Since March 2020, many seeds of (r)evolution have been sprouting. We've risen up against racial injustice, weathered intense climate change, battled a global pandemic, witnessed worldwide oppression, and experienced intense division, even between people and movements within the same political standpoints. Along the way, we've learned new lessons, skills, and conflicts, and if we're lucky, we've also experienced the beauty of repair.
This year's Permaculture Convergence focuses on exactly that. What does it mean to "come down the mountain"? What does it look like to drop to our knees, humbly walk here and admit that we don't have all the answers? The theme of this year's Northwest Permaculture Convergence is accepting feedback and self-regulating, with the goal of course-correcting our (r)evolution.
How do we accept feedback from the people, culture, community, land, and relationships in our lives? How do we integrate and self-regulate with our own nervous systems within our relationships, communities, cultures, and the land to build solidarity? These questions and more will be explored at the 2023 Permaculture Convergence. We'll come down the mountain inspired and ready to take action to improve our own lives and the world.
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STARHAWK
Starhawk is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of Earth Activist Training, which teaches regenerative design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics and social permaculture, and her permaculture novels, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she has worked on five major documentaries, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge. Starhawk holds a double diploma in design and teaching from the Permaculture Institute of North America. She presently directs Earth Activist Training, teaches internationally, and is a voice for incorporating Social Permaculture into our movement and training. |
KEYNOTE: BUILDING REGENERATIVE MOVEMENTS
We live in a time of social and environmental crisis. We are called to make enormous changes in our technologies, our economies, our land use practices and our culture. Permaculture offers tools and solutions for regenerating land and ecosystems, but how do we build the broad, diverse and powerful movement we need to see those tools put to use? Social permaculture can adapt the same ethics and principles that help us heal soil and water to design empowering collaborations. When we identify our core human needs, for safety, belonging, value, agency, and meaning, we can design our groups and organizations to meet them in healthy ways, and build a welcoming, empowering and resilient movement.
WORKSHOP: SOCIAL PERMACULTURE FOR REGENERATIVE GROUPS
In this workshop, Starhawk applies the ethics and principles of permaculture to the design of groups and organizations. Drawing on her book The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, and her five decades of experience in groups of all kinds, she shares some key ideas around structure, communication, power relationships, and core needs to explore how we can collaborate in ways that are welcoming, creative and empowering for all.
In this workshop, Starhawk applies the ethics and principles of permaculture to the design of groups and organizations. Drawing on her book The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, and her five decades of experience in groups of all kinds, she shares some key ideas around structure, communication, power relationships, and core needs to explore how we can collaborate in ways that are welcoming, creative and empowering for all.
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AARON JOHNSON
Aaron Johnson (he/him) is an earth builder, teacher of closeness, and activist. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has made a lifelong commitment to use the skills he possesses to end racism. In addition to using intimacy and closeness to blackness as a primary means to that end, the tools he frequently uses are speaking, teaching, singing, photography, filmmaking, and minimalism. Aaron leads a mentoring program called Turn It Up Now that focuses on elevating the power, talent, love, and work ethic of youth. He believes that deep connection is one of the most powerful tools one can use in dismantling racism. |
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KEYNOTE: BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
Being close to blackness is the deepest, most personal aspect of working with systematic racism. When guided by a facilitator, we can identify and root out our habits, biases, and histories that are holding us back from being close to African heritage people. We can transform the world around us by asking better questions of ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Many white-identified folks may not consider themselves racist and yet may have hidden or underlying biases creating a barrier between themselves and black people in their community. These barriers prevent us from truly seeing blackness, being close to blackness, and advocating for genuine change. Aaron Johnson will facilitate this group, helping white-identified folks to reflect and discover personal, community, and cultural barriers, mainly as they affect white-controlled spaces.
