We are living through an era of unraveling. Climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, backlash against human rights, increasing conflict and social hatred. These are not isolated events, but interwoven patterns.
Civil society wasn’t built to effectively address these interconnected crises.
And the systems meant to support those fighting for justice are fragmenting under the pressure of these crises.
And yet, everywhere we turn, there are people holding the line.
Organisers resisting authoritarianism. Feminist climate defenders facing down despair. Queer, disabled, Indigenous, and migrant leaders imagining futures beyond survival.
But these same leaders are often isolated, underfunded, and burnt out. Left to face overlapping crises with tools that weren’t designed for the world we’re in now.
At Intertidal, we ask:
What does it take to sustain collective action in a time of systemic breakdown?
What if movements had the inner and outer infrastructure to not only resist collapse but reimagine everything?
This is what we do.
We build infastructure for emergence.
That means creating spaces, tools and support for leaders, movements, and communities to navigate complexity. Not with rigid blueprints, but with the grounding and clarity to grow something different.
It’s about healing the separations that keep us from collective, regenerative responses. Between care and action, mind and body, movements and communities, politics and grief. It’s about refusing the fragmentation of siloed advocacy, and instead building civil society that can breathe, adapt, connect, and endure.
We work at the intersection of
systemic crisis and collective wellbeing.
This means holding multiple truths at once:
That climate collapse is real.
That authoritarianism is spreading.
That burnout is political.
And that in the middle of it all, people are still dreaming, resisting, and building.
Our work is shaped by what these times demand.
Leadership grounded in care, justice, and clarity.
Strategies that span movements, not just issues.
Support for those who are holding grief, rage, and hope all at once.
Our approach is relational, regenerative and responsive.
We don’t offer fixed solutions. We create conditions where people can surface their own. Because communities already carry the wisdom they need, what’s missing is the infrastructure to support it.
We host spaces for collective strategy and care, where people can map complexity, grieve together, learn from each other and imagine new ways forward.
We invest in regenerative rhythms. Practices of rest, reflection, and repair because we know sustainable activism isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing differently.
We believe in plurality without erasure.
In building bridges across movements, geographies, and knowledge systems, not to flatten difference, but to learn how to hold it with respect.