Your Complete 2026 Creative Journey
A 9-Month Regenerative Creation & Technology-Powered Readiness Program
Dates: March 28 to December 2026
Format: Primarily online with optional in-person or live-streamed showcase elements
reGEN Impact Media presents the Regenerative Creation Cohort, a 9-month technology and mentorship program designed for screen-based storytellers, creatives, filmmakers, and digital-media founders ready to evolve their work.
Through a blend of strategic structure and regenerative, intuitive co-learning, you’ll clarify your purpose as a creative professional, refine your skills, and learn how to leverage digital technologies in ways that genuinely support and authentically showcase your project.
At reGEN, we build strength intentionally from the inside out. Our process expands you as a creative so you can prepare for sustainable, tech-enabled growth with clarity, authenticity, and integrity.
As you develop your project, you’ll engage and grow an aligned warm audience, validate your market, and explore investment or brand partnerships that truly fit. Along the way, you’ll work with practical applications of ethical AI, a matriarchal approach to technology adoption, and collective crowdfunding, supporting real-world readiness without compromising your values.
Where we’ll go:
Join our expanding constellation of creative founders and storytellers. reGEN’s cohort is now entering its fourth year!
Reimagine your marketing strategy to magnetic attraction.
Build your warm audience and secure early feedback and support for your projects.
Showcase your project proof-of-concept to local-to-global connections. Learn more.
Be the Storyteller and the Story.
Regenerative Filmmakers at 2023 Panel: Charlene SanJenko, Naomi McDougall Jones, Catherine Eaton, Ecko Aleck, and Sami Bass.
Evolve with Creative Regeneration
Unlock new possibilities in this first-of-its-kind experience through a new approach called Regenerative Creation: an inside-out approach to storytelling and creative work where the process itself is restorative, supporting clarity, readiness, and alignment for the creator first, and generating nourishing, impact-first narratives for audiences and the systems they touch. It integrates creativity, ethical technology, and intentional design to build sustainable pathways without extraction or burnout.
How will you grow with the Creation Cohort?
You may be:
- Carrying a creative project you’re ready to bring into the world
- Beyond early ideation
- Developing or scaling digital media projects or creative businesses
- Seeking to integrate AI and technology ethically into their work
- Aiming to grow audiences, validate markets, and attract funding or partnerships
You may also be:
- In a period of renewal, recalibration, or narrative shift
- Seeking a collaborative community rooted in values, integrity, and possibility
- Aware you’re preparing for something next, even if it hasn’t fully revealed itself yet
Either way, you are done chasing attention, and you’re ready to build aligned momentum.
You want to surround yourself with good people, innovative approaches, and a values-focused lens that honors both inner work and outer impact.
Whether you are birthing a new creative project, refining your business, or scaling your impact, a season in reGEN’s 9-month Pathway Towards Creative Regeneration Readiness will move you there faster.
How The Creative Cohort Works
We accept a maximum of 25 participants each season.
The cohort unfolds across nine regenerative steps.
Each step reveals itself as you meet it.
You won’t always see the full pathway ahead, and that’s by design, for this is a regenerative process, not a rigid map.
Grounded by three years of alumni experience, spend nine months with a small group of exceptional humans, guided through a supportive and nourishing monthly group coaching.
This intimate group becomes close and personal, learning each other’s stories and rhythm, supporting one another with feedback and clarity, building up and growing as creatives together.
The regenerative rhythm includes:
What Emerges At the End of Your Journey
By the end of the 9 months, participants typically hold:
• A clear next-stage roadmap grounded in impact-first design
• A validated public-facing narrative – presentation-ready and shareable
• A digital amplification profile aligned with integrity, not noise
• At least one audience discovery or showcase opportunity
• A deeper trust in their own creative and intuitive process
Participants will also gain the ability to
• Increase digital and AI literacy for creative business growth
• Test, validate, and engage audiences using ethical, AI-enabled tools
• Validate creative projects and markets using technology-enabled strategies
• Design and execute collective crowdfunding and community-based financing
• Integrate values-led, regenerative approaches to technology adoption
• Strengthen commercialization readiness and partnership pathways
Each cohort culminates in a Creative Showcase.