Being close to blackness is the deepest, most personal aspect of working with systematic racism. When guided by a facilitator, we can identify and root out our habits, biases, and histories that are holding us back from being close to African heritage people. We can transform the world around us by asking better questions of ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Many white-identified folks may not consider themselves racist and yet may have hidden or underlying biases creating a barrier between themselves and black people in their community. These barriers prevent us from truly seeing blackness, being close to blackness, and advocating for genuine change. Aaron Johnson will facilitate this group, helping white-identified folks to reflect and discover personal, community, and cultural barriers, mainly as they affect white-controlled spaces.
WORKSHOP: HEARING THE STORY OF YOUR VOICE
This workshop is a place for people in the community to fellowship around finding and expressing our voices. It’s a song circle, a meditation, a place to slow down and connect, to rethink ways to share our stories, poems, chants, grief, and dreams. To notice what it takes to find your messages and to be heard. Holistic Resistance will facilitate songs, stories, and simple settling practices supporting your voice and expression.
This workshop is a place for people in the community to fellowship around finding and expressing our voices. It’s a song circle, a meditation, a place to slow down and connect, to rethink ways to share our stories, poems, chants, grief, and dreams. To notice what it takes to find your messages and to be heard. Holistic Resistance will facilitate songs, stories, and simple settling practices supporting your voice and expression.
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HAZEL WARD Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. Their focus for this 21st century has been Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife support and desert forest water management. |
WORKSHOP: Rewriting the Permaculture Design Course
Can we transmute “design” to assessment, systems mapping and culture tending? Can we learn what the Mollisonian education model actually has accomplished and look to an expanded approach? What to do about professionalism and the franchise model? Can we shrink grandiose design to quick fixes and triage through nimble solutions while holding a vision of ultimate culture of place? And can we learn to accept feedback in big ways from small interventions?
It is the Social in Social Forestry that needs a capacious tool basket. Permaculture has a place in that basket. Cultures of place are presently experiencing severely endangered sets of relationships.
Can we transmute “design” to assessment, systems mapping and culture tending? Can we learn what the Mollisonian education model actually has accomplished and look to an expanded approach? What to do about professionalism and the franchise model? Can we shrink grandiose design to quick fixes and triage through nimble solutions while holding a vision of ultimate culture of place? And can we learn to accept feedback in big ways from small interventions?
It is the Social in Social Forestry that needs a capacious tool basket. Permaculture has a place in that basket. Cultures of place are presently experiencing severely endangered sets of relationships.
WORKSHOP: Social Forestry Walk About
Calico Creek has seen layers of exploitation and recovery. We can see the remnants of that story by reading the landscape. We will take a walk up into the woods and along some edges to scope the scene and name the players. What would we do here if we were People of Place?
They would encourage folks who have tree and shrub identification skills to help out. Repetition Rules.
Calico Creek has seen layers of exploitation and recovery. We can see the remnants of that story by reading the landscape. We will take a walk up into the woods and along some edges to scope the scene and name the players. What would we do here if we were People of Place?
They would encourage folks who have tree and shrub identification skills to help out. Repetition Rules.
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Lydia is an Iranian-Armenian-American folk multi-instrumentalist, revolution-bringer, culture-tender, grief-worker, and mischief-maker. In her performances, she weaves together her songwriting, folk standards, Iranian ballads, love of harmonies, fiddle, banjo, and collective singing into an altar of music to lay at our feet. She is the creator behind Singing the Bones, a course with Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, and a music project that brings American artists together to explore and share folk music from their ancestries, encouraging cultural revitalization and diasporic healing. She has engaged in vibrant collaborations with world-renowned artists Climbing PoeTree, Rising Appalachia, MaMuse, and Lyla June. Lydia has also studied dedicatedly with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 15 years, learning how we can metabolize planetary despair, anxiety, and community traumas into energy for resilience, action, and community healing. She founded and runs The School for The Great Turning, which creates access to an education that will empower humanity's life-sustaining legacy. www.schoolforthegreatturning.com |
LYDIA VIOLET
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WORKSHOP: Joanna Macy's "Work That Reconnects"
As each day we face the news of climate chaos, political warfare, species extinction, and ecological and social suffering, we are asked to reconcile these collective traumas with all that is breaking in our hearts. It is natural in our time to feel despair, overwhelm, and grief. Joanna Macy's "Work That Reconnects" is an incredibly powerful form of group work and teachings developed over these last 5 decades that help us meet these places of despair, disorientation, and overwhelm with compassionate connection, existential acuity, emotional intelligence, and an opportunity for a transformation in identity situated within an interrelated landscape. Climate anxiety and ecological despair are real, they are on behalf of a world desperate for our collaboration in remembering our dignity and grace. It is here that we nourish our compass for the times ahead. Lydia has studied delicately with root teacher Joanna Macy for the past 15 years and will give a hearty introductory immersion in this work.
