Adapt with us. Design the future.

Unlock Your Creative Potential with the Adapt Design Deck by Dr. Charlie Brennan and Bridget O'Brien of Garden Juju Collective

Welcome to Adapt

At Garden Juju Collective, we believe in creating tools and experiences that empower people to align with the rhythms of nature and design regenerative solutions for a better world. We are thrilled to introduce the Adapt Design Deck, a dynamic design game and tool created by Bridget O’Brien and Dr. Charlie Brennan. Adapt is your key to unlocking creative solutions, building resilience, and fostering collaboration within your community, organization, or personal projects.

Adapt Design Deck

Adapt guides you to create the world of your dreams. It supports and challenges people to engage fully with life’s decisions, challenges and opportunities through a holistic creative process. A stimulating game, a teaching tool and a designer’s assistant all in one. It can be used in a variety of situations and by almost anyone including teachers, students, designers, developers, families, and community groups.

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Adapt Design Poster

The 'Creative Process Detail' side provides further explanation of the concepts presented in the Adapt Design Deck. Use the 'Creative Process Simplified' side as a game board the next time you play Adapt!

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Adapt & Design Facilitators Course, Workshop & Consultations

Delve deeper into the creative design and redesign process with facilitated sessions and online courses like Train the Trainer.

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Designing for Our Desires and Dreams

We are always redesigning our lives to adapt from our current state to our desired state. In the clip below, Dr. Charlie Brennan shares how Adapt facilitates the design process in creative and surprising ways!

Testimonials

_{"The Adapt Game has been a great resource for me in strategizing both large and small projects. It is a wonderful way to introduce people to permaculture principles and their practical applications in life. The game is both creative and dynamic. I love sharing Adapt so that even more people can produce well-thought-out plans for collaboration."}

_{Hannah Apricot Eckberg}

_{Co-founder, Abundant Earth Foundation and Permaculture Magazine, North America}

_{"'Adapt' is unusual in that it combines a wealth of practical experiential wisdom around project implementation and ethical considerations with an element of chance which means it takes the players on a personally, as well as practically, revealing journey towards actually getting stuff done."}

_{Suzi Steer}

_{Tree Sisters}

_{Suffolk, UK}

_{"In my arts, food and bush regeneration practices I use Adapt as a wayfinding tool. Every time I am really lost without a clear way forward I play Adapt. I see the game as providing a touch beam that you can move around in the dark to find possible paths forward. Adapt helps you make your own paths or follow the desire lines laid down in the patterns of nature. The game grounds you and slows you down. It allows us to slowly work through things that are really important but are often overlooked. When was the last time you spent half an hour thinking about and discussing our relationship to water? This is clearly one of our most important overlooked relationships. Adapt creates time for these important things. Adapt is design where it really matters!"}

_{Dean West}

_Artist

_{Mparntwe, Alice Springs, Australia}

_{"As an explorer of community-collaboration and designing commons, my work is enriched by the Adapt game. To me, Adapt is a thoughtfully-crafted and beautifully-simplified tool that allows anyone to understand + engage with fundamental principles of resilient change-making. Isn't that what we are all looking for? My biases are continually checked and new portals are opened. Children, neighbors, and professionals can play the game simultaneously, which, without fail, births novel and inclusive ideas. Next up for me is to use the entire deck with community members and architects, as we introduce Biophilic Elements to Housing Design."}

_{Alex Kwon}

_Engineer

_{Detroit, MI, USA}

_{"As an experienced designer, I mostly work alone, with inputs sought when needed. So to start with, we chose to use Adapt to make a dual design, rather than individual ones and it turned out to be really useful at bringing up the unexpected and the personal assumptions that we both had, giving us the opportunity to discuss and agree a pathway that we were both happy and excited with. Later, I decided to play with the cards in their more tarot / random assembly form, which was uncannily poignant and really thought provoking. I can see just how adaptable and beneficial Adapt is, when working in a group or solo, as a sounding board, scaffolding and curve ball in your process. I love that it uses Holmgren's Design Principles, and the visuals are very simple and pleasing. The whole thing fits in a beautiful carry box and is small enough to always take with you. I also love that you can play the game at several levels, and it will never grow old, as it relies on your imagination to design the story. I highly recommend it."}

_{Fran Pickering}

_{Tutor & Designer, Brighton Permaculture Trust}

_{Brighton, UK}

_{"Adapt is the most brilliant game/tool/system I have ever seen. It is beautifully conceived, cool to work with and, very very adaptable. The first time we played it we had laughs, tears, and revelations. The second time we played it entirely new vistas and creative visions opened up before us. The third time we played it changed our lives forever. Now we never make any important decision without Adapting it first. Adapt and move forward."}

_{John Martineau}

_{Author and Publisher}

_{Wooden Books Ltd, UK & US}

_{"Adapt is a mentor in a box!"}

_{Claire Maitre}

_{"Adapt is a joyful tool for serious play to activate your collective intelligence in an ever-expanding spiral of creative surprise!"}

_{Chad Monfreda Phd}

_{"Adapt game can certainly be used as a therapeutic tool for clients in these difficult and challenging times. Adapt surprised and intrigued me as a soulcraft tool for change. The process of defining a central question to reflect or challenge our deepest desire for change takes each player through clarification of intent, values and ethical evaluation. Finally a clear path and vision for change emerges."}

_{MH Dalila-Boyle}

_{Trans Personal Psychotherapist}

_{Red Van, Lewes, UK & Portugal}

_{"When you play Adapt you end up in a place or with possibilities you didn't know existed. The game helps you get out of 'head'/current perspective and helps you see from a much wider view. By the end of playing a game you have actionable outcomes to move forward with."}

