The With Life Approach is grounded in the patterns of living systems. Together with nRhythm and Capital Institute, we help organizations, communities, and institutions align how they design, lead, learn, and work with the way that life actually works.
When we design organizations, communities, and economies in coherence with living systems, we unlock resilience, adaptability, and creative capacity by creating healthier conditions for life to thrive.
In this short video, Jeff Su, Director of Science and Partnerships at nRhythm, introduces the foundations of the With Life Approach.
Learning with Life
For billions of years, living systems have demonstrated resilience, adaptability, and regeneration through the dynamics of constant change. This happens through relationships, feedback, and responsiveness, not through centralized control or rigid structures.
The With Life Approach draws on these patterns to help people work with complexity rather than against it. Instead of relying on rigid, extractive models that prioritize efficiency over health, we support ways of designing, leading, and operating that cultivate resilience, learning, and shared purpose.
When organizations learn from living systems, they become better able to respond to uncertainty, care for the people within them, and create outcomes that endure.
The future is alive.
What Changes When We Work in
Alignment With Life
When our systems are out of sync with life, the symptoms are familiar: burnout, fragmentation, short-term thinking, and solutions that create new problems downstream.
Working in alignment with life
shifts what becomes possible.
Learning accelerates and deepens across the system. Decisions emerge from better information and shared responsibility. Organizations become more adaptive and resilient in the face of uncertainty. Economic and financial systems begin to serve long-term wellbeing rather than short-term extraction.
This work is about learning how to design, lead, and operate in ways that support health, adaptability, and meaningful
impact over time.
One Approach. Many Applications.
The With Life Approach brings together complementary bodies of work that address different layers of our shared systems.
nRhythm focuses on organizational design, leadership, and business operations aligned with living systems
Capital Institute focuses on reimagining economic and financial systems in alignment with life
Together, these perspectives support people working across business, finance, policy, government, and community contexts who are seeking vitality, adaptability, and more holistic, relational ways of engaging with complexity.
You don’t need to work in all of these domains to engage. The approach meets people where they are and can scale with the complexity of the challenges they face.
Living Systems Framework
Over time, this work has been distilled into the Living Systems Framework for Organizations, a practical and flexible tool for designing and stewarding healthy systems in complex environments.
The framework helps leaders and teams explore:
- the beliefs shaping how their organization understands itself and its role.
- how those beliefs are expressed through structures, practices, and ways of working.
- how information, energy, and learning move through the system day to day.
Rather than prescribing solutions, the framework supports clearer thinking, better questions, healthier decision-making, and more intentional responses to real-world conditions.
Learn, Practice, and Grow With Others
The With Life Community brings together people from across sectors and geographies who are exploring what it means to design, lead, and steward systems in alignment with life.
Born from the confluence of nRhythm and Capital Institute, the community has grown into a global learning ecosystem spanning dozens of countries and a wide range of professional contexts.
Through courses, live experiences, practice labs, and peer learning spaces, With Life Community members deepen their understanding of the With Life Approach and
apply it to the real challenges they face.
This global community is spirited and robust, full of brilliant, kind, passionate people with the desire to usher in a transformative new reality grounded in regenerative principles of vibrant living systems.
