Café Life Hack

Sit down. What do you need right now?

A café for life hacks — for the moments work gets stuck, alone or with a whole team.

Pick one. Use it today.

Every one of these started in a real room — a meeting that stalled, a team that couldn’t say the thing. Nature had already solved it, through 3.8 billion years of evolution: sense, share, adjust, grow back stronger. Thirty years of putting nature to work in real rooms — thirteen principles, four games, more than four hundred cards.

Behind the counter: Sinnet Bødewadt and Erin Wiedmer — co-founders of Averdine, co-authors of the thirteen principles that kept showing up.

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Inside Café Life Hack — people at a round table with question cards between them, and one seat free at the front.
Inside Café Life Hack — what do you feel like today? · Illustrations: drawn with AI, directed by hand. The cards are ours.
Averdine

The same principles that run a forest run these tools.

Café Life Hack is the personal branch of Averdine. What you train here — balance, timing, honest exchange — Averdine builds at full scale: into farms, food systems and data people can trust. Behind both stands one framework: AverVita — nature, business, people and tuning on the same table.

NATURE what already works BUSINESS what has to work PEOPLE what wants to live TUNING energy is a language AverVita CHANGE THAT HOLDS · EXPLORE →

Click AverVita to explore the framework

Read the AverVita story → Meet the founders

Product Families

Two systems, one idea: understand it, feel it in your body, use it with your team — every day.

Shift Your Focus — from storm to calm
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Shifting Focus — Mental Resilience

"The subtle drives the visible"

You can't think your way out of survival mode — but you can train your way back to calm. The science, the body exercises, the facilitator guide and 91 daily cards: one system, from first insight to daily habit.

Keynote Zone Workshop Facilitator Guide SYF Card Game
Start training your calm — from €17 →
Four card games — same table
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Card Game Collection — Teams & Leaders

"Diversity creates strength"

The real conversation rarely starts by itself — a card starts it for you. Four games, four lenses: ethical dilemmas, leadership dialogue, design thinking, and body-mind exercises. Built on 13 principles from nature.

Dilemma Game Dialogue Game Creator Game Shift Your Focus
Pick your game — four lenses, from €9 →
The Principles Deck — Averdine Edition
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Averdine Line — Nature’s Principles at Scale

"Everything is connected"

The same principles that run these tools, turned outward: questions and frameworks for organisations that want to work with living systems instead of against them. First serving: The Principles Deck.

The Principles Deck More brewing
Put the principles to work — from €17 →

Access & Licences — One Café, Two Doors

"Generous exchange"

Buying for yourself? Every purchase includes a personal licence — pay what feels fair. Running sessions with groups? The facilitator licence is a fixed price and includes the complete bundle plus group rights. Or take All Access and get everything, always updated.

Personal licence Facilitator licence Up to 5 facilitators All Access
Choose your door — licences & All Access →

More Tools

Standalone tools — each one removes a specific, recurring headache.

LSP — hands build the shared model
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LSP Facilitator Manual

Hands build what words can't say yet. The complete LEGO Serious Play guide — setup to debrief.

Everything is connected Get the manual — from €27 → Workshop Playbook — the plan is ready
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Workshop Playbook

Design any workshop in minutes — drag, drop, deliver. Your energy goes to the people, not the plan.

Structure and flexibility Try 3 blocks free — full plan from €27 →
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DISC Communication

Communication strategies built on DISC profiles. For teams and leaders.

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Lean Tools

Process optimisation, flow analysis, waste mapping. Practical and visual.

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Real rooms, real shifts

Four true stories about what happens when the right tool lands on the table.

Team around a table with dilemma cards

When the room disagreed — and that was the point

A development group discovered they didn’t share values. The Dilemma Game turned that into a strength.

 Leaders discovering different meanings in shared words

The words we thought we shared

A leadership team used the same words — and meant completely different things. The Dialogue Game found the shared language.

