through the vehicle of business, and its important role in this transformation.
Our Theory of Change, diagrammatically
We are at a momentous time in history. Many of us are witnessing and experiencing the outcomes from our historical choices and re-thinking the future of business, trying to design for something more fulfilling, enduring, and regenerative.
For us, this starts with recognising that personal, organisational, and systemic change are not separate, but nested, deeply interconnected, and mutually reinforcing.
When we view our world through this systems lens, it becomes clear that our capacity to shape the future differently starts with our own openness to evolve beyond the status quo.
We hold a number of hypotheses for living and working more regeneratively that guide the work we do and the spaces we hold - see these below and more in our partial Theory of Change here.
Our hypotheses
Based on our systems dimensions, we work with these hypotheses, to discover the ways forward:
Self: If we recognise ourselves as nature (or as a living system within living systems), and begin to care for ourselves in alignment with this, then this could lead to profound shifts in our sense of self, wellbeing, connection, purpose, creativity, and how, and what, we seek to contribute to the world (our actualisation).
Business: If business recognises its stakeholder interdependence (that is, its relational and reciprocal role), and in that, nature (or living systems) as a stakeholder too, and structures its operations as such, it could deliver superior contributions to what solving for short-term shareholder-only value does (its true potential actualisation, beyond profit).
Society: If we recognise our independence and our interdependence, and return to a more community-connected way of living, rather than isolating ourselves in nuclear singles and families, it could be transformational for our overall wellbeing, and the wellbeing of our societies (transformational for our actualisation as individuals, families, and in community).
Nature: If we recognise nature or living systems as the basis of all on earth, learn their ways as our guide, and respect these systems as we would ourselves in all we do, it could profoundly change how we do everything, and ensure we have a beautiful, healthy planet to live on for seven generations, and more, to come.
Throughout these, there are many mulit-layered assumptions, things that have already been proven, plus a re-defining of key terms - all of which will be explored, and invalidated and validated, over time.
Care for yourself as a living system
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Our values are intrinsic to how we operate.
We aspire to be and do with:
Integrity: our moral and ethical guiding principles that enable us to strive to be true to the highest standards, with self-awareness and consideration for others.
Respect: we respect one another, our stakeholders in business and in life, our community, the country we live on, the original custodians of our country, the laws that govern where we live, the laws of other jurisdictions, and our global community.
Growth mindset & expansion: we can’t make things better by doing the same things we have always done. We embody a growth mindset, are committed to continually learning, growing and evolving, and to supporting others to do the same on their own unique path.
Living Systems alignment: we acknowledge we are living systems, as are our businesses, and as are all natural living systems on earth. We recognise our independence, interdependence and interconnectedness, and aspire to engage with those without a voice as if they had as much agency as others. We aspire to live and work regeneratively, and as true custodians of the earth.
Transparency: we are transparent in how we operate and work together. We acknowledge transparency’s important role in how we do business.
Collaboration: we aim to collaborate with others towards values-aligned outcomes, for us and all.
Our Team
Ashleigh Camm, Founder, Strategist, Facilitator & Coach
Ashleigh Camm is the Founder of Future Within and the creator of our foundational philosophy and resources. Ashleigh is a Business Strategist, Facilitator, Coach and Senior Lecturer based on Bunurong land, in Naarm, or Melbourne, Australia.
For the last 20 years, Ashleigh has supported CEOs, founders, leadership teams, boards, and investors in roles that span Corporate Finance at Macquarie, Strategy and Finance at Westpac, and working with category-leading CEOs, in Australia and the UK, to name a few.
Throughout her career across corporates, startups and scaling landscapes, Ashleigh has visioned, shaped and executed material organisational strategies that have driven real value and impact for stakeholders.
Most recently, Ashleigh worked as a consultant in the innovation ecosystem and designed, developed and facilitated the Australian-first ‘Startup Board Course’ for founders and ecosystem professionals. The Course was designed to support founders with the need-to-knows of the board, as well as the keys to successful management team, board and investor relationships, to amplify their performance and the trajectory of their venture.
Prior to this, Ashleigh was an Expert in Residence in Byron Bay, NSW, where she facilitated Startup Northern Rivers and a purpose-driven Pre-Accelerator Program. She also served as the founding Executive Director of The Community Well, an innovative lending initiative incubated by Small Giants Academy, to support local businesses contributing to resilience and regeneration.
In addition to being an experienced strategist, consultant and operator, Ashleigh is also a highly engaging and skilled facilitator of offsites, programs, workshops, and retreats for a range of audiences, including corporates, growing companies, founders, and changemakers.
And, while Ashleigh works with exemplary ease across mainstream systems and their norms, her approach is also shaped by being a forever-student of human dynamics and potential, and shamanic and nature-based practices. Respectfully drawing on these intelligences, Ashleigh brings an expansive and integrative approach to her work, facilitation and coaching, blending strategy, commercial insight, innovation principles, nature-based wisdom, energy work, and her lived leadership experience, to meet the moment.
Her spaces help individuals and teams to reconnect with what matters, and live and lead from a more aligned place.
