Find Your Path

Do you want your work to co-create our regenerative future?

But feel that you are struggling to find your way?
And that weighs on your heart, because you urgently want to create real, long-term, equitable solutions.

You aren’t alone.

Our current society offers few choices for truly regenerative careers.
New livelihood paths need to be blazed. And "going it alone" can be a slog, because this is meant to be done in community.

Introducing the Pathfinders Program

One of the most powerful things we can do during these challenging times is to dedicate our life's work to be in service to the Whole, to Life.

To move along your quickest path to maximum service, ask yourself, "What is my unique, highest contribution at this time?"

In the Pathfinders Program, we have supported dozens of folks through a powerful process to explore this question over 3 months. You go deep, but you also keep moving forward and gather practical tools for Pathfinding. And, if you need longer, the course and Network are here for you for a whole year.

Join us before Oct 11!

With the Pathfinders Program, you...

Step into ways of being and work that you are called to at this time.

Deep inner process is balanced with practical analysis to get really clear about where you are currently spending your time and energy, how to value your expertise, and what forms of abundance you need to thrive in your low-impact, but high-quality lifestyle. That's priceless!
You'll also gain a clear understanding of what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and if regenerative entrepreneurship is right for you. And if it is, all of your work translates directly into finding your "Sweet Spot" and designing your "Abundance Model."

Get nourishing support from a community

that sees your gifts, helps you hold yourself accountable, and taps into Earth- and Source-wisdom for guidance. We center the experiences of people who identify as womxn, in all our beautiful intersectionality. We co-create Beloved Community to grow into new levels and forms of leadership. We practice brave and inclusive space for our own growth, and because we know that folks who have been historically marginalized have unique and important perspectives that enrich our collective efforts to find regenerative solutions.
We reclaim our own minds and also tap into "hive mind".

Learn and practice shifting towards regenerative ways of thinking

so you won't replicate "business as usual." Our goal isn't just to make a buck, but to learn together how to co-create our regenerative future.
Working from regenerative paradigms liberates us to audaciously image new, regenerative, systemic solutions.
Throughout this Program, we make space for and honor both our strengths and our personal challenges, as well as our pain for the world as sources of wisdom that can help us to discern our paths—because they reconnect us to our hearts, Gaia, and each other.
You also gain access to a course on designing your Regenerative Planning Retreat so that you can start cultivating a process of reflecting with Earth's cycles.

The Pathfinders Course guides you through 9 beautiful online modules

Module 1: Prepare for your journey...

This first module enables you to

Set up systems that will support you to harvest the maximum reward from your participation in this course.
Start connecting in the Regenepreneurs Network: mini-tutorials make it easy and fun (and you won't be on Facebook so you won't waste any of your precious time).
Get clear regarding "Where are you now?" on your livelihood path.
Start exploring what the concept of "right livelihood" means for you.

Module 2: A bird's eye view

Module 3: What do you love?

We live in a time which is calling for new leadership paradigms that are based in "power-with" and "power-to" instead of "power over."

These regenerative types of leadership are based in love and respect for ourselves, each other, and our living planet.

In this module, we explore these and other questions:

What do you love?
Whom do you love to serve?
What are your deepest values that you wish to bring to your life's work?
How do we explore livelihood paths from a paradigm of mutual benefit instead of competition?

Module 4: What can be?

In order to claim your powerful agency to co-create a regenerative future, you have to first believe a regenerative future is possible, and then you need to be able to share that vision boldly with others.

In this module,

We daylight the worldviews that give rise to the current degenerative economy.
We ground ourselves in the power of claiming and speaking loudly from a regenerative worldview.
You begin to cultivate your audacious and unique vision for our regenerative future.
Hone our skills to tell "the regenerative story."
Explore how our rightfully complicated feelings about money impact us and what we think is possible.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.” ― Arundhati Roy

Module 5: What does the world need?

Joanna Macy and other Deep Ecologists have a term for the crucial time we live in: "the Great Turning... involves the transition from a doomed economy of industrial growth to a life-sustaining society committed to the recovery of our world."

During this module:

We will explore the dimensions of the Great Turning, and help you start to discern your role in it.
We'll look at some of the ways innovative, regenerative practices are already solving real-world problems and serving previously un/underserved people; and brainstorm regenerative niches that need to be filled. (To apply a permaculture mindset: the possibilities are “theoretically unlimited, or, limited only by the information and imagination of the designer.") We will also explore "decolonizing" the Work that Reconnects.
Learn how niches work in nature, and how that can help us understand our work in our communities.
We'll embrace possible fears of being seen and the need to "get visible" on our livelihood paths, and talk about ways to alchemize those fears into service.
And since there are aspects of urgency and despair that can lead to overwhelm and burnout, we'll emphasize approaches to define healthy boundaries and self-care.

