Draft 1.0, 'Fundamentals of Regenerative Business' learning module for SEAL Project 2011. This session will be taught to Heads-of-household Beneficiaries and ADRA-Mongolia Field Staff, to lay the foundational understanding of creating and running a business which strengthens its community by cycling energy and money into its local markets. Concepts are presented and explained via slideshow & lecture, then will explored and discussed during subsequent group activity, in which students will design their own Self-Help Group or Credit Co-operative Enterprises. The final version will be translated into Russian, as the Kazakh residents of Bayan Ulgii are fluent in this language from 'Socialism Times' (as locals refer to the Soviet regime).

1. Regenerative Business.
photo credit: Rick Coleman, 2010
Bayan Ulgii, Outer Mongolia 2011

2. Principles:
Asset vs. Liability.

3. Principles:
Asset or Liability?
photo credit: Michelle Abel, 2010

4. Principles:
Asset or Liability?
photo credit: Rick Coleman, 2010

5. Assets
Feed you.
Liabilities
Eat you.

6. Principle #1:
Only buy
Assets
which Regenerate.

7. Principle #2:

8. Principle #2:
Business is a
Team Sport.
None of us is as smart as all of us.

9. Principle #2: Business is a Team Sport.
What does this look like?

10. Principle #2: Business is a Team Sport.
What does this look like?
Customers
Strategic
Workers You
Partners
Advisors

11. Principle #2: Business is a Team Sport.
What does this look like?
Customers
Strategic
Workers You
Partners
Advisors

12. Principle #2: Business is a Team Sport.
What does this look like?
Energy-Efficient Planning [Leverage]
Customers
Strategic
Workers You
Partners
Collaboration Constructive Competition
Advisors
Energy Cycling [Relationships]

13. Principle #3:
Use
Profits
to Strengthen your Community.

14. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Money
Is like water...
...not enough, it is very hard to live...
...too much, it becomes a destructive force.

15. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Money
“Money is to the social fabric
as water is to landscape.
It is the agent of transport, the shaper and mover of trade.
Like water, it is not the total amount of money entering a
community which counts; it is the number of uses or duties to
which money can be diverted, and the number of cycles of use,
that brings financial independence to a community.”
- Bill Mollison, ‘An Introduction to Permaculture’ -

16. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Profits
are the surplus generated
by a well-managed enterprise.

17. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Profits
are the surplus generated
by a well-managed enterprise.
Profits
are like oxygen...
...without enough, we suffocate.

18. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Your Community
Profits Money
Your Business

19. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Your Community
Profits Money
Your Business

20. Principle #3: Use Profits to Strengthen your Community.
Your Community
Energy
Profits Money
Cycling
Your Business

21. Outcome: Regenerative Business.
A Regenerative Business
...builds stronger communities
by:
* cycling energy & money into local economies.
* creating high-quality products & services.
* serving niches tailored to its community.
* investing in its best asset first: people.