ABOUT RE:GEN

Re:Gen was founded by Alistair and Olivia Potter, sparked by the magic they found at Burning Man. They came home with a question: what if we could build that same spirit here, on our own whenua (land), shaped by our own values? A few things, they felt, could be done differently. Together with their son Taliesin and daughter-in-law Amber, they turned that idea into a reality. Re:Gen grew from the same ethos, but with its own kaupapa (purpose). Rather than burn an effigy, we plant trees. Where they leave no trace, we leave the land better than we found it.

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Kaitiakitanga: Environment and Sustainability

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Kaitiakitanga, the guardianship and protection of the land, sits at the root of everything we do. Re:Gen is not just held on the whenua, it is held for it. Every ticket sold plants one tree, and funds the slow, deliberate work of regenerating the property for the events still to come. So far, over 1100 trees have taken root, and significant earthworks have reshaped the site into a home worth returning to, for us and for the generations after us.

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We try to leave as light a footprint as we can. Composting toilets instead of chemical ones. Waste minimised, sorted, and taken seriously. Decisions about the land made slowly, with care, the way you would treat something you intend to hand on rather than use up. Papatūānuku, the earth we stand on, gives us this space each year. Regeneration is how we say thank you.

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Manaakitanga and the Gift Economy

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Manaakitanga, the spirit of care, hospitality, and lifting others up, shapes how our community shows up for each other. Every person who walks through our gate is invited to bring a gift, in whatever form their abilities and means allow. A massage. A sound camp. A shoulder to lean on. There is no fixed shape to it, only the spirit behind it. This is whanaungatanga in practice, the connection and sense of kinship that grows when people give freely and trust they'll be looked after in return.

Let the magic run free. Manaakitanga is a two-way current: we hold the space, and you help fill it. The choice of what you bring is yours.

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Our Tamariki, Our Future

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A kaupapa is only ever borrowed. Ours belongs, in time, to our tamariki (children), and passing it into their hands is central to why we do this at all. The trees planted this year are not for us, they are for the ones who will climb them. The whenua we're slowly healing is not ours to keep, it's theirs to inherit. Every child who grows up among these trees, around these fires, inside this community, carries a piece of Re:Gen forward with them.

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This is what regeneration really means. Not just land recovering, but a kaupapa handed down, generation to generation, so the magic doesn't end with us. It simply keeps growing.