Balkar.Earth

Va ser un privilegi viatjar amb en Rob Hopkins a través del temps i l'espai cap a un futur que ens impregnava d'esperança. Durant el taller a la Garrotxa, amb més de 50 aprenents i practicants de la regeneració ecosocial dels ecosistemes Resilience Earth i Balkar.Earth, vam poder pol·lenitzar la resiliència amb el joc i la reconciliació amb la creativitat. Ara continuarem amb la nostra feina a favor d'un present i un futur just i equitable per a tots els éssers vius i el planeta en sí, però ho farem amb una esperança renovada. Gràcies Rob per un taller que ens va nodrir tant!

It was a privilege to travel with Rob Hopkins through time and space to a future that imbued us with hope. During the workshop "How to fall in love with the future" in La Garrotxa, with over 50 ecosocial regeneration learners and practitioners from the Resilience Earth and Balkar.Earth ecosystems, we cross-pollinated resilience with fearless silliness, and reconciliation with playful seriousness. We will now continue our work to midwife a just and flourishing future for all life, but we will do so with renewed buoyancy. Thank you Rob for such a nourishing workshop!

Did you know that we, as a society, are a superorganism? 🐝🐜 Self-organizing and collaborative superorganisms found in so many examples in nature know how to solve today’s biggest challenges through collective intelligence, what about us? 👉🏽 The Balkar.Earth Institute presents a specialization course in Social Biomimicry, a unique online training where leading experts in the field will explain how natural processes can be applied at a social and community level. An experience that will radically change your vision of organizational management, network creation, and collective action. 🎓 An experience designed by Oscar Gussinyer from the Resilience Earth team, with Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker Melina Angel Leen Gorissen Toby Herzlich Gina LaMotte and Paco Calvo as faculties. 🙌🏽 WHERE and WHEN? Online, Thursdays from 5 to 7 PM, from February to June with break weeks between modules. 🌀 WHAT DO WE OFFER? 4 modules of 6 hours each, online and live with the trainers, with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish. 1 e-learning platform to consult all the content. 1 virtual Agora to share resources and conversations with participants. A Balkar Earth Certificate in Social Biomimicry. Personalized support from the Balkar team at all times. 👌🏽 WHAT INVESTMENT WILL I NEED TO MAKE? 30 hours of classes 30 hours of integration work at home, no group tasks (approx.) €1000 if you enroll before January 13, 2025. Registration open at https://lnkd.in/evwBp7Fm More information at info@balkar.earth

Thank you for listing us, Tijn Tjoelker ! This is an amazing list of resources and partners in the field of bioregional and regenerative design and development! 🕸️ With plenty more to come in 2025... Happy Holidays Everyone.❤️

Hello folks! The Balkar.Earth Institute is launching a new course in 2025 on... Social Biomimicry! For those of you passionate about ecosocial change and intrigued about how to apply the knowledge and skills of other superorganisms and members of biosphere to your personal and professional inititiaves, please check out: https://lnkd.in/dpmr9Cbc We have a stellar team of trainers, from Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker (bestselling author of Teeming), to Leen Gorissen (author of Natural Intelligence), to Melina Angel, Toby Herzlich, Gina LaMotte and Paco Calvo, leading trainers in the field. The discount course fee is available until the 13th of January 2025, with the full price being implemented after this date. Scholarships are available. The course is certified by the Balkar Institute, a registered educational centre in Catalonia, and will be available in both English and Spanish with simultaneous translation. #biomimicry #biomimesis #socialinnovation #socialchange

5/5 Introducing the teachers of our specialization course in Social Biomimicry: Leen Gorissen Leen Gorissen specializes in ecology, transition science, regenerative design and bio-inspired innovation. She is the author of the recent book ‘Building the Future of Innovation on Millions of Years of Natural Intelligence’ and the founder of Centre4NI: a catalyst that helps organizations and businesses to innovate like nature. 🌱 In her module, she will delve into the science of complex living systems, what this means for us humans, and how we can have regenerative roles in these systems.🕸️ SESSION 1. Introduction to the Science of Living Systems. A first introduction to complex living systems and how complexity thinking is a necessary capability for the future.  SESSION 2. From Living Systems Understanding to Living Systems Design. Introduction to regenerative development.  SESSION 3. Understanding living systems from Western and Indigenous Perspectives. Towards a new integration of different knowledge systems. #biomimicry #socialinnovation

