Weaving Ways | Cultivating Bioregional Resilience

Cultivating Bioregional Resilience Through Connection

Weaving relationships between self, nature, and others to create integrated solutions for a regenerative Cascadia.

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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
— John Donne
Our Mission

Tending the Social Soils of Cascadia

Weaving Ways cultivates ecosystems of bioregional resilience and regeneration by tending the social soils – the relationships within and between social sector leaders – and by building the collective capacity for integrated innovations, funding opportunities, and coherent collective action in service of future generations.

Our work is deeply rooted in nature-centered practices that help leaders reconnect with themselves, the natural world, and each other. Through this reconnection, we foster developmental networks of social sector leaders within subregional life sheds and cross-pollinate learning across the Cascadia bioregion.

Our Approach
"The world is not a collection of objects, it is a communion of subjects."
— Thomas Berry
Our Methodology

Four Pillars of Transformation

Our approach synthesizes four complementary methodologies that foster both inner transformation and outer innovation – the essential ingredients for lasting systems change.

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Awareness-Based Systems Change

Drawing from the Presencing Institute's "U Process," we move from downloading past patterns to sensing emerging futures, connecting to the deepest source from which future possibilities emerge.

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Soulcrafting & Wilderness Rites

Incorporating practices from Animas Valley Institute that facilitate encounters with the natural world as mirrors for personal transformation, helping leaders access their deeper purpose and authentic gifts.

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Co-Active Coaching & Leadership

Employing the Co-Active approach that holds people as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, focusing on transformation through powerful questions, intuition, and designing environments for growth.

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Accelerated Solutions Environment

Utilizing Capgemini's collaborative frameworks that bring diverse stakeholders together to rapidly solve complex problems through structured experiences, visualization, and generative dialogue.

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
— Henry David Thoreau
Our Work

Core Program Offerings

Seasonal Life Shed Convenings

Quarterly in-person gatherings within each life shed featuring deep nature connection experiences that reconnect leaders with self, nature, and others. We cultivate the social soil through practices like becoming aware, listening, dialogue, Presencing, co-imagination, and co-creation.

Annual Cross-Pollination Events

All-expense paid gatherings where leaders from across the bioregion engage in nature-centric collaborative experiences, deepening relationships across geographic boundaries while fostering innovation and regional resilience.

Collaborative Platform

A co-created software platform that provides funders shared visibility into organizations and collective program performance, with streamlined reporting and renewal processes, all AI-assisted for efficiency and insights.

Fractional Shared Services

Supporting participant organizations with fractional shared services in finance, HR, project management, AI enablement, marketing, communications, fundraising, leadership development, and more.

"We are all intertwined, our stories, like branches in a forest, crossing and joining in ways we cannot see from the ground."
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
Our Impact

Cultivating Resilience Across Cascadia

Our impact is measured through integrated projects, co-funded initiatives, and improvements in regional resilience, all aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

18
Life Shed Nodes
8
Social Sectors
10+
Year Vision
100+
Regional Leaders
Our Network

Key Partners

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
— John Muir
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Contact Us

We welcome inquiries from social sector leaders, potential funders, and others interested in bioregional resilience and regeneration.

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    Bellingham, WA

    Cascadia Bioregion

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    connect@weavingways.org

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    (360) 555-0123