Calling all caremakers: Step into your role
Regen Places Newsletter
- Provocation: Make Regeneration Simple by Tyler Key
- An in-person gathering on Gadigal Country - Fri 25 from 4:30pm
- Online intro to regenerative practice for life
- Essay, a proem and a song: We are Earthians by Mathew Mytka
- Article: New Organic Community Layers Unlocked by Michael McElligott
- Article: A Living System for Regenerative Housing and Belonging: SUN Villages by Hayley Moffiet share the life work of Stina Kerans
I've realised that regeneration can be so simple
all you need is two other caring people and an invitation
When they ask why you can tell them:
because our collective future depends on it someone doing it
so, it might as well be us
and then you show up most fortnight's (life happens)
to connect deeply and work developmentally, holding living systems principles and ethics
and this creates the energy to inspire others to join you, or do the same in their place
Don't believe me?
The only reason you are here is because two people connected...imagine what could happen with three!
You might know the two people you would ask, but you haven't consciously invited them to make the commitment to heal, save and create your futures together?
Why not be brave and ask them?
What is the cost of doing it that is stopping you?
If you want some support, meet with me so we can generate your will to act.
Because the cost of not doing it the future of humanity.
and you three won't be alone, as there is a network of humans across our planet doing the same
where we resource each other to continue to do the necessary work to care for each other, our places and our planet.
Reach out to me if you want to chat and build your will and your capacity to act
or,
Join us every fortnight on Friday (this coming Friday at 10:30am PER / 12:00PM ADL / 12:30PM SYD&BRIS / 2:30PM NZ) or the alternate Tuesday (3:15pm PER / 4:45pm ADL / 5:15 SYD&BRIS / 7:15pm NZ)
and if you're on Gadigal Country, So called Sydney - we have an in person event coming up next week
Under a new moon on Fri 25 July from 4:30pm spend time together to share food, connect and acknowledge the important role water plays in our lives.
If you have someone new to regenerative practice, or want a refresher (or maybe it's a deep dive?)
Mon, 21 Jul, 5:15pm - 6:15pm ACST or Fri, 25 Jul, 12pm - 1:15pm ACST
In this Online workshop you will:
- create a foundational understanding of regeneration, in relationship to extraction and sustainability
- recognise regenerative moments in your life, so that you can begin to create more of them
See what some of our caremakers are doing, thinking and writing about below
And step into your role, to care for our living earth, all it's beings and our regenerative future
Cheers,
Tyler - RPN Cheeky Evolutionary Operator
The goal of Regen Places Network is to connect and develop people who care
In way that evolves our collective consciousness, capacity and culture to remember how to gather in local communities that are:
- diverse: everyone has a role - we need the artists, the architects and the anarchists, the bankers and the bin men.
- deeply caring and connected - relationships is how things happen, you wouldn't be here if your parents didn't deeply connect on some level. They might not have cared for each other, but someone cared for you to grow. That care extends to all living beings.
- developmental - learning, reflection and repair are embedded - challenging dialogues are navigated, because the cost of cancelling or not having them is collapse.
So that each place can return to life-affirming ways of becoming and realise regeneration in the next 10 years
Essay, a proem and a song: We are Earthians
By Mathew Mytka - Jul 04, 2025
Close to twenty years ago, I read Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth...
"Are humans necessary? Are there experiential clues that human intellect has an integral function in regenerative universe as has gravity? How can Earthians fulfill their function and thus avoid extinction as unfit?"
- Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, p.24
It was the first time I encountered the term. Though Fuller’s framing leaned anthropocentric, something in the sound — the gesture of the word — slipped past my defences and entered the field of my being. It gave form to something I had long felt and yearned for at the same time. A belonging beyond nations, a belonging to this Earth.
Check out the full essay, poem in the link below:
Mathew Mytka
If you're musically inclined check out the hiphop track:
New Organic Community Layers Unlocked
By Michael McElligott (Regen Hunter)- Jul 16, 2025
Last night’s kitchen table had the expected spark of delectable genius with the first Regen Hunter Core Team session
Straight off the bat, I was rewarded with new eyes to see new layers of how this organically unfolds, when you start with the premise that you are creating a developmental community of reciprocity, safety, and understanding first
So…More nested wholes to map and contribute to our global regen community (yay)
I’ve seen a pattern now where there is a Seeding Team of usually 3 that come together around a kitchen table… (you all know how much I love the power of 3 as a number and its implementation for holding both human consciousness and living Beings)
Continued in link below:
Michael McElligott
A Living System for Regenerative Housing and Belonging: SUN Villages
By Hayley Moffiet - Jun 26, 2025
Reimagining affordable living and housing through cooperation, regeneration, and a return to the commons.
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.”
— Bill Mollison (co-originator of the permaculture concept)
In my recent article on the deeper systems shaping Australia’s housing crisis, I explored why we need more than quick fixes—we need entirely new models of living and belonging. This is where the “collective commons” mindset comes in to create and incentivise models that redistribute the empowerment and benefits back to the people— for the health and vitality of all.
SUN Villages provides us with such a model— a blueprint which is replicable at scale, providing an inspiring vision with potential to revolutionise how we think about housing and to help us reimagine what else might be possible when we dare to dream bigger.
Even as governments roll out new planning codes and market incentives, more people are awakening to a simple truth: we don’t just need more houses—we need places of purpose. Places of belonging and connection that honour the land, serve the commons, and truly feel like home to everyone.
The SUN Villages model offers this proverbial third leg to the stool — a regenerative, cooperative housing framework grounded in permaculture design principles and the wisdom of the commons. It’s not utopian. It’s practical, rooted, and deeply human. And in a time when our conventional housing systems are faltering, it provides something we urgently need: a grounded, living blueprint to reimagine how we live, work and play together.
Continued in link below:
Hayley Moffiet