Merging Like Waters
Organising Across Boundaries with the 10x100 Converter // Apply by June 20th, 2025
“Meaningful progress can’t be about exponential acceleration but rather the quiet accumulation of flows that together provide conditions for a thriving landscape.”
The 10×100 Converter marks a new chapter — one that invites greater responsibility. Where earlier formats offered rhythm and refuge, the Converter calls for radical honesty, structural commitment, and a shared stake in the long work of transformative regeneration.
From Reflection to Commitment
If the first 1000 days gave space to ask why, the next 10x100 cycle explores how to build something that grows across generations.
We invite you to join a group of practitioners from across Europe and beyond who are working at the crossroads of institutions and movements — and who are willing to examine the limits of their current modes and the possibilities of shared adaptation, acknowledging the magnitude of interconnected shocks and uncertainties.
What You Join
Ten meetings over 1000 days — three in person, seven online — supported by a co-curated space for emerging exchanges in between. This is the beginning of a community of practice where every participant brings:
a real project or agenda (not just an idea),
a willingness to work across interests and expertise,
and a commitment to co-hold, not just attend.
The Converter supports each participant to move from insight to implementation — individually and collectively — while learning how to reorient governance structures from within.
What You Commit To
Psychological safety: deep reflection on current practices, norms, and institutional reflexes
Personal adaptation: willingness to shift methods or assumptions as context demands
Rhythmic learning: spaces to connect between natural seasons and political timeframes
Cross-sector co-creation: working across the policy cycle, not just within your domain
Participants are not consumers of a product. They are stewards of a plot — each contributing seeds (methods, tools), humus (resources, infrastructure), roots (interoperable data, code), and care (time, presence, willingness to weave).
The Approach Behind the Format
For us, the era of linear innovation has passed. What comes next are syntropic coalitions — forms of governance that mirror living systems: composting what’s obsolete, nurturing what’s emerging, and letting coordination flow across boundaries.
The Converter is designed as a portfolio alliance: a distributed effort to turn isolated experiments into ecosystems of mutual reinforcement, enlarging our current idea of the policy cycle.
We begin at the European Forum Alpbach, 21–23 August 2025. We don’t start from scratch but work with what’s already alive and asking to grow.
Who This Is For
This call is for people and organisations already doing the work, but seeking for:
More connective tissue between strategy and delivery.
More civic tools for long-term, multilevel coordination.
More clarity and companionship in the face of fragmentation.
You might be:
A municipal leader coordinating climate missions
A public interest technologist building infrastructure for governance
A policymaker trying to bridge budget, regulation, and implementation
A legal scholar designing systems for interspecies or intergenerational justice
A funder looking to increase your conversion rate from insight to impact
A community organiser weaving trust across fragmented landscapes
We’ve spent the last cycle learning to hold the complexity of these unprecedented times. Now, our focus shifts to increasing the conversion rate of what we actually move — without rushing the rootwork.
If you’re ready, join us in this polyrhythmic endeavour.
🗓️ Apply by: 20 June 2025
✉️ Decisions by: 30 June 2025
🏞️ Launch: European Forum Alpbach, 21–23 August 2025
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