Module 6: What are you good at?

You are enough. And then some!

You know, that right? But perhaps, like many of us, you sometimes forget, and that can lead to overworking or under-earning, never feeling like you've learned enough, or you have enough credentials, or you can charge the same as the "big guys" for your services, or... (fill in the blank).

That's gonna stop here, and not just through uplifting affirmations.

In this module, you are going to show your "inner meanies" the door by showing them your numbers:

Develop a clear and growing inventory and valuation of your skills and capacities.
Get clear which of those are "Hell Yes!"
Do the calculations to know when you have volunteered or donated "enough."
Be seen by the Pathfinders Community and people in your life for the gifts you carry.
Join into critical analysis of mainstream beliefs about what types of work is "valuable" and how we can re-valorize the caring economy.
Discuss the challenges and joys of knowing your "value" and charging "what you are worth."

Module 7: How can our pain be our guide?

One of the things we learn from The Great Turning is that embracing our pain for the world enables us to move out of numbing and isolation and into engaged love for our world.

You will be guided through reflections on how your own personal challenges and wounds point to your path of service.

We explore the beautiful body of work called The Work That Reconnects.
These deep and powerful reflections help further clarify What You Love, and Whom You Love.
We'll hold this question "How Shall We Be?" because regenerative integrity is doing the right thing even if the world is dying, or especially if the world is dying.
We'll explore ways the can help transmute our "inner meanies" into helpful guides.
Since this is intense work, we will also crowdsource resources and skills that help us release and transmute grief and go forward in our zone of highest functioning.

Module 8: Preparing for your harvest

Remember above, when I said that you need to identify your unique, highest contribution if you want to expedite your path to service?

You now have gathered enough information to do that.

In this module, we'll dive into

Learn about how our ecological take on niches translates to practical, entrepreneurial understandings of a niche.
Articulate your "special sauce"—those things that make you uniquely able to deeply serve folks with your good work—in ways that resonate.
Your "Big Why" and why it matters.
The wisdom in choosing your "Path for Now," using all the data available.
See how folks embed ethics (like fair share / surplus share / future care) and alternative economics into their livelihoods.
Revisit niches in nature to get out of scarcity and competition and into evolutionary, abundance-oriented, design-thinking.
We take all of this deep work and ground it in the reality of living in this time, and ask "What's your bottom line?" We do this by taking another, real look at your needed income (in dollars and other forms of abundance) and energy budget, and how that shapes your path.
Your "needed skills action plan" and figuring your ROI on trainings.

Module 9: Abundance Models and Regenerative Entrepreneurship

In this module, we deepen our understanding of how our work so far can become the basis of a business model that embeds social justice and deep care for our living planet.

You will be invited to discern what's next... Is regenerative entrepreneurship for you? If yes, you are all set to get a ton of value from the next Sweet Spots course. If a different path is the best way for your to do your good work in the world, and you've gotten clear on that and connected with other awesome "solutionaries" here, that's also a fantastic outcome!

Integration weeks & Going forward together

Here's how you are supported on your transformative journey

Transformative Modules
These take you deep. Since the materials are online, you can access them at any time of day that works best for you.
The initial modules help you set yourself up to really harvest the most out of this experience.

An Extensive “Playbook”
40+pages of high-impact exercises and resources. It’s available digitally, or you can print out pages to work offline. You are encouraged to share your updates through your "TravelLog" within the Course software, so that Karryn and your cohort can also “track” you.

Reciprocal Support
Connect with other Pathfinders in mutually beneficial and useful ways. You will learn how to effectively "accompany" another Pathfinder along their path using a template and process to effectively and compassionately get and give support.

A Wider Community
During the program, you enjoy membership in the vibrant Regenepreneurs community, so you can connect with a welcoming group that "gets" your passion for regenerative work. The Network is also already “seeded” with LOTS of other valuable resources that you can explore so that all your time here supports your pathfinding.

New Layers
Though this course has been taught several times, it’s always evolving and fresh themes and content are added. You benefit from Karryn's years of study with leaders in the regenerative paradigm, and in 2021, her study of the somatics of consent, and all that has to do with decolonizing our economy and our approach to our work.

Software with a Soul
The Program is hosted on the elegant Mighty Networks platform, so you can get answers fast and connect with Karryn & the community 24/7 via your desktop or mobile app. In other words, you get all the benefits of social media without the distractions, and trolls, and without supporting the problematic biz model of FB. You are also thoughtfully onboarded into the Regenepreneurs Network so you feel comfortable with the software before the course starts.

