DS4RE 2025 Cascadia Cohort Registration: How to Organize Your Bioregion
As people who care deeply about their local landscapes, we know we need to be effective stewards—but how? How do we find others who will help co-create the conditions for openness, curiosity, cooperation, and learning? And how do we catalyze and embody the cultural and worldview shifts necessary for the regeneration of the planet, our bioregion, and our local communities?
Regenerate Cascadia is proud to partner with the Design School for Regenerating Earth for their 2025 learning journey, “How to Organize Your Bioregion,” starting March 18th. As part of this learning journey, we will be inviting a Cascadia cohort, bringing people together from across the Cascadia bioregion. The cohort will connect with other bioregional organizing teams worldwide as we learn more about what it means to organize at a bioregional scale and cultivate thriving, regenerative landscapes.
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Course Information
- Basic Registration: $50
- Standard Registration: $150
- Pay It Forward: $300
- No Stress – $0
Cascadia Cohort: Program Description
This program is especially for those who want to deepen their understanding of bioregionalism, become a part of a shared community of practice, take meaningful action towards bioregional regeneration, and form landscape hubs around Cascadia.
Purposes of the learning journey:
- Learn more about bioregionalism, bioregional mapping, bioregions, and Regenerate Cascadia’s programs.
- Come together with others in a landscape to start forming local landscape groups as part of a regional coordinating strategy in a healthy, pro-social way.
- Meet regularly, either in person or virtually, and foster nested connections with other bioregions from around the world.
- Re-engage with former Learning Journey members who are already active to and support deepening the work in their landscapes.
- Identify bioregional leaders and teams for our 2025 Landscape Regeneration Cultivator, encouraging participation in bioregional mapping, fostering local funding ecosystems, and envisioning guilds around cross-regional topics.
Breakdown of Costs
By signing up, people can select to cover the cost of an annual Design School Membership ($50), Regenerate Cascadia’s Cascadia Cohort, including our amazing new Cohort Coordinator Andra ($150), or can select to pay it forward, which also makes a donation to Regenerate Cascadia and the work we are doing. However, no stress! Money should never be an obstacle. For anyone where cost might be an obstacle – we are offering to cover the cost of a one year membership to the Design School, including the Learning Journey.
Course Schedule
This six-month journey (March–September 2025) will follow a bi-weekly rhythm.
In the Design School for Regenerating Earth, during “on weeks,” join other members from around the world to attend the following:
- One webinar (Tuesdays) – 9 am-10:30 am every two weeks with leading voices in bioregionalism, regeneration, and organizing.
- One global community call (Thursdays) – 9 am-10:30 am every two weeks to share experiences, challenges, and successes.
- One Cascadia call – (time TBD) every two weeks to begin practicing sociocractic meeting facilitation, group organization, and collaborating within your specific landscapes.
Participants will also be able to join activities in the “Inner Space,” where we focus on cultivating the inner capacities for effective bioregional leadership.
Meet Andra Vltavín, our Cascadia Cohort Coordinator
To better facilitate learning about bioregionalism, networking in the landscape, and connecting to the knowledge commons in the Design School for Regenerating Earth, Andra will be supporting students during the Design School’s 2025 Learning Journey: How to Organize Your Bioregion as our first Regenerate Cascadia Cohort Coordinator!
In this role, Andra will facilitate onboarding to the Design School platform, hold Cascadia Cohort calls every other week, and act as a liaison between the Design School and Regenerate Cascadia to provide regular updates. In this way, we anticipate people in the course will find support for greater involvement in their landscape and Cascadia.
What is the Design School for Regenerating Earth?
The Design School for Regenerating Earth has grown to more than 500 members organizing together on the ground in bioregions while simultaneously building this planetary network through our online learning community. All of this enables focused actions to arise with clear design and intent so that we can effectively regenerate at the bioregional scale and create interactions and supports between and across bioregions.
How does this connect to the previous learning journey, “Birthing Bioregional Learning Centers”?
During the previous learning journey, we identified ways that bioregional organizers need support, namely in terms of leadership skills, group formation strategies, and ways to bring the landscape deeply into ourselves and the work. This new learning journey will bring both new participants and seasoned bioregional experts into discussions about the practical matters associated with on-the-ground landscape work and organizing your landscape in a fractal, nested-scale system.
Take the First Step
To join, sign up on our webpage: After registering Andra will reach out with a code to sign up for the Design School for Regenerating Earth. If you’re ready to start organizing your bioregion and regenerating the landscapes of Cascadia, we invite you to join us. Sign up today and become part of a growing movement of place-based regeneration.
Learn more & register today!