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Many of us engage activism through our passion projects. Permaculture farms/gardens, cultural work, housing, social justice and equity issues are examples. Collectively, Paul Hawkins called this “Blessed Unrest” the largest movement in the world. While all of these projects are important and necessary front line activities, siloed projects do not have the power to drive a transformational shift. The bioregional organizing strategy gives us a practical handle for integrative efforts that have the ecological complexity to build new systems. We are challenged to move out of siloed project orientation towards integrated systems design. This workshop will facilitate mapping systems relationships in participants’ projects. This is a step toward mapping regional assets. Permaculture teaches the importance of edges, and systems theory points out the critical location of interstices – spaces between units- for evolution. What are the environmental, economic and social ecologies that your work is embedded in? What projects are adjacent to yours in terms of values or objectives? What resource flows are up stream and down stream? Where are you located in the geography of community? Where are points of complementarity for collaboration? Participants will break out into pairs or small groups to map out the systems interdependent with their project to evaluate how robust their project’s resilience is and where they need to develop relationships. This work is a step toward regional mapping. If time allows we will tease PROUT’s dynamic asset mapping project that is not yet ready for prime time.

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

Join us for the opening of our first-ever Cascadia bioregional summit, and the launch of Regenerate Cascadia, a program working for the long-term regeneration of our bioregion and home.  Using a Miro Board, we will collectively map who is in the room, (where we are from, what we feel is most important, and identities and backgrounds we may want to share), what personal offerings and takeaways we’d like to see from this week, and what do people feel is most important as we grow Regenerate Cascadia to weave our projects across watersheds? 

Join us for the opening of our first-ever Cascadia bioregional summit, and the launch of Regenerate Cascadia, a program working for the long term regeneration of our bioregion and home.  At 5:30 pm, we will open with an introduction and then a presentation by Skagit Elder Jay Bowen and learn the Salmon Song, a core staple of early bioregional congresses.  At 6 pm, we will set the context for the bioregional summit, and share a brief retrospective of our 30 day, whirlwind tour and impacts.  At 7:30 pm we will close the night with space for testimonials and envisioning for what people would like to have come out of the summit. 

Join us for the opening of our first-ever Cascadia bioregional summit and the launch of Regenerate Cascadia, a program working for the long-term regeneration of our bioregion and home.  At 5:30 pm, we will open with an introduction and then a presentation by Skagit Elder Jay Bowen. At 6 pm, we will set the context for the bioregional summit, and share a brief retrospective of our 30 day whirlwind tour and impacts.