Visual & Written Storytelling for Regenerative Projects
We help you & the place you serve tell its unique story & attract the right people & resources.
Around the world, there are courageous folk with green hearts and lush visions. They devote themselves to regenerating our imaginations and the land. They know that every place has a unique story, always evolving and aeons in the making, through the meeting of mountains, rivers, trees, weather patterns, myths, and the people who keep them alive.
We help unearth the visible and invisible layers that give your project — and the place it serves — their gravitational pull. We travel to the source of your purpose and work and translate them into multimedia stories, combining film, analog photography, writing, and collage.
Have you noticed how every place speaks a particular language?
This is the spirit of place. You can feel it in your body and smell it after Summer’s rain. You can trace it by its rivers and glimpse it in the angle the trees bend. You can hear it uttered in the dialects and see it woven throughout the crafts of its people. It’s a feeling you can’t always name but keep coming back for. It’s what our ancestors called Genius Loci.
Most stories told about regenerative projects impose detached, outdated visions, rather than expressing what’s unique & alive to them.
Modernity has uprooted communities and land-based traditions. Our landscapes are paved over in sameness. We’ve erected vast monocultures, and even the most sustainable tourist destinations feel disconnected from local communities and ecosystems.
The same is true of how mainstream agencies approach storytelling. The place's potential is lost; the complexity is oversimplified; and the story is cold, salesy, and out of tune.
Regenerative practitioners aim to enliven the unique qualities of a place and manifest its inherent potential.
Good storytelling further amplifies that unique potential. It seeds a connection between the place, the people tending land and culture, and those receiving the story. It helps you attract the right people — with aligned intentions and the skills and resources you need.
Why work with us.
We
listen to what’s unique & alive about your project
study living systems & have expertise in regenerative development
are at home in the arts and business
photograph, film, & animate with life, texture, and body — no AI slop or cringe stock photos
work effectively: in collaboration & independently
So that you can
trust that we understand your vision & purpose
know that we speak the same language
enjoy beautiful results without paying a fortune
lead with authenticity, truth, and beauty
focus your time & attention on what you’re uniquely good at
Attract the right people & resources
FEATURED PUBLICATIONRewilding Scotland’s Wet Desert
We spent a week in Glen Affric, fetching water, planting native saplings, and learning to read a recovering landscape. In this story for Meander Magazine, we learn firsthand from one of Scotland’s rewilding pioneers and explore what it means to tend something that will outlive us.
Who is this for?Changemakers & organizations rooted in place.
Land & regenerative projects
Farms, rewilding or ecological restoration initiatives whose stories are bound to the land they tend.
Place-based organizations
Ecoretreats or wilderness school? Your work couldn’t exist without the land and the communities it’s grounded in. You seek to generate resilience, wealth, and vitality that are shared by all.
Community & conservation initiatives
Your work depends on people understanding what's really at stake and why. You want to uplift maker communities, reanimate local myth and folklore, and protect biodiversity.
Regional cultural & economic initiatives
Places around the world are in economic and cultural transition. They are reimagining the potential of their region: think ski resorts with warmer winters and less snow, embracing regenerative tourism alternatives.
HOW WE WORKOur Journey Together.
Listen
needs,vision, & budget We talk about what you need, who your project serves, and what we can achieve together within your budget.
Gather
Source from Place Every story we tell begins with studying the place itself — its ecology, history, and the essential qualities that make it magnetic.
Harvest
Stories, Film, Images We harvest what we've heard and seen into a story paired with experiential photography and film.
Tell
The Living Story A rich, image-led narrative that attracts the right people, and nourishes the project, place, and community in turn.
The outcomeA story that lives & keeps evolving.
What you get isn't a finished brochure. It's a living, image-rich story with depth and nuance. Our unique approach blends history, geology, folklore & mythology to create a 360° deep dive into your project, the wider landscape, and the human and more-than-human communities around it.
The outcome is a story that attracts the clients and partners you actually want, without extracting from the land or community that shaped it.
Additionally, we offer:
web design · branding foundations · communications support·Our team
Complementary in skill, yet guided by the same love for our Earth.
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Niels is the co-founder of Sympoiesis and Communications Lead. He works as a freelance communications strategist, graphic designer, writer, and imagination facilitator. Niels taught himself urban and fine art landscape photography and has since won numerous awards in prestigious competitions, including bronze in The Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3).
In his art and commercial work, Niels experiments with both analog and digital collage techniques and explores diverse themes, including mythology, aliveness, and human and more-than-human co-habitation.
He holds a BSc in International Entrepreneurship from the Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences, Belgium, and completed courses in Regenerative Development (Regenesis Institute) Prosocial (Prosocial World), Investing in Systems Change (Forum for the Future), Design Thinking (University of Virginia), Human-Earth Connection SRI (Mind and Life Institute), Kinship and An Ecology of Love with Dr. Andreas Weber (Advaya), Flourish! Climate Learning Journey (One Resilient Earth), Core Principles of Graphic Design (MICA).
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Ruta is a co-founder of Sympoiesis and Regenerative Research Lead.
She is a freelance writer, facilitator, and multi-disciplinary artist, based in Berlin.
She holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Stirling and has trained with the leading trauma healing experts in Costa Rica. She has facilitated trauma-informed workshops in the US, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany. She has extensive experience working with Holochain, AI, and humane technology startups.
Ruta explores regenerative design practices and works with systems change facilitation through the lens of more-than-human perspectives.
Ruta researches and designs alongside mycelium as a co-creative agent for regenerative futures.
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Adrian is a filmmaker and writer drawn to peripheral places and the people who inhabit them.
His poetic and observational approach to nonfiction is concerned less with explanation than with the sensory, emotional and symbolic dimensions of lived experience.
His current project is Grischun, a five-film project set in the Romansh-speaking valleys of the Swiss Alps. In 2025 he co-founded Otherlands, a Swiss non-profit built on the belief that peripheral places deserve sustained attention.
Work with us.
We’re your partner in storytelling. Contact us using the form below — no strings attached. Our team will get back to you within 24 hours.