Drawing on Data
Is there a climate change map, chart or diagram that has surprised or overwhelmed you?
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Why GeoPoetry? Why now?
When the data failed, the geologists turned to poetry. Poetry is all encompassing, and we need new compasses to navigate ways out of the human-centric World conspiring around us.
Bioregional Council of All Beings
How might we come into closer relationship with other beings?
Join us at our Summer Gathering
What if we gathered beneath a tree and listened to the stories of this place together? Join us for an evening celebrating some of our local trees and our relationships with them. There will be poetry, storytelling, conversation, and the sharing of creative contributions from members of the Bioregional Learning
Folklore, Fairytales, Myths and Magic
An invitation to re-root local mythologies of Dudley over 3 gatherings.
Being Here
An exhibition, introductory artist talk and live experience | Friday 15 - Sunday 17 May 2026 | Stourbridge
Stories of Place
Monthly gatherings of co-creators | March - November 2026 | Locations across Dudley Borough.
Council of All Beings zine
This zine was created to document the first Council of All Beings held in Dudley Borough, at Hawbush Community Gardens in summer 2025.
Bringing Gathering Press to CoLab Dudley
An introduction to a residency with a mobile printing press at CoLab Dudley, by artist Laura Onions.
‘Relational Beings’ counter mapping: collective notes and reflections
Photos and notes from a gathering of the Bioregional Learning Network as we experimented with Understory digital mapping alongside Relational Beings practice as a new layer of our counter-mapping practice.
Counter-mapping — a radically relational practice in place
How might counter-mapping alter how we inhabit and navigate the world? Photos, resources and reflections from counter-mapping learning huddles and Unschool counter-mapping.
unschool qualities — noticings sparked by counter-mapping our journey in regenerative learning…
Paying attention to processes and practices of unschooling. Partner noticings from two years of rehearsal as Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Values led developmental evaluation
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on values led developmental evaluation - a practice that supports diversifying evidence and value in our collective learning.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
detectorism: a co-evolving story
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on “detectorism” as the foundation to our collective learning and why we learn like this.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Collective learning is a liberatory practice that ripples through the cultural waters we swim in
The story of deep shifts invited through our collective learning that cultivate conditions for redistribution of power, rehearsing regenerative relationships with place, and expanding our circles of accountability.
Author: Holly Doron
Flourishing Edges Unconference
Creative documentation and stories from a co-created gathering rehearsing learning processes that bring us closer to flourishing futures, which took place in Dudley Borough over 3 days in April 2025.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
What IF … we shared our learning in a radically transparent and generous way?
Makespace and CoLab Dudley rehearse commoning our knowledges
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to do all of this together on a journey from ‘me’ to ‘we’?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around collaboration. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to care across time?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around caring for the future. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to change our understanding of the world, and how we learn and do?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around how we understand the world, and how we learn and act. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to act towards just change (… or existence)?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around action for just futures. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to connect as part of Nature and place?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around nature connection and connection with place. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
Stories of Place 2024–2025 Composting #3 | Co-creators as Earthworms
Learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators at the end of 2024.
Author: Holly Doron
Stories of Place 2024 Composting #2 | Principles as a compost bed
Holly is researching how we might invite regenerative cultures. A year ago Holly shared regenerative principles emerging from their research. Here they share why and how these principles emerged and are still evolving.