Our Impact
We inhale to resource and gather ourselves, we exhale to offer support and share what we can.
We get frustrated when businesses (particularly big businesses) are given a free pass on moral responsibilities.
It’s not right that the hollow box of a legal corporation is given more rights than a fleshy living human or natural ecosystems. Most businesses take more than they need, and give back less than they should.
If your friend behaved like that, you’d tell them grow up.
Commerce and trade existed well before capitalism, and will continue long after. Real commerce is anchored in mutually agreed value, respect, trusting relationships, and systems of interconnection and reciprocity.
Businesses can only exist within the human ecosystem, not outside of it. If a business is considered a legal person (corporation is from corpus = latin for body) then it should play by the same rules as you and I. What’s its character? Is it a good friend? Does it contribute to community and environmental health, or steal from it?
Positive examples exist. There are social enterprises, not-for-profits, and B-Corps that are genuinely great citizens. They are helping on multiple fronts and keeping resources inside the systems they exist in. As a family owned studio (Tessa and Triton), we run Human.Kind Studios for purpose, not for profit.
Our studio is Australia’s first in our industry to achieve B-Corp Accreditation. That’s a very robust accreditation that legally commits us to a high standard of care for people and planet. Our core business in personal and community health, which is a good thing. But it’s how we do business, that is particularly special.
Now we are definitely not perfect but we do a bloody good job of redistributing the economic resources our members share with us back into our community. Instead of profit taken for private gain, we reinvest it into people and places. Whether that’s subsidised memberships for those that need, fair living wages for staff, investments in landcare at Myponga Beach, significant community grants and donations, or free educational events.
If Human.Kind was a person, our hope is that you would consider it a good citizen helping make our world a better place.
Our impact
Human.Kind. is a movement of care. Our mission is to support personal and collective health, through movement, therapy, community building and meaningful activism. Our impact reflects that mission, with our widening circles of care going from the individual to the community to society and the planet.
Myponga project
With these 107 hectares of beautiful, yet ecologically degraded, farm land under our care, we aim to create a special place of deepening connection.
Impact Fund
Pooling our resources for collective impact. This is a not-for-profit foundation, entirely separate from our business operations, so donations are 100% tax deductible.
The Ripple Effect
Monthly micro-grant program to boost local grassroots projects. Ripple Grants fund transformational projects that build and shape communities at local scale.
First Nations Scholarships
Our First Nations Scholarship program is an initiative that offers one fully funded position to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person for each of the registered training courses offered at Human.Kind. Studios.
What we’re doing
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Human.Kind are a proud Certified B-Corporation. That means using business as a force for good.
Human.Kind join an international network of organisations leading global systems change. All B Corps (Benefit Corporations) support the collective vision of an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. Benefitting all people, communities, and the planet.
B Corp Certification is a public and legal commitment to be accountable to our people and our planet. We’ve we’ve been measuring our social and environmental impact since 2022.
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Human.Kind are fully committed to an ultra low environmental impact in our onsite.
This low impact sensibility has been part of our ethos from the start. Our B-Corp status has helped us gain even more momentum and take bolder steps as a studio, business and community. operations, suppliers, staff and students.
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Our team and community are committed to sorting our waste, compostables and recyclables as they occur. We audit our site waste monthly to discover where we can do better. Our standard landfill waste profile per week is just one shopping bag per week across the full city studio (including physiotherapy and community contributed waste). Glenelg Studio waste is approximately one shopping bag every two (or more) weeks.
We aim for zero landfill waste target, predominantly through better education and selection of our suppliers. To support this zero waste target, our retail items are deliberately minimal and yoga essential. We choose plastic free items and packaging however some suppliers still deliver plastic to our site in the form of transit packaging. We are working with suppliers to improve their standards.
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We understand that the financial system is largely entangled with a profit at all cost mentality, seeking out monetary gains even if it results in environmental or social depletion.
In 2020 we moved our business banking to Bank Australia, an Australian customer owned bank and certified B-Corp. We also offered an ongoing 1% bonus superannuation contribution for all employees and contractors who moved their personal superannuation to an ethical provider.
Our first Intelligent Living topic of 2021 centred the main community action as divestment. It achieved nearly 100 divestment actions which we estimated a combined impact of over $3M divested from fossil fuel supporting superannuation funds and banks. -
We had Adelaide City Council install additional bike racks at the front of our building in 2018 to encourage students to make use of the bike paths in our area. We also installed security cameras to watch over the bikes at street level. Both City and Glenelg studios are sites were chose because they are well serviced by the public transport and bike paths. These scope 3 emissions by staff and community in their commute to the studio are something that we are aiming to improve in 2021 through education and incentives.
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Water flow rate limiters have been applied to all showers and faucets. Members are encouraged to keep shower time to a minimum to minimise the waste of both the water and the energy to heat the water.
We do not currently have a way to measure water usage. And because of shared use buildings at both City and Glenelg studios it is unlikely that we will be able to get good data on this.