Coming Soon
Quiet Innovation
for a noisy world
Noticing what is real, moving and possible. Even in uncertainty, emerging patterns become visible…
Calling us toward connection, mutual tending and coherent action in the wider ecologies of people, economy and nature, where shifting relationships open space for new forms to emerge and for possibilities to become visible.
Quiet Innovation for a noisy world
Noticing what is real, moving and possible. Even in uncertainty, emerging patterns become visible…
Calling us toward connection, mutual tending and coherent action in the wider ecologies of people, economy and nature, where shifting relationships open space for new forms to emerge and for possibilities to become visible.
Who We Work Alongside
Leadership in multinationals • Cross-sector programme teams • Development agencies • Technical specialists & researchers • Government Partners • Rural SMMEs • Young people entering the job market • Women in agriculture • Creative professionals working with access & inclusion • Entrepreneurs in local economies • Master coaches supporting SMMEs • Biotrade communities • Indigenous cultural leaders • Wild harvesters • Line Management • Organisational Divisions • Organisational teams in HR, Communications and Sustainability • Associates and collaborators working on wider societal and meta-challenges •...
Who We Work Alongside
Leadership in multinationals • Cross-sector programme teams • Development agencies • Technical specialists & researchers • Government Partners • Rural SMMEs • Young people entering the job market • Women in agriculture • Creative professionals working with access & inclusion • Entrepreneurs in local economies • Master coaches supporting SMMEs • Biotrade communities • Indigenous cultural leaders • Wild harvesters • Line Management • Organisational Divisions • Organisational teams in HR, Communications and Sustainability • Associates and collaborators working on wider societal and meta-challenges •...
What We Do
For years, people have described this work as “magical”. Not because anything flashy or
extraordinary happens, but because something real comes into view—something people
often felt but couldn’t put words to.
When people slow down together, pay attention to what is actually happening, and meet
each other in real relationships, new possibilities form — often quietly, often unexpectedly.
Much of our work grew in this way. Word of mouth. Trust.
For a long time, we didn’t have a language that captured what we do.
Learning from various projects we feel ready to speak to it more openly — to name
what we do, how we work, and the kinds of shifts we support.
Here is how we are currently describing what we do, before offering more detail and examples from recent projects:
We tend to the conditions for people, organisations, and communities to notice what is real — and nurture a diverse relational environment where momentum can form.
From there, it becomes possible to make sense of what is moving and to take wise, practical steps that strengthen how people make decisions for themselves and respond to uncertainty and betterment.
Photo Credit: GIZ ABioSA, Brett Eloff
What We Do
For years, people have described this work as “magical”. Not because anything flashy or
extraordinary happens, but because something real comes into view—something people
often felt but couldn’t put words to.
When people slow down together, pay attention to what is actually happening, and meet
each other in real relationships, new possibilities form — often quietly, often unexpectedly.
Much of our work grew in this way. Word of mouth. Trust.
For a long time, we didn’t have a language that captured what we do.
Learning from various projects we feel ready to speak to it more openly — to name
what we do, how we work, and the kinds of shifts we support.
Here is how we are currently describing what we do, before offering more detail and examples from recent projects:
We tend to the conditions for people, organisations, and communities to notice what is real — and nurture a diverse relational environment where momentum can form.
From there, it becomes possible to make sense of what is moving and to take wise, practical steps that strengthen how people make decisions for themselves and respond to uncertainty and betterment.
Photo Credit: GIZ ABioSA, Brett Eloff
More About What We Do...
More About What We Do...
New Possibilities in
Living Systems
We work with people who are navigating tough dynamics that are hard to shift, often without clear solutions — at least not within a single project or even a lifetime. Our work creates the conditions for people to pause, notice what is real, and find steps that open momentum.
Wild Harvesters
A recent collaboration brought together wild harvesters, community members, and sector partners to strengthen harvester participation by foregrounding local ecological knowledge as a vital expression of indigenous knowledge.
Bio-Stewarding
We cocreated practical economic options with local communities and Wild Harvesters, using the Bio-Stewarding Circle to bridge long-standing epistemic gaps.
