Create the world we want to see

i there guys, gals and non-binary pals!
So stoked on our convergence this year. We are sharing permaculture ethics in action September 24-27 as we gather in solidarity to create the world we want to live in.   

Converge-in-Place & local friends can listen in with you!
We hope to inspire many small groups to form this weekend, with each ticket-holder inviting a few local friends to join in during our time together. Please, ask friends and neighbors to share the space. Gather in your yard, in your home quarantine-bubble and let's get the whole northwest converging!  Your $20 ticket is a portal to login to our gathering and all the presentations, tours and work-parties that entails, get downloadable content, chat with peers from around the region, and share your world right back!   For the kiddos and caretakers, we have a dedicated space for youthful conversation with permanent links to the Permaculture Coloring Book and correlating youtube shorts + activities befitting each concept. Each page is representative of the design principles and ethics that are the heart of permaculture.  

Designed for Connections
We will be streaming from across the region, one channel for all presentations, encouraging cross-pollination and building up our network.  Workshops include farm tours that show how to merge education into a working farm plan, using draft horses, a how-to for Korean natural farming, scythe-lore, and tools to decolonize permaculture and create space for shared power and deep listening. On a global note, our Sunday keynote is someone who our very own board member, David Stein, met during his permaculture glob-trot sabbatical in India.  Our team is jazzed to hear more about David’s trip, and learn from Prem’s story. Prem is very involved in his community, and travels to surrounding villages to share his farming methods. He has made his farm into a thriving educational site, in which students from all over the world come to learn.
During meals we will be share food-based projects like making yogurt and sauerkraut, and how to harvest herbs and preserve in a number of ways. I'll be live-streaming from my garden, and hope you will to!  We’d love the meal-time to be a place to make friends and share ideas.  If you have a well-loved-practice you would like to share at this time, please record a <5minute “Permaculture Service Announcement” highlighting what its all about, and we will make space to share it.  I’m stoked on the idea of us making krawt together while I do my demo, and in a few months following up in our online chat channels, Discord and Slack with feedback on our unique methods and how all our batches turned out!  If we live close, perhaps it will be time for a campout and we can have a tasting party!

Education, Courage and Vulnerability
This year, we are intentionally digging into the heart of our core permaculture ethics of people-care, earth-care, fair-share: how does living out those values look in our lives?   As a key part of this conversation, it's important to understand the interplay of earth-care and people-care; and we need to talk about what happens when we abandon these things. At times during the weekend, we may feel compelled to share personal stories and go deep together.  While we want to respect people’s privacy, for the sake of listening deep and growing together, everything will be recorded. So if you would rather not be "on the record” please create your own anonymity through an avatar, and use chat and private message functions to build lasting relationships with people in community so we can grow in accountability and life together. 
Continuing the people-care aspect after the convergence-official is another mission, as such we hope to encourage local small groups to keep meeting. Think Permaculture-Potlucks, seed swaps, work-parties and emergent-design campout micro-conferences (we have a template for that! please ask!  : )

Cultivate Community, converge-in-place. Let's use this great disturbance as a season of grace to replant the burning covid jungle out there as a food-forest garden designed for sharing, caring and kind stewardship.
You inspire me,
Shaelee (and the whole NWPCC team that approves this message!)
NWPCC President
Northwestpermaculture.org 

ps: A little video I made about my heart for the NWPCC and the convergence this year in particular during our planning, we are making a video that has the voices of all us organizers together, but here is a sneak peak of my thoughts:  NWPCC_heart-to-heart_Shaelee.mp4. 

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See you soon!
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Tickets for the 2020 ConvergenceHappy to help.Join our Northwest Permaculture Discord and Slack communities to ask questions and party plan all year long.

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