Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective

Looking for a Dutch speaking intern! ✌️— Scaling Officer voor Boer en Burger innovaties, in samenwerking met Ashoka Netherlands, Herenboeren Nederland en Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective 👩🌾🤝🕸️ Wil jij werkervaring opdoen op het gebied van regeneratieve landbouw, systeemverandering en sociale innovatie? 🪄 Ashoka Netherlands is op zoek naar een Stagiair Schalen Systemische Innovaties op het gebied van Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), voor Herenboeren Nederland en Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective. Als jij proactief, analytisch, leergierig en goed bent in samenwerken, dan is dit iets voor jou! 🫵 Meer details staan in de PDF ℹ️ Sharing is caring 💌 #stageplek #communitysupportedagriculture #CSA #regeneration #herenboeren #bioregions

Unique internship position — Join Ashoka Netherlands, Herenboeren Nederland and the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective as a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Action Researcher 🧑🌾🥕🧪 Do you want to enter the field of regeneration, systems change and work with Europe’s leading social innovators? 🪄 Ashoka Netherlands is currently looking for an Intern for Action Research on Community Supported Agriculture, in collaboration with Herenboeren Nederland and the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective. If you are proactive, a good researcher, writer & communicator, a team player and eager to learn, this is for you! 🫵 More details can be found in the PDF ℹ️ Please tag potential candidates in the comments below 👇 #internship #communitysupportedagriculture #CSA #regeneration #bioregions

The Bioregional Weaving Labs backbone team is growing 💗💗💗 We warmly welcome… • Celina Whitehead, an Industrial Designer & Design Researcher who will help with Storytelling, Communications and Research on Systemic Innovations ✍️ • Dené Theron, a Designer & Animator who will help with Visual Storytelling, Communication Design and Animation 🎨 • Kristiana Stoyanova, a Network Weaver & Facilitator who will help co-create a Community of Practice on Regenerative Education 🎓 Looking forward to co-creating some bioregional magic 🪄 #BioregionalWeavingLabs #BWL #NatureBasedSolutions #regeneration #weaving --- PS. Learn more about how we are mobilising 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea in our newsletter https://lnkd.in/dSnJ7nw3🌍

🚀 Exciting News! The first interview of the "Conversations that Matter" project has just been released! Our inaugural conversation features Karin Müller, Co-director of Ashoka Netherlands and Co-founder of the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective. We delved into her insights on social innovation, systems thinking, and the regenerative economy, all intertwined with the power of art. ✨ Check out the article to discover Karin's inspiring journey and learn how organisations can drive meaningful change in today’s complex world. #ConversationsThatMatter #SocialInnovation #RegenerativeEconomy #ArtAndChange #Ashoka #Strategy #Sustainability

The movement to protect, restore and regenerate land and sea is growing 🌟 Here's a beautiful map of Dutch nature-inclusive farming initiatives 🌱 Regeneration doesn't happen in isolation, but through weaving relationships between land and people. Special gratitude to Petra Smolders 🌿 for making these regenerative threads visible 👏 When we can see the system, we can better support its flourishing 🔦 Link to the map is in the comments below 👇 #regenerativeagriculture #bioregions #farming #BWL #regeneration

NEW VACANCY: Landscape Developer Lead 🇳🇱🌅 Are you passionate about transforming landscapes and leading systemic change in the Netherlands? Do you have knowledge of the Dutch food and agricultural system, including the challenges, best practices, and success stories in the shift towards regenerative land use? If so, we’re looking for you! 👀 Key responsibilities include: 👉 Developing and leading strategies for scaling landscape restoration across the Netherlands, driving regenerative land use and system change. 👉 Building strong networks with stakeholders, uniting them around our mission for impactful landscape restoration. 👉 Overseeing project management and learning programmes, helping partners scale their restoration efforts. ⏱️ Deadline: 15 November 2024 🔗 Apply and read all the details via: https://lnkd.in/esRzTprg #Vacancy #GreenJob #LandscapeRestoration #ImpactJobs #JoinOurTeam #GenerationRestoration #RegenerativeAgriculture

We love this transition map for investors and funders who want to be part of the shift to regenerative agriculture in the American Midwest made by TransCap Initiative and Meridian Institute 👏 In our bioregional work in Europe we recognize similar systemic challenges 🌍 • Farmers’ Trap (high land prices and low profitability) • Dominance of conventional agriculture in education and training • Cultural barriers to the transition • Risky Transition • Supply Chain Lock-in • Lack of market for regenerative products • Convenience-led consumption habits • Government policies reinforcing status quo Let's work on the following Leverage Points together 🤝 1. Increasing Access to Land for Regenerative Farmers 2. Building Farmers’ Capacity for Regenerative Agriculture 3. Create a Cultural Context in Which Regenerative Agriculture Can Thrive 4. Improving the Economics of Regenerative Agriculture 5. Developing Supply Chain Infrastructure for Regenerative Agriculture 6. Creating a Market for Regenerative Products 7. Building Consumer Demand for Regenerative Agriculture Great work by Ivana Gazibara and Andre Ticoulat 🙏 Link to the full article and interactive Kumu map is in the comments below 👇 #transition #systemsmap #mapping #systemschange #regenerativeagriculture

