Constellation Overview
The plain-language place to start. A 3-minute read. For the deeper “why”, read the Introduction. For the full detail, see the Constellation Cheatsheet.
What this is
ReGenerativa is a network of regenerative hubs: real physical places (a farm, a house, a workshop, a piece of land) that are cared for so they grow more alive over time instead of being used up.
To keep many places and many people working together fairly as the network grows, ReGenerativa uses a small set of clear agreements. Together they are called the constellation.
An agreement here is not a transaction. It is a plain way of naming what you and the network each offer and protect. It exists so that trust can deepen without turning into misunderstanding.
The shape of it
Two agreements anchor everything:
- A place has to be offered before anything can happen on it. An owner lends a place to the network for regenerative use, and keeps owning it.
- A person joins by becoming a member. Membership is the door. You step through it once; after that, any other role is simply signing the agreement for that role. From the first day, a member also carries a standing invitation to tend — to look after a project or a corner of a hub, as much or as little as they choose.
Everything else is optional and stackable. You hold only the agreements that match what you actually do, you can hold several at once, and you can add or step back from roles as life changes.
The eight agreements, in one line each
- Ownership - You have a place and want to lend it to the network for good use without selling it or losing control of it.
- Membership - You want to belong to the network and take part in its democratic life. This is the first step, and the doorway to every other role.
- Stewardship - You want to look after one hub day to day, holding the place and its people well, as a trusted guardian rather than a tenant or an employee. This is the deeper form of the tending every member is already invited to do — a hub can be held by one steward or by several together.
- Mentorship - You have real expertise and want to teach it through programmes, offered first to those who have given the most, then to others.
- Sponsorship - You want to give resources (money, tools, land, time) into the network as a gift, without buying influence over how they are used.
- Partnership - You want to team up with others on a commercial project, sharing what it earns by what each person actually contributed, not who owns the most.
- Intrapreneurship - You see a real, unmet need in the network and want to build something to meet it, grown inside the commons and serving it first.
- Eldership - You have given over a long time and are ready to step into a role of guidance and witness, helping hold the whole rather than running any one part.
How they fit together
The word constellation is deliberate. These are not rungs on a ladder, and no role is “higher” than another. They are points of light that together show the shape of the whole.
- Each agreement is complete on its own. You do not need the others for one to work.
- They are designed to be held together. A member can also steward a hub and mentor in it. Adding a role never reopens the ones you already hold; you just sign the new agreement.
- Two things sit in the background. One shared rulebook (the General Terms) keeps every agreement consistent — including the shared rules on how contributions are recognised, how any agreement ends for serious cause, what no role can ever grant, and your freedom to pursue independent work (GT-3.5, GT-6A, GT-11.5, GT-11.6) — and the Association’s Statute sits above them all (its purpose and mission are summarised in the Introduction). You do not need to read either to take part.
- The Association holds the network’s money. It acts as one shared account through which every hub, project, and venture passes its earnings — each one keeping its own envelope inside, directed by its own stewards. Each place looks after its own running costs first, shares any lasting surplus with the wider network, and is caught by the network if it falls genuinely short — so no place is left to fail alone, and none simply hoards. Some figures in the financial model are still being finalised — they are collected, with their status, in the Living Governance Resolutions; the shape and the promises are settled.
What holds it all together
One promise runs through every agreement: to leave every place, relationship, and system more alive than you found it. This is the Regenerative Covenant. It is treated as a practice that is actually reviewed, not a slogan.
It looks after six things:
- the land (soil, water, living systems)
- people’s health and well-being
- knowledge passed between people and generations
- fair economics and shared infrastructure
- community and the culture of how we are together
- honest, open governance
That promise faces the living world. A second one faces each other: the Mutual Prosperity Covenant — to leave every person more free than you found them. The network supports people to build real livelihoods and genuine autonomy, and when that support helps create value, an agreed part of it comes back so someone else can be supported in turn. Support here is never a debt, a failed attempt never becomes one, and no one’s belonging depends on what they produce.
Your contribution travels with you
Whatever you give the network is remembered in your Network Passport. It is yours, it is portable, and it grows as you contribute, across hubs and across roles.
There are no tiers and no points to chase, and contribution never buys a vote — in the Association it is always one member, one vote. One simple rule for access: the more you have contributed, the higher your priority and the lower your price for the network’s resources — up to and including free. Each steward, mentor, or hub decides how that applies to what they hold. The aim is abundance and circulation, not gatekeeping.
And where you actively tend a place, your recent contribution there also gives you a proportionate say in how that place’s shared spending is directed — a way of sharing care, not a rank over anyone.
And the network gives back in kind. It is not only a record of what you have given: it is a commons that invests in you — mentoring, expertise, introductions, tools, and the collective attention of the group turned on your project one person at a time. The point of that support is your independence, never your dependence, so where the commons carries someone while they build, the arrangement asks for real work on that livelihood out in the wider world — an amount of hours the person and the supporting group agree together before it starts, revisable when life changes, and never a condition of belonging. What you build stays yours. When it prospers, an agreed and bounded part of the value returns to the commons and becomes the next person’s beginning.
Where to go next
- Want the deeper thinking (about trust, scale, and relationship)? Read the Introduction.
- Want the full detail (clauses, numbers, timelines)? See the Constellation Cheatsheet and the individual agreements.
- Want to understand how the money works, in plain terms? See The Fund in Plain Language.
- Want to know what the network commits to you, and you to it? Read the Mutual Prosperity Covenant.
- Thinking about signing? The Constellation FAQ answers the practical questions signers actually ask — costs, commitments, exits, what can go wrong.
- Ready to take up a role? The next step is simply to read that one agreement. Nothing here commits you to anything; the agreements are thresholds you choose to cross.
ReGenerativa APS - ETS - May 2026