Discount on 1:1 Coaching
Many folks find that ongoing private, compassionate support really helps them process their inner roadblocks and discern their strengths and opportunities, so they sign up for 1:1 coaching sessions with Karryn while working through the program. Others finish the course and want a trusted person to help them evaluate the pros/cons of various paths. These folks sign up for a culminating 3-hr intensive. Either option is open to Pathfinders in the Network, at discounted member rates.

Access to "The Regenerative Planning Retreat" Course
Most folks plan their life and biz with reflections on strategy & number-crunching. Karryn developed a practice of retreating on the Solstices and Equinoxes to ground into Source- and Earth-wisdom as the foundation upon which the other planning is built, and she created a mini-course on this. Pathfinder enrollment opens quarterly in March, June, Sept, and Dec. Join us early in the month to attend Zooms that support you to design your retreat.

Your Guide, Karryn Olson

I created the program I wish I'd had! Because Pathfinding shouldn't be a struggle, it should be enjoyable. And because Gaia needs more of us doing regenerative work.
I deeply love our Earth and Her people, and when I was younger, I found soooo many paths interesting & exciting.

I've followed many with enthusiasm, such as getting my Masters in Public Affairs, and studying and working abroad, and then finding permaculture: I have worked for over 20 years as a permaculture designer, educator, and organizer, and lived for 15 years in an Ecovillage. In the past few years, I joined a community of practice to further develop my capability to think and act from a regenerative paradigm. This is my life's work.

My path has included a life-long commitment to social justice and activism, and I have loved becoming the mother of wonderful brown-skinned daughters. And juggling the demands of all of these roles continues to be no small feat!

My meandering process of finding my way has provided me insights into the urgent need for solutions, but also took lot of time and resources.

And there are paths I didn't take, because I didn't know about them, or didn't have the support to take on the challenges they posed, or life's circumstances took me in different directions.

I've often felt bad and wondered, "If it's this hard for me as a middle-class woman with white privilege and master's degree, how are others figuring it out?" And then I realized it's hard because there are few paths and almost no systemic support.
To hell with that!

I share all this because I know it's hard to find your path outside the mainstream degenerative economy, and because it grounds my dedication to accelerating the process of finding and thriving in our regenerative work.

Transparency about pricing:

The Pathfinders Program is $500.

The pricing of this program tries to balance three factors:

First of all, the type of folks I serve desire transformation, so I'm not providing an information download through an e-course format. Instead, we cultivate a "container" that provides a robust amount of support so you can develop new skills and strengths to be able to move audaciously towards your role in our regenerative future. That means that a few folks get a LOT from me. This is not a biz model built to scale, but to build our capacities contribute to the evolutions of the systems in which we are embedded.

At the same time, because our world urgently needs more regenerative solutions, and not everyone can afford the support we all deserve, I offer A) installment plans at no extra cost B) two partial scholarships. I don't have outside funding support for these, I subsidize these completely because I know the quality of our group is higher when money is not a barrier to who can join us. That said, anyone is welcome to contribute towards scholarships (email karryn@regenepreneurs.com if you'd like to support scholarships).

Email karryn@regenepreneurs.com to inquire about installment payments, or to apply for a scholarship.

Scholarships are open to 1. folks to whom reparations are owed--i.e., people who have Indigenous ancestry, or whose ancestors were enslaved, or 2. folks facing severe financial hardship.

But finally, since self-care is one of the roots of a regenerative business model, I have to balance my investment of energy.

All of that as background in the interest of transparency: my wish to offer more equitable pricing means it's important for me to minimize administrative costs. Here's what you should know and how you can help:

Please be proactive about payments. I moved away from charging folks who pay in installments an extra fee. But the reality is that if I have to follow up on payments, that takes up my precious time and energy. So you can help me to offer these more equitable payment plans by paying your installments a timely fashion.

I can't offer special payment plans because they also take a lot of time and effort to track.

In the future, I hope to be able to accept time bank credits in exchange for part of course fees, if we can get the technology ironed out–I'd love to hear from you if you are in the know about this.

Cancellations: You can cancel the program at any time... just contact me so we can connect about it. I cannot refund any payments already charged, but we can stop future payments. If you are on automatic payments and know that a payment is coming up, please give at least 2 business days notice to give me time to stop the charge.

Refunds: I don't issue refunds, but we can stop your future payments if you need to leave the program before it finishes.

Thanks for you understanding. As you can see, I've put a lot of time and care into thinking into how I can balance my commitments to financial accessibility with my need "catch and store energy" in the form of dollars to sustain myself and my Beloveds. It's always a work in progress, and I share about it here transparently to support you as you figure out your own Abundance Model.

Ready to find your path?

Yes!