Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective

"Bioregionalism is not a shiny tech platform we can design and scale in six months. Building trust amongst human communities, and more importantly, learning to trust our selves again, is the work of a lifetime and many more. Bioregionalism is a movement that works to help humans reinhabit their local ecosystems, living with what the genius loci has to offer, rather than extractive, fragile, globalized supply chains. Bioregion is shorthand for bio-cultural region and expresses the insight that healthy human cultures are rooted in the natural ecosystems they inhabit. To bioregionalize means to become native to place again, and to develop solutions and responses appropriate to place. Whereas talk of carbon emissions is completely gobbledegook to the average person, bioregionalism can speak a language rooted in everyday experience: what does the land, water, and air offer? What can my business, my farm, my town, offer? How can I build trust with my neighbors? How are we going to survive, and perhaps thrive, together?" Great article by Félix de Rosen 👏 It also includes a great list of meta-initiatives that empower bioregional development 📃 #bioregioning #bioregionalism #bioregion #BioregionalWeavingLabs #regeneration --- PS. Learn more about how we are mobilising 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea in our newsletter https://lnkd.in/e2EZs23v 🌍

"What might a Bioregional Weaving Lab look like in Switzerland?" The results of the preliminary study are out 🥳 The research identified 6 “threads” that need to be woven together holistically in a Swiss version of a Bioregional Weaving Lab to generate real added value: 📌 Grounding in place 🗺 Creating an overview 📚 Finding inspiring stories 🔥 Getting into action together 💞 Investing in relational work 💰 Securing systemic finance Read the full study here: 🔗 In German: https://lnkd.in/eCfvubjU 🔗 In English: https://lnkd.in/eHWZcBPd Thanks to Christa Herrmann and Michel Bachmann for leading this research, Stiftung 3FO for making this research possible, Lukas Blum for the design and all the wonderful people who participated 👏 How might a Bioregional Weaving Lab look like in your region? And what would be its common threads? 🧶 #bioregionalweavinglabs #bioregioning #naturebasedsolutions #community #weaving --- You can now subscribe to our newsletter where we share stories of active hope and offer practical perspectives https://lnkd.in/dSnJ7nw3 💌

It's finally out, welcome to the first edition of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗲 💗 We've been working hard on a periodical newsletter of the learnings, reflections and 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 from changemakers at the heart of bioregions 🌍 Brought to life by the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective, a growing collective of system-changing people, projects and places that orchestrate geographically grounded, multi-stakeholder partnership processes to enable transformative change towards regeneration at a bioregional scale 🌐 In this first edition, we weave together threads of art and awe, Bioregional Financing Facilities, the Scaling of Systemic Innovations, the Art of Gathering, Narratives of Active Hope, and much more 🧶 Read the first edition of The Bioregional Pulse here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dtqwP5dZ A larger bioregional movement is on the rise. Are you a bioregional changemaker and do you have stories of active hope to share? Or would you like to write a guest post for this newsletter? ✍️ Let us know in the comments below 👇 And feel free to share this tapestry of active hope with your friends 🌺🐝 Let's connect the bioregional movement more to itself 🔗 #bioregionalweavinglabs #bioregioning #weaving #community #naturebasedsolutions

"Bioregioning redraws the boundaries of climate action, using the immediate landscape as a template for design, politics and regeneration. Zooming in is the new scaling up." As the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective we Love this in-depth piece by the Future Observatory Journal on #Bioregioning! Link to the full issue on Bioregioning is in the comments 👇 #bioregions #bioregionalism #regeneration

