The course is themed upon how this applies within the context of developing a regenerative business - which creates healthy and resilient outcomes within the environmental, social and economic context in which that business is positioned.
This certificate course integrates all 9 topics into a comprehensive business plan and implementation strategy. This supports you in creating a regenerative business that provides a good livelihood while also creating regenerative outcomes that improve the health and resiliency of all elements impacted by production.
The following aspects of the course are assessed and required to obtain your certificate:
- Developing a business model canvas: identifying needs of end user and the value you aim to provide
- Creating a business plan: An overview of your vision and goals, market analysis, value proposition, and development strategy.
- Creating an pitch deck: For communicating project goals to others.
The programme is heavily dependent upon online involvement in forums - where you engage with the rest of the learning community around research tasks for each topic explored. Because of this a great deal of value comes from other students and being involved in collaborative learning - in addition to the rich and detailed learning materials.
Regenerative Commercial Farm
This course focuses on creating regenerative farming systems by applying the principles of regenerative design. It aims to restore degraded farmland while sustaining a land-based income for landowners.
The course covers topics such as soil health improvement, ecosystem services enhancement, water quality improvement, carbon sequestration, and farmer and livestock wellbeing.
Participants will collaborate with an online community of farmers, access course materials, and receive support from tutors and guest speakers. The course consists of seven modules covering various aspects of regenerative design, including ecological farming systems, site analysis, farm design, freshwater quality, healthy soil creation, and native biodiversity.
Completion of the course leads to being awarded a Ecological Farming Certificate and Permaculture Design Certificate from Regenpreneur Ltd.
Details of Course
Regenerative Systems
- System: The regenerative design philosophy based on ecosystem function and system dynamics.
- Application: How to create a regenerative business.
- Strategy: Creating a cohesive strategy around your goal and mission that resonates throughout all aspects of business culture and services.
Business Ethics
- Ethics: A philosophical approach to business.
- Values: Business ethics in the modern age.
- Mission: Finding meaning and purpose in your work.
Value Proposition
- Market analysis: Guides you through a PESTEL analysis of market dynamics and a 5-forces model of competition, t0 identify market opportunities.
- Value proposition canvas: Identifying the needs of the ideal target customer and how you provide value to them.
- Differentiation from competition: Looking at serving emerging industries with less competition.
Growth Strategy
- Lean development: Creating a minimal viable product to test market opportunities and aligning development to feedback from early adopters before over investing.
- 12-week planning: Creating a 12-week planning cycle to break down STRETCH and SMART goals and fast-track progress.
- Growth: Finding leverage points to fast track your business, identifying limiting factors and seeking support.
Customer Conversion
- The customer journey: Creating sales funnels and product ecosystems aligned to a story about the value you provide to the target audience.
- Developing influence: The psychology behind building a reputation based on good communication, authenticity, and authority within your discipline.
- Providing value: The importance of putting your end users first and developing your service around a culture of providing value.
Developing Mastery
- Mindset: Tools and techniques to developing a positive growth mindset to keep you going.
- Habits: Investigating how habits form and leveraging triggers to build high performance habits
- Self reflection: Developing practices to gain self awareness and harness your inner capacities.
Reporting Outcomes:
- Financial: Looks at the three gauges of financial economic output to ensure you make good investments and maintain good cashflow.
- Social: How to keep track of workplace culture aspirations and dynamics to ensure your vision and mission uplifts and inspires others.
- Environmental: How to identify healthy and resilient outcomes of production that are measurable and can authentically portray your business strategy towards regenerative outcomes.
Leadership & mentoring
- Tribe: Looking at creating culture that gravitates people towards your business offering that also connects to a wider movement where a wider range of interactions and support is available.
- Mentoring: Finding the right mentors to work with in mutually beneficial relationships.
- Being a leader: Qualities of good leaders and promoting Paying it forward and making collaborations.
Business Plan
- Marketing plan: Creating a plan to reach your target audience and convert sales that gives you feedback to make corrections.
- Reporting: Guides you through applying a template to report upon financial, social and environmental outcomes that align to the values and mission of your business.
- Pitch deck: Communicating your business goals and value clearly through a pitch deck presentation.
A Regenerative Business
Nature is the ultimate practitioner of developing complex self-sustaining systems over time - that not move ecosystems towards complex stable states - but also impact the atmosphere (air), hydrosphere (water), lithosphere (land) of the entire Earth in even change these elements in ways that benefit life. In such processes life has Terra-formed Earth into more climatically and atmospherically stable states in the process of increasing in complexity and diversity over time.
In the recent history of humans we have continued this trend - utilising our immagination to create ever more complex systems - which when modelled upon the complex, inter-connected diversity of natural systems will result in the advancement of increasingly more stable and life enriching states. Like other phases of life on Earth - the impact of systems we have created has had a global impact - resulting in an extended period of climatic stability and warming which has enabled human civilisations to flourish.
However our approach to the design of systems has been flawed and while civilisation may have flourished - other living systems on Earth have degraded and we need to re-examine our design philosophy.