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SARA TONE
WEAVING A SONIC TAPESTRY: IT TAKES A VILLAGE Sara Tone, based in Portland, is a musician, educator, and activist. She expresses her deep connection with nature through a variety of instruments, crafting soulful melodies that blend world folk with a hip-hop twist. Beyond songs, her music carries a collective intention, echoing environmental advocacy. Sara's performances have supported causes like intact forests, clean water, and indigenous rights. As an educator, she teaches percussion and voice, notably at the NW Singer Songwriter Soireé Retreat |
TORIN FROST
Torin Frost is a freestylist from the Pacific Northwest. His music consists of singing odes to the elderberries, rapping flows for the Lion’s Mane, and improvising rhymes off the top of the brain. Torin’s main goal through music is to discombobulate the system, connecting us with Mother Earth and the cosmos one song at a time. For Torin, freestyling has been the greatest form of medicine, and he wants to share this beautiful gift with the rest of the world.
Torin Frost is a freestylist from the Pacific Northwest. His music consists of singing odes to the elderberries, rapping flows for the Lion’s Mane, and improvising rhymes off the top of the brain. Torin’s main goal through music is to discombobulate the system, connecting us with Mother Earth and the cosmos one song at a time. For Torin, freestyling has been the greatest form of medicine, and he wants to share this beautiful gift with the rest of the world.
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LUX GYPSUM
Lux Gypsum (all pronouns) is a queer, non-binary community-builder and space-holder offering their gifts at the intersection of interpersonal and cultural liberation. Lux has been learning and teaching about communication, conflict, and consent for over 6 years, and has recently been diving deep into learning about how our trauma and attachment systems impact our relationships. You can follow Lux's work and offerings on Instagram @healing.rising and by signing up for their newsletter at www.healingrising.com.
WORKSHOP:
Giving & Receiving the Gift of Feedback
Giving and receiving loving, honest feedback is a key practice for collective liberation. Feedback is information that connects us to the world around us. Without knowing and adjusting to how we impact each other, we cannot be in the practice of right relationship. Shared in the spirit of collective liberation, feedback is a gift that supports our growth and helps us live our values. However, most of us are not practiced in seeking feedback or responding to feedback with understanding and openness. As a result, we withhold feedback in order to avoid conflict, missing the opportunity to support each other in the growth we need, individually and collectively. In this workshop, we will break through this pattern together by discussing and practicing how to give and receive feedback with grace and gratitude.
MORGAN VANDERPOOL
Morgan Vanderpool, LICSW, is an elder millennial, queer, non-binary, white, neurospicy, ecologically and intersectionally-grounded: collective nervous system mechanic, collective trauma specialist, neuro-inclusive movement & restorative practice facilitator, choreographer and community builder, who has lived and worked across the Americas, y adora conectar en Español.
Morgan is dedicated to facilitating inclusive, accessible, mycelially-grounded and somatically abolitionist, restorative body-based practices, that strengthen our collective capacity to healthfully move with every neurospicy layer of our surviorship. So we may co-build thriving nervous and eco-systems- ONE BREATH AT A TIME.