During our last Learning Summit, we co-created the following principles that guide our work in mobilising changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate land and sea 👇 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 🌍 • We are in service of creating thriving bioregions, centring the Earth and its communities. • We see bioregions as complex wholes and seek to weave regenerative relationships between people, and the land.  •We honour the local context and strive to include all relevant stakeholders to bring forth a transformative vision that is locally owned and actionable. • We focus on weaving and generating 4 returns: inspirational, social, ecological and financial. 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 🧶 • We strive to move from ego- to ecosystem awareness; we cultivate mindset and systems’ shift. • We believe in place-based knowledge and learning: most of the answers are already there but may need to be woven together.  • We practise deep listening to self, others, the collective, the context and earth, with curiosity and gratitude. We embrace our synergies and hold our differences as creative polarities.  • We focus on nurturing trust-based relationships of mutual empowerment, care and belonging to create community and build energy. Alone we can go fast, together we can go far. • We believe everyone can be a changemaker and has a role to play. We create inspiring narratives for all stakeholders to engage; we identify principles that are overarching. 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 🧪 • We practise an open mind, heart and will to learn what’s needed. We learn and share from the heart; about how to do collective work wisely; we uncover the less-known in landscapes; we share struggles and ‘failures’. • We develop collective awareness of group, organisational and interpersonal power dynamics.  • We create brave and supportive spaces within which we trust each other’s positive intent, and that encourage constructive dissent, and allow for healing. • We consider our own work of healing, growing and taking agency vital; we commit to hosting ourselves. • We take a non-dogmatic approach and focus on what works: we are willing to look at our blindspots and to change.  • We learn globally, connect regionally and act locally. We hope these principles will be the fertile soil that creates the conditions for regenerative systems change 🍀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? #bioregioning #bioregions #weaving #naturebasedsolutions #regeneration PS. The link to subscribe to our (new) newsletter is in the comments below 👇

Exciting news: you can now subscribe to our co-created newsletter on Substack! 🥳 This will be a living place where we’ll share our progress, reflections and learnings on mobilising 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea 🌱🌊 Here, we also hope to share more stories of active hope from bioregional changemakers from all around the world 🪄 So, would you like to join the movement that is coming together to restore, protect and regenerate our bioregions? The link to subscribe is in the comments below 👇 Feel free to tag your bioregional and regenerative friends 🦋 #bioregioning #bioregions #weaving  #naturebasedsolutions #regeneration

Excited to share the results of a preliminary study I made with Christa Herrmann on what a "bioregional weaving lab" might look like in Switzerland, inspired by the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective and made possible by Stiftung 3FO. We found 6 threads that are key:  📌 Grounding in place 🗺 Creating an overview 📚 Finding inspiring stories 💪🏾 Getting into action together 💞 Investing in relational work 💰 Securing systemic finance Read the full study here: 🔗 In German: https://lnkd.in/eCfvubjU 🔗 In English: https://lnkd.in/eHWZcBPd Thanks all who contributed: Andreas Handke Anik Thaler Anna Mahe Guenat Angelika Abderhalden Angelika Koprio Anna Krebs, Bianca Vienni Baptista, Björn Müller, PhD, Dominique Weissen Abgottspon, Erich Züger Frank Eyhorn Gabi Hildesheimer Julia Braendle Katharina Serafimova Kathrin Schlup Kurt Eichenberger Luea Ritter Marie-Claire Graf Marlen Koch-Mathis @Matthias Bürgi Nicola Forster Nora Wilhelm Olivier Jacquat Pascal Hottinger Raimund Rodewald Ralph Künzler Ruedi Bösiger Tobias Luthe 🙏❤️

We are facing interconnected wicked problems. A siloed approach does not work. We need a systemic, strategic and bioregional approach to navigate this complexity. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are key for addressing the complexity and interconnectedness of the challenge. However, a key barrier for scaling NbS is a lack of collaboration and our inability to recognize the interconnected nature of systemic obstacles. Two years ago, through the support of Pieter Ploeg from Commonland, Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) students Sally Hussain, Carolina Obara, Leon Seefeld and Tijn Tjoelker researched how Weaving practices could foster the conditions for scaling NbS to the landscape level 👇 “Weaving is “𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯, 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰-𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴”. It is a relational leadership practice, and weaving metaphors embody our relational nature and fundamental interdependence with the web of life. We found 5 core interrelated Weaving practices: • Cultivating trust-based relationships ❤️ • Aligning on a shared purpose and vision 🧭 • Helping systems see and sense themselves 🌐 • Fostering experimental action 🧪 • Facilitating collective (un)learning 🌀 Our research showed that weaving has the potential to help cohere fragmented change-making efforts and increase the adaptive capacity of socio-ecological systems. Simply put, we need more relational weavers. 𝗔𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀.” Link to the full thesis is in the comments 👇 Are you a Weaver? #weaving #naturebasedsolutions #research #bioregions #landscapes

