Everything is changing fast and old life-ways are becoming maladaptive. In 2026 Oika's Beautiful Future's Lab is launching two new ways to participate in a better tomorrow:
- BFL Summer Groundswell provides adventurous, career-minded young adults (aged 17-22) mentored immersion in place-based self-discovery. Before a job in the machine becomes identity, spend a season with peers learning what it feels like to belong to the natural world. Online community and IRL immersion in nature's ecological intelligence serves as the foundation for building a life that doesn't require forfeiting what matters most. [Learn More →]
- BFL Professional (Re)Development Cohort is a multi-month journey for established professionals from diverse fields who sense something went underground when economic survival demanded it. The Person-Place-Practice-Prosper curriculum offers a hybrid virtual/IRL program for recovering innate ecological intelligence and emerging as Oika-certified practitioners who can then gainfully bring these capacities back into their established fields. [Learn More →]
The Beautiful Futures Lab draws on thirty years of research by Dr. Rich Blundell across Earth's natural places asking one question: what happens when people remember they belong somewhere? The answer matters now more than ever because the capacities we most need can't be replaced by machines or bought at any price. This is preparation for what's coming next through homecoming. Develop and recover what grounds you in the living systems that made us all human.