About Us

The Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice has been at the leading edge of Regenerative Development for 30 years. We are working alongside our global community of practice to become increasingly effective agents for transforming the way humans inhabit the earth.

Early Pioneers in Regenerative Development

Our co-founders have spent three decades working together to pioneer the discipline of Regenerative Development, animated by the belief that human communities can become sources of health, rather than degradation, for the ecological systems they inhabit.

As the US-based collaborative Regenesis Group, we used our work with forward-thinking developers, land stewards, and planning entities to create and field-test a robust methodology for regenerative development projects.

And, we used this experimentation to evolve a rigorous theory base, which we documented and shared through teaching, speaking, and lecturing, and by publishing extensively—including the seminal book Regenerative Development & Design: A Practice for Evolving Sustainability.

From Pioneering The Approach to Growing The Field

These early projects delivered promising results–creating an important proof-of-concept for the premise that human beings can meet their needs effectively and abundantly in ways that nourish the ecological systems we depend on.

But to realize the true potential of regenerative development, we knew that we needed to grow the field–putting this approach into the hands of practitioners who could work over many years to serve the long-term health and potential of the places they inhabit.

Towards this aim we created what is now our flagship education program, The Regenerative Practitioner Series, in 2013 and founded Regenesis Institute as a dedicated nonprofit entity to carry this education work forward. To date we’ve worked deeply with nearly 2000 practitioners on seven continents, engaging them in rigorous education programs that explore both the theory and the practice of regenerative development.

Moving from Mentorship to Partnership

Now we stand at a threshold. Regenesis co-founders are shifting from a role in which we have been mentoring the next generation of regenerative practitioners to one in which we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with this next generation as peers working to co-create a new order of potential for this work in places around the world.

Through our new program the Regenerative Places Research & Development network, we’re launching multi-year collaborations that with practitioners who have moved beyond project-by-project successes towards leading long-term whole-systems change processes in their places.

This evolutionary shift is regenerating not only our methodology, but also the Institute itself, as we step up to a new level of co-design, co-investment, and co-governance with the next generation of regenerative development leaders.

Photos above courtesy of Gary Bendig, Avery Hardy, Brice Cooper and Josine Bakkes.