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Bioregional Conversations
An international initiative exploring the emergence and evolution of bioregions initiated through a series of seven cutting-edge conversations with leading practitioners. These conversations led to Bioregioning in Practice with Gaia Education in 2024, returning in 2026, Bioregioning in Practice 2.0.
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.
Bioregioning in Practice 2.0 begins on March 23rd 2026. Register now: gaiaeducation.org