Wild-Flower Youth Network
We created an apprenticing environment where young people tested safe-to-try income ideas that reconnect us with nature and grow local, creative economic activity that is good for people and the environment.
New Possibilities in Living Systems
We work with people who are navigating tough dynamics that are hard to shift, often without clear solutions — at least not within a single project or even a lifetime. Our work creates the conditions for people to pause, notice what is real, and find steps that open momentum.
Wild Harvesters
A recent collaboration brought together wild harvesters, community members, and sector partners to strengthen harvester participation by foregrounding local ecological knowledge as a vital expression of indigenous knowledge.
Bio-Stewarding
We cocreated practical economic options with local communities and Wild Harvesters, using the Bio-Stewarding Circle to bridge long-standing epistemic gaps.
Wild-Flower Youth Network
We created an apprenticing environment where young people tested safe-to-try income ideas that reconnect us with nature and grow local, creative economic activity that is good for people and the environment.
Cultivating Wisdom
Cultivating Wisdom through Hosting, Peer Learning and Apprenticing
We begin with humility: we do not arrive with the answers — or even the questions.
We find the questions with the people who live the reality.
In the spirit of Ausbildung — a way of learning through doing that reshapes how a person sees the world — we design processes that support these learning principles. Perspectives soften and widen. People discover they can hold the tensions of their world with greater coherence and care.
Friends of Honeybush
Across contexts — from large organisations, multi-stakeholder landscapes to rural communities — our work creates the conditions for people to slow down and reconnect with what holds meaning. What is moving? What matters here? What are we noticing together?
Singing to Saplings
We invite story-telling and valuing of stories, a young woman, named Kim spoke about singing to saplings as she tends to them. This widened our perspectives into conversations about our relationship with plants, the land, attention, and creative expression.
Community Hosting
A significant part of our work is designing processes where people learn to host conversations in their own locality, and in ways that make sense to their lived context. Hosting, and peer learning is central to our work.
Cultivating Wisdom
Cultivating Wisdom through Hosting, Peer Learning and Apprenticing
We begin with humility: we do not arrive with the answers — or even the questions.
We find the questions with the people who live the reality.
In the spirit of Ausbildung — a way of learning through doing that reshapes how a person sees the world — we design processes that support these learning principles. Perspectives soften and widen. People discover they can hold the tensions of their world with greater coherence and care.
Friends of Honeybush
Across contexts — from large organisations, multi-stakeholder landscapes to rural communities — our work creates the conditions for people to slow down and reconnect with what holds meaning. What is moving? What matters here? What are we noticing together?
Singing to Saplings
We invite story-telling and valuing of stories, a young woman, named Kim spoke about singing to saplings as she tends to them. This widened our perspectives into conversations about our relationship with plants, the land, attention, and creative expression.
Community Hosting
A significant part of our work is designing processes where people learn to host conversations in their own locality, and in ways that make sense to their lived context. Hosting, and peer learning is central to our work.
Our Writing Approach
Our Approach to writing: Practical, Relational, Workable.
We live and work inside environments designed to trigger constant dopamine hits, push adrenaline, and quiet the relational chemistry we need to stay grounded. Our nervous systems absorb this — and so do the ways we organise our work, make decisions, and respond to pressure. Across systems, this contributes to a growing sense of vulnerability.
Our work meets this reality directly.
Our Writing Approach
Our Approach to writing: Practical, Relational, Workable.
We live and work inside environments designed to trigger constant dopamine hits, push adrenaline, and quiet the relational chemistry we need to stay grounded. Our nervous systems absorb this — and so do the ways we organise our work, make decisions, and respond to pressure. Across systems, this contributes to a growing sense of vulnerability.
Our work meets this reality directly.
Copyrights 2025 | InnovationCircle Consulting Africa (Pty) Ltd and Quiet Insight LLC.
Copyrights 2025 | InnovationCircle Consulting Africa (Pty) Ltd and Quiet Insight LLC.