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LovejamDomnu Valley

The Community Living Launchpad

from the founders ofLovejam&Domnu Valley

From dreaming about community to living it. A 4-week live course with the founders of Domnu Valley, designed to help you create a blueprint for launching and sustaining harmonious community living projects.

27 October to 19 November, from £199

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WHY WE ARE RUNNING THIS COURSE

We believe community is the antidote.

The mental health epidemic, the loss of people power and the quiet unhealthiness of the way most of us are asked to live all come from a similar root: disconnection. They are what happens when people are separated from each other.

Humans thrive in relational interdependence: a unique web of connection, support & interest that brings a wholeness to everyday living. Community living brings a richness to life that is priceless. Modern-day capitalism has stripped us of the village & forced us into individualism where it is harder to be held & harder to grow into our fullest expression through the mirrors of relationship. We believe that community living is the answer.

Many dream of starting community living projects, but most never start. We want to see this change.

The Domnu Valley farmhouse beneath a sky full of stars

Why this course

We built this without money of our own, and it is still working two and a half years on.

We launched our community after visiting another community named Tierra Iris, a project that rented its land and funded it through a community-led, sustainable business model.

The lightbulb went off when we realised that we could make this work with a rented property & a smart idea, so we took the leap of faith.

This course contains everything that we have learnt over the last few years launching & building our community Domnu Valley, including the mistakes we made along the way so that you can avoid them.

For full transparency

We are not perfect. We have made mistakes and we have had our moments of crisis. We even have a £6,000 debt as a result of one of these decisions.

But we are a working, thriving, harmonious community overall, and all we are doing is teaching our process, our methodology and what worked or didn't work for us. We don't claim to be the godfathers of community building, but we have done it successfully with none of our own money. We made the dream come true and it's working 2.5 years down the line. Now we want to help others do the same.

P.S. Your place on this course directly supports Domnu Valley: keeping the space open, clearing the last of those early mistakes, and building it into a thriving community ecosystem that stretches out further than our immediate base. 

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Who's this for?

  • Those who want to move from dreaming about community to living it
  • Those who don't yet have the people but want the best chance of success
  • Those who have been talking about this for years and are ready to act
  • Those who feel modern living isn't serving them and crave something more fulfilling
  • Those who want to invest in each other and a different kind of wealth
  • Those who want to shortcut the journey by learning from our successes & mistakes
  • Landowners and property holders who want to open their land to a thriving community
  • Existing communities that want stronger governance, finances and culture to last
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Who we are

Lovejam, Domnu Valley and The Founders Behind This Experiment In More Soulful Living.

We are Zena & Nathan, the founders of Lovejam Community & Domnu Valley. Both were born from a deep feeling of disconnection, disillusion, inauthenticity and creative starvation in the UK.

The beginning

Lovejam began as an antidote to bring people together in more creative, wholesome & soulful ways, starting from a jam in the park in London & growing into a nationwide conscious community & events organisation.

Since 2018

Building platforms for self-expression, positive transformation & sobriety through our annual festival, retreats, parties, concerts, festival stages, educational workshops and programs, ceremonies, charity fundraisers, residencies & nationwide community gatherings.

In 2024

After years of dreaming, we finally took that giant leap of faith & signed the lease on an old watermill & farm property in North Devon, to anchor the spirit of Lovejam into a living & tangible space.

Together, we have built one of the largest & most reputable intentional community events organisations here in the UK.

The team behind Domnu

Your two lead facilitators.

You will be held through the four weeks by the two of us, alongside the wider Domnu circle.

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Lead facilitator

Zena Winterbottom

Zena has been immersed in community living and cooperative structures since 2018. As a former director and cooperative member of Hempen Organic, a not-for-profit hemp farm and producer, she developed expertise in consent-based decision making, horizontal working structures, and managing a rural communal economy. At the end of 2019, she also joined forces with Nathan to grow Lovejam from a grassroots community into a vibrant, purpose-driven creative events organisation that’s behind an annual festival & nationwide community jams. Drawing on her work as a herbalist & forager, she now helps steer Domnu Valley, combining creativity & regenerative practices to experiment with more soulful living in the UK.

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Lead facilitator

Nathan Gallagher

Nathan is the founder of Lovejam Community, a Transformational Breathwork® facilitator, event mentor & co-founder of the creative coliving space Domnu Valley. He has been organising community-focused events since the age of 15, ranging from large-scale (1,000–2,000 person) festivals, weekend-long retreats, sober parties, warehouse raves, educational workshops, holistic wellness workshops & charity gatherings. His speciality lies in bringing people together, nurturing community, transformational event design, marketing & entrepreneurship. In the last few years, Nathan has mentored over 80 students around transformational event design & community building. 

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Domnu Valley: An Experiment Into Creative and Regenerative Living

Domnu Valley is a grade II listed water mill & 10 bedroom house nestled amongst 100 acres of luscious forests & ancient meadows along the coastal path of Exmoor National Park.

Over the last few years, we have built a living, breathing creative, regenerative community with shared meals, shared values and shared decisions.