Morgan is dedicated to facilitating inclusive, accessible, mycelially-grounded and somatically abolitionist, restorative body-based practices, that strengthen our collective capacity to healthfully move with every neurospicy layer of our surviorship. So we may co-build thriving nervous and eco-systems- ONE BREATH AT A TIME.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
"Mycelial Body-Based Approaches to Regenerative Relationships"
In our efforts to build communities who are in right-relationship with our ecology, we cannot bypass our biology. When at least 85% of our communication is non-verbal (aka. body language), let's get clearer about how to access our mycelial-like body as a regenerative resource for community connection & collaboration. This workshop centers our body as our primary resource for co-creating regenerative relationships. It'll offer an opportunity to learn about the power of our nervous systems' collective capacities, through focusing on our breath and movement, to more healthfully collaborate with our co-activated nervous systems.
Participants will receive:
Participants will receive:
- An immersion in body-based support, to better track their own nervous systems' patterns and capacities in relationships.
- Guided support of how to embody the restorative functions of mycelium in our nervous systems.
- Downloads about how to access consensual nervous system co-regulation to co-build a regenerative present & future.
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ALIKO WESTE
Born and raised in Seattle Washington to a French ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish mother and Caribbean father, Aliko is a first generation, trans, Blaxk presenting, bilingual Jewish entrepreneur and producer. Aliko is the Founder and director of several companies, is also a coach, event producer, designer, speaker, and an anti-capitalist somatic historian. Through all of his businesses, events, expertise and hobbies, medicine work, and identities, he is able to live out his dedication to carving out spaces for humanity through his life. |
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WORKSHOP: Returning to Our Houses of Magic - Creating Solidarity and the History of Belonging
In a world shaped by the currents of capitalism, the echoes of history reverberate through our societies, influencing our relationships, bodies, and even our sense of self. Join us for an enlightening workshop that delves into the intersection of history, capitalism, and solidarity, offering a fresh perspective on rekindling our collective consciousness.
In a world shaped by the currents of capitalism, the echoes of history reverberate through our societies, influencing our relationships, bodies, and even our sense of self. Join us for an enlightening workshop that delves into the intersection of history, capitalism, and solidarity, offering a fresh perspective on rekindling our collective consciousness.
ASHLEY BONN
Ashley Bonn is a visionary leader, community builder, and creative entrepreneur based in Eugene, OR. After traveling extensively throughout her 20s, she became inspired to learn better practices for sustainable living. In 2020, Ashley founded Conscious Growth, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to build community by organizing inclusive events and sustainable projects that support social and ecological justice. As an experienced coordinator, Ashley believes it is possible to bridge the gap between our differences and find the intersections of wisdom much needed for collective evolution.
Ashley Bonn is a visionary leader, community builder, and creative entrepreneur based in Eugene, OR. After traveling extensively throughout her 20s, she became inspired to learn better practices for sustainable living. In 2020, Ashley founded Conscious Growth, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to build community by organizing inclusive events and sustainable projects that support social and ecological justice. As an experienced coordinator, Ashley believes it is possible to bridge the gap between our differences and find the intersections of wisdom much needed for collective evolution.
WORKSHOP: Bridging Cultures: Permaculture and Indigenous Wisdom
How do we bridge cultures? How do we practice permaculture in a way that honors Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous wisdom? This workshop will be an open discussion about the history of permaculture, the harm that’s been done, and suggestions for how we can course-correct with integrity. We stand on the shoulders of many ancestors, and permaculture owes its roots to ancient cultures all over the world. As we learn and re-learn these skills and concepts, we need to acknowledge and support cultural diversity if we are to adapt and live more harmoniously.
