Social Innovation & Co-creation

Transforming Communities, Fostering Equity at Sevā CoLab, we lead with purpose and passion, driving social innovation and design that dismantles oppressive systems and nurtures wellness outcomes for all.


Our collaborative approach centres on:

  • Co-designing solutions alongside communities and centring impacted lived experience.

  • Acknowledging cultural knowledge and history.

  • Can design and provide social innovation across scale or level:
    place-based, relational, community-based, service-based, institution-based, and systems-based design.

  • Upholding inclusivity, acknowledgement and justice.

  • Forging partnerships for impactful change.

Liberation & DEI

We're dedicated to empowering everyone to contribute to collective liberation.

We facilitate individuals stepping into their roles as change agents. Whether you're a startup, entrepreneur, or part of a government agency, our services are tailored to help you centre liberation, equity and justice and de-centre white supremacy, subverting power in your organization's DNA.

Sevā CoLab can curate, coordinate and design for your organisations’ or communities’ DEI and Liberation journey

  • Learning development content

  • Accountability and transformation coaching

  • Service and systems expertise to support your organisation infrastructure, services and process align to diversity, equity and inclusion.

  • Facilitated spaces for marginalized communities to be safe, nourished, and heard.

  • Bespoke workshops

  • Immersive experiences

Our work transcends just providing you with information—it's about reflection into action. Through nourishing spaces for healing, authentic expression, and courageous conversations, we challenge ingrained beliefs and honour our shared histories. Together, we reimagine the life we want to live, paving the way for a more just, Tiriti-led, and loving world—because true freedom begins with us all.

Gatherings, workshops & events

Embark on a journey of collective exploration with Sevā CoLab through our gatherings, workshops, and events. These spaces transcend mere learning; they're about fostering play, trust, and connection. By embracing experimentation and cultivating a culture of safety, we open doors to new possibilities for collective growth and change.

Sevā CoLab creates events, gathering and curated workshops that honour these magic ingredients in the role collective growth and liberation.

We create and offer accessible and safe spaces drawing on the following elements:

  • Play: Infusing play, imagination, fun, and joy creating trust and a safe environment for trying new things. Play allows us to authentically express ourselves and remain open to change.

  • Experiment: Providing opportunities to try new things without fear of failure or judgment, encouraging self-exploration and reflection.

  • Connect & Care: Facilitating connections with new people and building community, recognizing the vital role of connections in fostering supportive networks.

  • Express & Embody: Creating a space for releasing emotions, pain, and grief, acknowledging the existence of trauma and hurt and embracing opportunities for leaning and collective processing.

  • Nourish : Offering sanctuary for unmasking and being fully present, where individuals can have their cups filled and be heard, seen, and validated.

  • Resourced: Our focus remains on creating inclusive spaces where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and empowered to participate, even in challenging endeavours. With a decade of experience,

Our Services

  • Guiding the development of inclusive, equitable and just services and initiatives

    Creating equitable spaces for communities to dream and innovate into action

    Defining, building your community and innovation container for systems change

    Creating meaningful engagement opportunities and sessions

    Collective sensemaking session - Translating what we heard into what we understand and must act upon

    Co-design partnership, facilitation and coordination

    Strategic Design advice, scoping and direction

    Vision and Values identification

    Dreaming and aspiration setting sessions

    Design Research & Storytelling

  • To commit to liberation education it is a commitment to a journey for change, so workshops and the roadmap for your community will be tailored to your needs

    • DEI partnership/commitments Anti-racism 101, stepping out of complicity, working towards solidarity, culture and mindset for liberation.

    • Coaching for
      accountability

    • Learning and Training content Course creation

    • Spaces and facilitated listening spaces for those impacted and/or lived experience to feel heard

    • Design Strategy

    • Lived Experience Leadership

    • Customer Experience

    • Aspirational transformative futures

    • Role of Tangata Tiriti (from a tangata Tiriti)

    • Public Speaking

    • MC & Facilitation

    • Community/Public events such as

      Collective grief spaces

      Exploring Trauma circles

      The global majority quiz.

    • Bespoke events and experiences to support transformation.