Co-Nexus - The Regenerative Co-Living Community Network
Co-Nexus is a unique kind of regenerative co-living community model based around social-enterprise incubation and acceleration.
Grounded in reality, instead of idealism, and geared towards the doers instead of the talkers. Our approach is all about scaling regenerative living in a condensed timeline, without relying on any unicorns.
We aren’t The Solution to the meta-crises but our model is certainly a major piece of the puzzle, so please take a full deep breath and let us serenade your soul with our approach to a high-functioning community that can scale throughout the world.
Our Regenerative Model
We retrofit large single-family homes to create co-living communities that are ideally sized for intimacy (6-12 people) while also providing ample personal space.
Solar panels, greenhouses, gardens, tiny-homes and shared electric vehicles are all integral parts of our playbook to bring down our carbon footprint and eat locally.
We only focus on certain regions, which is initially just the Denver Metro Area, where we can tie enough of our community homes together to be able to scale the network effect.
All-Inclusive Lifestyle
Instead of paying rent, utilities, groceries, cleaning and car sharing as separate fees, we lump them all together in our Community-Fee, which is tiered based on amenity-level.
Our goal is to provide a much higher quality of life for much less thanks to the economies of scale.
This also frees up so much time that people normally spend on mundane activities, like grocery shopping, cleaning and car maintenance.
A Tiered Approach
Let’s face it, socialism sucks! Which is why we utilize a tiered system to provide vastly different amenity-levels per home at various price points.
Incentivize instead of Penalize
There are no chores or time requirements of our community members, because forcing people to do things just doesn’t work. Instead, we factor in the cleaning, mediation and other administrative costs in our fee and we compensate our members for keeping our community running professionally.
A Reassuring Economic Model
One of our unique twists is utilizing a co-op model where 1 share always equals 1 day of community-living.
This means that investing in your community is by far the best investment that you can make to ensure you have a place to call home for the rest of your days.
For those that can’t invest monetarily, we offer plenty of opportunities to earn shares by doing work in our community homes, offering an assurance that no matter what happens in the economy, your home is never in jeopardy.
Elder Care
Baby-boomers are facing some serious headwind as they strive to make it through their golden years without being bankrupted from medical care and not ending up in the mind-numbing purgatory of a nursing home.
Some of our community-homes are specially geared towards multi-generational living and caring for elders so that they can feel part of a family and die in a home surrounded by people they love.
For people whose home is their only major asset, we offer a program where they can exchange it for shares, ensuring that they can continue to live there as part of the community and receive a level of care and support that is unprecedented in the corporate run senior housing.
Social Enterprise
All of our communities are rooted in social enterprise incubation and acceleration, in order to provide an economic engine for the regenerative movement and to have even more of a common cause to unite our members.
Our goal is to empower our members to start the business that they have always dreamed of and not compromise.
By us facilitating the back-office work and mentorship, our member’s businesses can scale quickly alongside each other.
We focus on launching the businesses necessary to professionally service our fully-inclusive communities. Then, we scale them to serve the greater community too.
Community Done Right
We’ve learned the hard way that the utopian values of most intentional-communities are a recipe for disaster. But, we’ve also seen the special-sauce that actually makes communities functional, and its not that complicated.
First of all, we have a careful screening processes and probation period to ensure that everyone who comes into our community is a good fit for it.
Secondly, we provide ample pathways to establish trust and intimacy, like how communal meals are included and professionally facilitated to make the most of that time together instead of more small talk. (Just imagine being compensated to lead your friends on a hike or a bike ride because group outings build trust.)
Also, mediation and therapy are included in our fee, so that people can work through their problems without projecting on others.
Our goal is to demonstrate that harmonious community living is actually possible long term (without a Guru directing you).
The Goldilocks Effect
As our network of community homes grows, we can better match people together to create community homes with that Goldilocks feel of “just right”.
Next Steps
We have a lot of work ahead of us to make this vision for Co-Nexus a reality, so if you’re interested in getting involved, please reach out with your interest through this form and we will stay in touch about opportunities to plug in.