Walking with change as it unfolds
The meaning of Recrear is to re-create, regenerate, renovate, transform, move. It is the opposite of being static and stuck.
We create processes to experience our present and look into the future, paying attention to what needs to emerge organically within us, our communities and the societies we are part of.
We work with partners and communities around the world to co-create learning journeys, participatory inquiries, and collective experiences.
Our partnerships reflect the same depth of connection we build within our own team. Together, we define and co-create around questions that invite courage, vulnerability, and imagination.
Currently our learning question is:
“How do I take responsibility for the healing we need?”
Ways of Walking Together
We collaborate with people and organizations who are inviting more imaginative futures.
There are many paths into the kind of work we love. Some begin with a question inside an organization; others with the quiet desire of a person seeking collective reflection. At Recrear, we accompany both journeys.
Whether we’re co-creating change with a team or supporting our inner quest for being humans together, we design spaces for learning, experimentation, and deep listening.
For 15+ years, we have supported grassroots groups, movements, NGOs, institutions, and funders in framing complex inquiries, deepening learning, and strengthening relationships.
Grounded in care and experimentation, we design and accompany processes that help teams learn together, shift culture, and transform how they work. Our collaboration can take many forms.
Facilitation of collective spaces
We facilitate workshops, retreats, multi-day residencies, learning journeys, and multi-stakeholder dialogues.
Organizational culture & transformation
We accompany culture-shifting processes, navigating leadership transitions and power dynamics.
Participatory research
We design community-led research, develop case studies, and prepare reflective publications.
Experiential programs
We craft creative labs, art-based learning, and residencies.
Our Independent Offerings
Our Independent Offer brings together years of fieldwork, creative practice, and participatory research. We accompany individuals and organizations seeking transformation through:
- Collective Research: Asking the questions that matter most, and answering them, together.
- Experimentation: Designing human labs that explore new ways of being.
- Manifestation: Supporting healing and deep change processes.
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Testimonials
Geraldine Zuasnabar, Chola Contravisual
Nadine El-Nabli, Director of Programs & Partnerships, MADRE
Recrear is extremely thoughtful, intentional and collaborative in how they work. They bring so much vision and possibility while staying grounded in the priorities, needs, and capacities of the organizations they are working with. We consistently felt supported throughout the process while still being challenged to think outside the box and take calculated risks for deeper impact.
Aryj Hussain, Country Director, WFD Maldives
Recrear’s team is thoughtful, focusing on co-creation, and grounded in trust. They work with partners and participants in a way that truly honours their agency and knowledge. For me personally, the insight that research itself can be a form of empowerment, not just a tool for generating evidence (which in many ways tends to be quite extractive in traditional approaches), was transformative.
Wen Di Sia, Co-Founder, Gerimis Art
Recrear’s team is able to build rapport quickly and make people in the room feel safe and comfortable, especially when working with individuals at risk or coming from traumatic settings. During the Alternative Resourcing Lab in Mexico, the ice breaking activity was fresh, not following the usual way of self introductions. Love that! With Recrear I learned how to network beyond my region and learn how to interact and carry myself in a group/social setting.
How we work
We believe learning is collective and felt.
We design group processes that help people explore their inner, relational, and social realities, so that shared understandings and solutions can organically emerge.
Everyone is an expert.
Our work is rooted in Participatory Action Research (PAR), a paradigm that values lived knowledge and invites everyone into co-creation. We see research as an adventurous, playful process of discovery, one where each of us recognizes ourselves as experts in our own realities.
Creativity expands what becomes possible.
We blend PAR with art-based and experiential practices: theatre, writing, painting, embodied exercises ( the sky is the limit!). Our intention is to make learning deeper, more intuitive, and more alive.
Care is our methodology.
We shape each process to reflect the needs, rhythms, and contexts of the people in the room. We accompany each phase of our collaboration – preparation, facilitation, and follow-up – with intentionality. We don’t take anything for granted and always look at ways to strengthen collaboration and organisational culture from a place of co-creation.
Transformation happens at multiple levels.
We translate our learnings to accompany the healing and transformation of individuals, teams, organizations, and systems in order to create new social realities.
We help translate insights into new narratives, better-quality relationships, and fresh textures of leadership and imagination.
Partner With Us
We partner with organizations ready to reimagine how they learn, connect, and evolve, whether through facilitation, research, or long-term collaboration.