events
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past events
Communicating with Plants: Deepen Your Connection, Clarity and Creativity
May 10-12, 2022
The Nature Inn at Bald Eagle
We live during this time of great opportunity and change. If we want to thrive, if we want to succeed, we need to learn how to live in co-creative partnership with Nature. Plants can show us how to do this, and more importantly, they want to help us do this.
There are many wonderful modalities and systems that are designed to help humans live in a way that is less damaging and ideally healing to the Earth, such as: Regenerative Agriculture, Biodynamics and Permaculture. These are great and offer solutions to many of our problems. However, if we are not communicating with Nature as we go forward with our efforts, then we are continuing to engage in a human dominant culture, and we are missing one of our greatest assets. What I have learned from communicating with Plants is that when we work in alignment with Nature, the work becomes easier and is more successful.
Join us and Jen Frey of Brigid’s Way for this 2-1/2 day highly interactive workshop. We’ll interact with plants, learn various ways of communicating with them (including hearing them sing through the Music of the Plants instrument), and discover your personal plant ally.
Magnetizing Potential: Looking Beyond “Solutions”
May 11, 2021
Virtual Session
Second Annual The Regenerative Practitioner Series – Pittsburgh 2020
July 9, 2020 to October 22, 2020 (various dates)
Videoconference Sessions and Virtual Intensive
The Green Building Alliance, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens and Jendoco Construction, in collaboration with the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice, invite you to join us for the next chapter of Pittsburgh’s The Regenerative Practitioner series. Consisting of ten videoconference and one virtual intensive classroom session, this series offers experienced practitioners an opportunity to transform the way we think and work in order to transform ourselves and our communities. Last year’s series was a huge success in the influence it has had on businesses in the area, and cohorts that were formed during the series continue to work together.
Join us.
The Regenerative Practitioner Series – Philadelphia 2020
June 16, 2020 to September 22, 2020 (various dates)
Videoconference Sessions and CityCoHo | Philly’s Nexus Intensive
Green Building United, The Sustainability Nexus and 7group, in collaboration with faculty from the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice, warmly invite you to join us for Philadelphia’s very first The Regenerative Practitioner series. Consisting of ten videoconference and one 3-day intensive classroom sessions, this series offers experienced practitioners an opportunity to transform the way we think and work in order to transform ourselves and our communities.
Join us.
RegenR8 Susquehanna Valley
September 16, 2020 from 4pm to 6pm
Story of Place Virtual Workshop
Collaborate with us to achieve the transformation you seek in our region. We are a collective of Pennsylvania based volunteers that recognize the need to transform our region and how we relate to living systems, to achieve a more vibrant community using regenerative practices. Our initial focus will be Harrisburg and the Capital Area. We understand that the City’s vitality and viability are directly linked to the Greater Susquehanna Valley Region, and we want to collectively explore this potential with the people most effected by how the City works, all the stakeholders who live, work and play in Harrisburg every day.
Our first step will be to engage in a process called Story of Place®, to help us better understand Harrisburg’s unique natural and social patterns and relationships that shaped our community. Joel Glanzberg of Regenesis Group will facilitate this workshop to kickoff that process. Learn more and join us and find out how you can get involved.
The Regenerative Practitioner Series – Pittsburgh 2019
July 11, 2019 to October 17, 2019 (various dates)
Videoconference Sessions and Phipps CSL Classroom Intensive
The Green Building Alliance, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens and 7group, in collaboration with the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice, warmly invite you to join us for Pittsburgh’s very first The Regenerative Practitioner series. Consisting of ten videoconference and one 3-day intensive classroom sessions, this series offers experienced practitioners an opportunity to transform the way we think and work in order to transform ourselves and our communities.
Join us.
Becoming Regenerative: Evolving American Business Practices
July 25, 2019
Energypath 2019, DeSales University
7group partner John Boecker will be the keynote speaker at Energypath 2019: Financing the Energy Future presented by the Sustainable Energy Fund. His presentation will focus on the benefits of a regenerative business model and how it can shape the future of American business practices.
Learn more.
Regenerative Is What You Become
June 5, 2019
GreenCon 2019, Penn State Harrisburg
7group partners John Boecker and Marcus Sheffer will facilitate this discussion engaging participants in the active practice of the application of regenerative design principles to themselves and their work in the world. Along the way, they will share the story of their own personal and professional development, and provide insights into how you can become regenerative.
Learn more.
Climate Change & Consciousness
April 20, 2019 to April 26, 2019
Findhorn New Story Community
7group is sponsoring this unique conference about living and thriving in the aftermath of climate change. It will feature some of the clearest and most passionate voices for the Earth ever gathered together in one place.
Learn more.
Learning the Language of Life: A Regenerative Workshop
October 12, 2018 to October 15, 2018
Claycomb Chalets
“Most of our problems are caused by thinking differently than Nature works.” -Gregory Bateson
Patterns are the language of Life, our original mother tongue. By triangulating the perspectives of traditional tracking (pattern reading), living systems thinking (pattern thinking) and regenerative design (pattern design), we can relearn to see with Nature’s Mind and act as essential members of this living world with essential roles. She is dying for us to play.
Join the conversation.
Developing Regenerative Thinking at Spillian
April 30, 2018 to May 2, 2018
Spillian
As Spillian continues a master planning effort aimed at guiding its future evolution, all those interested in learning how to engage regenerative design and development are invited to participate in an extraordinary workshop series facilitated by 7group’s John Boecker and Regenesis colleague Joel Glanzberg at a superb historic Catskills center for creativity and possibility. Join us as we leap into the power of place-sourced imagining.
Share in the discussion.
Seeing with Nature’s Mind: Problem Evolving for a Living World
April 27, 2018 to April 30, 2018
Spillian
“Most of our problems are caused by thinking differently than Nature works.” -Gregory Bateson
Patterns are the language of Life, our original mother tongue. By triangulating the perspectives of traditional tracking (pattern reading), living systems thinking (pattern thinking) and regenerative design (pattern design), we can relearn to see with Nature’s Mind and act as essential members of this living world with essential roles. She is dying for us to play.
Join the conversation.
Our Story: HumanNature, A Retreat with David Abram & Friends
October 1, 2017 to October 4, 2017
Spillian
Having helped builders, designers, architects and owners for more than 21 years understand green building, having worked with USGBC to create the LEED green building rating system, and having deeper engagements with regenerative practice for the past 8 years, we are now imagining the next step in the trajectory of thinking beyond sustainable practice . . . a whole new way to explore how humans, their built environment and the natural world develop a coevolutionary way of nurturing life. It begins with an understanding of how living systems function through direct observation and experience, and deepens as we learn to see and feel from the perspective of ourselves as fellow animate beings. Click here for the details.