HAYLEY SHANNON
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Hayley Shannon (she/her) is a somatic healing arts practitioner, grief tender and embodiment artist with Celtic roots. She is passionate about co-creating spaces for people to re-member their innate body wisdom and intuitive creativity as a healing balm for themselves and others. Hayley’s in-depth training in dance/movement therapy, somatic expressive arts therapy, breathwork, meditation and contemporary dance inspires her unique offerings that began as Dance Healing in 2016. She values collaborating with artists and change-makers, and prioritizes living close to the Earth with her beloved community on a remote island in the Salish Sea. Find out more about how to participate in her offerings: www.embodysoul.love
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WORKSHOP: Awakening Embodied Consciousness
Our bodies hold the codes of our past and present life experiences and they communicate more to the world than we are consciously aware of. How can we cultivate a more intimate relationship with the language of our bodies to illuminate their stories without judgement, and hold ourselves and others with greater compassion? In this workshop, explore awakening your innate body wisdom and communicating to others from an authentic and intuitive place. Enter a space of “non-dual awareness” where we tap into our capacity to be present with multiple truths at one time.
REISHI STRAUSS
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Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia. She is currently enrolled in Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR, where she is studying clinical herbalism, botany, and wildcrafting stewardship. Reishi also owns and operates Earth & Spirit Botanicals – a business designed to heal the planet and people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal and fungal medicines. |
WORKSHOP: Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation: Shiitake, Oyster, King Stropharia, and Cyanescens
The first part of this workshop will be an introduction to the biology and ecology of fungi: What they are, what their nutritional modes are, and how they differ from plants. Once we begin to understand fungal consciousness and their life cycle, we will explore various ways to cultivate fungi in permaculture systems. We will first go over how to grow Shiitake, Oyster, Lions Mane, Reishi, and Turkey Tail on hardwood logs. Then we will learn how to cultivate fungi on woodchips, focusing on King Stropharia (Garden Giants) and our native psychedelic species Psilocybe Cyanescens (Wavy Caps).
TALYCE KETURA
Occupying Multnomah & Chinook land, Talyce Ketura (they/she) is the founder of Ancestral Seed Healing, a multi-faceted platform that embodies holistic community care through a lense of reproductive wellness and rooted in liberatory educational praxis. They are a queer, gender-fluid mixed Afro-Carribean fem who serves as a full-spectrum doula, student midwife, community organizer, herbalist and ritualist. Talyce is dedicated to sharing tools for embodied ancestral healing through the use of ritual arts and somatic integration. Much of their work over the last several years has centered racial and gender equity both within providing gestational care and access to plant medicine via mutual aid and ritual. They are a curator of affinity spaces for QTBIPOC at gatherings and events as well as serve as an educator for racial & reproductive justice. They believe that access to healing traditions and birthwork are political and not separate from issues around race, gender, class, ability etc.
WORKSHOP: Embodying Wholeness & Right Relation with Ancestral Plant Medicines
In this workshop we will discuss the ways in which colonization and systems of oppression have exploited and upheld the erasure of traditional practices with plant medicine. As we begin to unpack the ways in which this shows up in modern day western herbalism, we will discuss ways in which we can reconnect to the land from a decolonial perspective and practice reconnecting to ancestral wisdom through building relationships with plant medicines.
KYLE KASZYNSKI
Fascinated by nature, Kyle has always been interested in the natural world. His curiosity about how the universe operates led him to pursue an academic career studying plants and fungi. Seeking to learn more about these easily overlooked and often misunderstood kingdoms, as the role of an observer, he is continually watching and learning how these organisms live and what we can do (as humans) to better facilitate this process. Kyle teaches us how we can learn to live along-side our plant and fungal allies more harmoniously and how we can incorporate more diversity in any given system (landscapes, forests, gardens, and more).
WORKSHOP: Mycoremediation and Fungal Microscopy
Kyle will be giving us a brief walk through the fungal kingdom before taking us on a deep dive into the microscopic world of fungi. In this workshop we will strategize how we can practice mycoremediation and ally with these enzymatic powerhouses to help us clean up our anthropomorphic mess and decrease pollution rates. We will learn that fungi are extremely resilient and highly adaptable, making them the perfect partner in sustainability as we begin to regenerate the life and health of our planet. Kyle will then teach us how to use the microscope to assess biological diversity in soils/composts/waterways and then identify the major groups of organisms that together create the soil food web.
