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Community or Bust! Convergence 2022 and collective retreat
Hello earth and people carers and community builders, These are the questions we’re asking as we set up the organization for the future. We invite you to have these conversations live with us. Please give us your feedback in any and all of these ways:
Our main goal at NWPCC is community building across the northwest, while cultivating a dynamic that lends itself to leadership more inclusive of our whole region (Oregon and Washington). We feel the best way to do this is showing up where the action is, and it’s with you all! Your projects and events. Its all on our calendar. Send us more for the calendar. We are working on a Eugene event… want to help make it happen? Come to our Community and Board meetings. Our Direction We are preparing for our future while supporting others events and projects. We are planning a collaborative village building series of land restoration projects with organizations across the region. Do you know of a project that needs a boost through partnering with NWPCC. Get it on our calendar! Anyone interested in being part of a land restoration team? Or an organizational restoration team? Please join our conversations on organizational sustainability. This will be the focus of our fall retreat too. Fall Retreat We will gather this fall to discuss together the NWPCC organization, plan the future together. It's an organizational Community Retreat to continue to deepen the listening so our actions are well informed on how to show up for our future as a sustainable organization. Discussion at Community Retreat & at co-hosted events:
Community Meeting Tomorrow This Thursday's community meeting 6/9/22 7pm - zoom info here, a space to listen and share. It will be different and longer (1.5 to 2 hrs), inviting deeper conversations with our New Era Convergence folks, to experience a taste of a ‘Living Room Conversation’. Designed to find out how we can best serve our communities real needs in building a resilient community on our own land, our home here in the Pacific NW. We’ll start with announcements and brief check ins, followed by this facilitated conversation by NEC. Save The Farm Finally, and most pressing (IMHO, Julie speaking), we must also talk about Saving the Farm that has housed Shaelee's family, organic farm, tea business, commercial kitchen for the community (Olympic makers coop and more) and will host our fall Community Retreat - we have a few weeks left! Share with your friends and networks please - https://chuffed.org/project/rally-4-goodtopia-farms See you tomorrow, 6/9/22 7pm in Zoom… for deeper discussions of a more resilient future, Julie, Shaelee and Team NW Permaculture convergence PS - The resources of this organization are for meaningfully serving you, our community's real needs. The hope/intent of our one main focus in all we do, invites your help and engagement in building up the depth of conversations (and listening) required to make a meaningful, actionable fall Community Retreat at Shaelee’s farm so we can plan our future together! PPS - Come talk to us anytime in Slack. 
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 Reminder: Community Meeting May 12, 2022 @ 7pm
Hello Dear NWPCC Permaculture Friend, and Welcome to the new subscribers too! Spring - Loving all the New Green and New Hope …. This spring is an exciting time of new hope! We are excited to announce collaborative ventures for our convergence this year. Please join us at our community Zoom meeting on May 12 (Thursday 7-8pm) and our BOD meeting (next Thursday May 19, 6-7pm) to add some energy into making these events fantastic! Zoom details on the home page here. New Era Convergence in August near Eugene... First, we are proud supporters of the New Era Convergence at Skycamp It's August 21-24, 2022. Register early here. This gathering will bring together thinkers and activists to chart a holistic sustainable norm. NWPCC will share more soon on the sessions we are sponsoring and hope to see you there! Fall NWPCC Event - Land Restoration Project... Second, we’re almost ready to announce our fall conference - centered around a work party! We are partnering on a land restoration project in or near Oregon this year. It’s really exciting to have a place to camp together and get our hands dirty building up the soil, and our community, while we learn together. Our theme for 2022 is Activate Mutual-Aide. We’re leaning into this through letting our convergence energy support affinity organizations who share our heart for people, planet and justice. Join us 7pm this evening May 12, 2022 and next Thursday's BOD Zoom to support the projects and make this years gatherings a blast! Yours, President Shaelee, Julie (Community Coord.) and Team NWPCC Also: seeking new board members! Most of our team members terms are up; we will be voting in new folks at the fall event. Get involved now and discover what your favorite way to carry on this organization is. Thanks! P.S.S. From Julie. Farm Raising for Shaelee's Farm in Sequim. It's working! Please share and support as you are able. It's on a New Awesome Crowd-Funding platform here. Announcements From Community
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Welcome to Spring in the Northwest!
