Veridian Developments

I’ve just had quite the shock that definitely shouldn’t have shocked me as it was our own design, but actually achieving it in less than nine months has been quite the eye opener Nine secured projects, programs, and land assets in nine months… it’s been a busy year We are structuring the pitch decks now for local and state government, philanthropic, impact, and investors support for our Story of Place program and documentary work around the country The Journey so far… We can not consciously design our societies of the future in place without understanding who place is or where it’s been Story of Place (SoP) is a process for us to regeneratively map a region to understand its unique characteristics and complexity in a co-designed narrative with the local community, creating a sense of ownership and cohesion in deep relationships across the living system This is a living storying process that only needs to be done once to activate each region, anchored around a live project to embed the work in community… all other projects then build from this regenerative foundation layer into the future This first round of SoP has already began through nine secured projects from Indigenous mixed-use developments, regenerative villages, affordable housing, and bioregional learning centres, to Indigenous youth education programs and incarceration prevention centres The population within the first nine secured project regions is over 18 million Australian’s who’s lives are directly supported by the living ecosystem they are a part of The projects teams for the management of each SoP are formed around a collaborative partnership between Regen Places Network, our regenerative development partners Veridian Developments, Digital Storytellers, the project owners, and engaged members of the community Mapping the regions we are storying as a value-adding process for actual live and secured projects means we are able to embed the principles and patterns that have evolved in each region into the foundational layers of the work A explanation of Story of Place that has emerged in the field while I’ve been fumbling around trying to simplify the complexity of this process to communities: Continue in Post: #regeneration #regenerativedevelopment #regenerativeenterprise #storyofplace #RegenerativeAgriculture #charities #regenerativetourism #regenerativedesign #impact #philanthropy #investment #builtenvironment #environment #sustainability #socialinvestment #impactinvestment #esg #unsdg’s https://lnkd.in/gabFTJub

Flights booked for the last lap of our projects on the East Coast… 7 days… 8 Places… and a fair to fierce amount of executive function collapse from deep and meaningful conversations with deep and meaningful leaders in the Regen Places Network So why all the fuss?? Because in our work, the project isn’t really the project, the people are the project, and the projects are activating infrastructure to help us gather around and learn to learn together, love together, with each other, and the living world Why is this important?? What could be more important in an uncertain future than to build resilience through community connection, through a community of communities in connection and collaboration around shared understandings of place and each other Who is community?? Not just the local hippy greeny weirdos who want to chain themselves to trees so your grandchildren will be able to breath, but the entire community from baker to banker, preacher to publican, and Indigenous Elder to local politician But Michael… aren’t you just colonising places with regen as the next white wave of do-goodery this place has seen over 236 years?? Not a chance, regenerative development isn’t a thing or a system that you implement but a process of enquiry and discovery into what is real in place. It’s lifting up the hood of place and shining light on what lives there under the bonnet of this modern world. Its reaching into the engine bay and reminding all inside that they are not cogs and belts in a machine but living breathing sparks of genius that the world is at a loss if not aloud to flourish in their own essence It’s a process of soaking into the ground to nourish the life deep in the soul to grow and rise up into the light And I get the chance to grow in my own unique potential while activating people and places to reach theirs What’s not to love about that Next Steps… Almost 12 places and projects to kick off 2025 with a bang for the rolling documentary work, Regen Places Network fund raise, Story of Place program raise, individual project investment raise across property, business, infrastructure, and education Not long left of the year… but what is a year but an endless dance of the sun trying to warm the moon #regeneration #regenerativedevelopment #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativetourism #regenerativeenterprise #regenerativegathering #regenerativerealestate #affordablehousing #placebasedcapital #regenerativewealth #communitydevelopment #communitylandtrust https://lnkd.in/gFF2ANAd https://lnkd.in/gvsBW-CH

Community Investment for Almost Everyone... Live Trial How do we create an ecosystem of investment that almost everyone in community can benefit from? Investors and property owners financially benefit from the entire lived experience created in a place, from the government using everyone’s tax dollars to spend on physical infrastructure, the artists and creatives building cultural infrastructure, businesses creating social infrastructure, the trade and spending of local peoples hard earned dollars creating economic infrastructure, and even the living place providing natural infrastructure… All of this is capitalised by property owners, investors, and property developers through a mechanism of speculation and segregation of the financially fittest from the rest of the community This just doesn’t make any sense to me I’m not pushing a socialist agenda here but just asking everyone to see the opportunity that a united community of local people helping each other could create Not everyone comes from the same place in life, and even if they did, life has a way of playing same same but different… rather than flattening out society or fighting each other on what is or is not right, lets think this one out a little Why can’t we come together and create a local ecosystem of opportunity so that those who choose to work together in deeper relationships with each other and the living world, have the opportunity to do so Sun Villages’ affordable housing model has the building blocks of how this can be done in a collaborative and nourishing environment, and we are looking to explore more options with the community to make it even better Continue in Post... #queanbeyan #investment #community #affordablehousing #regeneration #regenerativewealth #regenerativedevelopment #propertyinvestment

Next week sees the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 hosted by Tanya Plibersek in #Sydney with the Australian Government and NSW Government. Regen Places Network is thrilled to be participating and can't wait to meet and connect with more amazing humans working towards a #NaturePositive world. Regen Places Network is a living knowledge network for collective impact, that exists to connect, nourish and develop conveners, in a way that we are co-creating with Nature, so that we can realise the regeneration of people and our places. As part of the community-led response for regenerative place-based action, our network currently represents over 50 leaders and conveners nested in 40 places across Australia and New Zealand - plus a newly forming unbelievably creative cohort who live in the UK, EU, Nth America and Sth Africa. We are the regeneration 🌿 Join Regen Places Network #Regeneration #RegenerativeDevelopment #StoryOfPlace Veridian Developments Coalition of Everyone (CoE)

The stage has been set for Veridian’s deep dive into the murky depths of Regenerative Wealth (value holding) and Regenerative Place Based Capital (value using), and its Queanbeyan who emerged as the land of exploration With multiple projects starting and plenty of potential for more, the trick will be to go slow enough to develop deep relationships in community around the work yet fast enough to keep building the field in place for what seems like a naturally rapid unfolding of the explicate order of things Starting off we have a DA Approved 50 unit affordable housing development with cafe, social space and serviced apartments through he Sun Villages model The Sun Villages Co-operative that empowers community to support regenerative affordable housing intitives within the ecosystem A beautiful urban fringe greenfield site that holds the potential for regenerative real estate development projects, community land trusts, community energy projetcs, regen aggriculture, regen tourism businesses and facilities, bioregional learning centres through the Bioregional Institute… the list goes on The potential for us to create a bioregional impact fund depending on the emergence from the Story of Place and Queanbeyans relationship to Canberra and surrounding places that we learn through it And the creation of a regenerative property syndicate to pool equity of the community to keep the ownership of the projects in Queanbeyan itself so wealth can be localised and circulated enriching the region instead of extracted from it Continue in Post... #regenerative #development #investment #impact #property #propertyinvestment #affordablehousing #communitylandtrust #housing #regenerativedevelopment #regenerativedesign #socialinvestment #regenerativewealth #placebasedcapital #regionaldevelopment Veridian Regen Places Network Australian Community Land Trust Network