so what does regenerative actually mean?

a way of woRking that supports more Life to grow

Not just greener. Not just more ethical. Something much more fundamental.

A regenerative approach mirrors the patterns of healthy ecosystems. Nature has spent 4 billion years perfecting what works — and we can apply those lessons to help more life to grow. Be that nature, business, products or people.

When we apply that logic to organisations, everything shifts.

How decisions get made. How people are supported. How the business relates to the communities and natural world around it.

10 simple actions to get you started
What’s in a name?

ten Actions. one syStem.

REGENASYST is an acronym, but more importantly it is a set of interconnected actions that work together to get your organisation functioning well.

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reframe

See, think and feel the situation differently.

Experiment

Test ideas before you commit.

Grow

Invest in the people who do the work.

Energise

Create the conditions for people to show up.

Nourish

Feed the things that keep the business going.

Align

Operationalise actions to match intentions.

Sense

Pay attention to the the signals. Listen with your whole body.

Yield

Pause, gather and celebrate what you have produced.

Share

Let what works travel further, so others can grow too.

tend

Care for what’s working, let go of what’s not.

we didn’t start from scratch

good thinking has been building for Decades

REGENASYST stands on the shoulders of well established ideas that have been quietly reshaping how we understand organisations, economies and our relationship with nature.

Biomimicry

Janine Benyus’s invitation to treat Nature’s genius as a design manual rather than a resource.

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Permaculture

Bill Mollison and David Holmgren’s design principles, grounded in earth care, people care and fair shares, that apply as readily to organisations as to land.

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Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth’s model that reframes growth toward a truer measure of thriving, within social and planetary boundaries.

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Systems Thinking

Donella Meadows’s tools for seeing the feedback loops, relationships and leverage points that conventional management tends to miss.

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What these frameworks share is simple:

You cannot understand a whole system by looking at its parts in isolation.

read Our philosophy on organisational health
before the frameworks, there was Indigenous knowledge

regenerative thinking is not new. in many ways, it is a rEturn.

Indigenous communities around the world have developed and maintained land management, governance and relational practices over thousands of years that embody much of what Western science and thinking is only now beginning to rediscover.

We name this not to appropriate it, but to honour it.

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