Join us at our Monthly Zoom Meetings the 2nd and 3rd Thursday evenings ... See home page for more Zoom meeting info. Bring your ideas for 2022 and Your Spring Pictures and videos.... We have baby goats and Rooster pens to share with you! Find our full Newsletter (with links) here on a shared Google Doc. Hello All!
I apologize if the email we sent last night felt off-putting in regards to Sahale's Covid and dog policies. The good news is that Northwest Permaculture has organized this gathering to create safety with the unknown. To respect the residents and create out time in the unregulated spaces where Covid doesn't have to be our focus. All our meeting spaces are open-air, outside or in breezy buildings where masks are optional. The only time vaccination status comes up is when picking volunteer duties, either in the kitchen (Sahales main food hub- vax only folx volunteer here) or at the rest of camp. I have been very diligent to setup our time so that we all can feel welcome and like full participants all weekend! I look forward to camping in the woods, visiting with you all and enjoying the wilderness of the hood canal. Thank you, Shaelee, president NWPC I am rather preoccupied with final bits and getting there, but feel free to email if you are concerned or have questions. Hello NW Permaculture Friends, The Sahale Shindig starts tomorrow. There are still a few tickets left if you would like to join, register here , we will share digitally post-event and can include your permaculture projects! Email us if you'd have like to be a part. Arrivals begin at beautiful Sahale starting Friday Noon. Registration will be inside the big-top tent just past parking, which also houses the main schedule, our Permandala Project and FreeLand (gifting exchange tables). You can still add ideas/comments to our Schedule; feel free to print a blank one out here. This weekend we will collectively fill it in with sticky-notes on a large schedule on the main tent's wall. We plan to hear from Kitsap Harvest at 4pm, have dinner at 7pm, closing the evening with a circle of introductions and intentions in the Tea-Saloon. Please take pictures and notes, share on our discord and slack groups so our greater community that can't make it can still learn and play along with us. Directions to Sahale, and community join links are on the NWPCC website. What to Bring:
We are stoked to be crafting this weekend with you. Best, Team NWPCC Remember to bring things to share, like seeds, ideas, homegrown and handmade! (art credit Ben Bunk)   The Sahale ShindigHi NW Permaculture Friends, We are so excited the unique community driven format this year. Its non-hierarchical giving everyone a space to share, from formal presentations to open mic and trade-blanket. Meals and camping are provided, indoor sleeping option at low additional cost. The large tent hall is also open to lay your mat on the floor if you'd like to camp light. Children are free, our youth program is fun, and the venue is spectacular. Are you joining us? There’s still time to sign up for the 2021 gathering on the hood canal, Oct 15-17 at Sahale Retreat Center. A community collaborative event, we are riffing on the theme of open space and emergent design. Our team has created a basic structure, the schedule getting filled out as enthusiastic individuals join our meetings to share their stories. We are an all volunteer board and community collective, creating the event through the passions we have to offer, making space for you to do the same. Could be music. Could be mending clothes (bring something you have that needs mending - this is a real offer for a group activity!). Check out the schedule and offerings we expect so far. Are you coming and want to present? Use the comment function to add your session, or add it during the event! What are you excited about? Bring it! You are welcome to add your piece at our next meeting! Zoom meeting join info on the NWPCC website, usually 7-8pm PT. Next meetup is Oct 12th, a Tuesday. The NW Permaculture 2021 Questionnaire is another portal to speak your mind and shape the event. Covid Precautions: Sahale follows state mandates, and protects the health of its elder and at-risk residents through a diligent covid safety protocol. Our event will be totally outside or in open-air tent and open-wall spaces. Masks are required when passing through indoors, such as pickup up meals. While in the dining hall we must wear a mask, wash hands upon entering, get our meal and exit to eat outside, covered areas provided. Indoor bunk accommodations are for vaccinated folks in Sahale's group housing, unvaccinated folks seeking provided accommodations will be given a tent with a bed or other solo space, like a sunroom or have option to camp in the large outdoor tent. Hand washing and sanitizing stations will be abundant, with designated bathroom facilities for vaccinated and unvaccinated folks. Outside, masks and social distancing are encouraged as befits your own beliefs and comfort zones.
