Living the Dream! Bopa DiPeo Launch Convening

This September, the giraffes greeted us along the winding road to Sawyer Acacia Lodge, just outside Nairobi. Stepping away from the busyness of everyday life, we came together in open space to cultivate the culture of our fellowship—rooted in care, curiosity, generosity, and play. Surrounded by acacia trees, monkeys, and hyrax, the inaugural cohort of the Bopa DiPeo Fellowship explored relational ways of working across multiple scales: self, sibling, and system (inner, interpersonal, collective).

Under the theme Nurturing Vitality, Heart Coherence offered a doorway to center ourselves. Through improv games, storytelling, and mapping our networks as living systems, we deepened connections to each other and our work. Immersive sessions on Systemcraft, Narrative Change, and Consent-Based Decision Making provided new tools for navigating the complex tensions of multi-stakeholder collaborations. Together, we’re growing our collective capacity to trust, embrace emergence, follow aliveness, and shape the seeds of change.

Circle Generation and Fellows host monthly free PoP Up Talk Shops (Open sessions for practitioners to discuss Problems of Practice) — Join us to continue the conversation. If you’re interested in becoming a Fellow or supporting Bopa DiPeo, let’s connect. Stay tuned as the journey unfolds!