NY Climate Week Edition
Escape the city with us for a collaborative, connection-filled day of futures visioning and skill-building for feminist change agents on Friday, September 26 in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Hosted by Sister Seasons and Girls Club Collective, expect spacious time to process your Climate Week experience, share your wisdom and rebuild hope that your vision is possible.
You’ll go from feeling overwhelmed and disillusioned by the current moment to feeling re-inspired by what we’re creating together, equipped with new futures thinking and systems change tools to help you in your day-to-day work, and clear on how you want to steward our shared regeneration 🌍.
Bonus: you’ll hopefully leave with a few new friends and partners.
Regenerative Futures Summit
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SISTER SEASONS
Limited to 25 participants.
End Climate Week feeling reconnected to your “why” and full of trust that the change you long for is possible
Meaningfully connect with a room full of values-aligned peers who inspire you professionally and share your desire for a regenerative, just world
Have dedicated space to zoom out from the day-to-day of creating systemic change to spend time with your vision for our shared future
What if you could…
Feel greater hope in navigating the challenges ahead because you have the skills to see where the future you’re working toward is emerging now
The Regenerative Futures Summit is a full-day, community-centered visioning and skill-building experience for feminist impact and ESG leaders, entrepreneurs, activists, and academics who are working to spark systemic change. Together, we’ll gather to nurture relationships, broaden our toolkits and crowdsource signals of change, so we move forward feeling rooted, resourced and ready for the next wave of challenges on our journey to collective flourishing.
Want to reclaim our future with us? ✨
we will be your
Co-Conspirators
Brainstorm Partners
Worldview Wideners
You'll connect with an interdisciplinary group of your peers to acknowledge the moment we’re in, learn new tools to reignite your sense of possibility, and clarify the vision you’re working toward.
What you'll receive
A full-day summit in a dreamy location on the Hudson River to reconnect to your vision, learn new skills, and leave Climate Week feeling focused
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Delicious breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks to nourish you throughout the day
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Inspiring (and easeful!) resources to help you prepare for our time together
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Practical tools you can use in your changemaking work throughout the year
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…And community and connection with experienced leaders who *get it* and are building alongside you.
It helped me find glimmers of hope in unexpected places and reconnect with amazing women in the industry. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
-Past Regenerative Futures Summit participant
Lis and Rebecca expertly curated a thoughtful, dynamic and engaging event that touched mind, body and spirit.
Lis Best is a facilitator, ESG strategist, podcast host, and founder of GCC, the intentionally intimate leadership lab for change agents. Her north star is a future that works for all of us, powered by feminine leadership.
Prior to launching her business in 2020, Lis spent over a decade working at the intersection of sustainability, communications, and government affairs with organizations like BSR and Qualcomm. Over the past 5 years, Lis has worked with hundreds of impact leaders from across the corporate responsibility landscape, including at brands like Google, Grove Collaborative, and PwC, nonprofit organizations like Mission Edge and Common Impact, academic institutions like Duke, UC Berkeley, and Presidio, and firms like Bespoke ESG, Raya Cooper Impact Consulting, and qb. consulting. She and her work have been featured by Forbes, Nasdaq, Reconsidered, the Climify podcast, Millennial Success Stories, and more.
Outside of work, she’s often reading contemporary fiction, planning her next beach adventure, or laughing with her son, husband and dog.
With 30 years of experience in impact between us + a lifetime of challenging the status quo, we know how it feels to care deeply about our work and our world—and how lonely it can be to hold that alone.
Meet Your Hosts
The people behind the program
Rebecca Magee is a teacher, facilitator, guide and founder of Sister Seasons, a feminist, mission-driven business that helps changemakers work with nature’s cycles to develop the skills they need to be thriving, regenerative leaders on a rapidly changing planet. Before embarking on her entrepreneurial journey, Rebecca spent 15+ years working in CSR, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy at visionary organizations such as Echoing Green and EILEEN FISHER.
An experienced leader, she has created transformative learning experiences for social impact leaders around the world, guided communities of women through life-changing retreats and peer groups, and led impact initiatives from B Corp certifications to ground-breaking grant programs. Today, you’ll find her continuing her studies in women’s leadership and health, nerding out about nature, and spending time with her husband and *very* fluffy cat.
Our flow for the day 👀
We’ll create space for you to get grounded after a busy week, settle in for our day together, and share your Climate Week experience.
Reconnect with yourself and the “why” behind your work to serve as an anchor for your summit experience and spark connections with fellow leaders.
We’ll draw from Deep Ecology and foresight tools, such as the 3 Horizons framework and signals, to put what we’re witnessing at the collective level into context. You’ll then break into small groups for an engaging exercise on exploring where the future you envision is already emerging.