Here are five things the world is saying about ecosystem restoration according to UN Environment Programme: 𝟭. 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🌍 “The vision of ecosystem restoration captivates people regardless of origin: 99 percent of respondents world wide said that they would like to take action in support of the UN Decade.” 𝟮. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🌱 “More than half of survey takers (57 per cent) were below the age of 34.” 𝟯. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 💗 “A whopping 68 per cent of survey respondents said their interest in restoration is primarily personal. Only 32 per cent deal with ecosystem restoration as part of their professional lives.” 𝟰. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 💰 “One-third of those involved in on-the-ground restoration projects say a lack of funding is their biggest hurdle, followed by a shortage of technical capacity (19 per cent) and a dearth of political support (15 per cent). More than 40 per cent of restoration implementers are not yet directly connected to the big global organizations supporting ecosystem restoration – highlighting the need for the UN Decade to connect to this “missing middle”.” 𝟱. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 – 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 🌟 “When asked what action for restoration they are most likely to take over the next 30 days, 30 percent of respondents said they would like to join a restoration initiative in their immediate surroundings.” This is exactly why the Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective was founded, to mobilise, support and connect all kinds and generations of changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate the bioregions we all deeply care about 🦋 Welcome to the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration! #BioregionalWeavingLabs #ecosystem #restoration #NatureBasedSolutions #regeneration #weaving #bioregions

The Bioregional Conversations: an action-learning initiative exploring how to help bioregions emerge and evolve ✨ "Coming together in a series of seven cutting-edge conversations to explore the different ways in which bioregioning is taking shape around the world, this small circle of leading bioregional practitioners intends to deepen the learning culture developing around bioregions internationally. The conversations touch on how to set up a funding ecosystem for a bioregion, how to engage in landscape-scale visioning, decision-making and action, how to work with existing power structures, how to include the spiritual and indigenous ways of inhabiting earth in this work, and much more. Learnings from these conversations will inform the future design and development of a bioregioning course, catalyse the formation of a peer-to-peer learning community and inspire new bioregions." 1️⃣ Watch Isabel Carlisle of the South Devon Bioregion and the Bioregional Learning Centre in conversation with Scotland-based colleagues Elle Adams in the Findhorn Watershed Initiative and Clare Cooper of Bioregioning Tayside 🌍 2️⃣ Watch Melina Angel of Colombia Regenerativa in conversation with Latin American colleagues Juan José López (Córdoba, Colombia) and Alexis Catalan (Wallmapu, Chile) 🌎 3️⃣ Watch John Thackara in conversation with Irish colleagues Brendan Dunford of Burrenbeo Trust and Chris Chapman of the Burren College of Art plus French colleague, Jan Boelen, at atelier luma, Arles 🌍 4️⃣ Watch Dr. Stuart Cowan, CEO of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, in conversation with Lawrence Grodeska of the Bay Delta Trust (San Francisco Bay, USA) and Brandon Letsinger of Regenerate Cascadia (Pacific Northwest, USA) 🌎 5️⃣ Watch Udi Mandel of the Enlivened Cooperative in Hawaii in conversation with Juan Manuel Crespo of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters and Noa Lincoln, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems, University of Hawaii at Manoa 🌎 6️⃣ Watch Erika Zarate of the Resilience Earth Coop in Catalonia in conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl (Mallorca) and Oscar Gussinyer of La Garroxta Bioregion, Catalonia 🌍 7️⃣ Watch Eduard Müller of Costa Rica Regenerativa in conversation Edgar Mora Altamirano, former mayor of Sweet City, Costa Rica and Nicolas Rotundo of the Diamante Valley bioregion in Costa Rica 🌎 Enjoy watching The Bioregional Conversations, and thanks to the Bioregional Learning Centre and everyone involved for making this happen! 🙏 #bioregions #learning #regeneration