Explore the potential to work 1:1 with Ashleigh or for Ashleigh to facilitate or MC your next offsite, workshop or program below. Find Ashleigh on LinkedIn here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Belle Budden
Belle Budden is a Wakka Wakka woman living and working off country in Bundjalung Country. Belle’s extensive career and work focusses on engaging Aboriginal communities to access processes in the arts, community and government to increase autonomy and positive outcomes for Aboriginal people.
Working with visual arts mediums including paint, printmaking, ceramics, multimedia and dance, Belle is a teacher, choreographer and dancer of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal dance. Belle’s work expresses and maintains her cultural identity and reflects issues of contemporary Aboriginal culture and politics.
Bharat Mitra
Bharat Mitra is a visionary heart-centered entrepreneur, whose work manifests in many forms, including business, philanthropy, community co-creation and loving seva. In 1990 Divine Grace brought him to the feet of his master, Sri H.W.L. Poonja, Papaji, whom he has been inspired by and devoted to ever since.
He is the Founder of ORGANIC INDIA, a regenerative and wholly ethical company that, from its beginnings, has been guided by its vision to be a Vehicle of Consciousness in the corporate world. ORGANIC INDIA is now a thriving profitable business that works with thousands of small farmers across India, nourishing land, communities and livelihoods, producing a diverse range of organic Tulsi teas and wellness products retailed in over 30 countries.
Alexis Zahner, Human Leaders
It's through Alexis’ experience of management - the good the bad and the ugly - that her passion to bring a more conscious, mindful, and human-centric approach to leadership was born.
Alexis’ experience spans local government, marketing, media consultancy right through to Management at global brand Patagonia, working and living in multiple countries around the world.
Through her privilege of travelling to over 40 countries around the world, her professional experiences and hobbies, Alexis has learnt her core values are adventure, continuous learning, collaboration, truth seeking, being of service and gratitude. She’s a keen surfer and snowboarder who spends most of her spare time outdoors, connecting to nature and human beings.
Sally Clarke, Human Leaders
After burning out as a corporate finance lawyer, Sally ran a successful copywriting and translation businesses and led yoga, meditation and personal growth retreats around the world, living on 4 continents.
Today, as a Human Leader and a Researcher, Sally’s mission is to make work a space where we can evolve and thrive, and embed wellbeing at work so burnout becomes a redundant term.
Sally’s personal values are authenticity, growth, connection, joy and adventure. Australian-born, I live in Amsterdam, speak 8 languages and travel extensively. Sally gets her energy from being in nature, conversations that stretch her brain and sharing a laugh and a Barossa shiraz with friends.
Tyneal Alexander, Ritual Consulting
Tyneal Alexander of Ritual Consulting is an industry leader and expert when it comes to branding and marketing.
Having worked in the industry for 15 years and counting, Tyneal has gained invaluable experiences working for large corporate companies, with multi-million dollar marketing budgets, to award-winning creative agencies across Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Rago Dahlsen
Rago Dahlsen, born in the Netherlands in 1958, and has lived a varied, mystical life that has included living in a kibbutz in Israel, practicing meditation in the Osho International Ashram in India, living in the Green Gulch, Allan Watts’ Zen Buddhist Centre, and Tassa-Hara Buddhist Mountain Retreat in the US, and living and working in an International Osho Commune in Zurich, before returning to the Osho Ashram and joining the Osho Mystery School in India until 1992. From there Rago found her way to Australia, before returning to the Oneness University in Chennai, India, where she was trained in energy work and transcendence.
Over the years Rago has also trained in Meditation, De-Hypnotherapy, Counselling, Divine Healing and Reiki. She has been giving private sessions, energy readings and conducting therapy groups and Retreats over the last 30 or so years before pausing her teaching 5 years ago. We are grateful that Rago returned to teaching on our Wisdom Within Retreat.
Hunna Armstrong & Katherine Bibby from TØTUM Naturopathy
TØTUM was born through the purpose of two Naturopaths, Hunna Armstrong and Katherine Bibby, with a goal to inspire change in the way individuals view their bodies and health.
Hunna and Katherine’s driving motivation is to offer services that focus on education, to provide people with foundational skills to benefit their lives long term. The core values of TØTUM are to promote awareness of holistic education and health with authenticity, integrity and transparency.
Caterina Boutagy
Caterina is a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic wellness coach, and retreat facilitator. She grew up in Byron Bay and has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager. Having taught yoga for the last 10 years, her love for the complexity, depth, and beauty of yoga has only deepened. Cat considers herself a lifelong student of this path. Drawing on her background in anthropology, her classes seek to inspire a sense of global connection and global responsibility. She encourages students to explore the ways in which they meet the world, how to regulate their nervous systems so as to meet the world more fully, and to live a full and embodied life. Totally obsessed with yoga philosophy, her classes will deeply inspire and enliven a fire within.
Shawna Fortin
Shawna Fortin spent many years in the corporate sector before awakening to her dream of working with others at heart level. She learned that there is no fulfilment without connection.
Shawna’s journey into Tai Chi and Qigong commenced as a means to bring into balance her body/mind and spirit, and she has spent the last 25 years studying intuitive development, psychology, reiki, intuitive and remote healing, alternative therapies such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture as a means to understanding how energy works and holds influence over our entire lives.
Shawna is also an avid writer, life coach and empowerment facilitator, and love loves what she does, bringing much hearty passion and friendliness to her sessions.