Every immersion workshop is tailored to the local ecosystem, ensuring each day is brimming with content and exploration. You should plan to clear your agenda and fully immerse yourself in the biomimicry experience!

Throughout the course of this workshop, our world-renowned biomimicry instructors will teach participants to:

• Employ the Biomimicry Design Lens, a set of tools with a proven methodology for tapping into and applying nature’s most innovative design strategies.
• Use creative problem solving skills to re-frame design challenges in a way that launches discoveries of nature’s genius and harnesses the power of asking: “How would nature..?”
• Think like a biologist and access the power of biological intelligence to discover and differentiate nature’s design lessons at the form, process, and system levels for application to a wide variety of challenges.
• Practice ecosystem-like thinking by developing creative, biomimicry-based solutions that draw from interdisciplinary perspectives to simultaneously drive innovation and sustainability.
• Learn to use inspirational biological insight to guide and inform the innovation design process using the biology to design path.

This workshop is open to professional and university-level participants from all backgrounds and levels of experience with biomimicry. The agenda is designed for:

• Innovators, regardless of sector, who are interested in bringing nature’s genius to their project work and innovation strategies.
• Sustainability champions who want to be inspired by the natural world as they work to solve humanity’s toughest sustainability challenges.
• Educators who want to bring nature’s genius into the classroom.
• Students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Biomimicry program with Arizona State University interested in Biomimicry Specialist Certification. This Immersion Workshop counts as one of two required in-person units. Learn more about the requirements for the Biomimicry Specialist Certification here.

Brittany Jerlinga | Brittany Jerlinga regularly gets excited about mucus, misunderstood creatures, and things that go bump in the night. Holding both a Master of Science in Biomimicry (Arizona State University) and a Master of Arts in teaching (University of Southern California), she has spent the last 16 years using storytelling and the arts to teach science. Brittany’s interdisciplinary, experiential approach, combined with her boundless curiosity and love of biology, has made her a cherished educator. Her course “How Nature Works” at ASU is often cited as a favorite among students. In collaboration with fellow staff at Biomimicry 3.8, Brittany’s research and storytelling skills supported a series of 6 micro-museums featured in the World Expo in Dubai in 2021. Considering herself a “connector of silos” Brittany currently inspires action with the change-makers of today’s global economy, working with clients such as Microsoft and Jacobs Engineering. Brittany is a biologist, storyteller, and educator for Biomimicry 3.8, and is a Certified Biomimicry Professional. 

Daphne Fecheyr-Lippens | Daphne Fecheyr-Lippens is a true generalist who loves exploring and connecting new ideas, people and disciplines. Her heart jumps an extra beat when she sees unexpected opportunities to build bridges between seemingly unrelated things. Especially when that collaboration results in a positive impact. Feeling too constrained when trying to fit into a box, she found that biomimicry gives her a clear direction—and satisfaction—in life. Biomimicry brings her a hopeful, creative, and productive vision to create a world where humans fit in with the rest of nature and contribute to the creation of an environment where all of life is safeguarded. Nature is her stress release, and therefore she wants to give back the benefits it gives to her.

Working at Biomimicry 3.8 feels like home to Daphne. She is able to use her passions, skills and expertise in productive and meaningful ways. Daphne holds a Master of Science in biochemistry/biotechnology (University Ghent, Belgium) and a PhD. in biomimicry (University of Akron, USA). She co-founded three startups: Jaswig, Hedgemon, and Stashed,  and all were a direct result from a personal need. As an innovation consultant at Board of Innovation, she designed and gave workshops and training courses for corporate clients, all over the world and from almost every sector (food, finance, automotive, healthcare).

The all-inclusive price for the workshop includes delicious, fresh, and locally harvested (when possible) breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks; overnight accommodations for five nights; all activities during the week; tuition and course materials; transportation from the SFO International Airport; and administration costs. The pricing is a package offering and cannot be discounted to remove lodging or meals. A variety of accommodations are available at the historic Ralston White Retreat Center to meet your needs and budget. Some rooming types are limited and first come, first served.

Shared room | $3,400
These shared rooms have two or three beds and a shared bathroom. You can request a roommate or we will assign you a roommate of the same gender. 

Private room | $3,600
These rooms provide more privacy and contain one queen or king bed with a shared bathroom.

All discounts have limited availability, are offered on a first-come, first-serve basis, and may not be combined.

• Student discount: Enrolled university students save $250. Must upload a copy of your current student ID upon registration.
• ASU student discount: Enrolled ASU students save $500. Must upload a copy of your current student ID upon registration. 
• Biomimicry Global Network member discount: Members of a local Biomimicry Global Network save $250. Must upload a brief, written endorsement from a local network leader upon registration.

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