Frameworks for regenerative systems design

Methodologies for organizational, community, and bioregional layers — making value visible so everyone can see what they're consenting into.

As the systems we inherited continue to decay and fail to meet everyday needs, I believe our work is to tell new stories of value and design the systems we will need in the 21st century.

I've developed a suite of methodologies over 15+ years of practice, each designed for a different layer of the system: organizational, local/community, and bioregional.

Here are the ways I can help you and your organization using these frameworks.

Value Flow Compass framework
Value Flow Compass — organizational layer.
Facilitated workshop on regenerative systems
Facilitation brings frameworks off the page and into shared understanding.

Client types & recommended frameworks

For local governments & economic development organizations

Municipalities, regional planning bodies, economic development agencies

Your challenge: Building local economic resilience, retaining wealth, and creating jobs in the face of structural decline or external shocks.

Recommended frameworks:

  • Community Wealth Building — Map monetary inflows and outflows to identify where wealth is leaking and where to intervene.
  • Pathways to Regeneration — Facilitate a multi-stakeholder co-design process to architect a regenerative regional economy.

Engagement model: Project-based, typically 6–18 months.

For CDFIs, community foundations & place-based philanthropy

Mission-driven capital providers with a regional mandate

Your challenge: Deploy capital effectively, measure impact, and ensure your investments are building long-term community wealth — not just funding projects.

Recommended frameworks:

  • Community Wealth Building — Map the full monetary ecosystem of your region to identify high-leverage investment opportunities.
  • Value Flow Compass — Help your grantees and portfolio organizations build transparent, effective value architectures.

Engagement model: Advisory on retainer, with facilitation as needed.

For solidarity economy projects, cooperatives & mission-driven organizations

Digital marketplaces, community currency initiatives, platform cooperatives, mutual aid networks

Your challenge: Building alternative economic infrastructure that serves people and place, not profit extraction.

Recommended frameworks:

  • Value Flow Compass — Map your organization's value architecture to ensure transparency, alignment, and sustainability.
  • Community Wealth Building — Design incentive structures and recirculation mechanisms that keep value local.
  • Digital Marketplace & Community Currency Models — Drawing on Ithacash and HERO Rewards.

Engagement model: Advisory on retainer.

For enterprises & institutions

Companies, universities, non-profits transitioning to regenerative models

Your challenge: Moving from extractive to regenerative business models and stakeholder governance.

Recommended frameworks:

  • Value Flow Compass — Break down silos and align around a shared picture.
  • Governance & Organizational Architecture — Participatory governance at scale.

Engagement model: Project-based facilitated sessions, with advisory as needed.

Pathways to Regeneration book cover
Pathways to Regeneration — bioregional and community layer.

How the frameworks connect

These methodologies are designed to layer from small to large:

  • Value Flow Compass — Organizational transparency and alignment
  • Marketplace & Currency System Design — Platforms, incentives, and community currency mechanics
  • Community Wealth Building — Monetary flow analysis and local wealth recirculation
  • Pathways to Regeneration — Multi-stakeholder co-design for whole communities and bioregions
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