Sponge Valley Project Incubator's Retreat

This daylong retreat is a chance to refine your project ideas amidst a group of people committed to restoring the region's small water cycle to soak up rain and increase resilience to fire, flooding, drought, and heatwaves. This is especially important in the face of what is potentially the most intense El Niño in history.

Didi Pershouse will work with participants in front of the group - in a “fishbowl” setting - using living systems frameworks to guide the work and conversation. We will move back and forth between these whole group sessions, smaller conversations, and writing exercises so that everyone gets a chance to think about and develop their own project, and help others do the same. Gathering regionally in person is foundational for deep coalition building so that we can understand and support each other's projects, and shift toward more collective action.

To learn more and register, please visit The Land and Leadership's website.