These resources from people bioregioning in their places offer a tangible feel to the work. Some of these are links, tools and shared by practitioners during Learning Days convened by the Bioregional Learning Centre in Devon in July 2025. They offer real life examples we can learn from in Dudley.
Isabel from Bioregional Learning Centre talks a lot about the need for ‘friends in the work’ as critical to support, exchange, affirmation, and collaboration across different biomes. You can hear her in conversation with some of these friends in the work here telling the stories of their bioregioning journeys.
Bioregional Conversations • Bioregional Learning Centre
Clare Cooper of Bioregioning Tayside welcomes the shift from anthropocentric storytelling through bioregioning. Clare referenced a lovely phrase by Daniel Christian Wahl about the edges of bioregions being places of encounter. And said that “re-inhabitation means developing a bioregional identity, learning to live in place”.
Bioregioning Tayside use StoryMap GIS for £159 PA per user and said it is useful in unpacking the bio-physical qualities of the bioregion:
Growing Bioregioning Through Community Science
Their learning journeys had fantastic questions such as: What Will I Do When The Waters Rise?
What Will Be On My Plate In 2042?
Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: What Will Be On My Plate In 2042? - Bioregioning Tayside
Oscar Gussinyer of La Garroxta Bioregion, Catalonia. Co-founder, Resilience earth. Oscar, like Isabel Carlilise - founder of the Bioregional Learning Centre in Devon, is a Regenesis Institute alumni. During the Bioregional Learning Centre’s first Learning Days he guided an activity using Tetrad regenerative development model. Oscar spoke of the power of identity in bioregions as a way of bringing opposing politics together. “Just spend two days talking about place, we will get to the stuff you are angry about, first place, and before you know it they are friends!”
Tetrad (regenerative development) - MediaWiki
The River Don project in Sheffield is stewarded by fellow travellers of CoLab Dudley working on emerging futures; Opus and Dark Matter Labs
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Working with citizens and communities throughout South Yorkshire. The River Don Project seeks to demonstrate how we can see and sense into the complex ecosystems and relationships that make up the water catchments that we are all a part of. The catchment area is made up of thousands of interwoven and interdependent relationships called a bioregion. We are working to make them visible and understand them better. We think this could inform how communities, institutions and citizens collectively steward, value and shift the choices we make together towards liveable futures.
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