_{Brian M Truskowski}

_{Life Coach}

_{Michigan, USA}

_{"Adapt takes the permaculture principles that helped me so much in my life as a farmer and helps me apply them to health, working with kids or solving global or local issues - it's definitely a way to make problem solving more fun!"}

_{Beth Celeste-Eitzen}

_{Farmer & Mother}

_{Ann Arbor, MI, USA}

_{"I've played the 'Adapt' game with Charlie and watched good friends go through the process. It's powerful and inspiring stuff. If you have a project or need to refocus on what you're doing, I'd thoroughly recommend this.'}

_{'Adapt or die!'}

_{Stewart Boyle}

_{One Planet Media}

_{Red Van, Lewes, UK & Portugal}

_{"Adapt is so applicable and innovative, that any group of people can use the game to amplify ideas into action."}

_{Hilary Nichols}

_{"I always wished for a game like this! You can use it to generate ideas and come up with solutions."}

_{Joet Reoma}

_{"What a great game!! I feel inspired and positive about my next move in life and Adapt helped me get clear on the things that are the most important to me. Well done!!"}

_{Suzanne Maher}

_{Affirmations Publishing}

_{Bellingen, NSW, Australia}

_{"I use Adapt to design engagement activities, frame problems and develop questions for community participation or codesign sessions. I regularly use the cards as a kind of check list or inspiration to get my thinking flowing. I think Adapt is great for testing your process because it gives you unexpected outcomes or new aspects to consider. This is an important exercise for practitioners working with diverse communities to achieve varied goals. I have used Adapt for community engagement and participation in projects surrounding: disaster risk reduction and resilience, climate change action plans and housing strategies to inform policy making."}

_{Ella West}

_{Community Engagement Officer}

_{Brunswick West, Melbourne, Australia}

_{"I have used the Adapt game in mainstream secondary school, as a tool to support decision making in the Geography classroom... I have used it to support conceptual decision making in the classroom (such as in an 'industry' topic: what might the environmental impacts be if I put my business there....?).... As we explored the design question, issues that arose were stuck up on post-its on the wall, and we worked through those issues together. Playing a 'big' game so everyone could participate in one enquiry. 'Adapt' guides enquiry-based questions really well and could be used in any subject. (Even staff CPD!) I have also used it as the game of Adapt, played with real life conundrums around university/apprenticeship/job questions when preparing 6th Form personal statements in tutor time....I would highly recommend 'Adapt' as a brilliant addition to any teacher toolkit. It is also fun, so that is always a winning combination, deep learning and fun, in any classroom!!"}

_{Sam Aukland MSc.}

_{Climate Change/Geography Teacher 11-18}

_{Marlborough, UK}

_{"The questions and scenarios presented are very thought provoking and will lead you down a path of very fun and creative new ideas."}

_{Jesse Radenbush}

_{Urban Farmer and Educator}

_{Plymouth, MI, USA}

_{"There was much interest in the Adapt game at Campout 2022 and I am very much looking forward to playing it and seeing how we can apply it to the growing Campfire community."}

_{Pete Lawrence}

_{Campfire Convention, UK}

_{"Brilliant! 'Adapt', the Design Game, is like having Nature ask you key mentoring questions to help you design the future in harmony with Her 'living systems', instead of our 'mental' images of efficiency. Look at our buildings today... boxes... When you look in a forest, how many boxes do you see? When you look in the heavens, how many boxes do you see? Nature, as a living system, has been designing much, much longer than the Human species... We're still learning how her designs work so elegantly, gracefully... and 'Adapt' helps us tap into Her Design sensibilities."}

_{Mark Wagnon}

_{Cyberneticist}

_{Ann Arbor, MI, USA}

_{"This is Tarot but in another form...."}

_{Clive Hedger}

_{Buzzards Nest Retreat Centre}

_{Builth Wells, Wales}

What is Adapt?

Adapt is a hands-on game and tool that helps players explore and design innovative, nature-inspired solutions. By engaging with Adapt, you will:

Cultivate Systems Thinking: Gain insights into interconnected challenges and opportunities.
Foster Collaboration: Work with others to co-create regenerative designs.
Design for Resilience: Explore strategies to adapt to complex and changing circumstances.

Rooted in the principles of permaculture, ecological design, and creative problem-solving, Adapt provides a powerful framework for meaningful transformation.

Who is Adapt for?

Educators and facilitators looking to inspire creative thinking.
Teams and organizations seeking new approaches to problem-solving.
Community leaders, activists, and changemakers working on regenerative projects.
Anyone passionate about aligning with nature’s wisdom to design a thriving future.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Adapt Digital Resources

_{To purchase the inspirational full size canvas Adapt Design Poster, please visit our AUS Shopify and USA Shopify stores.}

_Click_here_{for the free download version of the Adapt Design Poster, included with purchases of the Adapt Design Deck.}

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At Garden Juju Collective, we are dedicated to sustainability, regeneration and healing for people, communities, ecologies and places, through education, mentoring, design and creative projects. Learn more about our mission and other offerings!

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"This game will give you the power and possibility to change your life! It changed mine. I’ve spent years developing this game because I whole-heartedly believe in it. It is absolutely our right and responsibility to live exciting, full and creative lives – by design."

Bridget O’Brien

Adapt Co-Creator

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"Every now and then something emerges that has genius in it. I often observe people playing Adapt. It never stops surprising me, the sparks of insight, the energy of inspiration, that look of determination when a person suddenly understands how they can really change their lives, and the lives of those around them, so much for the better...."

Dr. Charlie Brennan