Two and a half years in, it's working well. Not because we are special, but because we put structure underneath the dream: sociocratic, consent-based decision making, clear roles, transparency and structures for healthy culture.

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The property

A 10 bedroom watermill with outbuildings that home our music studio, yoga studio, apothecary & tipi.

The people

A resident household plus a wider circle of members, volunteers and visiting artists who keep the place alive.

The governance

Sociocratic circles, consent-based decision making and clear role distribution so power is shared.

The rhythm

Weekly circles, seasonal ceremony, shared meals and heart-centred check-ins that hold the relational fabric.

The money

Co-living, events, retreats, hosting and teaching. Income models that cover the costs and allow for this dream to be possible.

The culture

Alcohol free space, creativity as a focus, mediation when things get hard, and a genuine commitment to each other's growth.

Everything we teach on this course is running right now, in real time.

Domnu Valley is the proof that this is possible without owning your project. It is the working example the whole course is built from.

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The modules

The journey at a glance

Four live modules and four Q&A webinars with guest experts, recorded so you can watch them back anytime.

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Week One · 27 October · Led by Zena

The Launch Blueprint: Vision, People & Purpose

Every community starts from one of three places: you have the property, you have the people, or you're starting from purpose alone.

  • Get crystal clear on your vision, purpose and mission
  • Understand the real workload and commitment of being a founder, before it catches you out
  • Define the personality and boundaries of your space
  • Choose your ownership model (individual, company or collective) and membership model
  • Learn how to find and gather the right people

You'll leave with: A one-page Launch Blueprint you've written yourself — vision, values and structure decided — and the clarity to explain your project to anyone in a single conversation.

Fresh bagels and the Domnu Valley sign, one of the community's income streams

Week Two · 3 November · Led by Nathan

Money Models: Financing Your Launch and Funding Your Future

Your money model decides which opportunities are right for you

  • How to finance your launch, even without big savings
  • Revenue-generating models that keep a community sustainable long-term
  • Budgeting, financial planning and business plan templates
  • Commercial vs residential leasing: the real costs and risks
  • Financial transparency that builds trust between members
  • Planning for exits: what happens when people (or you) leave

You'll leave with: A first-year budget and revenue plan for your project, mapped out in your workbook.

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Week Three · 10 November · Led by Nathan

Uncovering the Opportunity: Land and Property

How to find, assess and secure the right land or building — and how to spot one that will sink you.

  • Where to find opportunities most people never see
  • Our property scorecard: a matrix for judging opportunities
  • Reading the constraints and possibilities of a site
  • Creative deal structures, contracts and negotiation
  • Due diligence, step by step
  • Regulatory red flags: planning, licensing, safety, energy and the utility traps we learned the hard way

You'll leave with: The judgment to tell a great opportunity from one that will sink you — with your own due-diligence checklist underway and a shortlist of places to look that most people never see.

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Week Four · 17 November · Led by Zena

Harmonious Living: Systems, Rituals and Structures

Week four gives you the relational and practical systems that keep a community healthy.

  • Culture building, rhythm and ritual
  • Communication styles and relational systems
  • Conflict mediation that actually works
  • Consent-based decision-making frameworks, including sociocracy, and how to facilitate them
  • Roles, delegation and logistical structures
  • Vetting, testing and onboarding new members

You'll leave with: A draft community agreement in your own words, covering governance, decisions, conflict and onboarding — and the relational tools to keep it alive when real differences show up.

By the end of the four weeks, you will have your complete Community Launch Plan: one document you could show a landowner, a lender or your future members. You build each part of it yourself, week by week, in the Launchpad Workbook, so everyone leaves with it. From the Standard tier up, you also receive our ready-made frameworks and templates, and Advanced adds the complete money stack, a 1-to-1 contract and lease review, and a live coaching clinic.

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Voices

From the people who live it and the ecosystem around us.

Press play to hear from the people who live with us at Domnu Valley. 

SAM - OUR REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE VOLUNTEER

PIPPA - DOMNU VAN DWELLER

FIN - DOMNU VALLEY RESIDENT

FIN - DOMNU VALLEY RESIDENT

CLARISSA - DOMNU VALLEY RESIDENT

DANNY - OUR COMMUNITY WELLBEING VOLUNTEER

BEN - DOMNU VALLEY VAN DWELLER

TRANG - DOMNU VALLEY RESIDENT

MITCH - DOMNU VAN DWELLER

The money myth

You do not need to be wealthy to launch a community.

The belief that this requires a fortune stops so many projects. We'll take it apart, and show you routes in that are financially manageable for ordinary people.

Land you don't own

Leases and lease options put you on land for a monthly figure, not a purchase price.

Other people's money, fairly

Share raises, crowdfunding, ethical lenders and members buying in over time can fund a start from nothing saved.

A place that pays its way

Growing, hosting, making and teaching can bring in the income that keeps your community going.

For landowners

If you already have the land but need the people and the process.

A landowner standing at a farm gate looking across fields towards a stone barn

Perhaps you have acres, or a farmhouse, or buildings. You can picture people here. What you're looking for is a way to find the right ones, and the confidence that inviting them in will leave your home, your savings and your sanity intact.