  🌱 This week, I’m excited to join the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective (BWL) and contribute to their important mission while deepening my own growth as a "Weaver." BWL is a coalition of system-changing social innovators who are building bridges to address the urgent climate and biodiversity crises. ⭕ In my new role, I'll be supporting the co-creation of a community of practice focused on regenerative, holistic education. It’s an opportunity to put into practice everything I’ve learned over the past few years about #systems change and scaling nature-based #solutions. While this may sound abstract, to me, it feels like coming home—like stepping more fully into who I already am and making the invisible visible. 🕸To better illustrate what it means to be a "Weaver" at BWL and the kind of work we do, I turned to a metaphor deeply rooted in nature and our collective past. For thousands of years, Indigenous tribes have relied on three plants—corn, beans, and squash—also known as the “Three Sisters.” This traditional plant pairing forms a thriving ecosystem, with each plant supporting the growth of the others. It’s a form of companion planting, where the plants work symbiotically to create a stronger whole. Beans fix nitrogen in the soil, nourishing the corn, while the large squash leaves provide shade and prevent weeds. 🌽 But the story of the Three Sisters goes beyond ecological relationships—it’s also deeply spiritual. To the Iroquois, corn, beans, and squash are considered "sustainers of life," and each plant is believed to be protected by a spirit. The Three Sisters were meant to grow together, to be eaten together, and to be celebrated together. Their relationship symbolizes balance, reciprocity, and interconnectedness. In the first comments you will find a lesson plan outlined based on this legend. ➿ This metaphor beautifully mirrors the work we’re doing at the Bioregional Weaving Lab. We are cultivating connections, relationships, and systems that, when woven together, create a thriving, regenerative ecosystem. As a "Weaver," my role is to nurture these connections, ensuring that the different parts of the system support and enrich one another, just like the Three Sisters. I was introduced to the story of the Three Sisters through Braiding Sweetgrass* by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a book that has deeply influenced my journey—thank you to Lena Meisinger for sharing it with me during our Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) journey! 🌍 If you’re curious to learn more about bioregions, examples of nature-based solutions and how we’re weaving this work together, stay tuned! The journey has just begun. 🌿 🙏 Lastly, thank you Karin Müller, Noa Lodeizen, and Tijn Tjoelker, for being waymakers and guardians of this work and opening its doors for me! #regenerative #systemschange #holisticeducation #naturebasedsolutions #cocreation #weaving #communityofpractice #BioregionalWeavingLab #ThreeSisters   Picture: Kimberlyus

"Maps are not neutral, and many maps today are constructed by governments or economic entities to convey their interests and reinforce their worldview. Bioregional mapping is a process which lets us reclaim mapmaking for our own purposes and communities. Bioregional mapping is the process of creating maps that set cultural and geographic information into natural boundaries and borders, rather than anthropocentric lines removed from the context of place. As a rule, if you see straight lines on a map, whether it is dividing a continent (Africa, Australia etc.), a community (US political districts, gerrymandering), or roads (Google Maps) it is not a bioregional map. Bioregional maps use ‘layers’ that together can better represent a place. These can include: • Physical: Geology, tectonics, subduction zones, mountains, peaks, ridges, valleys, rainfall, wind patterns, and how they change over time 🪨 • Biotic: Plants, animals, soils. Growing conditions. How animals and plant nations within an area interrelate, and how they change over time 🌱 • Human: Lessons of living in place, indigenous ways of living and knowledge, culture, economy, politics, agriculture, energy, history, the context and understanding of past and present, and visions for the future that can serve as roadmaps for how we can get to the future 🌀 Bioregional maps are not made from one layer of information, but rather atlases in which layer upon layer has been added, from which shapes and deeper lessons emerge." Great article by Brandon Letsinger from Regenerate Cascadia on Bioregional Mapping 🗺️👏 #bioregioning #bioregional #mapping #gis #regeneration --- PS. Learn more about how we are mobilising 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea in our newsletter https://lnkd.in/dSnJ7nw3 🌍

While working with the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective I was lucky to learn about Commonlands #4Returns framework, describing how landscape restoration brings back natural, social, financial and inspirational value. In these last weeks I’ve occasionally been to Symposion Lindabrunn – a dry grassland area half an hour south of Vienna – where we were working for biodiversity with volunteers and school classes. I believe only few places can do a better job at speaking for themselves, when it comes to the 4Returns: nature flourishes, a multitude of different people come together, art is created and nature gifts us with priceless vital ecosystem services. Let us never lose awareness of how precious the landscapes surrounding us actually are, how they benefit us every day and let’s remain curious about all that is out there! 📸 (c) LPV/E.Weisz-Emesz 4 Returns: https://lnkd.in/dNTFWvXr Restoration at Symposion Lindabrunn: https://lnkd.in/dfZ3MVS8 https://lnkd.in/dAfumg2n