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.

This series introduces concepts we will explore through playful practice in the wild and alive lands of Deerfield, Massachusetts, at KinMakers Return.

Designed for funders, investors, practitioners, and community leaders interested in moving from theory to practice.