How I Built a Regenerative Career & Eco-Community With Zero Capital
Presented by Neil Hegarty (Creasol) for “This is also community”
Discover how to finance your project, avoid the “land-rich, cash-poor” trap, and build a self-sustaining community—even if you're starting from scratch.
Free Live Masterclass
May 6th
10:30 AM Guatemala | 6:30 PM Europe
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Whether you are dreaming of a project or already living on the land, the financial model is the heartbeat of your community.
Even for some of the most established communities, finances are often a challenge. How to finance an support either a life in alignment with nature or a businessmodel that can finance and sustain your Intentional Community or Eco-community?
This masterclass is designed for the entire community lifecycle. Whether you are in the visioning stage, actively searching for land, or already established and looking to transition your current community toward a more resilient, self-financing business model, Neil Hegarty (Creasol) will show you how. He created Granja Tz’Ikin, an organic farm, eco-friendly guesthouse, bar-restaurant, and community center in Tzununa on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. He will share with us how he moved from financial scarcity to regenerative abundancefor him and his community.
Most eco-communities fail—not because of lack of vision, but because of weak financial design.
Projects become:
• Dependent on external funding
• Exhausting to sustain
• Or collapse after a few years
Without a clear economic model, even the most beautiful projects struggle to survive.
Why We Created this space
TIs This For You?
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- The Established Resident: You already live in an intentional community but the current financial model feels precarious, extractive, or reliant on constant external injections.
- The Visionary Founder: You want to start a community from scratch but feel paralyzed because you don’t have the "required" startup capital.
- The Seeker: You are looking to join a project and want the tools to evaluate if their business model is actually sustainable for the long term.
- The Permaculturist: You want to apply the 12 principles of Permaculture to your economy, ensuring your livelihood is as diverse and resilient as your ecosystem.
What We Will Cover:
1. From Maintenance to Regeneration
If you already have a community, we’ll discuss how to pivot from "paying the bills" to a model where the community's daily functions generate the capital needed for expansion and repair.
2. The "Zero Capital" Launchpad
Learn how to leverage social capital and resource-sharing to secure land and infrastructure without traditional bank loans or massive personal risk.
3. The Creasol Method: Applied
Neil shares the specific framework for building eco-projects that pay for themselves through integrated systems—turning your community into a hub for education, production, and healing.
4. Avoiding the "Land-Rich, Cash-Poor" Trap
We will analyze why many communities fail within the first five years and how to design a "Financial Permaculture" plan that ensures every member can thrive, not just survive.
Meet Your Instructor
Neal.
Is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of CreaSol Permaculture, where he bridges the gap between regenerative design and social entrepreneurship.
He specializes in helping intentional communities find their "economic niche," ensuring that the beautiful dream of living together is backed by a solid, self-sustaining financial reality. He is also part of our “This is also Community” Telegram group
Top become familiar with his work, feel free to check out his free resources
About "This is also Community"
This is also Community is a space for people who are passionate about Intentional Communities to share insights, resources, and opportunities with each other. Whether you are searching for an intentional community to join, thinking of starting one, or already living in one, you’re in the right place. Join our Telegram Group Here We have our Community Spotlights Series on Youtube, where we interview Intentional Communities, as well as “Field Notes” for which this webinar is the first in this series where we go specifically into topics that concern Communities and ask the experts “How they do it”.
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Join us to build—or rebuild—your community on a foundation of financial design rather than financial debt.
