Every regenerative land project hits hard walls. Most hit them alone.
Mycelium is a twelve-month working program for founders of regenerative communities and land projects. With Andrew Hewitt and James Sol Radina, you map your hardest project decision using Elua's analysis, compare your real options, and review progress each month with other founders who are building too.
- For
- Founders with land secured or under contract
- Length
- 12 months, Feb 2027 to Jan 2028
- Membership
- Per project, two seats
- Founding fee
- $1,000 a month, sponsored seats from $500
Everything you can see on the land depends on decisions you can't see.
Four problems that keep coming back.
The land, the country and the people change. In the projects we work with, these four problems keep coming back, and each founder usually has to solve them from scratch.
Roads, water and power have to be built before most homes sell. How do we fund the early years without handing control to investors who want their money back fast?
Permits, zoning and foreign ownership rules can take longer than the build. How do we structure the land so residents can share it and the vision stays protected?
Who belongs here, and how do we decide things together once they arrive? How does the founder stop carrying every decision alone?
Every plot sold pays the bills and adds pressure on the water, the forest and the neighbours. How do we stay financially alive without breaking our promise to the land?
From a stuck decision to a clear next step.
This is what your first 90 days produce. The example below is illustrative: a composite project, not a real client. We share real, redacted examples in the exploratory call.
The project. A 40-hectare regenerative community in Central America. 22 home plots planned, 7 sold. The founders need about $2.8M for roads, water and power before the next phase can sell.
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The question
"How do we fund phase-two infrastructure without losing control of the land or breaking our ecological commitments?"
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What we gathered
Interviews with both founders, five early residents, the main investor and the local engineer. The land-use plan, water studies and a three-year cash-flow model.
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What the analysis found
- Phase-one plots were priced too low to carry any infrastructure cost.
- The investor's terms assumed a three-year exit; the land needs ten.
- Water capacity limits the site to about 30 homes, so "sell faster" can't be the answer.
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Options compared against agreed criteria
Option Keeps control Protects the land Funds it in 18 months Bring in an equity investor No Partly Yes Sell more plots at a discount Yes No Partly Loan notes from residents Yes Yes Partly Phased pre-sales with an infrastructure levy, topped up by resident loan notes Yes Yes Yes -
The output and the next step
A Mission Strategy Tree (the map of causes, criteria and options) and a two-page Thesis recommending the combined option with a hard 30-home cap. The founders then took clear briefs to their lawyer (how to structure the levy) and their engineer (a phased water plan), and brought the first results back to their pod in month four.
This is strategy, not technical work. The analysis doesn't replace an engineer's design or a lawyer's opinion. It gives you a clear decision and the briefs to commission that work well.
Exactly what you get.
One membership covers one project for twelve months. Every member gets the same service, whatever fee they pay.
Not included
- Engineering designs, surveys, legal or tax opinions
- Fees for professionals you hire through introductions
- Done-for-you consulting or project management
- Travel and lodging for gatherings
- Capital structures
- Legal models
- Governance patterns
- Recommended builders
- What failed, and why
How your project information is handled
- Private by default. Only you, your team and the two facilitators can see your project record.
- You approve every share. Nothing goes into the shared library without your sign-off, and you can anonymise it.
- Not used to train public AI models.
- Yours to keep. Export or delete your materials at any time.
Elua's analysis method draws on the Regenesis living-systems approach to regenerative development. The shared library starts small and grows with what the founding cohort learns.
What taking part involves.
About four hours a month of sessions, plus around an hour to prepare. If you miss a session, you get the recording and the written summary.
Exploratory call
We talk through your land, your stage and the decision you'd bring, and agree whether it's a fit.
Your Elua analysis
Interviews and three working sessions. You finish with your Strategy Tree and Thesis.
Monthly reviews
Pod reviews, network sessions and the two gatherings, with your record updated as you go.
Project Defense
Present what changed, test it with your pod and set next year's priorities.
A typical month
We send the analysis for the next pod session
Pod review, 2.5 hours, online
Network session with a practitioner, 90 minutes
Written summary and next steps; you update your record
What we ask of you: attend two of every three pod sessions, prepare your updates, and share lessons, including what went wrong.
Andrew sees the system. James holds the room.
Andrew's strength is seeing how the pieces of a project connect and turning that into a clear decision. James's is bringing the right people together and keeping the work moving.
Andrew Hewitt
Founder of Elua, a structured process that brings funders, doers and thinkers together around a complex problem to build a shared strategic map. He has spent years designing purpose-driven organisations and regenerative ecosystems, and runs Elua case-study engagements with organisations working on land, community and governance.
James Sol Radina
James is creative director and strategy consultant to Tampah Reserve, a regenerative land and community project in Lombok, Indonesia. There he works on the master plan and built the project's knowledge system, the same kind of private project record members receive. He has twenty-two years in personal development and ten running international retreats.
One membership. Three ways to pay.
Every member gets exactly the same service. The fee you pay depends on your project's stage and means, and steward members fund the sponsored seats.
For earlier-stage, community-led, Indigenous-led or Global South projects. By application, limited places.
The standard founding fee, locked for as long as you stay. Or $10,000 paid upfront for the year.
For well-funded projects that want to make room for others. Each steward membership helps fund a sponsored seat.
The launch plan
- Applications close15 January 2027
- First sessionEarly February 2027
- Cohort size12 to 20 projects, in pods of six to eight
- It runs ifFounding commitments reach $20,000 a month combined
- If it doesn'tNobody is charged. We tell every applicant by 20 January whether we start or postpone.
- First paymentOn the start date, never before
$20,000 a month, all memberships combined, runs the year.
It covers Andrew's and James's facilitation and analysis time, the computing behind each Elua analysis, practitioner fees, the project library, and organising the gatherings.
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Start with a 30-minute call.
In the call we learn about your land, your stage and the decision you'd bring. You learn exactly how the program would work for your project. Within a few days you get a short note: whether it's a fit, the focus we'd suggest for your analysis, and which fee level applies.
Who is a good fit?
Founders with land secured or under contract, the authority to make decisions, and willingness to share what they learn. Resident-led communities and founder-led developments both fit, as long as the project is active. If you're still looking for land or a co-founder, it's too early.
Can my whole team join?
Your whole team and key stakeholders take part in your own Elua analysis. Up to two people from each project attend pod and network sessions, so pods stay small and focused.
What if I miss a session?
Every pod and network session is recorded for members, and you get the written summary. We ask members to attend at least two of every three pod sessions.
Can I leave early?
Membership is a twelve-month commitment. If your project's circumstances change significantly, talk to us and we'll work out a fair arrangement.
How is AI used?
Elua uses AI to help structure stakeholder analysis, causes and options, always steered by Andrew and James. It doesn't make decisions for you, and your private materials are not used to train public AI models.
Will this ever involve investment?
Not as part of membership. Projects that come to trust each other may one day choose to pool capital or invest together, but that would be separate and entirely optional.
Nothing regenerative grows alone.
Applications for the February 2027 cohort close on 15 January. Start with a conversation.