Workshops & Keynotes
The Turtle Island Bioregional Congress (TIBC11) is a participatory, co-created event. One key goal of the gathering is to learn from each other, exchanging stories and skills, so that we may grow together as a movement.
The event program is developing through participatory decision-making to identify our shared priorities. This initial set of workshops and keynotes has been curated by the organizing circle based on a survey in the TIBC Community space on Hylo. Speakers will be announced soon.
Separately, an Open Call for participant-led session proposals is unfolding in the Hylo space, with voting open from August 21-27.
Bioregional Governance & Organizing
This interactive session evokes stories and promising practices for bioregional governance frameworks and methodologies, commoning and participatory stewardship, organizing your bioregion, and coordinating across scales.
Speakers
Lawrence Grodeska
Civic geek and Bioregional Planning Specialist for the State of California, lives in the Bay Delta.
Keetu Winter
Community organizer serving the Northeast Woodlands Bioregion, based in the CT River Valley.
Emily McGill
Community Steward of Regenerate Cascadia, facilitates wholesome systems change from Vancouver, BC.
Indigeneity, Land Back & Environmental Justice
Indigenous-led bioregionalism, land return and rematriation, reparations, ecological restitution, and the pathways to justice that center Indigenous and BIPOC sovereignty and leadership.
Speakers
Neha Sharma, others TBA
Bioregional Mapping & Knowledge Commons
This workshop addresses place-based and network mapping, Indigenous knowledge systems, and citizen science, exploring how bioregional learning can be coordinated and shared across the continent.
Story, Culture, and Cosmovision
Bioregional narratives as cultural change, ontological shifts through story, art and music as bioregional carriers.
Speakers
David Abram, Katie Teague, others TBA
Keynote Panel: Bioregional Circulation: Regenerative Resource & Relational Flows
Three prominent women in Bioregional Finance share their perspectives & experiences on how resources & relationships cycle within and between bioregional contexts in this Keynote Panel.
Speakers
Chenae Bullock, Gaya Herrington, Samantha Power + Michelle Lee (facilitator)
Keynote Panel: Indigenous Matriarch's Spiritual Ecology
A panel centering Indigenous matriarchs and their teachings on spiritual ecology, exploring the relationship between land, lineage, and care. Speakers to be announced.
Speakers
Shaayí Hashimoto, others TBA