<!-- YAML-SNAPSHOT:START --> | Key | Value | | --- | ----- | | **id** | regen-commons-worldview | | **name** | Worldview | | **description** | A core worldview or system of understanding that informs how the organization relates to life, place, and purpose. | | **temporal_focus** | Foundational and enduring | | **scope** | Informs values, ethics, design, governance, and cultural coherence | | **function** | Grounds decisions and direction in a deeper cosmology or way of seeing the world | | **test** | If this philosophy were removed or violated, the organization's identity and integrity would be fundamentally altered — even if its activities remained the same. | <!-- YAML-SNAPSHOT:END --> **Regenerative ("Regen")** identity describes a life-centered approach to organizing human and ecological systems in ways that *restore, renew, and evolve the capacity of life to thrive in abundance across time.* It goes beyond sustainability (maintaining the status quo) toward reciprocity and flourishing: not just reducing harm, but actively repairing what has been degraded, strengthening resilience, and creating conditions for planetary well-being. In practice, being regenerative means designing economies, cultures, and governance structures that produce dynamic equilibrium between human and natural systems through alignment with living-systems principles, and embed justice, equity, cohesion, belonging, trust, consent and interconnection at each level and scale of interaction. Regen is both a **worldview** and a **practice**: - A worldview that shifts from extraction to reciprocity, from scarcity to abundance, from isolated fixes to whole-systems flourishing. - A practice of cultivating relationships, institutions, and infrastructures that center care for people, place, and planet.