Engage with inspiring scholars, practitioners, indigenous leaders, creative artists, working on transformations towards regenerative and just futures. This unique gathering will follow (and deeply connect) to the conference in Sydney, Australia and Watch Party in Prague, Czech Republic July 12th - 14th 2023. The North American Hub will be held from the 17th - 19th July and is all about place-based transformation! COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) will host an unforgettable Bioregional Workshop in Portland, Maine (Casco Bay Bioregion) USA.

We recognise that transformative change requires collective and deep action, navigation towards new pathways that are inclusive, rooted in justice, equity, and high quality collaboration. The North America Hub offers a chance to connect in-person with colleagues with a focus on transformations at a bioregional (or place-based) scale. Over three days, on the shores of Casco Bay, in the awe inspiring Gulf of Maine bioregion, we will learn how to better see, connect and amplify transformation systems at a bioregional scale. 

A few months later (October 4th) we will also have an online workshop for 3 hours focused on how to create a bioregional theory of transformation with expert Michael Quinn Patton.

If you are a member of working groups or invited guest, please join us in person in Maine as we will be embodied, we will dance, we will sing, we will tell stories, take long walks in the woods and generate unimaginable outcomes through “roll-up your sleeves” T-Lab/ Workshop. 

Since a bioregion is all about the stories that thrive within a place and the inspiration that flows to enable future visioning, we will explore a wide range of issues. Using systems storytelling we will explore interconnections such as between food systems ~ wastewater ~ and coastal ecosystems, food justice, traditional ecological wisdom/knowledge, language and culture, art and science of fibersheds, issues of agency and empowerment, and the urgency of regenerative tourism.

In preparation for this workshop we are hosting six working groups, with a common goal of place-based stewardship action including the following:

Working Group #1: Bioregional Systems Storytelling.
Working Group #2: Art and Science of a Bioregional Fibershed.
Working Group #3: Seeing, Connecting and Amplifying Regenerative Design across a Bioregion.
Working Group #4: Traditional Ecological Knowledge/Wisdom at a Bioregional Scale.
Working Group #5: Strategy, Communications, Brand Identity for Seagrass Stewardship.
Working Group #6: Co-Creating a Bioregional Digital Twin.

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