Christine Dürschner on healing, conflict and building social competence collectively
In this episode, I speak with Christine Dürschner, an organism developer, possibility coach, and community consultant who has lived at Schloss Glarisegg since 2011. Christine shares her view on how regeneration goes further than sustainability: rather than simply preserving a system that no longer serves us, it means building rich social soil so that something new and still unknown can grow.
I ask her how communities recognize when they need this kind of collective healing, and she describes how conflict, circular decision-making, and stuck power dynamics are usually the symptoms that signal a community has reached its edge.
Christine shares how communities and organizations can move from what she calls drama chaos into golden chaos by practicing vulnerability, honest conversation, and radical responsibility together. We discuss how radical responsibility is not about carrying guilt for the world's problems, but about recognizing our own patterns of dominance, rank, and avoidance, and choosing to grow beyond them for the good of the whole group.
This episode is for anyone living in or building an intentional community, co-housing project, or values-driven organization who feels stuck in recurring conflict or shallow structural fixes and egos. The key lesson is that regenerative culture cannot simply be installed through frameworks. It requires ongoing practice of vulnerability, honest feedback, and a willingness to sit with discomfort as a group. Christine's biggest insight is that healing and transformation are not soft extras, but the actual fertilizer that allows collective intelligence and true collaboration to grow.
💡 HIGHLIGHTS of this Episode
✨ Regeneration requires growing new social soil through competence
✨ Circular conflict and stuck decisions signal it's time for collective healing
✨ Shared vulnerability builds real social competence
✨ Radical responsibility starts with owning your own patterns, not others' mistakes
✨ Sociocracy and holacracy fail without inner transformation to ground and fill them
👋 ABOUT Christine Dürschner
Christine Dürschner is an organism developer, possibility coach, and community consultant based in Switzerland. Since 2011, she has been part of the Schloss Glarisegg community project, supporting regenerative cultures, relationship transformation, and living organizations. She works with emotional competence, communication culture, and collective evolution, guiding individuals, teams, and communities toward authentic collaboration and radical responsibility.
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👉 Website
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📚 RESOURCES to dive deeper
➡ The mediathek on Christine's website is fully packed: https://christineduerschner.net/mediathek
➡ Trainings, more interviews etc on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@christinedurschner7094/videos
⬇️ Join Christine's Training!
In this Episode, Christine also introduces her three-month masterclass for social innovators within communities, plus her Leverage You training for organizations and NGOs that want to move beyond structures like sociocracy or holacracy toward genuine inner transformation.
👉 Masterclass for individuals: https://schloss-glarisegg.ch/seminar_events/masterclass-der-garten-der-sozialkompetenz-online/ (in German! - starting September 16th)
https://christineduerschner.net/termin/gameworld-builder-training
👉 Training for groups: https://christineduerschner.net/termin/gameworld-builder-training (in October)
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