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Bioregional Conversations
An international initiative exploring the emergence and evolution of bioregions through a series of seven cutting-edge conversations with leading practitioners. These conversations led to Bioregioning in Practice 2024 with Gaia Education, returning in 2026 for a new series
Two chairs, karst landscape, the Burren, by Melissa Stiefel
The Bioregional Conversations brought together a small circle of leading bioregional practitioners to deepen the international learning culture around bioregions.
The Conversations covered crucial topics, such as:
- Setting up funding ecosystems for bioregions
- Engaging in landscape-scale visioning, decision-making, and action
- Working with existing power structures
- Incorporating spiritual and indigenous ways of inhabiting the Earth
and featured seven conversations with experts from various bioregions, including:
- South Devon, Findhorn Watershed, and Bioregioning Tayside
- Colombia and Chile
- Burrenbeo Trust, Burren College of Art, and Atelier Luma
- Buckminster Fuller Institute, Bay Delta Trust, and Regenerate Cascadia
- Enlivened Cooperative, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, and University of Hawai'i Manoa
- Resilience Earth Coop, Mallorca, and La Garroxta Bioregion
- Costa Rica Regenerativa, Sweet City, and Diamante Valley bioregion
Each conversation is available to watch, providing insights into different approaches to bioregioning across the globe – see below.
The Conversations created resolve within the Bioregional Learning Alliance to partner with Gaia Education in order to deliver a webinar series called Bioregioning in Practice.
New Bioregioning in Practice series coming in 2026! Visit gaiaeducation.org/bioregioning-in-practice