MARISHA AUERBACH
Marisha Auerbach is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, designer, and speaker based in Olympia, WA. Marisha has lived and practiced permaculture in both urban and rural environments. As an avid gardener and herbalist, Marisha specializes in food production, ecology, and useful plants. Marisha believes that it is possible to respond to the current environmental challenges, lower our ecological footprint, and continue to live equally delightful lives through permaculture design. This passion is what drives Marisha's active teaching schedule throughout the year.
TAO ORION
Tao Orion holds a degree in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from UC Santa Cruz and a MSc degree in Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015). Tao serves on the Lane County Climate Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Center for Rural Livelihoods, and is a founding member of Cottage Grove Climate Action. She is also an instructor in the Permaculture program at Oregon State University.
WORKSHOP: Ecology and Permaculture
Join Marisha Auerbach and Tao Orion for an exploration of the science of ecology as it relates to Permaculture systems. Together, we will look at the intrinsic characteristics of ecosystems, including the other species that reside in our home habitats, to highlight how these relationships bring stability and resilience. After the workshop, you will be able to bring these insights home to help you enhance the quality of your permaculture designs and your care for your landscape.
RYAN CRISTBorn and raised on a farm in the topsoil rich state of Minnesota, Ryan "Yeti" Crist's fascination with soil and plant life began before he could walk. While finishing his B.S. in Chemistry his interests turned toward soil science, hydroponics and aquaponics in a search for farming methods that were sustainable, resilient, and provided accelerated growth. For five years he designed, consulted for, and constructed several aquaponic and organic farms and gardens in the greater Portland area. Driven by his love of advanced farming methods and creative automated systems, Ryan returned to school for a degree in mechanical engineering in which he had opportunities to apply much of this education in agricultural settings and stumbled upon a project to automate a "small" wood gasification system for heat, electricity and liquid fuels derived from the wood gas. Wood-gasification is a closed loop form of pyrolysis, allowing all products to potentially be used. One significant byproduct from this process is Biochar, the great carbon key to our top soils. Ryan now works with Gorge Greens and Wind River Circular Systems developing a 5 megawatt gasification system coupled with vegetable producing greenhouses. The system will produce power for Skamania county in Washington state utilizing the local waste woody biomass and gives value to better forest management, provides heat, electricity and CO2 to the greenhouses, while producing 4000 tons of biochar annually.
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WORKSHOP: Rediscovering Terra Preta - BioCharging your Soil through Carbon Balance
Let's dive into the world we can't see below the earth and how biochar holds a key in sequestering carbon in a way that builds better soils year after year. We'll take a look at how the ingenuity of some early civilizations made the incredibly rich topsoils we find throughout the world utilizing and balancing biochar derived carbon to make them retain all those essential nutrients and biological communities our agricultural plants require to thrive. With our modern understanding of soil chemistry and biology we can accelerate the processes to enrich our topsoil and make our farms utilize less resources. We'll also cover a few ways of producing biochar and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
RICHARD CLARKE
Richard “RC” Clarke is an enrolled member of the Numunu tribe and a lifelong devotee of nature, striving to think like a forest and raised with a love for the serendipity of soil. His main source of inspiration is the continuous wonder of nature itself and the humbling knowledge and resilience of indigenous communities, their ancestry and the debt permaculture and society itself owes to the wisdom of people who came before and tended this land. RC has worked with numerous farms throughout Central America and Europe, but he now calls a small permaculture farmstead home, nestled in the Willamette Valley in what is ancestral Kalapuya/Suislaw territiories. He is the president of High Quality Gardens, Inc. and co-founder of Spotted Wolf Permaculture and Nursery as well as an instructor for the OSU online Permaculture Design Certificate program.
WORKSHOP: Cold Pasteurization and Low Input Fungi Cultivation
Utilizing ph shifts and anaerobic “sterilization “ techniques we create a system of pasteurization without the need for resource intensive pressure cooking. From straw to wood chips, cardboard and more- this workshop teaches you to how to use readily available resources like soap, wood ash or lime combined with water and time to get you on your way to propagating and cultivating your own food and medicine from agricultural and yard waste.
