How do we create ways of living together that regenerate both people and the Earth?
This question isn't rhetorical… it's the organizing principle behind everything that happens at the Regenaissance. We're not here to theorize. We're here to explore, practice, and build together, drawing on the lived experience of builders, land stewards, makers, educators, organizers, artists, and systems thinkers.
The camp brings practitioners into direct engagement with the most pressing questions of regenerative living.
Models for living and working together that restore rather than deplete.
Decision-making frameworks rooted in care, responsibility, and long-term thinking.
Building capacity within communities to meet their own needs.
Economic models aligned with people, place, and purpose and play.
Camp Regenaissance is not a passive conference space. It is a working social environment designed around participation, contribution, and direct experience. Every gathering, every meal, every conversation is structured to generate insight through doing — not just listening.
The deeper challenge beneath regeneration itself is fundamentally human: How do we rebuild trust, shared purpose, and cultural coherence in a fragmented age? We believe the answer begins with practice.
- Hands-on participation over passive attendance
- Contribution woven into daily structure
- Direct experience as the primary teacher
- Community formed through shared work
Every element of the camp program is designed to move ideas from conversation into lived reality.
Practical skill-building in crafts, land stewardship, and systems design.
Live practice of stewardship-based decision-making and collective coordination.
Intimate evening conversations exploring culture, trust, and shared futures.
Nourishment as ritual — food prepared and shared as an act of community-building.
Co-creating models, structures, and visions for regenerative living environments.
Exploring the small shared rituals, rhythms, and practices that build trust, cultural coherence, and resilient community over time.
Camp Common Grounding is for people already doing the work — and those who know they must begin.
Farmers, foresters, permaculture practitioners, and ecological restorers.
Craftspeople, fabricators, and hands-on problem solvers.
Teachers, mentors, and intergenerational knowledge weavers.
Community builders, cooperative developers, and movement connectors.
Creatives who understand that culture is the root of change.
Designers, researchers, and strategists reimagining how we live together.
Intergenerational learning sits at the heart of the camp. We create space for elders, practitioners, and younger generations to share skills, stories, and visions — recognizing that cultural renewal depends on this exchange.
Maker culture and practical skills aren't sidelines — they're central to regenerative practice. Building, repairing, crafting, and creating together forges the trust and capability that communities need to thrive.
Camp Regnaissance also serves as an open door into the co-creation of the Common Grounding Regen Campus—an evolving initiative to develop a living environment where stewardship, learning, creativity, enterprise, and community life are meaningfully integrated.
Meet at RegenWorld to share practice and vision.
Design the models, frameworks, and relationships.
Develop living environments rooted in regenerative values.
Weave stewardship, learning, enterprise, and culture into one living fabric.
Camp Common Grounding is built by the people who come. Here's how you can step in.
Join the village as a full participant. Live, work, play and build relationships at the gathering. This is the full-immersion experience.
Bring a workshop, skill, dialogue, or creative session. Contribute your knowledge and practice to the collective learning.
Support the infrastructure of regenerative gathering. Help make it accessible, well-resourced, and able to grow.
Stewardship. Culture. Coordination. A participatory village within the RegenWorld Gathering for people working to restore the relationship between land, culture, and community.