Kick-off of the Learning Journey for “How to Organize Your Bioregion”
Yesterday we embarked on a new journey of discovery to help strengthen and grow a planetary network of bioregions — with people from all over the world who want to help regenerate the Earth.
This will be a six-month exploration that includes bi-weekly webinars and a strong focus on local organizing in real-world communities. We are sharing the first webinar publicly so that more people can get a feel for what we are doing this year in the Design School for Regenerating Earth. More than 200 people attended the session live and we could feel the historic potential for this way of organizing.
You can join the learning journey by becoming a member of the Design School here.
Watch the First Webinar :: And Share with Friends!
As you watch the video, note how many learning supports are already in place to help people do their own organizing. We help our members set up their own resource hubs so they can host bioregional organizing calls and share materials with each other. There is a Regenerative Finance Lab, the Inner Space for cultivating leadership capacities, a Deep Dive into Bioregional Organizing for the more advanced practitioners, and a Bioregional Mapping Guild that begins in April.
These diverse spaces help people flow into the arenas where they want to grow their own capacities to engage in regenerative work. We will have a focused core of webinars and community calls every two weeks — with these other spaces holding the diversity of conversations, planning sessions, and workgroups that enable us to translate what we learn into practice.
The learning journey will take place over a six month period starting in March 2025 and running through September. Members pay $5/month in dues to participate in the learning journey while gaining access to all of the other spaces in the Design School. We seek to make this affordable and accessible to people who want to join from anywhere on Earth.
The first half of the learning journey explores basic concepts for bioregional organizing. The second half is focused on case studies and real-world laboratories for large-scale regeneration. We are learning-by-doing and have a network of local organizing groups that are already active in North, Central, and South America, Europe, parts of Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. During this learning journey, we will help many new bioregional groups form to expand these geographic ranges to include more areas.
There are more than 700 members in the Design School and we are growing rapidly. You can join this movement and get involved. It isn’t too late to join the learning journey either! Come learn alongside us. Bring others from your community and join as a cohort — as our friends at Regenerate Cascadia have done. Weave communities like we are doing in parallel with the efforts of r3.0 in their monthly dialogues on bioregioning as they build up to a conference on bioregional regeneration in September.
A lot of online courses give people information but do not provide them with supports for applying what they learn on the ground. We take a very different approach and encourage local organizing (including financial support when possible) to help people take what they learn and apply it to the real world.
We emphasize this on-the-ground action and leverage the digital platform for bioregional learning exchanges as a way to accelerate and deepen our collaborations. Still, the most important work is what our members do in their own local contexts.
We hope you will join us. Let us regenerate the Earth together!
