ENLIVENING CHANGE

A Social Permaculture Design Course

Hosted by Regenerate Change with Fractal Praxis in Denver, Colorado

February 26th – May 22nd, 2022

Are you yearning to be part of a community of practice that addresses the root ailments of our aching world?

Are you looking for tools to deepen your internal and external skills as a changemaker?

Are you ready to shift your vocation towards greater wholeness?

Join Regenerate Change and Fractal Praxis for Enlivening Change, a four-month immersion in the art of regenerative social design. Through a mix of rich group dialogue, somatic practices, rituals, pattern lessons, guided solo reflection, and an online course portal, you’ll learn how to skillfully shape change in affinity with nature’s principles.

Enlivening Change is rooted in the principles and practices of social permaculture: a design approach that applies an ecological understanding to personal, interpersonal and cultural systems. It employs many of the same philosophies and practices as land-based permaculture, adapted to social contexts. As a participant in the course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of social permaculture with the full group while focusing and reflecting your practice through one of three streams:

STREAM A: SELF AS SYSTEM

In this stream, we’ll delve into our own mind-bodies as natural living systems that profoundly shape and are shaped by the world. We will study mind, myth, being, “spiritual experiences” and brainwashing from a natural systems perspective, and develop a systemic approach to creating a more whole self. You’ll complete this stream with the tools and confidence to effectively intervene in your own unsustainable beliefs and behaviors.

STREAM B: THE SOMATIC EXPERIENCE OF HEALING JUSTICE

We are beyond pretend. This stream is for those who are willing to come out of hiding and move into the rhythm of their medicine work. As we explore healing the body as ecology, we expand our notion of belonging to include healing the body politic. We will use three healing modalities: yoga Nidra, bioregional herbalism and fermentation as a lens and praxis of understanding self, partnership and culture as ecosystem. We’ll fill our shared container with the contours of our own rhythms, and hold space with integrity, lived experience, compassion and play. Will you join us?

STREAM C: COMMUNITY DESIGN

Beneath any number of the crises facing our world is a meta-crisis of separation from our fellow human beings. In an age of quarantine, polarization and Zoom fatigue, what does authentic, transformative community actually feel like? And how can we learn to create it?

As a participant in this stream, you’ll be exploring these questions as you cultivate a practice of nurturing thriving and whole communities of all kinds, from social groups to workplace teams to residents of the same block. We’ll explore an abundance of ancient and modern social technologies that generate trust and cohesion, learn how to “compost” conflict, and hone our own unique superpowers for activating wholeness within community.

LEARN HOW TO...

Identify the conditions for thriving community in any setting, at any scale
Apply a whole-systems design lens towards solving life’s challenges
Identify and embody solutions that mimic the intelligence and resilience of natural systems
Build rich and vulnerable relationships with like-minded peers
Strengthen your skills, toolset and support system as a changemaker.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Five in-person weekends filled with dynamic somatic, social and nature-based practices to engage your spirit and heart

Themed streams to cultivate a richer practice in one chosen area of changemaking

Course-long pods for deeper connection with an intimate group of your peers

An online portal with videos, worksheets and lively student discussions

A beloved community of practice designed to last long after the course ends

YOUR FACILITATORS

Adam Brock (he/him) is co-director of Regenerate Change and a national leader in the emerging field of social permaculture. As a social entrepreneur, facilitator and consultant, he has been applying ecological principles to advance social transformation since 2008. Adam is the author of Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal and Community Transformation, and has been teaching social permaculture courses since 2017.

Asia Dorsey (she/her) uses her gift of pattern recognition to embed organizational cultures with the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. She has centered ecological design in building her own, regenerative worker’s cooperative, and as a current Coop Advocate and Board Member of the Community Wealth Building Network. Asia ensures that the frameworks for world building center joy, creativity and pleasure. She engages communities and organizations in dreaming themselves back home. From this dreaming, she perpetuates the notion that home is in our bodies and facilitates from the framework of Healing Justice to shape organizations that embody liberation. Asia has personally, grounded and centered Black bodies in libratory futures as an instructor and Co-Founder of the Satya Yoga Cooperative for POC and as bioregional herbalist and disciple of Herbal Medicine as People’s Medicine.

Caroline Savery is the visionary founder of Fractal Praxis, a holistic effort to foster self-directed liberation in individuals, groups and communities through allying with the intelligence of living systems. Formerly a professional cooperative business development designer, she has been deeply immersed in pattern languages of cooperation, sustainability, and liberation since 2008. She has been teaching and facilitating social permaculture in Denver since 2017.

WHEN + WHERE

Enlivening Change will be offered at a convenient and inspiring location in central Denver, to be provided after registration. In addition to the ten full days of in-person instruction, your course experience will include regular guided check-ins with your pod and ongoing access to our online course portal with videos, worksheets, further resources and student conversations.

Feb 26-27

Mar 19-20

Apr 2-3

Apr 30-May 1

May 21-22

COVID POLICY

Two years into this ever-changing pandemic, there are many different approaches to dealing with it and varying levels of risk tolerance in our community. Our goal as your hosts and facilitators is to ensure that every participant feels able to participate safely according to their own level of acceptable risk.

With that aim in mind, here are our current COVID guidelines for Enlivening Change; these may be subject to change as local case rates and the virus itself continues to evolve.

Every participant will be required to EITHER provide proof of full vaccination in advance of the first weekend, OR provide negative results on a COVID PCR test the week before each gathering.
Our main classroom will be in a large, well-ventilated space that will allow for participants to socially distance while learning. We also have access to outdoor areas, and will be spending as much time outside as the weather permits.
We’ll be encouraging all participants to wear face masks whenever they’re indoors, and requiring mask wearing if there is a local or state-level mask mandate in place.
Participants will be required to stay home if they present any COVID symptoms within five days before a course weekend.

Please let us know using the form below if you have any additional concerns, questions or requests regarding COVID safety, and we’ll do our best to address them!

INVESTMENT

All our educational offerings at Regenerate Change are run on a sliding-scale model, with three tiers to allow for participation from changemakers of a wide variety of backgrounds. Before you sign up, please review the options below and pick the tier that feels most appropriate for your circumstances.

SCHOLARSHIP RATE

$400 upfront, OR

$100/month for 4 months

A limited number of scholarship seats are reserved at this rate solely for participants who identify as low-income BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). Register here by self-selection – no application necessary.

SUSTAINER RATE

$1200 upfront, OR

$300/month for 4 months

Register at this rate if you do not land in either the Scholarship or Sponsor descriptions. This rate reflects the true cost for Regenerate Change to deliver this course.

SPONSOR RATE

$1800 upfront, OR

$450/month for 4 months

For participants who have access to intergenerational wealth or surplus income, please consider paying the Sponsor rate. This rate directly supports scholarships and other forms of financial accessibility at Regenerate Change.