[Sdpg] Register now for the Continental Bioregional Congress 10/3-11 at the Farm TN

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

ANNOUNCING:
The 10th CONTINENTAL
BIOREGIONAL CONGRESS (CBCX)
OCTOBER 3-11, 2009
Hosted by The Farm, Summertown TN

Amidst the hills and hollows, tribes and councils new and old
will gather to share and collaborate finding ways to re-inhabit mother earth.

Visit  <>www.BioCongress.org  to read more and register!
Early Bird Registration Ends 7/15/09


The team for CBCX  has been busy at work getting 
everything prepared to host this landmark event!
The new website and online registration system 
are live, and we hope that you will join this 
year's Congress as a delegate, facilitator, 
sponsor and/or regional captain!

Email BioregionalCongress at LivingMandala.com to offer your support.

Twenty-five years after the first Continental 
Congress, this year's Congress is poised to help 
catalyze tremendous synergy for the growing 
global sustainability effort!


Hosted by the Farm in Tennessee
CBC X will be held on The Farm in the Swan River 
watershed of the Cumberland Green Bioregion, 
Summertown, Tennessee. Founded in 1971 by a 
caravan from San Fransisco, The Farm started as a 
spiritual community that has served as a model 
for sustainable development and community living 
for over 35 years. The Farm now encompasses over 
2,000 acres, houses many ecologicaly-based 
businesses (including the Ecovillage Training 
Center), and hosts bioregionally-related events 
of many kinds year-round. Holding this event at a 
successful ecovillage allows us to experience 
life in a permaculture-designed village full of 
earth-friendly housing, cooperative forestry, and 
consensus-based decision-making.

Featuring a Certification Curriculum in Bioregionalism
Congress organizers are weaving in content that 
reflects the cutting edge of the bioregional 
movement, such as Transition Towns, within a 
Certification Curriculum in Bioregionalism, a 
toolbox of workshops and speakers focused on 
building, sustaining and re-localizing 
communities, reinvigorating culture and arts and 
organizing for ecological restoration, economic 
prosperity and policy change.

The proposed curriculum will cover the following topics:

Bioregionalism
•History of the Bioregional Congresses
•Decentralization and Ecoregional approaches to sustainability
•Reinhabitation and Ecocentric philosophy
•Decision-making: inclusion and empowerment
•Action learning
•Pageantry and Celebration
•World Café

Tools for Sustainable Communities
•Bioregional grassroots community organizing and stewardship
•Strategic planning
•Bioregional right livelihood
•Group process and consensus-based meetings
•Community-making through the arts, ecological
•Outreach and Web-tools for organizers
•Event planning
•Rites of passage and other ceremonies

Relocalizing Communities Toward Sustainability
•Transition Town Movement
•Ecovillages
•Permaculture
•Renewal Energy/Energy Conservation
•Re-storying the Landscape and Communities
•Relocalizing Education

Reinhabiting and Restoring Local Ecosystems
•Landscapes and Bioregional Mapping
•Orienting to Watersheds
•Ecoregions
•The Seasons and Migratory Patterns: Charting
•Planetary Connections
•Reinhabiting the Body: Health, Wellness and Restoration

As is tradition, the  content of the congress 
will be determined by the participants.
Register 
<http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=732080>HERE 
to let us know what you would like to facilitate!


BECOME A REGIONAL CAPTAIN TO ORGANIZE  YOUR LOCAL NETWORK

Regional Captains embody the decentralized local 
empowerment that is core to the philosophy of 
Bioregionalism. Individuals and groups are 
encouraged to become Regional Captains by taking 
an active role in Congress development and 
outreach including:

•    Distributing fliers
•    Inviting local delegates
•    Fundraising
•    Coordinating regional events
•    Organizing biofuel caravans
•    Producing/distributing press releases

Regional captains are encouraged to identify at 
least ten leaders in the Bioregional, Transition, 
and/or Permaculture movements to bring to CBCX. 
Each captain will help raise the money from their 
own bioregion for the 10+ delegates to come, and 
through that work, gain free entrance and a 
recognized position at the congress.

Email BioregionalCongress at LivingMandala.com to 
find out more about becoming a regional captain.

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE CONGRESS...Earn $25 for every person you refer!

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