The Design School for Regenerating Earth is hosting a learning journey March–September, 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion. Our intention is to accelerate the weaving of a planetary network of bioregions with an emphasis on local organizing and bioregional immersions. We're creating a funding pool to help support these efforts.
For five days in February, forty members of the Design School from different parts of the world gathered to experience bioregional regeneration for themselves.
The Barichara Design Immersion was our first in-depth design immersion for bioregional regeneration to give Design School members direct experience with a weaving process that has been underway for more than five years. Now that they know what it means to host an immersion, we can all encourage other members to host their own.
This was the first of what will be many local events throughout the next six months and beyond. Participants in the learning journey will attend bi-weekly webinars and community calls through our online platform to learn about organizing and bioregional regeneration. But the most important learnings will take place in their own communities.
For a design immersion for bioregional regeneration, Design School members can bring together people in their local context to directly experience the design thinking that is helping weave regenerative processes up to the landscape, territorial, or bioregional scale.
The Barichara Design Immersion received financial support by gathering membership dues from the Design School to help make it happen. Our members pay $5 per month and their money goes into a funding pool to support regenerative processes associated with the school.
When we announced the birth of the Earth Regeneration Fund here at Bioregional Earth last year, a "great weaving" of Bioregional Funding Ecosystems was set in motion. Now we're creating a Bioregional Activation Funding Pool to help participants in the learning journey get started in their own local landscapes.
What this means in practical terms is that you can donate into the Earth Regeneration Fund and participants in the learning journey will be able to request modest amounts of financial support to create their own bioregional design immersions.
All of this is explained further in the video Narrative Strategy for the Earth Regeneration Fund.
More people want to live into the new stories of bioregional regeneration. But in order to do so, they will need to create local bioregional organizing teams and join a community of practice to learn how regeneration is possible at such large scales. Seed funding from the Bioregional Activation Funding Pool will speed up this process and enable more people to "learn-by-doing" in their own local context.
We're especially excited about what this means for the regenerative movement writ large. Just imagine people all over the world awakening into their own bioregional story. They find the others who are waking up in different bioregions around the world. And they pool resources to support each other as expressions of solidarity and mutual aid.
We invite you to join us in the Design School for the upcoming learning journey – and make even a small donation in solidarity with others.
