Our Organization Approach
Do More Together Than We Can Alone

Regen Places Network is dedicated to creating the conditions for a world where both nature and people work together to create more life. We work regeneratively to restore our connection with nature, and deepening our understanding of ourselves

Our mission is to enable individuals and communities to integrate regeneration into their everyday lives through community-driven initiatives and collaborative efforts.

Regenerative Development

Our system of bioregional regenerative design and development

Regenerative Governance

Polycentric governance of the commons, community-owned and led initiatives

Regenerative Finance

Directing investment and finances to where its needed most

Bioregional Hubs

Local hubs that serve as nodal points of intervention and community activation

Dynamic Ecology

Weaving with living natural systems from human to bioregional scales

Regen Places Network

National network of activated communities on a shared vision of multiplace regenerative economies

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"Regenerative Development is the art of evolving living systems through the weaving of local patterns in place"
Michael McElligott, CEO, Veridian Developments

Veridian Developments

Regenerative development is an approach to planning, design and management that positions every project as a living participant in its place. Its goal is not simply to lessen harm or “be sustainable,” but to grow the health, resilience and evolutionary potential of the social-ecological systems in which people work and live.

Veridian is a regenerative development company dedicated to the evolution of this field of conscious civilisation development

Veridian regeneratively co-designs property development projects, investment opportunities, and unique governance structures with local communities across Australia, and internationally

  • Regenerative Development
  • Property Development
  • Places-Based Capital
  • Regenerative Governance
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What's Queanbeyan's Next Best Step?

How could Queanbeyan showcase biocultural renewal?—demonstrating how thriving biodiversity, living narratives, and regenerative design can knit people and land back together.

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The Narrative Arc: “Flow together—clear waters, clear purpose, shared power.”

Climb to Red Hill at dawn and watch alpine light ripple across the Queanbeyan River as it bends toward the Molonglo. This clarity has gathered Bogong-moth ceremonies, shearing sheds and migrant cafés for thousands of years, echoing Ngambri stories through casuarina leaves and whistle-ducks. Floods, housing stress and hidden borders press in, yet the Clear-Water Threshold still invites us to restore and renew. Plant riverbank forests, weave culture walks, share solar surplus, host markets on the bridges. Join the living confluence that will cleanse, connect and empower generations to come.

  • Core Process: Clarity at the Confluence—a living threshold where mountain waters, cultures, and energies meet, are renewed, and flow onward.
  • Core Purpose: To act as a Clear-Water Gateway—stewarding alpine rivers as they enter the nation’s capital and modeling cross-border care for shared lifeblood.
  • Core Value: Transparent connectivity—each passage of water, story, or power leaves Queanbeyan more coherent and mutually nourished.
  • Vocation: To show Australia how a river-border town can revive riparian corridors, reconcile First Nations and settler cultures, and power a capital region through community-led organisation.
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Our Team

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Michael McElligott

Veridian Developments

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Anarkali Papalkar

Veridian Developments

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Tyler Key

Regen Places Network

Current Projects

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Regenerative Living

We have partnered with Sun Villages in developing a 55+ unit affordable living project as the anchor for the bioregional learning centre for the region

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Regenerative Investment

Regenerative place-based capital structures and governance for local people to invest in and support regenerative projects, including the community-owned bioregional learning centre

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Queanbeyan Story of Place

The Story of Place is an invitation to listen deeply—to understand the intricate connections between land, people, and time, and to unlock a place’s potential for regeneration