This is a moment to:
• Prepare your narrative
• Articulate your work with clarity and confidence
• Share your project with an aligned audience
For some, this becomes a doorway into deeper systems-change storytelling and collaboration. For others, the runway completes exactly where it needs to.
After the Journey
Graduates become part of the reGEN alumni constellation, an ongoing, fluid network where connection deepens through contribution.
For a small number of participants, the runway may open into future aligned work pathways with reGEN, including impact-first storytelling in service to social enterprises, Indigenous communities, systems-change initiatives, and reGEN’s network. These pathways are invitational and emergent, not promised.
Some alumni:
Our Alumni Have Something To Say…
“I worked with Regen Creation Cohort for a whole year which was extremely transformative for me…It helped me find the courage of conviction to make my boldest and best work to date.”
“As a disabled Woman in Film making my first feature documentary project with two very young children, exposing the injustice of our under-researched and under-resourced western medical system for female sex differences in neuroscience, I didn’t know where to start. My 2024 year of Regen Cohort project guidance and development helped me solidify my concept, take big leaps forward in terms of material development and production, and get a clear sense of how to shape the impact campaign. “
“ReGenerative Cohort has been vital for my growth as a filmmaker in the last year. The cohort is a process, a marker, a kinship, a gathering of intelligence that allows risk taking, which is the basis for sustainable filmmaking. Every month gathering with these women, reminds me to keep going, keep dreaming, and keep doing!”
“The reGEN Cohort helps one to see where their creative self is wanting to lead them. This group will not compartmentalize your life, but rather show how it is all interconnected, that it is truly the process not the product that matters. You’ll also likely find your people, and feel so supported. If you are ready to commit to a new way to bring forth creations in your life-it’s maybe going to be right for you too.”
“Working with Charlene has reconnected me with my creativity. I have benefited from the approaches I have practiced with Charlene and cultivated by the way she holds space, in all aspects of my life – professional and personal – to create more connection and bring more intentionality to progress my vision rooted in my values.”
“I worked with Regen Creation Cohort for a whole year which was extremely transformative for me…It helped me find the courage of conviction to make my boldest and best work to date.”
Richa Rudola
Filmmaker, Cow Heavy and Floral, featured at Cannes 2025
“Working with Charlene has reconnected me with my creativity. I have benefited from the approaches I have practiced with Charlene and cultivated by the way she holds space, in all aspects of my life – professional and personal – to create more connection and bring more intentionality to progress my vision rooted in my values.”
Ainaz Bozorgzadeh,
reGEN Cohort Alumni, 2024
The Nine Interwoven Regenerative Capacities
Each capacity supports and builds on the others. Each one meets you where you are at.
Identity
Founder/creative clarity and positioning
Impact
Defining outcomes and societal value
Intuition
Decision-making and creative leadership
Imagination
Innovation and future-oriented thinking
Intention
Strategic goal setting and task prioritization
Innovation
Tech-enabled creativity and AI literacy, optimizing online presence for LLM’s & AI discovery
Invitation
Audience testing, development, and outreach
Integration
Aligning tools, platforms, and workflows
Implementation
Execution, validation, and funding readiness
Practical Details
Time Commitment: 3 hours/week
Dates: March 28 to December 2026
Format: Primarily online with optional in-person or live-streamed showcase elements
Investment: $299 CAD per month for 10 months; deposit ($299) plus nine months
Selection: Application + 60–90 minute alignment conversation
Hosted By
Charlene SanJenko
Indigenous storyteller, two-time founder, and intuitive media visionary
with Morna MacGillivray
Global leader in transformational education and movement-building
Guest facilitators join seasonally based on cohort needs. Guest spots will best-match the needs of the group and the availability of our guest facilitators.
Apply When You’re Ready
Align your life’s work with your truest soul expression, and attract next-level opportunities.
Enter a new way of creating and building.
Because so much more is possible.
Apply for our 2026 Cohort Today.
After submitting your application, we will reach out to schedule an interview.