Experimenting with an ecology of curious practices as regenerative, relational inquiry.

Futures Forum – 30th July 2025 – with Bronwyn Sutton.

In this Futures Forum, Bronwyn Sutton shared the ecology of “curious practices” that supported her to enact a complex and deeply transformative, practice-led and arts-based PhD research project. She described the progression from ‘accidentally theorising’ a creative practice as multispecies collaborative inquiry to critical embodied relational work as a located, regenerative approach to leadership development through multiple waves of emergent, collaborative inquiry. She spoke about how these “constant companions” supported a shift beyond reflective and reflexive practice and inquiry in autoethnographic research and explained how they became crucial in her articulation of the type of leadership the planet needs, including supporting a shift towards living, learning, and leadership for planetary wellbeing.

Bronwyn Sutton

Bronwyn is a storyteller, artist, researcher, and educator with extensive experience in designing and delivering programs to engage communities in change through education, engagement, and communication. She has led the co-design of award-winning initiatives that inspire community and cultural change by connecting deeply through story across the breadth of formal, informal, non-formal and community spaces of learning. Bron advocates for located, regenerative, and relational approaches to research, education, and leadership and those that value and celebrate embodied ways of being, knowing, and relating. For the past few years, she has been drawing on her professional experience to reimagine sustainability leadership through her recently completed PhD research at Deakin University. She is fascinated by learning that takes us places we might not otherwise venture by ourselves, and by the affective dimensions of experience that move us in ways that are magical and surprising.

Watch the recording here:

CRF – Futures Forum – Bronwyn Sutton – July 2025