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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] 10th CONTINENTAL BIOREGIONAL CONGRESS (CBCX)
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:46:59 -0600




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markets


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 <WWW.BIOREGIONAL-CONGRESS.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@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 HERE <http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=732080> 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@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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