Guidebooks

Regenerative Use Guidelines

Use these documents and how-to guides with one intention above all: to increase life, in yourself, in the men around you, and in the places and systems you touch.

There are many frameworks that carry the word "regenerative." These are the principles Regenerative Men asks you to hold as you put this work to use:

• Increase life. Let the measure of any action be whether it adds to the quality and quantity of life around you.
• Whole-systems thinking. See the whole before acting on a part. Notice how your work connects to the people, place, and systems it sits inside.
• Diversity. A healthy system, like a healthy group, draws its strength from variety: many men, many projects, many ways in.
• Reciprocity. Give back more than you take. Stay in relationship with the consequences of your work over time, rather than optimizing from the outside.
• The long view. Favor what compounds across decades and generations over what pays off this quarter.

Keep these in mind in how you use, adapt, and carry forward these methods. Take what serves the work of increasing life; leave the rest.