Join a circle of visionaries, stewards, and builders ready to create projects that restore people, planet, and purpose.
Regenerative Stewardship lab
learn from those who have skin in the game
You’re not just building a project. You’re holding a seed for the future.
We pull back the curtain on what makes land-based projects thrive, or quietly fall apart.
Learn directly from the experience of those who’ve tried, failed and succeeded - and apply it to your projects in a "lab" style environment with mentors and peers.
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You’re not just building a project — You’re holding a seed for the future.
Pull back the curtain on what makes land-based projects thrive — or quietly fall apart. Learn directly from those who’ve built them, not just dreamed about it.
Train in real-world frameworks of cultural therapy, social architecture, and environmental design —
the tools that actually hold people and land together.
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Building a retreat center, eco-village, or regenerative land project is beautiful and brutal. This path is powerful and complex.
Emotional + Energetic burnout
You’re holding the vision alone, stretched thin across roles, and starting to wonder how long you can keep carrying it all without burning out.
team dynamics + conflicts
Unspoken expectations and misaligned values create friction that slows everything down - and without healthy systems, conflict becomes the norm.
lack of Financial Sustainability
You’ve invested your time, money, and heart - but without a clear path to financial sustainability, the dream risks becoming a burden.
LACK OF CLARITY + STRUCTURE
Without a shared vision and clear agreements, even simple steps feel chaotic - draining energy, stalling progress, and fueling unnecessary tension.
challenges that arise include:
Building a retreat center, eco-village, or regenerative land project is beautiful and brutal.
Lack of values based marketing
Isolation without real mentorship
Cultural tension
Burnout
Tension between dreamers and doers
Funding holes
The intention is clear, but the road is messy
Conflict around decision-making
Unclear expectations and agreements
Leadership fatigue
You don’t need a course. You need the blueprint.
You're being called to step into the role of sacred leader and master the art of building thriving, resilient communities.
Lack of values based marketing
Isolation without real mentorship
Cultural tension
Burnout
Tension between dreamers and doers
Funding holes
The vision is clear, but the road is messy
Conflict around decision-making
Unclear expectations and agreements
Leadership fatigue
if you’re trying to build a retreat center, eco-village, or regenerative land project, then you already know this path is beautiful and brutal.
create a blueprint from the insights of people who’ve already lived and learned it.
We created this because it’s exactly what we wish we had when we began.
Every mentor in this experience has walked the land, faced the fires, and made the mistakes that most people only talk about in hindsight. We’ve lost sleep over budgets, cried through conflict, and questioned everything we were building - only to come out the other side with clarity, strength, and systems that actually work.
there is good news
Gain an honest understanding of the hidden time, cost, and energy investments required to launch and sustain a regenerative project—i
Oct 1 | 12 pm Cst
Pulling back the curtain on land-based projects....
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With Lessons from the wizard of oz
Who Is This For?
The Blocked or Burnt Out Leader
You’re facing challenges in your project: conflict, unclear roles, exhaustion, disconnection from the original spark. You’re looking for a guided container or a mastermind to align with the next evolution of your work.
The Community Steward
The Vision Holder
You have land — or access to it — and a dream to create something that nourishes people, planet, and purpose. You’re ready to move from inspiration to grounded action, and design something that truly regenerates life.
The Builder in Process
You’ve already begun. Maybe you’ve built something or started the journey, but you realize you need stronger tools, better frameworks, and seasoned guidance to take it deeper.
You want to serve a land-based or retreat community - not by owning it, but by becoming a trusted contributor. You’re seeking the skills, systems, and inner clarity to be an indispensable part of something bigger than yourself.
This is for you if you are seeking the skills, systems, and inner clarity to be an indispensable part of building the regenerative living spaces of the future.
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Building a retreat center, eco-village, or regenerative land project is beautiful and brutal.
Lack of values based marketing
Isolation without real mentorship
Cultural tension
Burnout
Tension between dreamers and doers
Funding holes
The intention is clear, but the road is messy
Conflict around decision-making
Unclear expectations and agreements
Leadership fatigue
You don’t need a course. You need the blueprint.
You're being called to step into the role of sacred leader and master the art of building thriving, resilient communities.
