Dao Lab
Immersive experiences — the LABs — for practising concrete ways of regulating the nervous system, in self-regulation and co-regulation, and working the inner dimension as the ground of regeneration.
Inner sustainability for regenerative impact
Inner care as the infrastructure of change.
We support women leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate teams and changemakers across Latin America in transforming the way they lead and live.
Dao Lab
Immersive inner-regulation experiences for leading in harmony
Dao Consulting
A transition toward regenerative culture and leadership in organizations
Dao Ethical AI
Facilitating empathetic technology in service of wellbeing
DAO Community
A regional community of practice for living the new leadership
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Who we are
Leading change should not cost you your health. And yet it almost always does.
DAO is a wellbeing and regenerative leadership initiative. We bring together neuroscience, somatics, art, biomimicry, technology and systems thinking so that the people holding processes of change can do so from a place of care, with clarity, resilience and long-term action.
We create immersive experiences, communities of practice and accessible resources that turn inner wellbeing into the infrastructure of impact.
Why we exist
Research by our ally The Wellbeing Project, based on more than 300 changemakers, shows that sustained exhaustion is the norm rather than the exception among those leading change — and that it affects women disproportionately.
The gap we close
Regeneration happens inward and outward, and both dimensions carry equal weight when designing a new world. Integrating the inner dimension — care as a right for everyone — is what grounds sustainable, transformative leadership. Integrating the outer dimension, that of service, is what creates new patterns of thinking and action that care for life on this planet. Inner care is not a privilege: it is a right for all of us.
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What we do
Four lines of work that hold one another up: the person, the organization, technology and community.
Dao Consulting
We support companies, small businesses and organizations in their transition toward cultures of regenerative leadership, where inner coherence is the basis of prosperity and impact. From that inner work we develop new skills to envision and create a regenerated world.
Dao Ethical AI
We facilitate processes of experimentation with empathetic, ethical AI technologies that support leaders in living with greater wellbeing, coherence and interrelation with the planet.
DAO Community
A new kind of leadership cannot be sustained alone: it needs a critical mass practising it. A cross-sector community of practice, in person and online, where we share exercises, workshops, longer trainings, talks and gatherings for living the new leadership.
Why these four and not others
GROUND
Because outer change cannot hold without inner work.
Hence the LABs: the soil where everything else can grow.
DESIGN
Because change is thought, co-created and enacted better from inner coherence.
Hence the work inside organizations: we facilitate embodied, coherent leadership that, from that place, takes up the tools of systemic design to create and run programmes of impact.
TOOLS
Because technology is already here and we cannot ignore it.
Hence ethical AI: using it with discernment, in service of life and not against it.
CRITICAL MASS
Because one regulated person does not change a system.
Hence community: only collectively does a new narrative and a new practice of conscious leadership appear.
And community feeds back into the ground: each collective practice nourishes the inner work again. A cycle, not a ladder.
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Who we have worked with
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Strategic allies
The Wellbeing Project
We share methodologies that strengthen the link between inner change and outer impact, reflecting on how regeneration and care mean different things in each region, each territory and each people. We are part of their Ecological Belonging network.
University for Peace
The United Nations university for peace, with whom we develop methods for conscious, ethical leadership in the age of AI.
Hitos
A consulting firm working on new forms of cooperativism in Central America.
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DAO’s impact
+300
women and men transforming their leadership into a regenerative one
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LABs held across the region
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countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize
We have had the privilege of working with an emphasis on women, because we know that care — inner and collective — is a right. We work with women leading Indigenous networks, national development policy, health initiatives, businesses and impact investment across the region.
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Our methodology
For DAO, sowing the future begins with fertile ground. First we tend the inner soil; then we plant the seeds of regenerative leadership.
Phase one — Inner soil
Inner and nervous system regulation
We begin with inner wellbeing and nervous system regulation as the basis of conscious, responsible action. Our LABs go deeper session by session into retraining the nervous system, through a methodology of DAO’s own that integrates proven approaches from our strategic allies. We combine neuroscience, somatic tools, group work, art therapy and biomimicry, including practices of co-regulation with the earth — trees and nature — and with other beings — horses, whales — to create immersive experiences that bring people into new states of coherence and inner peace, the ground from which a different kind of leadership can hold.
Phase two — New seeds
Regenerative leadership skills
Inner work cannot stay in the individual sphere. We believe wellbeing and care must be built as a collective right, not an isolated privilege, and that calls for a new, coherent leadership that puts regeneration into action. So through our consulting and ethical AI processes we work with organizations of every kind to explore what regenerative leadership means in their specific context, to develop those skills within their teams, and to put them into practice in something concrete: a project, a programme or another initiative the organization can sustain over time. Below are some of the regenerative skills we work on with teams.
SOME REGENERATIVE SKILLS
Liderazgo "embodied"
Systemic awareness and design
Open, real communication
Ethical use of AI
Building societies based on care
Iterative, adaptive experimentation
Inhabiting uncertainty and navigating polarities
Integrating knowledges and intergenerational continuity
Cyclical thinking and non-linear time
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