Bioregional Awareness Bioregional Interweaving Bioregional Friendship
Are you Bioregionally Aware? Get Aware and Join us for the next Trans-Bioregional Circle Co-ordination Call, this Thursday August 6 at 11AM EST, please register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ys1vZG7_T665o-riy3aZgg
This is the 4th seasonal call in the Series intiated by Tyler Wakefield from BioFI that started Summer 2025.
By Marcus Petz (Regenerative Development Association) and Emmanuelle Chiche (StoryMoss Weaving Agency), co-facilitator volunteers for this gathering
The idea of bioregions sounds good. We can all understand having a watershed conscience as a concept. But what does it practically mean? Come connect with the bioregions and bioregioners around the World and find out. We only have one planet! Let’s flow together and weave.
Many of us get the idea of living in place. We should localise and regionalise rather than globalise. Knowing my nearest tree species, where my water comes from and what the names of the flowers I can see on my daily constitutional walk are a beginning.
We can take this further to think about the people and social structures. We can consider how our community economics wrestles with the macroeconomics of multinational corporations. We have to eat, clothe and finance our lives. Connecting these personal choice aspects to families, kith and kin (human and non-human) all make us more aware.
So now we are aware of our own bioregion, our environment and some of the connections that transcend it. Yet how aware are we of others’ bioregions, contexts and struggles? How aware are we of the potential in our own bioregion and how to empower the agency that lies latent within it?
Now as a new we, we can think about educating and activating those connections. We can learn which plants we might eat, which natural environments need protecting through Pro Environmental Behavior. We can learn about the social challenges (for Pro Social Behavior), such as multi-dimensional poverty, loss of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) or lack of participatory democracy and explore bioregional governance within our communities and between bioregions.
A multi-capital approach considers environmental, social, financial etc. capitals and we (individually or collectively – which includes any individuals in our bioregion) might be poor in any or all of them. We need to “finance” or at least support these different capitals for our futures.
We are ready for a process of sustainable change or regeneration. We can not only think about transition we can start to make it happen. We will need help and experiential knowledge from others who walk the same path around the world. And they in turn, or newbies, will gain from our new yet ancestral bioregional wisdom.
Thus, we have the Trans-Bioregional Co-ordination Circle Call. Started by Tyler Wakefield of the BioFi Project “as an experiment intended to facilitate learning, information flow, and coordination across our relational and professional web” the TBC Calls run “in service to bioregional organizing teams and a handful of organizations working across many bioregions who are dedicated to supporting such teams.”
Simply by connecting supporting organizations and bioregional organizers we facilitate:
- support organizations to learn together and sense opportunities for better coordination and collaboration
- bioregional organizing teams to understand how, when, and where to connect with opportunities for support and what is emerging among and beyond this constellation of orgs
Part of the Red Portuguese Bioregion from oneearth.org
Part of the Purple Finnish Bioregion by oneearth.org
Over 2 hours together we will and it will be recorded and shared:
- Hear about the Offers And Needs Market from the Post Growth Institute and how we might use it from Dani Leonardo, OANM Manager
- Hear reflections from our invited bioregioners: 1. Konkankoh and Heide-Maria Baden from the African Peace Village in Burgau, Portugal (a 2026 r3.0 Confluence) and 2. Dr. Muhammed Ali from the Finnish Boreal Forest (a r3.0 2025 and 2026 Confluence) in Tampere, Finland
- Facilitate open conversation between support orgs and bioregional organizers
- Explore the concepts of awareness, interweaving and friendship
Whether you're working in this broader field or focused on a specific bioregion, please bring your awareness and questions and requests. Join us live for interctive sharing or listening to the recording.