Education & Culture
Sweetwater will open the panel with a 30 minute talk on Decolonizing our Activism To heal from historical trauma, you must first understand how colonization has impacted indigenous people. By acknowledging our collective past…
Are you emotionally intelligent? Do you know what is going on inside yourself and others? Can you ‘read’ human landscapes like you read land systems? The dominant culture has not supported us in being…
Sacred Men's Council for Embodiment & Connection A sacred men's council to co-create deeper connection and embodiment through vulnerability, accountability, courage, and listening. Men will be given the opportunity to share, to be challenged,…
We will learn how to process clay sourced from the earth beneath Little Lake Valley, making it usable for medicine, ceramic or building material Attendees of this workshop will be getting their hands dirty!…
Bloom and Anahata have travelled globally with their organization, the Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture network, living at and visiting a rich diversity of Eco-villages, intentional communities, indigenous farms, and Permaculture projects. Bloom and Anahata have…
In this workshop we will ask the tough questions about our changing weather and dive deep into climate change to explore the many possible causes, including controversial subjects like geo-engineering, weather modification and more.…
Men coming together to honor and express our complex grief and emotion as we witness ecological destruction and work towards regeneration. This men's circle is a safe space to honor and express the complex…
Practical survival skills and knowledge for when the grid goes down. Community and personal resilience begins with you. Be prepared for when the lights go out and the grid goes down. Practical, educational and…
join for a fun-filled game to meet everyone in the room make important connections that could change the world It is important to know who's in the room and what amazing projects they are…
Recognize and implement sustainable models through evaluative measure from systems theory to shift the paradigm. Regenerative and collaborative Leadership as a means to support full purpose realization for all participants of a system. What…
Let's play: tap into the wisdom of your body as a force for activist self-care and cultural critique. You’ve heard that these times are dire and urgent, right? So isn’t it time we had…
Learn how to grow and process grains by hand. Staple crops can be an important, fun, and easy part of a regenerative system. This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn about growing…
Learn how to take plant and animal fibers from seed or animal to finished cloth. Fiber systems are an often-forgotten, but essential part of wholistic systems of living. This is a hands-on workshop about…
Using the power of our wombs to manifest the new Earth as a conscious collective. Our wombs are a powerful and sacred space. Using our wombs as our cauldrons, we will journey into the…
This is a permaculture training and land access program that is nested into a larger back to the land and emergent culture movement. Certified permaculture caretakers is a program that offers training in permaculture…
Lets talk about how to use Permaculture Design that supports people and the planet, from the bottom up! Brandi Mack, AKA, Mama B, will share her 5 steps to Resilient design that support people…
Laying an important foundation to the 2018 Permaculture Convergence, this intro class will give a brief overview of the origins of permaculture from the 1970s in Austrialia until the present in the US, with…
How to become or work with a design-build contractor, “How I became a contractor to save the world, the lessons I learned from all my mistakes, and how we are still growing and not…
Sharing Power through Co-Collaborative Placemaking For this workshop, Ridhi D-Cruz and I will start by giving an overview of The City Repair Project. We will explain what the organization represents, how the Village Building…
Create Eco-jobs with Hugel-Swales - Dig swales, fill them with fire-hazard brush, save water, grow abundant food & medicine, and improve local ecosystems. Transform flammable fire-hazard brush into fire-resistant, water saving food forests with…