Workshops at Envision Festival 2023

For those attending Envision Festival 2023, please check out the following workshops being facilitated by Ryan Rising. Schedule below. 

Ecological Design for Collective Liberation
Wednesday, March 1st - 11:00am-12:00pm at The Village Stage

Learn an ecological design process and its principles that uniquely guide a holistic approach to reorganizing the social, environmental, and economic relationships that shape our lives. Unlock autonomy and cooperation through a set of mutually beneficial relationships between soil, water, landscape and climate, fungi, plants, animals, insects, and all other nonhuman life. Regenerative inhabitation of ecosystems to meet needs of food, medicine, and shelter.

Tools for Community Self Governance: Facilitation
Thursday, March 2nd - 3:15pm - 4:45pm at The Earth Temple

Learn practical skills and processes for decision making, collective governance, mediation and conflict resolution, accountability, and restorative justice. This short facilitation training will equip you with the skills needed for engaging autonomous community projects and navigating eco-social transition by building shared power and improving collaborative group dynamics in your projects, organizations, and communities. All experience levels are welcome.

Eco Social Action: Another World is Possible
Friday March 3rd - 10:45am-11:45am at The Village Stage

Learn how people are organizing themselves to reclaim and reinhabit space for regenerative place-based projects. Explore effective action strategies and tactics through stories of autonomous community projects and direct actions past and present. Apply principles and best practices from twenty years of organizing experience in land based social transformation to your projects of mutual aid, regenerative production of essential needs, and zones of autonomy.