Speaking + Inspiration

Let’s get fungal! We host talks, workshops and immersions, inspiring regenerative futures by thinking more like fungi.

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Our latest keynote talk, Fungi as your Futurist: How to think like fungi, shares nature’s intelligence for transforming how we think, work and design for regenerative futures.

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Fungi as your Futurist

Discover how fungi, one of nature’s oldest and most successful organisms, offers radical intelligence for transforming how we think, work and design futures. Through a "Rot + Regeneration" framework, Sporesight founder Jess Jorgensen takes us on an exploration into four fungal principles, designed to help us think more like fungi. Together, we learn how to decay and compost what no longer serves, and how to create long-term conditions for regenerative thriving. In Fungi as Your Futurist, we will visit the world of fungi and leave with concrete practices for new ways of thinking, with nature’s intelligence as a partner.

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by Jess Jorgensen

Jess Jorgensen is the Founder of Sporesight, a regenerative design consultancy and Social Enterprise. A foresight strategist with 20 years leading global insight programmes, she now advises commercial decision-makers on regenerative futures by tuning into nature's intelligence. Her ongoing world research tour explores how soil, fungi, and humans shape our futures. She speaks internationally on "Rot + Regeneration" and serves as Board Vice Chair for refugee-led nonprofit HODARI Foundation.

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  • Member of audience at EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk

    “Brilliant talk. Accessible and so interesting.”

  • Member of audience at EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk

    “This was one of the most beautiful talks. So much to reflect on and learn from nature.”

  • Member of audience at EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk

    “I’m looking forward to the weekend so that I can rot, compost and regenerate something (or myself?!) Thanks for this great talk.”

Book a Rot + Regeneration session

2 hr Working session with your company or team. First, we introduce regenerative design thinking. Then, we imagine how fungi principles can impact your world. We leave you with actionable next steps to decompose what's keeping you stuck and concrete tools to regenerate.

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The best way to embody Rot + Regeneration is to spend a day with us in the field

Book a Field Trip with us: a day outdoors in nature, meeting mushrooms in the woods and experts in the field. Your in-person immersion into regenerative nature-centric thinking, with a deep workshop to integrate fungi principles in your world. Available in UK and EU. Coming soon to South Africa, East Africa and more.

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  • Mushroom art and embroidery
  • Jess Jorgensen sits, smiling during a Field Trip in England's Epping Forest, on a fallen tree stump in the forest. It's a sunny day. She's holding a good stick.
  • Tasting samples of jelly ear mushroom infused Amaretto
  • Reishi on display; alchemistic fungi tinctures
  • Mushroom goodies displayed on a table - books, cards, treats, totes
  • Inspecting mycelium through a magnifying glass, in the bark of forest mulch.
  • Group of people with baskets on a mushroom forage
  • Mycopunks mycelial lettering display with reishi looking fab
  • Selection of foraged mushrooms, foraging basket, identification books and guides
  • Afrifungi in South Africa shows us their mycelium grown plant pots.
  • Close up of a hand meeting some bright orange coral fungus on a mossy forest floor.
  • At Stellenbosch University's Department of Microbiology, student Breyten van der Merwe shows us the fungi exhibit
  • Cullen Taylor Clark of Aether Apothecary shows us his research on South African traditional and ancient use of mushrooms as medicine
  • Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe overlooks his permaculture farm in Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Uganda
  • Landscape of a rural countryside hill in Uganda, dotted with small cottages, agricultural plots and trees. The hill is green and lush. Above is clear blue sky with a central white cloud.
  • Oyster, Lions Mane and Turkey Tail grain spawn inoculated in rows of jars and bags along shelves. Grown in Nairobi, Kenya, by Mushrooms Kenya.
  • Foraging and finding mushroom treasures in the forest

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