2020 Online Conference Videos: Our 1st ever virtual event, now on our new YouTube channel. Be sure to leave us a comment there and subscribe! We welcome community input. If you have anything to share, send it our way or tag northwest permaculture. We’d love to share your story and promote what permaculture looks like across our landscape. There is desire for a followup online gathering this fall focused around building connections and sharing gratitude. Let us know if you’d like to help. Scholarships and Work-trades: We kept our cost as low as possible this year, only charging a few dollars over the base room + meals cost of the venue for our annual administrative fees to sustain the organization. As such we have have limited work trade and scholarships. Please, don't hesitate to ask if you are in need and want to join! We have 50% off tickets available for those who can help with promotions and documentation. Northwest Native community members, we have a few 100% off tickets available for you! We are in gratitude for the chance to facilitate the landscape this weekend and thank your ancestors for tending the soil before us. Please email info@northwestpermaculture.org for work-trade and scholarship codes. Thank you for the time Beloveds, we hope to hear from you and see you soon! - Shaelee, on behalf of team Northwest Permaculture Hello Permaculture People! We are looking forward to the convergence next month Oct 15-17 on the hood canal! Are you joining us? Open Space (Emergent Design) format, expect to encounter wonderful people, stirring conversations and hands-on projects! Friday: Arrive, settle in, meet each other, add to the schedule, dinner, music and art option! Saturday and Sunday: Join in our preplanned and your newly offered activities. We have scheduled plant walks, skill-shares, discussion groups / presentations and our Sahale-centered project reinvigorating the blueberry garden, with open mic and project sharing spaces. The land holds great trails, access it to the river and use of The Swamp, an open air barn/bar for music, drinks and lounging. Meals and lodging are included! Please do: --> bring a slideshow or short vid on a flash drive! --> bring your favorite teas, harvests and brews to share!) Camping + food $83 for the whole weekend, if you need a private room pay +$20/night. Register Here Note: Scholarships and some work-trades available! We are a all-volunteer board. 100% of ticket costs goes to our venue, education programs and annual organization maintenance costs. If you'd like to sponsor someone or support the work, please donate through paypal to registrar@northwespermaculture.org Our youth program will have morning and afternoon circle times directly after our meals, which lead to an upcycled fashion show project where youth make outfits for parents and organizers to parade in! After the structured session, children are released to “recess” a self-guided time to explore activities (seed bomb making, art, play) until the next meal. These circles and activities are optional, and otherwise the care and tending of children is assumed to be in the hands of caregivers who brought them and moderated by spontaneous community engagement. The activity tables welcome engagement no matter what age you are. Youth and Children: ages 12-18 can join for ½ price, those 0-11 are free! In other news: These classes are still coming up, and check out Jan Spencer's highlight reel of permaculture in action if you haven't had a chance! First are the links, full details follow. Online urban Permaculture Design Course: City Repair Drylands Permaculture Course : Global Earth Repair Foundation Highlight Reel - Creating A Preferred Future : Suburban Permaculture Thanks for the time! If you would like to help with the mission to share and grow permaculture in practice in the Pacific Northwest, please join us in the zoom room or otherwise be in touch with how you’d like to jump in. We meet on an alternate Tuesday/Thursday once a week cycle from 7-8pm PST, login information on the main page at northwestpermaculture.org The more we get together, the happier we'll be! Look forward to seeing you, President Shaelee and team Northwest Permaculture Convergence  Hello Friends! We’d like to share information on a few fantastic classes coming up, our fall campout and a great highlight reel of permaculture in action. First are the links, full details follow.
