Receiving the Gift
Webinar: Cultivating the Relational and Technical Scaffolding for Thriving Regional Economies
A two part series open to anyone and offered as a threshold crossing for KinMakers Retreat, at the end of August.
Our vitural gatherings:
11-12:30 Tuesday August 11th
11-12:30 Tuesday August 18th
This series explores the cultural, relational, and institutional technologies required to move from power-over models of economy toward power-with systems capable of stewarding complexity, place, and life.
Our retreat begins Monday, August 25th,
A field of questions.
Invitations for us to design new technologies of repair.
Why do promising collaborative initiatives so often struggle after funding arrives?
What capacities must communities develop before transformational investment can truly take root?
How are Indigenous approaches to relationship informing the next generation of regenerative finance?
What lessons have emerged from a decade of experimentation in regenerative registries, governance, and biocultural crediting?
What opportunities are emerging in the Connecticut River Valley—and why now?
Our Guides for the Series
Suzanne Bowles
Why relational infrastructure—not simply financial infrastructure—is increasingly recognized as the missing ingredient for successful place-based investment.
Gregory Landua
Andre Strongbearheart Gaines Jr.
How Indigenous practices of reciprocity, ceremony, and relationship sustained thriving regional economies for generations—and what they still have to teach us.
Lessons from a decade building regenerative finance infrastructure, community registries, participatory governance, and biocultural credit systems.