Enjoy yummy vegetarian food while you chat with new friends and relax by the waterfront.
With your newly gathered evidence of the emergent future, you’ll take some time to articulate your vision for both the collective and for yourself, reflecting on the change you want to see for all of us and the role you want to play moving forward. Expect a mix of guided introspection and time for sharing.
Before we send you on your way, we’ll wrap up the experience with celebration, commitments and identifying opportunities for mutual support to help you feel resourced and energized for the work ahead.
This workshop helped me reframe scenario analysis and how my work contributes to the future that is needed for the world to thrive. It's something I know I'll come back to and use when I find myself feeling that I'm up against a wall or struggling to connect with why I pursued this as a career in the first place.
-Past Regenerative Futures Summit participant
Having worked in the sustainability space for over 10 years, I have become very jaded and tend to imagine the worst case scenarios.
It’s time to expand the narrative.
There’s a single story dominating right now about where we’re headed, but the truth is that there are many possible futures.
If you’re ready to tell a bigger story, join us to engage in collective visioning, build up your toolkit, and remember you don’t have to do this alone.
You’re looking for a talking-heads-style gathering (the spirit of our event is highly interactive).
You can’t commit to showing up on time for the summit.
You want transactional networking, not meaningful relationships. (Pitching and sales are prohibited during the event.)
This is not for you if…
You’re interested in learning futures thinking tools and skills to help you be a more effective and impactful leader.
You want to end your Climate Week experience with intentional skill-building, curated community and a vision for our shared future that can guide you forward.
You’re craving restorative time in a beautiful setting to think big-picture about your work and how you want to show up for this moment–and hear from colleagues on how they’re navigating it too.
This is perfect for you if…
You’re curious, generous, and heart-centered, and you want to meaningfully connect with professional peers who share those values.
Everything on this page sounds like an absolute dream, and you can’t imagine not being a part of it.
You want someone to tell you what the future holds.
You aren’t invested in being part of building a better future.
Frequently asked questions
YES! The session will be held in-person at the beautiful HudCo coworking space in Dobbs Ferry, NY. We’ll share detailed train instructions to help you easily navigate from Grand Central Terminal in NYC—it’s a relaxing 45-minute train ride up the Hudson River and costs $20-25 roundtrip. The venue is an easy 5-minute walk from the train station via a secret shortcut we’ll share! And we’ll make sure you’re back in town in time for your dinner plans.
The event will take place on Friday, September 26, 2025 from 9:30am-5pm EST. We ask that you arrive on time and stay for the full duration of the day. We will begin promptly, and cannot guarantee entry for latecomers.
You can expect to spend up to 45 minutes on the optional pre-work we’ll share before the event, and a full day with us live for the Summit.
The quick answer is no. We are asking everyone to arrive on time and to stick around for the full day. This is both because the programming builds on each previous segment throughout the day and to minimize disruptions for your fellow participants. If you need to leave early to catch a flight, that’s ok. But please plan on arriving on time, and entering and exiting the event only once.
We think so! While the core workshops will be the same, the in-person nature of this gathering means the programming can be more interactive, collaborative and responsive, creating the opportunity for you to deepen your learning and discover new insights. This extended, in-person edition will also include facilitated relationship-building with fellow participants, unstructured space for casual connections, time outdoors and a nourishing day in a beautiful setting.
You’re welcome to dress casually for the day. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes as you’ll be invited to step outside for a walk along the (paved) waterfront pathways.
We’d be happy to assist and/or provide more information. Please email us at hi@girlsclubcollective.co, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
We anticipate that the vast majority of participants in this event will identify as women; however, we welcome leaders with diverse identities who are committed to making space for underrecognized voices, want to participate in an interactive and respectful conversation, and are open to an experience that is grounded in intuition, embodiment, and feminine ways of knowing.
Our vision for the future is not just planetary thriving, but the thriving of all life on earth. Feminism–which for us is intersectional and trans-inclusive–is about moving from our current patriarchal system toward a social system that values regeneration over exploitation, love over dominance, reciprocity over greed and community over individualism, and recognizes not only that gender is a spectrum, but that gender equity is a critical pillar of collective flourishing.
Absolutely! We encourage participants to tap into professional development funds at their jobs to pay for their registration fee. And if you’re an entrepreneur, don’t forget that this is 💯 a #businessexpense.
We have a template email that you can leverage if you'd like to start the conversation with your manager about whether you can put this on the corporate card. (Our hope is YES–think of this like an industry conference, only way more fun, inspiring and connection-focused!)