JOSH FATTAL
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Dr. Josh Fattal is the Executive Director of the Center for Rural Livelihoods in rural Lane County. He holds a Ph.d. in history from New York University and completed the dissertation The World Turned Downside Up: the crisis of Marxism, humanism, and the libertarian left, 1937-1956. He is also the co-author of the memoir A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Detained in Iran about his harrowing twenty-six months of wrongfully detention. Dr. Fattal’s writing on a range of topics have appeared in public forums including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Seattle Times. Under Dr. Fattal’s leadership, the Center for Rural Livelihoods has revitalized the organization’s land base, its community partnerships, and it's residential program with an eye towards supporting liberatory, local social movements.
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WORKSHOP: Social Movements, Power, and Permaculture
What is the aim of Permaculture? Are the ecological design systems for backyard use or are they society-wide? If the mandate of Permaculture is to change the world along the lines of its three ethics, then who has the power to do that in today's world? In this workshop, we'll take a hard-nosed look at politics -- i.e. the distribution of power in society -- a) to understand the current balance of forces at the present moment as well as b) in order to think about strategies for gaining the power to affect change throughout society. We will discuss the relationship between ecological design and social change. We'll discuss some of the common myths, mis-perceptions, and misleading analyses prevalent in Permaculture circles and the environmental movement that are holding it back from reaching its collective potential. Finally, we sketch out a positive program that links environmental work with liberatory social movements.
NW PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE - CULTURE OF HEALING SELF AND COMMUNITY IN PERMACULTURE, SUCCESSION PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS
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Deep dive into NW Permacultute Ethos: exploring how to embody feedback, healthy succession and regenerative organizational practices by design. This session is led by the NWPCC Board of Directors - Shealee Evan's, Julie Wolf and David Ahlgen as a place to share about our work as a team to help this organization strengthen community connections that reinforce the application of permaculture principles. Learn about what we do, why we do it, our current project scope, and how to engage as a board member or community ally.
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Children's Program
Children are the future.
A hands on children's space to bring the youth into permaculture conversations.
Earth crafts, somatic experiencing, mediation, plant walks, earthen based play and more.
Want to help our parent-led Children's Program- Contact us asap at volunteers@nwpermacultureconvergence.org
The program itself is voluntary, each activity will be led by parents who volunteer their presence.
Please donate to our Equity Fund and Event Donations to help parents co-create this theme-aligned program.
A hands on children's space to bring the youth into permaculture conversations.
Earth crafts, somatic experiencing, mediation, plant walks, earthen based play and more.
Want to help our parent-led Children's Program- Contact us asap at volunteers@nwpermacultureconvergence.org
The program itself is voluntary, each activity will be led by parents who volunteer their presence.
Please donate to our Equity Fund and Event Donations to help parents co-create this theme-aligned program.
| Equity Abundance Funder | $300 |
| General Admission | $200 |
| Early Bird Ticket | $175 * |
| Two Day (Saturday & Sunday) | $160 |
| BIPOC & Low Income | $125 |
| Single Day Ticket | $80 |
| Kid's Ticket (Ages 5 -15) | $50 |
* Sold out
Tentative Schedule
Shoulder Events
There are two shoulder events on Friday and Monday.
- Jan Spencer's radically different landmark permaculture Site Tour on Friday at 11:00AM.
- Marisha Auerbach and Tao Orion's exploration of the science of ecology on Monday.
Are you passionate about sustainability, regenerative agriculture, and creating a harmonious coexistence with nature? Here's your chance to make a real difference!
Join us as a volunteer at the North West Permaculture Convergence and become part of a thriving community dedicated to positive change.
Everyone helps with meals. We need volunteer teams and a few leads for Meals, Parking Attendees and Shuttle Drivers asap.
Leave your contact and interest info on our Volunteer Form here!
Limited Key worktrader Leads for Parking, Shuttling, Kitchen and and Parent Volunteers for Our new Kids Program considered. And sign up to join our site prep Work Parties too - its all on the Volunteer form.