Thanks, President Shaelee on behalf of team Northwest Permaculture Convergence *** City Repair’s Online urban Permaculture Design Course Place: Via Zoom, with the potential for some in-person self-organized physically distanced gatherings on the ancestral lands of the Chinookan people (Portland, Oregon) Registrations Close: Sun, Oct 31, 11.59pm, 2021 Course Fees: $900 until Sat, Sept 18, 2021 11.59pm, Pacific Time and then $1000 with the option for scholarships. Scholarship questions are embedded within the registration questionnaire. We have the option of a payment plan with all payments due by February 6, 2021. Program Duration: Sat, Nov 6 2021-Tue, June 21, 2022. Every month we will meet the first or second weekend of the month for a morning session, and then a Tuesday evening, mid-month for a design lab session. For more information please visit our website: Click here To register for the course please visit Eventbrite: Click here To donate to our scholarship fund: Click here For questions please email Matt and Ridhi: updc@cityrepair.org Open House: Click here to register for our upcoming Open House, Sept 18, 10-11am Pacific Time (PT). *** Drylands Permaculture Course Oct 4th- 13th Penny Livingston and Michael Pilarski are teaming up to run a Permaculture Training on Drylands Restoration. Guest speakers via Zoom include:, John D. Liu of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps, Walter Jehne from Australia, Andrew Millison from Oregon State University, Precious Phiri from Zimbabwe and Zachary Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems. This is being held in the Methow Valley, eastern Washington. Do you know anyone who might like to take this specialized course? Good course for people who are already pdc grads. Can you spread the word? We still have a few spots left. More details and how to register here: https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/drylands-permaculture-course/ Partial work-trade and scholarships are available for those who can't afford the full price. The applications are on the website, follow the link above. *** Northwest Permaculture Convergence 2021: Sahale Shindig October 15-17 Make it your own: Fill Out the NW Permaculture 2021 Sahale Shindig Questionnaire. Our schedule will be filled out with our collective offerings the first night of the event. Join our zoom meeting: Sept 14, 7-8pm https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8228795259?pwd=VTVIcGtOUmZCdThzdHozeVBCaGxOUT09 Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Please Print and Share this Poster!  *** Creating A Preferred Future And Present - Zoom Sessions - Pushing Back on Capitalism and the Consumer Culture Would you like to learn more about transforming one's own life, neighborhood, society and our economic system? What are the key leverage points? What can we learn from people already "living in the future?" Jan is putting together a series of zoom sessions that will focus on real life people and projects - a preview of a preferred future. Some people are ALREADY living in a preferred future. What are their stories? What are the allies and assets we have to work with for creating a preferred future? Jan calls upon an expansive array of experience. Thousands of people have visited his suburban property in Eugene to see what suburbia can become but this series will go far beyond a single property. Jan produces a one hour program broadcasted on several regional radio stations. Much of the zoom content will come from interviews with cultural change makers from Portland; Syracuse, NY; Cincinnati, Houston, LA, Oakland; Asheville, NC; Missoula Check these links 1] Highlights of radio programs, presentations, interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHvCtwoRfE&t=974s A one hour highlight reel of creating a preferred future - transforming suburbia, critique of capitalism, eco villages, urban food systems, pushing back on cars, wisdom of the world's great spiritual traditions, what might a preferred future look like?, what might a one earth/fair share lifestyle look like? putting mainstream assets to more radical purpose and more. 2] Site tour of Jan's suburban property in Eugene [Thanks Raintree Nursery] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsO4K1gG2Ao One of the most permaculture dense 1/4 acre suburban properties in the world 3] Links to podcasts, you tube presentations, suburban permaculture suburbanpermaculture.org check the "media" tab drop down menu This is not a permaculture class but builds on permaculture ideals and values. The ideal, to create/expand alternatives to capitalism and the consumer culture. Please forward this message. Thanks! -Jan Spenser *** Thank you for reading! Team NW Permaculture  Gatherings! Share Life and Learn Together
 Northwest Permaculture Convergence 2021 is on! The Sahale Shindig !!! - October 15-17 in Tahuya WA. Open Space Format campout. Bring yourself and ingredients to contribute to shared meals, music, art, skill-shares and discussions.Want to help shape the event? Let us know on the NW Permaculture 2021 Sahale Shindig Questionnaire. Our schedule will be filled out with our collective offerings the first night of the event. Let's have a good time! Learn More  Our Purpose NWPCC provides education on and through practice of Permaculture. This design system fosters a culture and economy for shared abundance of all beings within the boundaries of Planet Earth.  What We DoWe host annual convergences, which are a blend of work party, conference and festival; an all-in-one experience crafted in collaboration with PNW-based hosts who want to partner with NWPCC. Convergences are diverse just like our PNW region; however, there common elements like intentional engagement with indigenous community, welcoming ceremony, shared meals, camping, live music, discussions, presentations and hands-on projects over an extended weekend. We ever-refine our design for peaceful and synergistic productivity that embodies the permaculture ethics of fair share, earth care, and people care to maximize cultural exchange, learning and friendship building.  Ways to ParticipateThe NWPCC organizing team wishes to increase the number of gatherings we help facilitate across the PNW region in the coming years by encouraging self-led micro-convergences. These small gatherings would contribute to accessibility, relationship links, skill development, knowledge documentation, and awareness of what’s happening in our region.
