Willow Resources Institute makes change easier. We promote personal wellbeing and public good to build a society where everyone lives his and her creative potential.
As a community service organization, we focus on creating wellbeing rather than wealth and use the Creative Approach to change and innovation. Its creating method engages nature’s way of creating continuous change that promotes sustainability in a complex environment. Our name is taken from the willow tree whose deep roots, strength, flexibility and connection with nature symbolize our vision for this work. Join us in programs to:
Design New Solutions
Our social innovation incubator offers resources to develop alternatives and to create social change. We provide design, research and facilitation services and house innovation projects. Current projects include WEAVE (women educate, advocate, vote), a women's leadership network, Create Coach™ and Lifestyle Incubator™, self-help programs to teach people how to be their own life coach to create personal wellbeing.
Build Public Good
Civic engagement and public service programs promote personal wellbeing and public good. We offer:
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NEW Society Forum, a structured program to imagine a society that nurtures everyone’s wellbeing and to build this vision. |
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Civic engagement partnerships to promote peoples’ participation in making society a better place for all. |
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Leader Legacy, encouraging development of personal legacy projects that contribute to current and future generations’ wellbeing. |
Create Change
Strengthen peoples' ability to create personal, organizational and social change. Our education programs offer creative practical tools that are easy to use and help people to work on their own and in groups to imagine and implement change.


