We help people and organisations develop new ways of being and organising that are fit for the future.
We work with
Public Institutions
Municipalities, regions and national bodies
Organisations
Cultural, social and youth organisations and community groups
Research Institutes
Universities, research centres and independent research bodies
The Field Società Cooperativa
We’re living through a time of deep and rapid change.
At The Field, we support people, organisations and public institutions in navigating this complexity—felt at personal, organisational, and systemic levels—by reconnecting with purpose, nurturing creative leadership, and testing new ways of thinking and doing to spark meaningful, lasting change in response to complex social and environmental challenges.
We are a cooperative based in Trieste, on Italy’s northeastern border, working locally and internationally. Our mission is to enable a just ecological and social transition through creativity, collaboration, and community empowerment.
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​What we believe
We believe that creativity has the power to ignite both imagination and agency—the keys to addressing the challenges of the 21st century. In a world overwhelmed by crises, creativity, emotional intelligence, and collective leadership are not luxuries—they are essential.
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We also believe that interdisciplinary collaboration and systems thinking will shape the way forward. These ways of working require trust, facilitation, and a safe space for exploration—and that’s what we offer.
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​What we do
We help people thrive in complexity.
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Through creative projects, research, training, facilitation, coaching, and consultancy, we create spaces where new ideas and approaches can emerge. Our work spans multiple sectors—youth, culture, academia, civil society, and public institutions—both locally and internationally.
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We support and design initiatives that:
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Strengthen participative democracy and community-driven governance
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Enable people to co-create new paradigms of leadership rooted in empathy, meaning, and collective wellbeing
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Build capacity for systems thinking and place-based innovation
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Facilitate cultural and ecological regeneration
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Foster meaningful collaboration across disciplines and sectors
We work across different ‘fields’ of knowledge and practice—often shaping new ones—to help individuals and organisations make sense of complexity, reconnect with their purpose, and take action with confidence and creativity.​
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​How we work
We support people to access their creative agency, align with their values, and “be the change” in their communities. When people connect to purpose, practice emotional awareness, and engage with others meaningfully, they experience greater wellbeing—and become powerful agents of transformation.
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Our work combines non-formal education, participatory facilitation, and strategic project design to make complex ideas tangible and inclusive. We create environments where trust and dialogue can flourish—where participative democracy, collaborative leadership, and interdisciplinary exploration can lead to new ways of thinking and doing.
Together, we are working toward emerging new leadership paradigms that are fit for a world in transition—leadership that is shared, creative, relational, and grounded in collective wellbeing.
Our values
Everything we do is grounded in the principles we live by:
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Inclusion, diversity, and equity
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Collaboration and co-creation
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Respect for the environment and all forms of life
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Peace and non-violence
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The connection between personal growth and systemic change
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The importance of uplifting marginalised voices in the just transition
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A commitment to decolonising development and embracing happy degrowth
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Walking our talk: embodying the change we want to see
Why it matters
Today’s crises are also a crisis of the collective imagination. People and organisations face complex challenges, but also hold extraordinary potential to reimagine and rebuild.
Through our work, we support changemakers to reclaim agency and co-create a future rooted in justice, care, sustainability, and solidarity.
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Because imagining a better world is the first act in making it real.
Meet the Team
Our team brings together diverse backgrounds—from civic innovation and youth engagement, to climate action, arts and culture, organisational psychology, systems change, and public policy. What unites us is a shared belief in the power of community, creativity, and care to transform our world from the ground up.
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We started The Field to bring this interdisciplinary, nature-connected lens to complex social and environmental issues.
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Amayah Pelegrin
Amayah is a creative strategist, coach and facilitator whose mission it is to awaken the full potential of people and organisations to thrive and co-create a sustainable future.
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Working with over 700 organisations and individuals across the creative industries, the social sector, academia and corporate business, she has lead projects and leadership training programmes in the UK, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia on creativity and innovation, organisational development, emotional intelligence, systems change, climate action and intercultural understanding, supporting people to realise their creative power, collaborate and make bold changes.
She conducts original research, and her most recent paper “Feel Your Feelings” is an exploration of how embodied emotional intelligence is crucial to our ability to thrive and creatively lead in times of crisis. ​She also provides coaching and executive leadership development to individuals and teams, and as an associate trainer and coach with 64 million artists Strategic Leadership in Research and Women in Climate programmes.
Previously she was Head of Creative Programmes at pioneering organisation Julie's Bicycle, developing programmes and campaigns to embed climate justice into the cultural sector and support a new generation of Creative Climate Leaders. She co-designed Creative Climate Leadership in 2017, the world's first climate-specific leadership programme for the cultural sector.
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Amayah holds a masters in Creative Media Enterprise from Warwick University, is a certified ILM7 Executive Coach, and a fellow of the UK’s Clore Leadership Programme. ​​​​​​​​​
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Vid Tratnik
Vid is a consultant and education designer with a background in psychology, working in the space of personal and social development. ​He works with public administration and NGOs on strategic organisational development and provides coaching and executive leadership development to individuals and teams. His mission is to activate the individual and organisational resources that bring empowerment and social change.
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Previously he led the Association for Art and Social Change PiNA (2005 - 2022), building it from scratch to a thriving organisation of 15 employees leading national and international projects that support the sustainable development of civil society through art, social innovation, non-formal education and citizen science across Europe.
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As a freelance coach, educator, consultant and practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed since 2006, Vid has worked with clients such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the European Commission, writing manuals and delivering training courses on participative public policy, cultural management, media literacy and climate leadership.
Vid was a board member of the Regional Development Council of the Obalno-kraška region in Slovenia (2007-2014), of the steering committee of the Interreg Program SI-IT (2014-2020) and the Regional Association of SMEs in Koper (2018-2022).
He has a Masters in the Management of Sustainable Development from the University of Koper (SI), he works as consultant for development of projects and organisations in the cultural sector, works as an expert and trainer for the Italian Governmental Agency for Youth in Rome and coordinates a project for organisational wellbeing in the prestigious Research Institute SISSA in Trieste.
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Duna Viezzoli
Duna is a researcher, consultant, project manager and trainer with experience in European and local development projects across the youth, environmental, social and cultural sectors, with public institutions, research and training centres, and cultural organisations.
She is currently conducting participatory and action research about innovative and place-based sustainable tourism models with local communities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, as part of the national project CHANGES - Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society - where cultural resources and landscape Heritage are engaged in the development of collective solutions that support local administrations and organisations through entrepreneurship and strategic planning tools.
Duna is also among the scientific curators of the working table of Heritage professionals and practitioners under 35, from all over Europe, NextGen Heritage - Think it Big which investigates the relations between Heritage, migrations and climate change, and will provide policy recommendations to the Italian Ministries of Culture, Research and Education.
She is also a trainer in vocational training institutions in Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Associazione Casa del Cinema, CIOFS FP FVG, AdFormandum), on environmental and social sustainability, sustainable development and global citizenship, and European project planning and management.
She has also done strategic development for small and medium-sized cultural organisations in Italy, Argentina, Scotland and Cuba. She works in the Italian triveneto and on the cross-border area with Slovenia, Austria, Croatia and Serbia, for the environmental transition and climate action of CCIs.
For the Bora Museum in Trieste, she is the curator for the European University Alliance project Transform4Europe, for which she plans and implements activities on the bordering areas of its 10 partner universities.
Duna has a Master's degree in Arts Festival and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University.
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She is an activist for the eco-social transformation.
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