This 2-hour workshop provides practical tools and methodologies for building sustainable, regenerative communities through a more-than-human lens. This systemic multispecies perspective recognizes that communities exist within living ecosystems made up of soils, waters, plants, animals, and people.

Heartwood Commons - Tulsa is a lively, cohousing neighborhood of 36 homes for active adults in one of America’s most livable cities. Opened in 2024, the community prioritizes connection, sustainability, acceptance, diversity, wellness, support, and joy in everyday living.

Threshold Village is a residential intentional community in Montpelier, Vermont, striving towards collective and individual liberation. We fiercely celebrate being alive together through radical care & abundance, experimenting & play, reimagining belonging, shared power, stewardship, interdependence with the more than human world, and a festive focus on food.

Big Calm is a premier permaculture-guided cohousing community for tiny homes, in the heart of British Columbia's West Kootenay region (Canada). Our focus is nature-based living and land stewardship, resilient infrastructure, convivial community, and cooperative equity.