Theme
Regenerative Transformation
We work alongside organizations, communities, and leaders through the passages of structural change — bringing rigorous presence to what conventional consulting cannot reach.
Presence · Transformation · Practice
limicelia
limen — threshold, the space of crossing
mycelia — the underground networks that connects and enables exchange between organisms
Our name is drawn from the biology of threshold crossings. The mycelium doesn't produce uncapped growth — it connects, communicates, and creates conditions for what is trying to emerge. We believe organizations face genuine thresholds, not just problems: moments when old structures dissolve before new ones have formed.
A guide that can stay present at a threshold makes the difference between productive and destructive passage. That is what we are trained to do at Limicelia.
01 / Who we work with
Nonprofits, cooperatives, foundations, social enterprises, and the networks that connect them — organizations whose purpose runs deeper than profit, and whose collective dynamics often reflect that depth in complex ways.
Organizations at any stage confronting the gap between founding vision and operational reality — birth, growth, maturity, or transformation. Founding teams, leadership transitions, mergers, mission pivots, and the passages no strategic plan fully prepares you for.
Executives, directors, and emerging leaders navigating identity transitions, role complexity, and the personal work that systemic change requires.
Organizations carrying something larger than themselves — public trust, collective narrative, societal-level function. Government agencies, anchor institutions, and the civic organizations that shape how communities understand themselves and what is possible.
02 / What we do
We work across the full arc of organizational life — in the domains where structural, relational, and cultural challenges converge. Each domain can be engaged independently or as part of a longer transformation journey arc.
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Power-aware conflict navigation. Post-rupture repair. Deep Democracy facilitation. Relational skills.
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Ecosystem mapping. Coalition building. Collective action. Movement infrastructure.
03 / How we work
The work is never a menu selection. Every engagement begins with a diagnostic conversation, then is built at the intersection of the path and the situation that actually calls for it.
04 / Lineage
Our practice is synthesized from systems thinking, sociocracy, Deep Democracy, generative somatics, complexity leadership, and organizational narrative traditions — shaped by decades of work across movements and institutions. We name our lineage because attribution matters, and because it helps you understand what we bring.
05 / Co-stewards
BK
Co-steward · Regenerative Technologist · Systems & Governance Coach
BK brings over fifteen years spanning private sector, public sector, cooperatives, and community — moving between worlds most consultants occupy only one of. His practice focuses on governance architecture, systems thinking, and the organizational conditions that allow communities to make decisions that actually hold.
He is a practitioner of Warm Data, designing and hosting spaces for community dialogue that surface the patterns and relationships that conventional data misses. Outside of client work, he is building the Present of Work — an ecosystem community and podcast exploring how modern work, workers, and workplace can become more humane and alive.
Carol Xu
Co-steward · Organizational Transformation Designer
Being a former academic researcher of management science, Carol has always been fascinated with new ways of organizing people and resources that support regenerative purposes in the world. Her personal experience with work burnout more than a decade ago turned out to be a great gift that shaped her interest in building regenerative systems that energize and nourish the people who work in them.
Carol designs and facilitates experiential "containers" that integrate contemplative, creative, and strategic elements into learning for organizational leaders, community stewards, and purpose-driven individuals. Carol holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering in the area of cross-cultural communication and management from Stanford University. Outside of work, she loves going on hikes (in-person, virtual, or metaphorical) with people from all walks of life.
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. A first conversation is free and without obligation — it's how we both find out whether this work can help you.