MB Webinar Series | The Habitarmonia Tree: Designing Regenerative Collaboration from the Roots Up

The Habitarmonia Tree: Designing Regenerative Collaboration from the Roots Up

Abstract

In this lecture, Nuria Muñoz explores how nature’s wisdom - specifically the metaphor of a tree - can serve as a framework for regenerative, emotionally intelligent, and embodied group work. While many collaborative projects rely on structure alone, few nourish the relational soil that allows shared intelligence and integrity to emerge.

The Habitarmonia Tree offers a model where:

• Roots represent the shared values, worldview, and emotional agreements that nourish collaboration

• Trunk symbolizes the roles, rhythms, and agreements that hold the team in coherence

• Branches and fruits reflect the offerings, actions, and shared impact that grow from the whole

• The mycelial layer - often unseen - includes emotional fields, care work, intuition, and collective sensing

This talk invites us to reimagine collaboration not as efficiency, but as aliveness - a practice of deep presence, design ethics, and conscious relationship to time, space, and each other.

Key takeaways for participants

• Apply living systems thinking to interdisciplinary and design teams

• Understand collaboration as a layered, embodied system (values, structure, expression, emotion)

• Learn tools for aligning neuro-emotional coherence with regenerative leadership

• Translate biophilic and neuroaesthetic principles into collaborative practices and agreements

• Reflect on how we host the invisible - trust, energy, repair, and co-sensing - within our group cultures

Presenter: Nuria Muñoz Arce

Award-Winning Designer & Visionary Systems Strategist | Founder, Habitarmonia | Biophilic & Neuroscience-Informed Design Consultant | Speaker | Educator | HEAL Co-Founder | Bioleadership Fellow

Nuria Muñoz Arce is an award-winning designer, visionary systems strategist, and educator specializing in biophilic and neuroscience-informed design. She is the founder of Habitarmonia, a pioneering global ecosystem uniting architects, designers, and innovators to create spaces that restore well-being, foster connection, and regenerate our relationship with nature.

With over two decades of experience, Nuria’s work bridges science, design, and soul - blending environmental psychology, regenerative architecture, and sensory intelligence into transformative projects and educational programs. Through her flagship Biophilic & Well-being Design Certification Program and the Habitarmonia Ecosystem’s rich array of expert-led sessions, she empowers professionals worldwide to design spaces that elevate human potential while honoring ecological systems.

Nuria is also co-founder of HEAL (Human Environment Architectural Laboratory), a collective dedicated to creating life-centric environments that harmonize human and ecological health. A Bioleadership Fellow, she is committed to shifting paradigms in the built environment, inspiring change through speaking engagements, workshops, and international collaborations.

Her mission is clear: to design not just with nature in mind, but with nature as the guiding partner -

creating spaces that heal, inspire, and help people thrive.