
Ecoversities West Coast Bioregional Gathering
Have you heard of Ecoversities? There are hundreds of Ecoversities around the world, reimagining education and empowering communities around food, ecology, economics, and culture. This is a Call to Action to create a Bay Area Bioregional Ecoversity that addresses the polycrisis in the region and to meet Ecoversity leaders traveling to the Bay Area to share their wisdom and experience.
Get a 1 day of 2 day cosmic pass, or reciprocate something of value to the gathering for a free ticket. Support this gathering where we will provide healthy gourmet nourishment, wellbeing experiences, education/practice on ecological building and design of a local disaster resilience hub, and bioregional business strategy: https://givebutter.com/Nf2xDu
Let's call in the sacred serpents 🐍
And dissolve the Separating fence
Let's meet where the river meets the bay
And mix clay with hay
We will heal, learn, and play
And listen to what the builders say
We will gather at the end of July
We may cry, sigh and mystify
In a cosmic ecotherapeutic high
🌿 Designing Resilience: A Community Weekend in Crockett, CA
Join us for a hands-on weekend of regenerative design, natural building, and community-rooted creativity as we explore what it takes to co-create resilient towns and bio-regions rooted in care, relationship, and ecological wisdom.
This weekend we will engage in the design process: we won’t be building any permanent structures just yet. Instead, we’ll take time to listen to the land, engage in collective visioning, and root our ideas in thoughtful, regenerative planning.
With guidance from natural builder Brennan Blazer Bird, we’ll also learn how to make cob and get some hands-on practice working with it to build small-scale models of a local resilience hub and a model of what a regenerative town would look like. We will explore how eco-toilets, water flow, communal gathering spaces, and natural systems interact,
Alongside this hands-on work, partners from Cultivating Self, the Alameda Native History Project, Ecoversities, and the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, Solution Craft, the Cosmic Labyrinth, Be A Solution, House of Joy, Rising Lotus Reiki, TerraBiome, and Teravana Foundation weaving together food as medicine, cultural healing, systems thinking, and place-based wisdom. We'll connect with a local environmental education nonprofit, and contribute through a short, hands-on ecorestoration activity, a meaningful way to give back to the land that’s hosting us.
Come ready to build, connect, and imagine what’s possible, together, in Crockett and beyond.
Ecoversities Alliance and Cosmic Labyrinth are joining to create a kid-friendly ecoversity-doing experience where attendees will collectively learn about natural building (Thanks to master builder Brennan http://www.solutioncraft.org/), practice regenerative culture, & strategize around building bioregional ecoversities that can support and empower burned out professionals.
Schedule
(subject to change)
DAY 1: Saturday July 26
8 am - 9 am = Ceremonial Prayer + Intuitive Movement + Kirtan with Noelle Joy & Native History Project
9 am - 9:30 am = Doughnuts (healthy!) & regeneratively grown coffee
9:30 am - 11:30 am = Brennan guides a hands-on, land-based design process using cob to build small-scale models of a resilience hub, helping us explore how natural systems, infrastructure, and community spaces can live in harmony
Read Diana Cantu-Reyna's article on Conscious City Guide: https://consciouscityguide.com/human-waste-a-valuable-compost-that-nourishes-the-earth/
Listen to the podcast: The Power of Poop on Factually!
https://gastropod.com/transcript-good-shit/
11:30 am - 12:30 pm = Ecoversity introduction from Sierra and visiting ecoversity leaders
Latest newsletter from Ecoversities Alliance
12:30 pm - 1 pm = Super healthy locally sourced cultural food as medicine discussion & lunch
Hear from nurses, physicians, cultural healers, and caregivers that are a part of the Cultivating Self nonprofit Reclaiming Healthcare Fellowship
Why we should create a localized preventative/supporting healthcare system: https://healthcoopcanada.org/our-sector/health-coops-around-the-world/
1 pm - 3 pm = Walk to CREEC and engage in short ecorestoration activity
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm = “We the River: Embodied Hydrology” with Niko Bertulis www.ritualbiology.com (at the water by CREEC)
4:30 pm – 7:00 pm = Continue building our small-scale home and Crockett village models, play within other pop up installations, or just chill
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm = Intercultural Sunset Ceremony led by local and visiting cultural historians and indigenous educator, Gabriel Duncan https://nativehistoryproject.org/projects/gis-lab/
8 pm - 9 pm = Dinner discussion about developing a Bioregional Financing Facility with Kyle ecoversity under the current socioeconomic and political conditions
9 pm - 10 pm = Post-dinner Sound Healing under the stars - Integration and recalibration with Virpal Kaur risinglotusreiki.com + land blessing
10 pm = Depart home-base until morning!
DAY 2: Sunday, July 27
More Schedule coming soon for Sunday
8 am - 9 am = Morning Kriya Yoga practice with Yoga
With Gabriela https://beeasolution.com/
9 am - 10 am = Vegan Fruit Smoothies & donuts with Doughnut Economics discussion
10 am - 12 pm = Place-based Integrative Healthcare Models
12 pm - 1 pm = Healthy vegetarian lunch
1 pm - 2 pm = Financing the Future through Cooperatives and Worker Owned Organizations with Colin
2 pm - 4 pm = Chicken Walks: Crockett's Historic Shortcuts
Start at Crockett Museum
~ 4 pm = Musical performance from Lonely Parrots (and MORF: Music on Regenerative Farms) at Home-base
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm = Closing Dinner + Ecoversity partners and facilitators share final offerings and reflections: Cultural healing, healthcare reframing, place-based learning, and bioregional business strategy
8:00 pm = Departures + breakdown/cleanup
Cultivating Self will be leading various nutrition, healthcare, and ecotherapy sessions to reframe healthcare. Rising Lotus Reiki will share some healing resilience tools including sound and Reiki. Alameda Native History Project will be leading local, indigenous ecological playshops to learn about food resilience and security and healing land curses because of shellmound abuse. Bioticship will be sharing ways to develop regenerative and care-based businesses around "healing" the doughnut economics of the bioregion.
This experience will invite local builders, contractors, and real estate professionals to explore how building building fire resilient buildings can be legalized because of their quality and resilience to fires and other challenges. This gathering will include community meals, community learning, wisdom sharing and mythology, and discussing bioregional economics and bioregional financing facilities that can create an economy for building adobe (fire-safe) housing and shelters throughout California, legally.
Thank you to Noelle Joy | House of Joy BROKER | OWNER https://www.houseofjoyhomes.com/ for supporting and sponsoring to reimagine real estate and planning around building in California
Here are our cosmic partners contributing/leading us into a resilient community wisdom experience
http://www.solutioncraft.org/ (our building cosmic edutainer)
Latest newsletter from the Ecoversities Alliance https://view.flodesk.com/emails/6843b581946276d88ac7be2c
Explore the website ecoversities.org
https://source.ecoversities.org/Index
https://www.risinglotusreiki.com/
Check out the California Doughnut Economics Snapshot: https://caldec.org/ca-dougnut-snapshot/
Watch Doughnut EcoFests in action on the Emmy-winning PBS Show Climate California (our part starts around 9:30)