Join us as a volunteer at the North West Permaculture Convergence and become part of a thriving community dedicated to positive change.
Everyone helps with meals. We need volunteer teams and a few leads for Meals, Parking Attendees and Shuttle Drivers asap.
Leave your contact and interest info on our Volunteer Form here!
Limited Key worktrader Leads for Parking, Shuttling, Kitchen and and Parent Volunteers for Our new Kids Program considered. And sign up to join our site prep Work Parties too - its all on the Volunteer form.
Parking - Camping - Shuttling -
Accommodations - Rideshare
Everyone parks in neighboring fields and camps on site. Shuttling is needed because there are no on site accommodations available - just camping.
Please Car Pool or use Ride Share Sheet.
Kid Tickets and Donation portals for Event & Equity Fund are available now to fund more Worktraders ASAP! We are asking Cottage Grove / Eugene Community for help with accommodations. Can you help the gathering be more inclusive? Got a B&B? An extra room? A Barn? How about your favorite Hotel or Hospice or Meditation or Yoga hall? We’ll plan for shuttles and please sign up for Ride Share and Accommodation Share here. Pulling together makes our community beautiful. Is there a local limited mobility support tools lending library for outdoor spaces?
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Please take our short Inclusivity Survey if it's a challenge for you to join this year.
Share your specific obstacle and give us your valuable living feedback please.
Share your specific obstacle and give us your valuable living feedback please.
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Join our Slack, Discord or our Wednesdays @5pm Convergence Planning Zooms to circle up and collaborate!
Vendors & Sponsors Wanted
Promote your work and support Equity Tickets!
VENDORS must be:
SPONSORS
Get acknowledged on our website as a NW Permaculture 2023 sponsor.
* Visit Vendor & Sponsor page here
VENDORS must be:
- Local Earth Based Businesses
- Non Profits
- CSA's
- Herbal Medicine
- Education & Art
SPONSORS
Get acknowledged on our website as a NW Permaculture 2023 sponsor.
* Visit Vendor & Sponsor page here
Northwest Permaculture Convergence
Northwest Permaculture Convergence (NWPCC) is a Washington state 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Its purpose is to provide education in the use of Permaculture as a powerful tool for helping to design and bring into being a culture and economy that can fit far better within the boundaries of Planet Earth. NWPCC is organized by a volunteer Board that oversees the year-to-year organizing of the annual Northwest Permaculture Convergence (The Convergence), as well as several new projects designed to increase networking and build resilience within the Permaculture community.
https://www.NorthwestPermaculture.org
DOWN THE MOUNTAIN Produced by
ASHLEY BONN |
ALIKO WESTE |
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Founder of Conscious Growth
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Founder of We Are U Productions
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NORTHWEST PERMACULTURE
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JULIE WOLFJulie Wolf was a board ally for years from 2018-2022, joining the board in 2022 as an active connector and community builder. She will continue in service on the Board, sending Newsletters, holding monthly community meetings, hosting monthly speakers, responding to community needs and inviting more participation. Julie is committed to empowering the community to lead the next phase of how NW Permaculture Community can best be served by this organization with more People Care/Fairshare from its ancient origins of all our Relations.
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SHAELEE EVANSShaelee Evans, our outgoing president, has been on the Board since 2016, our longest board member in history! She advocates for equity in all she does, including her Sequim WA farm based business GoodnessTea. She will continue as a Board ally to support succession.
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DAVID AHLGRENDavid Ahlgren has been on the board since 2018. He advocates for keeping things simple as a Northwest Permaculture organization and for non-violent communication and invites feedback always and often. David purposes to listen to land as he works around the world in different ecosystems as a restoration ecologist, water flow designer and permaculture educator.
To promote this organization's succession, David will be stepping down and continue as a Board advisor and ally as needed in the years to come as he steps into the next chapter in his life work and doctorate studies. He hopes to return to pass on his trade blanket ceremony and to share his life work as needed in this community. |
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