Visionary Organizing Lab exists to teach Visionary Organizing, an approach to change that equally emphasizes our material needs and non-material needs. We believe that when we learn to equally emphasize our material and non-material needs, we begin to exist in ways that allow us to create communities, organizations, and institutions that allow us to thrive in partnership with others and the Earth.

Visionary Organizing involves experimenting to create practices and systems that equally emphasize our material needs for survival and non-material needs for things like recognition and connection. It results in communities, institutions, and organizations that exist differently than we have for the last 400 years because these practices and systems are equally committed to our material and non-material needs.

Existing differently​ means we have to unlearn patterns of thinking, doing, and being that support a world where material needs are what matters most. Visionary Organizing Lab’s programs are containers for unlearning these patterns and learning new patterns rooted in the components of Visionary Organizing.