ROOTS & RESILIENCE: REGENERATIVE (R³) TOURISM FRAMEWORK

Step 1: Grounding in Place

Helps communities define regenerative goals by evaluating the ecological, cultural, and spatial dimensions of their local context, and clarifying their shared understanding and appetite for regenerative tourism initiatives and vision.

Step 2: Scanning Horizons

Supports communities to anticipate external drivers and emerging risks that may impact tourism, building foresight, adaptability, and systems-thinking capacity to respond to change with resilience.

Step 3: Weaving Connections

Engages the full tourism and place system — residents, visitors, custodians, businesses, institutions, nature, and wildlife— to strengthen relationships, foster trust, and build the foundations for inclusive governance and regenerative stewardship.

Step 4: Imagining Possibilities

Enables communities to co-create preferred futures by exploring diverse scenarios, surfacing shared aspirations, and forming a compelling vision aligned with local values, resilience goals, and regenerative potential.

Step 5: Co-Designing Futures

Supports communities to translate bold ideas into tangible solutions through participatory design, experimentation, and collective learning, ensuring initiatives remain grounded in lived experience and shared priorities.

Step 6: Revealing What Regenerates

Supports communities to reflect on and evaluate regenerative initiatives through the lens of vitality, viability, and evolution, ensuring alignment with ecological, cultural, and social priorities while guiding long-term direction.

R³ in Practice - Bruny 2044

The Bruny 2044 initiative is a living example of the Roots & Resilience (R³) Framework in action.

Developed through a series of community workshops and deliberative processes, Bruny 2044 supported residents to explore the future of tourism, land, and livelihoods on their own terms. Using R³ as a guiding structure, the process prioritised listening across difference, acknowledging ecological limits, and strengthening shared responsibility.

Rather than producing a single plan, the work resulted in clearly articulated community priorities and pathways and, importantly, renewed trust, reduced polarisation, and the formation of an independent community committee "Imagine Bruny' to carry initiatives forward. Bruny 2044 demonstrates how R³ supports regeneration not as an outcome, but as an ongoing practice of stewardship and care.

people, place and planet: a regenerative lens

People
Not just individuals, but communities — with culture, memory, agency, and care. In regenerative work, people are seen not as passive recipients but as co-creators of thriving systems. Their lived experiences, ancestral knowledge, and local wisdom are essential to shaping futures that are just and life-giving.

Place
More than a location — place is a living context. It holds stories, relationships, patterns, and potential. Regeneration begins by listening to place: understanding its ecology, its history, its spirit. When we work in alignment with place, we honour its uniqueness and source the potential that wants to emerge from within it.

Planet
Our shared ecological home — vast, interconnected, and alive. The planet is not a backdrop to human activity but an intricate system of systems. Regenerative practice asks us to design and live in ways that contribute to the health of the whole — restoring the vitality of Earth while deepening our relationship with it.