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Seeking Co-Founders and Aligned Investors
Aligned Investors
If investing in a project like this lights you up, I'd love to hear from you at
paulacharmaineblundell@gmail.com to begin a meaningful conversation.
Co-Founding
Members
We've detailed four foundational roles below, in addition to Visionary Matriarch, to ensure that the practical, financial, relational, and public-facing structures are sustainably built and managed well. This team will form the scaffolding to achieve our fullest impact and potential. While these roles are who we're focused on at the start, other interested parties are welcome to reach out through the questionnaire below - especially land owners, builders, and gourmet cooks!
Operations Strategist
This role turns vision into action by ensuring systems, structures, and logistics run smoothly. You oversee project timelines, land acquisition, construction phases, legal frameworks, and operational planning. You bring order, momentum, and accountability to complex projects while remaining aligned with longterm goals and the deeper purpose of the work.
Financial Steward
This role holds the financial design and sustainability of the project. You have experience with innovative financial pathways and ensure the financial foundations of The Centre are robust, regenerative, and aligned with the values that guide our work. You manage investors, capital raises, funding models, equity structures, and financial planning while stewarding resources with transparency, wisdom, and integrity.
Cultural Guardian
This role stewards the relational and ethical integrity of the community. You manage relational practices, conflict resolution, community agreements, staffing models and the on-boarding of staff, residents, visitors and facilitators. You ensure the human field of The Centre is healthy, resilient, and aligned with our values.
Engagement Director
This public-facing role connects The Centre to the wider world. You are our storyteller and bridge, building partnerships, and attracting media, collaborators, and investors. You represent The Centre at events, on social media, and in strategic conversations. You translate the vision into tangible relationships and opportunities, ensuring the philosophy and impact of The Centre are experienced, understood, and supported beyond the community.
Application for Co-Founders
This application may be a fit if you:
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Feel drawn to land-based, regenerative, and community projects
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Value conscious leadership, relational maturity, and long-term vision
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Are interested in co-creating something that is both financially viable and deeply human
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Are open to being in process, dialogue, and co-evolution as it builds
Through this initial communication, we are exploring together: vision alignment and values, relationship to money, community, and land stewardship, capacity for collaboration and shared responsibility, desired level of involvement, and timing, resources, and practical considerations.
Copy and paste the questions below into a document or body of an email so that you may take your time completing, or revisiting it if needed, before emailing to paulacharmaineblundell@gmail.com . Please write "Application for Co-Founder or Aligned Investor" in the subject line. We are excited to have your interest here.
Section 1: Introduction
1. Please select the pathway(s) you are applying for:
One of the 4 Co‑Founding Roles (Operations, Finance, Culture, Engagement)
Advisor / Strategic Partner
Future Resident / Long‑Term Steward
Other (please specify)
2. Contact Information:
Name:
Email Address:
Current Location:
Primary work / vocation:
Section 2: Your Call to The Centre
3. What specifically draws you to The Centre and our vision?
4. What does land‑based or community‑rooted living mean to you at this point in your life?
5. What is your relationship to embodied well-being practices such as relational arts, holistic health, or wild fitness?
Section 3: Values & Relational Capacity
6. What values feel non‑negotiable for you in a co‑creative project?
7. How do you tend to navigate conflict, disagreement, or difference? Additionally, what have you learned from past collaborations, especially ones that did not go as planned?
Section 4: Relationship to Resources
8. How do you currently relate to money, wealth, and scarcity verses abundance? Additionally, in projects like this, what role do you feel money is meant to play?
9. If applicable, what range of financial participation feels realistic for you?
Section 5: Desired Involvement
10. How do you envision being involved in the creation or life of The Centre? (working, participating, living, investing, physical build, farm, garden, restaurant and cafe, facilitation, body work, fitness, management, facilities, administration, reception/customer service, housekeeping, etc.)
11. What level of decision‑making responsibility are you seeking or open to?
12. What rhythms of engagement work best for you (hands‑on, advisory, periodic, remote, embedded)?
Section 6: Capacity for Long‑Term Vision
13. This is a long‑range, evolving project. What supports you in staying present through uncertainty and growth?
14. What does commitment mean to you in a project that will unfold over years, not months?
Section 7: Practicalities & Timing
15. What is your ideal timeline for involvement?
16. Are there any constraints or considerations we should be aware of?
Section 8: Closing
17. Is there anything else you feel is important for us to know at this stage?
18. What questions are you holding as you consider this application?