This session will involve a 45-minute presentation and 45 minutes of dialogue via zoom around our recent thematic and geographical focus working with Mapuche-Lafkenche (Peoples of the Sea) of Lago Budi, Northern Patagonia as allies since 2012. Current times have challenged us to re-think the importance of designing economic tools and strategies for nurturing healthy livelihoods, communities and foods. In our presentation, we propose to discuss the relevance for the broader community economies approach, of the co-design of Apoyo Mutuo community finance tool, an experience led by Mapuche-Lafkenche communities, to which the “ways and means for financing their autonomous functions” (Article IV, UNDRIP 2007) go hand in hand with rebuilding economies that coexist with the Earth. Together, we are gradually achieving this goal by balancing out monetary (market) economies with community and land-based non-monetary assets (i.e.seeds, textiles, services, and produce) while incorporating indigenous ethics and values, under the rights to self-determination. Based on this 7-year collaboration, we believe that the codesign of such models, with leadership from indigenous communities standing in their traditional authoritative stance and wisdom connected to ancestral lands, will offer guidance for both indigenous and non-indigenous communities in other parts of the world to advance in this direction. In the second half of the session, we would like to open up dialogue on the relevance of this approach around two main open-ended questions: 1. Could a model such as this one, in balancing monetary and non-monetary values, serve as a model for diverse communities to reorient money to a land-based economy through a market/community interface? 2. Could the leadership of First Nations and land-based communities be highlighted at a global scale in developing working models for decentralizing/decolonizing through participatory territorial economic re-design?