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We organize large-scale music festivals to fight desertification in Europe

Join our crowdfunding

In 2025, we designed everything, we tested the interest of various stakeholders, we got the support of scientists, we secured a first land, and we built a team capable of building such a festival.Now we are launching a crowdfunding
(1) to test our concept in real life by organising a small event in May in Portugal
(2) to see how fast and how big we can make this movement.This is your opportunity to get involved.

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what to expect for each events

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to make a difference & celebrate together

Learn & make an impact

Connect & celebrate

The question we have for you is : How deep do you want to go?

Level 1 : Regenerative festival

TEN LIVES is a seven-day festival where the main idea is to gather thousands to make a difference.- In the morning, everyone does meaningful hands-on restoration work.
- In the afternoon, one can rest, participate in workshops, talks, or music shows.In the end, hundreds of hectares and thousands of people should be regenerating

Level 2 : What’s beyond the festival

The festival is the visible part of the iceberg, there are two sides to TEN LIVES

Festival

The festival combines regeneration camps, workshops, music, and celebration into one transformative experience. It creates ideal conditions for applied research and testing regenerative practices with communities. By pairing joy with learning, the festival makes people more open to new ideas and connection. This celebratory atmosphere introduces communities to hands-on regeneration work while building the relationships that sustain long-term change.

Community Strengthening

Strong communities drive lasting environmental impact. Through hands-on regeneration work, we connect team leads, participants, local residents, and partners into supportive networks. Beyond that, the festival offers a reason for communities to connect to attract one of the events in their towns. The conditions for TL to come creates bonds which act as  social foundation communities need to perpetuate and also expand.

Awareness & Education

We teach through experience, not lectures. Participants learn by doing, creating training content grounded in real application. The festival becomes a living classroom where communities discover how regeneration works in their specific context. This hands-on learning builds the knowledge and confidence needed to continue the work independently. Action also helps relieve the ecoanxiety that 9 in 10 people feel.

Research

Working with universities and communities, we study how regeneration drives behavior change and informs governance for healthy communities. The festival provides real-world conditions to test practices, gather data, and observe outcomes. Research helps in finding terrains in the best possible places to regenerate. This directly shapes where and how we design future festivals and builds evidence for what actually works in creating lasting transformation.

Level 3 : It’s systemic

This project is an interconnected system where every elements feeds and contributes from each other.

Regeneration : reversing the vicious circle of water to make it virtuous again

Concentrated rainfall creates destructive water power that erodes soil and rushes away unused.

Why is digging holes and moving rocks important?

By digging holes also called bunds and strategically placing rocks, we slow water flow, allowing it to infiltrate the ground. This simple intervention transforms the vicious circle into a virtuous one: water recharges aquifers instead of causing erosion, vegetation returns, soil rebuilds, and the land regains its natural capacity to absorb and store life-giving rain.A sequence of what will happen below

Founders

Nastassia Gumuchdjian, Community development

Nastassia spent 15 years at BCG before realizing the real work happens on the ground. She's mobilized 6,000 villages across India in water conservation with the Paani Foundation, and she knows how to turn strangers into communities that actually get things done. She is also a professional photographer, a baker, a farmer, and rescues animals in her spare time.

Louis De Jaeger, Networking & Regeneration

Louis has created over 1,500 hectares of edible landscapes and built a community of 39,000+ people on LinkedIn around regeneration. He doesn't just talk about healing land, he's actually done it at scale. As an award-winning filmmaker and author (see here: https://louisdj.com/en/home-2), he knows how to tell the stories that make people believe change is possible. He's the bridge between the work in the soil and the movement we're building.

Nathan Stranart, Project development

Nathan spent 6+ years developing infrastructure projects, from green festivals gathering over 4,000 people to complex renewable energy projects. He is the person who makes things happen. From optimising our processing, permitting process, to investment decisions, he figures out how solar panels, composting toilets, and sound systems actually work together. He teaches entrepreneurship at Solvay Brussels School and has built a full course on regenerative entrepreneurship. Nathan is why we're not just dreaming.

Core team

James Barrett, Regeneration lead Portugal

Founded of Decent Water Company, and a hydrologist who actually understands watersheds. James knows Portuguese land, water systems, and what regeneration looks like in practice, not just in theory.

Elisabeth Holt, Festival production lead

Founded Navu Events, a regenerative festival in Denmark, and has 10+ years building festival infrastructure. Elisabeth has already done what we're attempting, she knows where things break and how to prevent them.

Ioana Voicu, Creative lead

Founded Vanna.io, a collective of creatives, with 5+ years in creative direction. Ioana is the reason this festival will feel like something you've never experienced, beautiful, intentional, and real.

Ali Bin Shahid, Climate Repair, Head Scientist

Founded of PSKL Water for All, and author of R3Genesis newsletter. Ali brings the scientific rigor that keeps us honest, making sure our regeneration work actually regenerates.

Arno Lambermont, Partnership lead

Founded HUNGER the food show & BKYDproductions, owner of a YouTube channel with more than 30,000 followers. He also helped found TooGoodToGo in Belgium and the USA! Now he is finding partnerships and sponsoring at Ten Lives.

Jeff Cornelis, Partnership lead

First employee and expansion lead at TooGoodToGo in Belgium and the USA! Now he hacks growth at Ten Lives.

Extended core team

For the community team, managing human aspects and training
Marius Müller, Bruno Göbel, Florencia Jaurequi, Riccardo AulicoFor the festival production team, making sure an off-grid, full-fledged and creative festival can happen
Manuel Velasquez, Andre PoonFor the marketing, legal grants, regeneration or others
Marie Geneste, Angèle, Arthur Levy, Isabel Marasco, Kailey Beckwith, Liane Ojito

Advisors

Darren J. Dohrety, Founder of Regrarians

Robin Ibens, Founder of Shaved Monkey

Harald Friedl, Founder of Circular Economy Innovation Agency

Arne Van Asbroeck, Founder of Waking Life

Stijn (Stino) Verheyden, Founder of Stinofix

Ambassadors

Philippe Birker, Founder of Climate farmer

John D. Liu, Ecologist & filmmaker