Lack of values based marketing
Isolation without real mentorship
Cultural tension
Burnout
Tension between dreamers and doers
Funding holes
The vision is clear, but the road is messy
Conflict around decision-making
Unclear expectations and agreements
Leadership fatigue
if you’re trying to build a retreat center, eco-village, or regenerative land project, then you already know this path is beautiful and brutal.
An immersive accelerator program for land stewards, dreamers and makers to gain the tools to shape culture and design systems that actually work — rooted in the lessons of lived experience, not just theory.
Regenerative Stewardship Lab (Regen Lab)
Jan. 5 - 14 | 2026
introducing the
Here's what you will learn
let's break it down
Clarify your vision and build from a place of integrity.
Get real about your “why” and your finances so you can align your project with your deeper values, capacity, and context.
vision
Develop real and relational leadership.
Learn how to hold your team, set boundaries, resolve conflict, and make decisions without falling into power traps or passive consensus.
leadership
Translate intentions into systems that work.
Apply regenerative frameworks to governance, communication, cultural design, financing and daily rhythms.
systems
Skill up in the core fields of real-world village building.
Learn at the intersection of culture change, environmental design, and social innovation — leave with tools that integrate in your actual project.
Culture
Awake is a haven for personal growth and connection - surrounded by the inspiring beauty of Costa Rica's mountains, rivers and ocean.
welcome to Your Campus
Base-camp is the Awake Center in Uvita, Costa Rica. Awake is a living laboratory for conscious living, featuring 100’s of local plants, herbs and fruit trees, secluded nature spots for relaxation and study, yoga and meditation halls, cafeteria, private river access and more.
Where You'll Be
apply for immersion
If you would like to join the program, click the "Apply" button to submit your application.
live call
We will review your application if we feel you're a fit, you'll be invited to a live fit-check call.
join program
If we both agree that this is a good fit, then you'll give your deposit and plan to join us in Costa Rica.
the process
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$1699
Regen Lab Tuition Includes:
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Three local and mostly organic vegetarian meals per day, crafted to sustain health and support focus and energy throughout each learning experience.
follow-up support
10 day live Immersion
nourishing meals
bonus Offerings
After the program, you will be part of our growing community where you can continue to ask questions, build relationships and grow.
From yoga and breathwork sessions to community events, these offerings enhance the immersive learning journey and foster meaningful connections with others.
A teaching-learning community with world-class instructors featuring lectures, workshops, daily classes and practice sessions.
Hands-On Learning
All course materials will be provided. Turn ideas into reality through hands-on projects, workshops, and guided learning modules.
off-site visits
Visit other land projects and gain first-hand experience through connecting to founders, hearing their stories and progress.
learn from those who've done it
Zamir Dhanji
Zamir is a cultural strategist and visionary educator working at the intersection of land, leadership, and healing. Founder of The Gift Academy and a steward at the Awake Center in Costa Rica, he is part of the next generation of regenerative leaders.
He’s trained under teachers including Dr. Gabor Maté and has spent over a decade mentoring youth, guiding community-building initiatives, and composting the lessons of early land projects into living wisdom. A graduate of NYU with a self-designed degree in Spiritual Economics, his work blends systems thinking, spirituality and psychology.
Meet Your Guides
Cultural therapy
Program Manager
Terra Fleenor
Terra is a holistic hybrid instructional designer, community organizer, and relationship coach with over 20 years of event experience. She has worked with Envision Festival and organized countless transformational events focusing on fostering individual resilience and supporting the revival movement.
She’s co-creator of Holistic Life Tribe, a vibrant digital community where seekers come together to pursue personal growth, professional enhancement and holistic transformation.
social architecture
Danibelle Gennerty
Danibelle is an activist for ecological restoration, architect of place-based communities and alchemist of decentralized governance economies.
A former corporate project manager of IT systems, Danielle has been facilitating change in networked environments for over 30 years. She now lives in Costa Rica, contributing to projects that bring blockchain-based tools for collaboration and crypto-philanthropy to real world applications that incentivize economic restructuring around caring for public goods.
Environmental Design
Nicolas Rotundo
Nicolas has melded advanced systems and natural cycles for a comprehensive understanding of the interdependencies of Life. Ranging from scaled agroforestry to ecosystem restoration he has contributed to holistic design and implementation that values people as integral to lasting change in 16 countries on over 50 different land bases. Nic bridges the technological and the ecological, developing sophisticated systems for controlled environment agriculture.