 Store design growing through Creator Game cards

Redesigning from the roots

A retail team was stuck on their flagship store — until the Creator Game moved them from surface to principles.

 Change agent and citizen sharing a Shift Your Focus card

A different lens changes everything

Change agents started from the body instead of the mind — and reached conversations their usual tools couldn’t.

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Like any good café, we serve more than one brand: Café Life Hack tools for people and teams, and the Averdine line — nature’s principles at organisational scale. Pick your tool, choose your format, pay what feels fair.

Shift Your Focus cards
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Shift Your Focus Cards

91 exercise cards for body, mind, and breath. 7 energy perspectives.

Shift Your Focus — from €17 / 129 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

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The Dilemma Game cards
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The Dilemma Game

Ethical dilemma cards for teams and leaders. Consultant Edition.

The Dilemma Game — from €9 / 67 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

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The Dialogue Game cards
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The Dialogue Game

Leadership dialogue cards. Build trust, surface real conversations.

The Dialogue Game — from €9 / 67 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

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The Creator Game cards
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The Creator Game

232 design thinking cards. Tree board, 3-layer creative system.

The Creator Game — from €37 / 279 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

See the Creator Game →
LSP Facilitator Manual pages
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LSP Facilitator Manual

Complete LEGO Serious Play guide. Setup to debrief, with real cases.

LSP Facilitator Manual — from €27 / 199 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

See the manual →
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The Principles Deck cards
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The Principles Deck

13 nature design principles, 7 lenses, 91 questions for your organisation.

The Principles Deck — from €17 / 129 kr. Pay what feels fair. See formats.

Play the question game free →
See the deck →

Want everything? All Access & facilitator licences live here →

Shaped by 13 principles from nature

Not philosophy you read — patterns you already know from work. Here is each principle, translated to a Tuesday at the office:

Stillness before creation
Ten minutes on the real question saves three weeks on the wrong answer.
Everything is connected
A discount decided in sales lands in support’s inbox three weeks later.
Symbiosis — mutual value
The onboarding buddy learns by teaching. Giving IS receiving.
Circular flow
A closed complaint is waste. A complaint fed into the product is fuel.
Diversity creates strength
The colleague who always disagrees is the immune system.
Structure + flexibility
Fix the trunk, free the branches — agendas that hold while the talk moves.
The subtle drives the visible
The leader’s mood travels faster than the memo.
Timing matters
The right idea in the wrong quarter is the wrong idea.
Balance creates abundance
A team at 85% outproduces a team at 100% — over a year.
Adaptation over force
Pushing harder on a failing rollout burns people. Resistance is information.
Generous exchange
Shared knowledge compounds. Gatekept knowledge depreciates.
Distributed leadership
Decisions belong where the information lives.
Life energy — the unseen
When the eyes light up, it goes fast. Motivation is invited, not commanded.

The full story behind the principles →

Want a facilitated experience?

Book a live workshop — 90-minute energy session, full-day team programme, or custom design. All tools included.

Get in touch → See real workshop cases

Hear the connection

Why every tool here is tuned to how nature works — Sinnet as guest on The Business Revolution podcast. Four ideas from the conversation:

Every part plays a role

Birdsong wakes the plants’ photosynthesis before the sun is up. Ecosystems run on win-win — and so do teams.

Go beyond zero

Reduction still leaves an impact. A plus-plus mindset — buildings that feed pollinators and share their surplus — changes which solutions you can even see.

Everything is a cycle

Carbon, water, nutrients — and the value flowing through your business. Don’t weaken the cycles. Strengthen them.

Creativity beats fear

Reduction runs on the fear of losing. Rebuilding runs on creative energy — the eyes light up, and then it goes fast.

🎥 Sinnet with Mik Aidt, Alan Taylor & Cherry Ward — Into the realm of regeneration (29 min)

"A river never forces its way but always reaches the sea. A forest shares nutrients through invisible networks. These patterns aren't just nature — they're how the most effective tools work too."
Read the full story →