Are you interested in hosting a micro-convergence? Do you have a skill to share and are open to teaching others? Do you have a project that would be great for a work party? Just in case you are wondering… micro-convergences would be an addition to regional offerings. The annual big convergence would still take place in the fall, and offer a large mosaic of Northwest Permaculture where we can celebrate and learn from each other. How You Can Help Message the board and our community through SLACK and Discord, or join in on one of our zoom meetups. Login information is at https://www.northwestpermaculture.org/  Hello Permaculture People, 2020 is in the soil, and our reflections are like mulch; helping us digest the inputs of the past season and transform them into good fruit for the future. We see that our convergence community has shifted, our direction pivoted, and our reach grown as society at large is looking for answers to sustainable design. Please share your thoughts on how Northwest Permaculture has impacted your life, and how we can best serve. Last fall we met digitally and encouraged people together as they could in little groups: Converge-in-place and connect online. It was beautiful to find that we had more meaningful facetime with each-other than years past. Teachers, organizers and people from all over, finding time to be more present with each other’s stories as we were spared running from classroom to classroom. Our 1-track schedule brought us together around one thought-train, and integrated chat to share ideas and connections deeply with a collaborative notespace. Our #Slack and Discord channels allowed us to have live spaces for conversations outside of the Zoom meeting that have carried over past the event, laying a framework to establish a confluence of permaculture systems as the new mainstream, dug with the tools of our ancestors and defined by the tools of today. In 2021 we will be carrying over the best of the convergence in microcosm every month. This flows energy toward finding partners in education and holding regular campfires with a zoom portal for regional connection. Sharing knowledge, crafting the future. We are looking for educators and activists lifting up sustainable systems. Do you know a teacher or admin at a junior college, highschool, youth center or the like we should be working with? So many great teachers pass through our doors, and skillshares taught on the fields. We are ready to document and share how the Northwest Community ticks. Please connect us to those doing the work in your area, and what schools have programs on sustainability. We can match those who want to learn and have the technological resources to record sessions to those who are designing systems that work, sharing methods to inspire best practices. Our role as the NWPCC is to link the nodes across our community and amplify the voices of sustainability practitioners.January 19, 2020  The Campfires Starting this winter, our team will be holding space around a big bright burning idea every month. We will have a speaker share their story around the digital campfire (like our Keynotes). later, we will hold space for a community discussion around the themes that emerged in that time and co-create a monthly Vlog. Starting late February, let us gather to discuss and grow. Submit your preferred time and topics here and email us if you'd like to share as a speaker during these discussions or have anyone to recommend. -> February’s topic is LOVE. We will be talking with community organizers involved in Anti-Racist work, and hold conversations around locally led reparations and social justice and practical love. Lets open up a suggestions forum on how we love each-other COMMUNITY VLOG: please write or send in a short <1 min on LOVE -> March's topic is SEED. We will be talking with Seed Advocates and hold conversations around the theme of play allyship (planthropocene) seed saving and our role in stewarding biodiversity. COMMUNITY VLOG: please write or send in a short <1 min on SEED -> April’s topic is TRUST. We will be talking with Land Access Specialists and hold conversations around the theme of community held spaces, land reparations, and food sovereignty. COMMUNITY VLOG: please write a few words or send in a short <1 min on STEWARDSHIP -> May’s topic is TRUTH and DECOLONIZATION. We will be talking with an activist doing the work to create a culture of honor for all people. In particular, for those who have a historically discriminated against and marginalized identity to be seen and heard. Also a space for those who are perpetuating this violence to honestly see their part and lean into healing for all. The goal is to hold a community container for conversations around decolonization in action, and to give examples of growing a healthy future based on honesty, respect and real reparations. COMMUNITY VLOG: Please write a few words or send in a short <1 min on DECOLONIZATION -> Potential Summer and on topics are Play, Soil, Pruning, Harvest, Preserve, Resilience, Rest and Growth. What do you want to talk about? Who should kick off the discussions? When is best? Happy to listen
I am grateful that one of the outcomes of this year is an increasing interest in resilience, and growing harmony between all people. The rifts and sickness that emerged beg us to change our patterns and adopt systems that honor rather than destroy. Let's keep doing it. Thank you for taking the time to read this and co-creating a future we want to harvest. With you, Shaelee on behalf of the NWPCC team |
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