Regen Places Network is a growing network of place-based alliances focused on building the social infrastructure and capacity for places to initiate community-led projects for the regeneration of cities, towns and bioregions.
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#communitylandtrusthttps://lnkd.in/gFF2ANAdhttps://lnkd.in/gvsBW-CH
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#communitylandtrusthttps://lnkd.in/gFF2ANAdhttps://lnkd.in/gvsBW-CH
"Have you ever wondered what the forest dreams about? Why the river flows the way it goes? How the mountain ponders? And the ocean considers?
Country is calling to us. Can you hear the story of your place?
Story of place allows the Earth to imagine a new future through us.
Regen Places Network is gathering a coalition of everyone to map places, relationships and communities we hold dear and co-create a new story of place.
Together, we're mobilising community-led response, for place-based regenerative action, across Australia, Oceania and the Earth.
We are leaders and conveners, healers and weavers, farmers, scientists, artists and innovators. Everyday people from all walks of life coming together for the wellbeing of our planet and all who live upon her. For now, and future generations.
So what we want to know is, which story of place do you belong to?"
Absolutely love this video by Regen Places Network.
Join Regen Places Network and start sharing your Story of Place at regenplaces.network 🦋
#storyofplace#regeneration#RegenerativeFutures#RegenerativeDevelopment#bioregioning
For the past 3+ years we've been building trust with a remarkable network of place-based leaders and convenors across Australia. Bayo Akomolafe talks about obstacles as 'the richest, thickest, densest place in the universe'. Considering this, funding bioregional regeneration is rather an obstacle in the field at large - it is not business as usual, it exists in a paradigm outside of our current dominant operating system. Sharing more here on Bioregional and Regenerative Funds and Finance and how we can take bold courageous shifts for the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible, using these frameworks as we build a new Bioregional Institute, as a co-op, for the commons, in service to people and places.
#regeneration#bioregionalism#regenerativefinance#regenerativedevelopment#regenplacesnetwork#bioregionalinstitute
