CONVENING
Listening
Our work at Regenerating Paradise is to listen, really listen, and to help people listen to each other. We bring people together who are working on different initiatives to talk with each other, share ideas and cross-pollinate them. Sometimes people will discover new synergies and collaborations. Other times they’ll go away more clear about their work — and knowing how much they are part of a larger whole.
Celebration
We also come together in a celebratory way, talking story, listening to great music and sharing wonderful food. When people know what’s actually happening, when they understand the ways in which their neighbors are stepping forward to regenerate paradise, they get inspired and informed. It is regeneration in action. Maybe they’ll join an existing project, or maybe they will start something new. The regenerative spirit grows.
ONGOING CONVENINGS
2nd and 4th Saturday
2PM Pacific
ONLINE
Cultivating Resource and Relationship. A bi-weekly Zoom conversation connecting fire-ecology regions in the USA and Australia, across the Pacific, and around the world.
Early November
Paradise, CA
Commemorating the fire that changed our community and celebrating resilience. Gathering to determine our next steps.
ONLINE
Weekly online gathering to create a community forum for visions, ideas, and artful expressions to be cultivated toward the regeneration of Paradise and other disaster-affected communities.
Hack-a-thon
for Camp Fire Recovery
December 2018
Chico, CA
Experienced in disaster relief, folks from Field Innovation Team and Burners Without Borders offered their support to determine first steps
Cultivating
Our Community
March 2019
Chico, CA
Locals from the Ridge gathered with folks from a wider community who shared their experiences and expertise in disaster recovery to weave a pathway forward.
Regenerative
Responders
September 2019
Paradise, CA
So much is happening in Paradise. Rather than become silos, our hope was to bring groups and individuals together to share their work and collaborate.
November 2020
Online
Two years after the fire, members of the Ridge and post-disaster community gathered online for a 2-day convening to share their needs and aspirations.
Realignment
Gathering
February 2019
Paradise, CA
Born from the desire to create a cohesive community movement, this was an open invitation to share ideas and actionable tasks.
Regional
Wisdom Share
June 2019
Paradise, CA
Fire survivors from Paradise and Lake County gathered with folks involved in post-disaster community work to find areas of alignment and collaboration.
October 2019
Paradise, CA
Celebrating our resiliency, we gathered in Paradise to share music, food, art and conversation.
Post-Disaster Ecology: John D. Liu
February 2019
Paradise, CA
Filmmaker and ecologist John D. Liu offered stories of resiliency and shared his insights into the possibilities for large scale ecosystem restoration post-disaster.
Lake County Fire Learning Journey
July 2018
Lake County, CA
At the invitation from our friends who are rebuilding after the 2015 fire in Lake County, we toured their town and sat in discussion with their community.
Strategic Planning:
Camp Fire Restoration Project
January 2020
Paradise, CA
R.P. facilitated an intensive two-day strategic planning session for the Camp Fire Restoration Project board and staff as they position for the long-term ecological restoration of the Camp Fire burn scar.