ABOUT
OUR VISION
Our vision is a Mornington Peninsula where people can live well, local businesses can thrive, and the land and sea are cared for now and into the future.
We support this by creating real-world learning spaces where communities, businesses, educators, and institutions work together on practical projects that address local needs.
These spaces enable learning, action, and collaboration, building long-term capability across the region.
OUR APPROACH
We begin with the uniqueness of place and the people who care about it. No two places are the same, so we don't bring pre-packaged solutions. We listen deeply to the land, history, community, and patterns at play.
We focus on relationships, not just projects. Regeneration happens through how people, organisations, and living systems relate. We design conversations and ways of working that build trust, shared responsibility, and stewardship. We look for potential, not only problems, asking what wants to grow here and revealing existing strengths.
This work is developmental. As projects evolve, so do people. We create learning experiences that grow awareness, capability, and leadership. We work with the whole living system, ecology, culture, economy, and governance, helping align efforts so actions support the health of the whole, now and for generations to come.
STORYING PLACE
Storying Place is how we understand what makes the Mornington Peninsula unique, its land, history, culture, economy, and communities, and how all of these are connected.
It supports better decisions by helping people see the whole system, rather than working on individual projects in isolation.
This approach is informed by global regenerative practice through the Regenesis Institute and has been applied in regions around the world.
Storying Place helps people recognise the deeper geological, ecological, cultural, social, and economic patterns that shape the region.
It is not a program or a one-off activity; it is a shared way of seeing, learning, and working together over time.
OUR BIOREGIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Our work brings together four connected areas that support lasting change across the Mornington Peninsula.
There are four layers that support long-term transformation:
Foundational capability
Storying Place, regenerative design, human development & leadership
Organisational pillars
Learning Centre, Finance Facility, Commons, Regen MP resourcing
Demonstration
Escarpment Roundtable, carbon cycle composting, food systems, tourism, enterprise, Living Labs
Global exchange
Regenesis Institute, Design School for Regenerating Earth, R3.0, UNESCO Biosphere, education partners
“Regeneration is about aligning human systems with the intelligence of living systems.”
— Bill Reed
Meet the Team
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Tomi Winfree
Founder, Regenerative Practitioner, Intermediary
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Andrew Keast
Funding & Partnerships
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Dr Matthew Parnell (PHD)
Living and Human Systems, SME and Advisor
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Neil Simpson
Systemic Designer & Facilitator