Welcome to the Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Newsletter

This will be a living place where we’ll share our progress, reflections and learnings on mobilising 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea.

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During our (awesome) 2023 Learning Summit, we co-created the following principles that guide our work 👇

Bioregional 🌍

• We are in service of creating thriving bioregions, centring the Earth and its communities.

• We see bioregions as complex wholes and seek to weave regenerative relationships between people, and the land. 

• We honour the local context and strive to include all relevant stakeholders to bring forth a transformative vision that is locally owned and actionable.

• We focus on weaving and generating 4 returns: inspirational, social, ecological and financial.

Weaving 🧶

• We strive to move from ego- to ecosystem awareness; we cultivate mindset and systems’ shift.

• We believe in place-based knowledge and learning: most of the answers are already there but may need to be woven together. 

• We practise deep listening to self, others, the collective, the context and earth, with curiosity and gratitude. We embrace our synergies and hold our differences as creative polarities. 

• We focus on nurturing trust-based relationships of mutual empowerment, care and belonging to create community and build energy. Alone we can go fast, together we can go far.

• We believe everyone can be a changemaker and has a role to play. We create inspiring narratives for all stakeholders to engage; we identify principles that are overarching.

Labs 🧪

• We practise an open mind, heart and will to learn what’s needed. We learn and share from the heart; about how to do collective work wisely; we uncover the less-known in landscapes; we share struggles and ‘failures’.

• We develop collective awareness of group, organisational and interpersonal power dynamics. 

• We create brave and supportive spaces within which we trust each other’s positive intent, and that encourage constructive dissent, and allow for healing. We consider our own work of healing, growing and taking agency vital; we commit to hosting ourselves.

• We take a non-dogmatic approach and focus on what works: we are willing to look at our blindspots and to change. 

• We learn globally, connect regionally and act locally.

We hope these principles will be the fertile soil that creates the conditions for regenerative systems change 🍀

What principles are guiding you towards regenerative transformation?