Regenerative Finance - Investing in Service of Life

To gather capital influencers and capacity builders with the ability to move capital, in a way that awakens and develops our individual and collective capabilities to think from regenerative principles, so that we invest in service to life systems. 

A meaningful shift towards a regenerative economy in service of life requires key capital influences to upgrade the quality of thinking and investment. 

The questions we’re holding, 

“Are we deploying capital in a way that increases the wealth-generating capability of the systems we’re investing in? 

And why is investing and philanthropy, as currently deployed, not achieving this? 

How do I begin to develop the capacity to live and invest regeneratively?”

The program offers: 

• Regenerative thinking — collectively learn and apply foundational living system principles and practices to develop our capacity and effectiveness in stewarding capital.
• Holonic capital development — develop capabilities at the level of the individual participants, a community of capital influencers, and the arena of financial investing. 
• High-order potential — experience seeing potential from a regenerative paradigm 
• Love – we work from love, free from dogma and othering 
• Upgrading measurement from impact to effects — the effect we have on the world tells us if our investment processes are effective or ineffective. We’ll evolve how we measure and track effectiveness.
• Community of Practice — a community committed to building the field of regenerative capital
• Deep dives — delve into specific elements of the investing process such governance, due diligence, sourcing, term sheets from a regenerative mindset

Money is like water, it’s a precious lifegiving resource. Money should be a tool of love that facilitates relationships and helps us thrive rather than something that hurts and divides us. If we use it for sacred lifegiving purposes it can be medicine. -Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth

For more context:

Investing is a process, an acupuncture point, with the potential to regenerate the living system that it’s part of. Investing is an inherent process of living systems. It is not unique to humans, nor is it a one time activity.

Financial investments, is a subset or type of investing, can and must also serve the system it’s part of. The jump from impact investment to investing regenerative requires us to ask:

• • What system am I serving with my investments?

  • What role does financial investing play in this system?

  • How can I utilize the assets I possess (financial or otherwise) to be in service to this system?

  • What assets do I have the potential to regenerate?

  • What’s possible when we link and reintegrate different forms of investment together versus isolate financial investment (as singular and superior)?

  • Each of us has a unique and concrete way of manifesting potential in the arena of investing. What is mine?