4/5: Introducing the teachers of our specialization course in Social Biomimicry:  Toby Herzlich and Gina LaMotte from Biomimicry for Social Innovation Toby is known as a cross-pollinator among leaders working on social equity, regenerative, systems change, and climate solutions. With more than 30 years of facilitation experience, she is an internationally recognized trainer, organizational consultant, and coach. She is the Founder of Biomimicry for Social Innovation and the faculty of Living Systems Leadership, a Senior Trainer with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, and a certified Biomimicry Specialist.🌱 Gina LaMotte is a social entrepreneur, systems-thinker and creative with over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of education, social innovation and sustainability. She is founder of EcoRise, a nonprofit supporting thousands of primary schools with programs advancing climate action, youth leadership, sustainability and environmental justice. 🌱 In their module, they will focus on nature’s strategies for social change: SESSION 1. Introduction to Biomimicry for Social Change. Introducing the foundational principles and frameworks of biomimicry, and how we can apply them towards our cultural transformation. SESSION 2. Building Partnerships and Networks Inspired by Nature. Exploring nature’s models for building enduring partnerships, network-building, and collective action. SESSION 3. Resilience Strategies and Planning for a Nature-Positive.  Focusing on how to build adaptive, regenerative solutions that can thrive in the face of complexity and uncertainty. 🔔INSCRIPTIONS OPEN: https://lnkd.in/evwBp7Fm #biomimicry #socialinnovation

And so farewell to Olot in Catalunya, our home for the past 3 days, a town about the size of Totnes, surrounded by dormant volcanoes and with a rich radical past, hosted by the fabulous Balkar.Earth team. Yesterday we had a walk to the top of the hill with the views across Olot, just beautiful, and then went to the Town Hall where I had the great honour of meeting the Mayor and being asked to sign the town book, reserved for guests of honour to the town. Not something that happens every day! We then had an event in the evening, introduced by the Mayor of Olot, hosted by the wonderful Erika Zárate and also featuring the incredible architect and activist Itziar Gonzales, 150 people in the audience, great energy and enthusiasm. The following day I led a 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' workshop with 48 beautiful, eager, playful participants, and we had so much fun. Really delightful. Thanks to everyone who came. Most of the course participants then ate together, a delicious lunch. And now we are en route to Paris, and then to London. Almost home after 2 and a half months away...

(ENT/CAT>) (ENT) Lessons from the future! We have been to the future. And we won.✨🔮 Last Thursday, Rob Hopkins took us on a sensational journey to 2030. Through exploring various sensations; the smells, the sounds, and the looks of the future, we learned to unleash the radical imagination that we need to build our social and ecological just futures. What happens if we start asking what if....? What if, our streets were car-free, green, and had kids playing in the streets? What if, we invented new purposes for previous polluting factories? What if, we created new community associations for housing, working, and living?🍀 What if.....? Thank you, Rob Hopkins for this mind-shifting experience. How do you imagine the future? (CAT) Lliçons del futur! Hem estat al futur. I hem guanyat.✨🔮 Dijous passat, Rob Hopkins ens va portar a un viatge sensacional fins al 2030. A través de l'exploració de diverses sensacions; les olors, els sons i les mirades del futur, vam aprendre a alliberar la imaginació radical que necessitem per construir el nostre futur social i ecològic just. Què passa si ens comencem a preguntar què passaria si...? Què passaria si als nostres carrers no hi haguéssin cotxes, fossin verds i tinguessin criatures jugant al carrer? Què passaria si inventéssim nous propòsits per a fàbriques que ara son contaminants? Què passaria si creéssim noves associacions comunitàries per a l'habitatge, el treball i la vivenda?🍀 Què passaria si...? Gràcies, Rob Hopkins per aquesta experiència transformadora. Com us imagineu el futur? #radicalimagination #futurepersectives

3/ Introducing the teachers of our specialization course in Social Biomimicry: Melina Angel ✨ Melina Angel is a biosphere translator for regeneration. Melina started her professional path in theoretical and evolutionary biology, applying a systemic and cognitive view of living systems to social systems as communities and economy. She is a Biomimicry Professional, teaches Biomimicry for social systems at UCI, and consults worldwide on Regeneration and BioSystemics. In her module, Reconnection with Nature, a Journey to the Inside, she will invite you to reconnect with nature from the inside. To enter the process of remembering that we are natural beings, and to explore how it feels to be part of the natural society. We are nature. How do we revive this? How can we use this collaboration for collective social processes?🌱🌐 SESSION 1: The Internalist vision of nature raised.  Introducing the main topics to facilitate social processes based on biomimicry from within. SESSION 2: Social Systems. How are the vision and keys of the biological world applied in social systems? SESSION 3: Biomimetic bioregional regeneration. Integrating the biosystemic processes and principles into social systems. More information and inscriptions to the course: https://lnkd.in/evwBp7Fm #biomimicry #socialinnovation