Bioregional Summit

With David Haskell – Each of our Salish Sea island communities is home to dozens of nonprofit organizations, agency departments, and grassroots organizations addressing some aspect of the climate crisis. The concept to to unify the many parts, now operating in isolation to build a coherent movement – where we all collaborate to solutions commensurate to the challenges of climate change. We aspire to build upon each community’s successes thus far by sharing expertise, technology, and data and by encouraging more experiments, scaling and sharing the most successful ones for the greater well being of all. Through collaborative community action (e.g. projects) will be gain greater sovereignty over driving public decisions on climate.

Regenerative Constellations can unblock and bring more flow into actual bioregional, local and other initiatives with a regenerative, sustainability, ecological, social, economic, ancestral or leadership angle. We will work with questions from participants that are close to their heart. You are very welcome if you want to constellate a question as a case-giver, if you want to take part in someone else’s constellation or if you are simply curious to see how this process unfolds. If you are not familiar with this way of working: constellations are a collective, embodied process for system-sensing. A constellation makes visible issues, dynamics and relations in a field through the use of representatives. During the process workshop participants can be chosen to represent elements from the system we work with. The facilitator will guide the process and invite participants to share what they experience and resonate with. In a 2-hour session we make visible and tangible the ‘force field’, the relations and dynamics that are at play and connect to what is really going on in the undercurrent, on a practical and on a ‘soul’ level. So you get a better sense of what needs to be faced and where there is potential in terms of openings, levers or a next step. To give an example: last year I facilitated an insightful constellation pertaining to a regenerative forest, water and education project on the Spanish highlands, where the field showed the potential and the entrance point to get the project into more flow. And how important it is to really tune into and listen to the Land. We are all part of multiple and nested systems. A Regenerative Constellation is an opportunity to see how you, your initiative or organization relates to the environmental or societal issue at hand, to the various stakeholders and to the larger ecosystemic and social dynamics that are at play. Case-givers and participants are usually touched by the profound insights that open up when undercurrents become visible and tangible, beyond what an intellectual analysis could provide. Tell us more about yourself My personal calling is to champion inclusive and regenerative living systems and to support the inner development and resilience of changemakers and their projects and initiatives. Currently I facilitate Regenerative Constellations on environmental, social, economic, organizational, ancestral and leadership / personal issues,. As an international Leadership, Team and Organizational Coach and Consultant I am passionate about developing conscious, embodied and regenerative leadership, working with team and organizational dynamics and facilitating transformation and culture change.   Besides 20+ years of (eco)systemic coaching education and experience along all scales, I bring 15 years of experience in staff and leadership positions with the University of Groningen and Dutch Government, as Head of the Insurance Division of the Ministry of Finance and as Deputy Director-General of the Dutch Competition Authority.   I love to dance, also with the paradoxes of life.

Fay Weller will share about Gabriola Climate-12 Action. It is the second phase of the Gabriola Climate 12-12-12 project, which ran September 2022 to August 2023. It brought locals together for 12 months, to look at 12 wicked problems related to climate change, and generate 12 (and more) solutions to reduce Gabriola’s climate emissions and mitigate coming climate impacts.

This workshop will explore the principals, practices and lessons learned form a highly successful community-based watershed management project based in the Slocan Valley near Nelson, British Columbia. After 30 years of failed attempts by government agencies Stephen Martineau and his team of facilitators worked in unique and sometimes counterintuitive ways, referred to as Integral Mediation and Ecology, to pull together a diverse set of often polarized stakeholders to devise a plan that was acceptable to all. Join us to learn what the principals and practices are of this approach and to reflect on its applicability to your region.

Let’s mingle and connect over lunch. This is a great space to share community announcements.