This course is here to connect you with many people on their journey of discovering both their people & their place. By the end you may have even found yours or discovered the pathway to find them.

What you get

Everything included.

  • Four live modules

    Live workshops on Tuesday & Thursday evenings, 7–9pm, 27 October to 19 November.

  • Recordings and lifetime access

    Every session and resource, yours to keep.

  • A cohort walking with you

    People on the same road, building alongside you.

  • Community pods

    Small accountability groups, matched by us.

  • Mighty Networks community platform

    Our private space for conversations and resources.

  • A community spark

    A dedicated host who keeps you supported between sessions.

  • Guest educators and guest experts

    Practitioners from across the community living movement.

  • Practical templates

    Agreements, policies, budgets and legal checklists.

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Plus bonuses you keep

All of the resources below come together inside The Launchpad Workbook — your companion through the four weeks, for turning what you hear into your own written plan.

  • Co-op How-to Guides & Legal Toolkits

  • Communication & Collaboration Toolkit

  • The “Spectrum of Intimacy” Boundary Matrix

  • Founder Alignment Audit

  • One-Page Launch Blueprint Template

  • Revenue Generation Matrix

  • Property Scorecard & Due Diligence Checklist

  • Landlord Negotiation Script & Offer Letter

  • Heart Share Facilitation Guidelines

  • Member Vetting Matrix & Onboarding Template

  • Community Agreement Template

  • Community Living Resource Book

  • Budgeting & Financial Planning SystemAdvanced only

  • The Overall Business PlanAdvanced only

  • 1-1 Contract & Lease ReviewAdvanced only

  • Group Coaching ClinicAdvanced only

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GUEST EDUCATORS

People who've done it, joining us along the way.

We're inviting founders and practitioners from across the community living movement to speak with the cohort, share their vision & gift their wisdom.

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Bruce Parry

Documentarian, Experiential Ethnographer & Community Living Advocate

Award-winning documentarian, author and explorer behind the landmark BBC series Tribe, Amazon and Arctic, and the feature film Tawai. Decades living among egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies give Bruce rare insight into deep cohesion, shared governance and balance with the living world, bridging indigenous wisdom and modern community living.

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Wild Minds Network

Maegan Mansfield

Wild Minds Network Coordinator

Connecting landowners with land seekers and supporting people towards land-based living. With two years’ experience exploring off-grid communities and connections to projects worldwide, Mae hosts weekly spaces offering connection, practical advice and support inside a growing global network.

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Hempen Cooperative

Patrick Gillet

Founder & co-op member

Patrick is the co-founder of Hempen, a flat, non-hierarchical farming cooperative growing and processing organic hemp and hemp-based products. They speak to the reality of running a land-based business with shared pay, shared decisions and shared responsibility.

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JOHNSON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & COMMUNITY LEADER 

Jordan Johnson

MANAGING DIRECTOR 

Jordan held the position of Head of Community at &Soul, a 200+ room coliving and social wellness organisation. Before that, he managed a 300+ unit portfolio of HMOs, and he has recently become Managing Director of his family's property company. Jordan has extensive knowledge of contract design and negotiation tactics.

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Pricing

Accessible by design.

Three prices for the same course, plus a one-to-one option if you want us alongside you. Choose the one that's best for you. Every price can be paid in three instalments. This is the first cohort, and the price goes up next time.

Solidarity

£199

or 3 payments of £67

The full four week course, live sessions, recordings and lifetime access. No frameworks or templates included.

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Standard

£350

or 3 payments of £117

Everything in Solidarity plus most of our frameworks and templates: agreements, money models, governance and gathering tools you can use straight away.

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Advanced

£499

or 3 payments of £167

Everything in Standard plus the advanced money stack: our budgeting & financial planning system, the overall business plan, a 1-1 contract & lease review and a live group coaching clinic. It also helps us hold solidarity places open for others.

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Side By Side · one-to-one

Price on request

Hand-holding and incubation for you or your founding team, from first idea to launched project.

  • 4 x one-to-one or team consultations
  • A personal weekend at Domnu Valley
  • A dedicated brainstorming session
  • Our exclusive templates
  • One-to-ones with guest educators
  • Contract reviews
  • AI systems consultation
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Bring your founding circle

4 places for £600

Week one is about gathering your people, so bring them with you. Groups finish the course and actually launch far more often. Register your interest and mention the group ticket, or email us at lovejamcommunity@gmail.com.

We don't want anybody to go without because of money. Money will never be a barrier to entry here. If none of these prices are possible for you right now, contact us at lovejamcommunity@gmail.com and we will find a way to make it work.

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100% money back guarantee

Come to the first two sessions. If it's not for you, full refund, no questions.

Tell us within a week of the second session and we'll refund you in full. No forms to fill in, no explanation needed.

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LovejamDomnu Valley

From dreaming about community to living in it.

The first cohort runs 27 October to 19 November, from £199. Enrolment closes 26th October, 11pm. We truly hope you join us on this journey and take a step forward in the direction of chasing your dreams. It has been a risk that has repaid us tenfold, and we hope to help you build the confidence to move forward too.

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