Seeding Collaborative Learning across our Watersheds
Date: October 12, 2026
Location: De Eemlandhoeve, Bisschopsweg 7, Bunschoten-Spakenburg
Dear Changemakers, Landscape Cultivators and Delta Stewards,
The regeneration of our landscapes cannot be designed from behind a desk. It is born on the ground, felt through the soil, and woven together through the unique communities living along our rivers and in our valleys.
On Monday, October 12th, 2026, we invite you to step into the living landscape of the North Sea Delta for a profound one-day immersion. Together with global bioregional leaders Joe Brewer and Penny Heiple, we will gather at the Eemlandhoeve to bridge local ground-up action with global and bioregional systemic wisdom.
Joe Brewer and Penny Heiple
Founders Design School for Regenerating Earth
Design School for Regenerating Earth
Joe and Penny are the founders of the Design School for Regenerating Earth, a global community working on bioregional regeneration in their own watersheds. We have the honour of welcoming Joe and Penny during their European bioregional activation tour across the Mediterranean, the South of France, and the rivers of the North Sea Bioregion.
This day is not a standard conference. It is a living laboratory. We will ground our senses in the physical landscape, enjoy the talk of Joe Brewer on bioregional regeneration and the Dandelion activation strategy and dive into practical, peer-led workshops to equip you with the tools, logic, and funding strategies needed to weave regeneration into your own watershed.
Earth regenerates itself in watersheds.
Joe Brewer
Takeaway
Your takaway for this special day is to go back to your own communities and work in education, government or NGO’s, inspired and empowered to weave, regenerate and learn bioregionally, in deep and lasting connection with one another across the entire Delta.
Reimagining the Map:
The Rivers of the North Sea Bioregion
If you’ve ever wondered why our focus is on rivers rather than national borders, this image holds the answer. Rivers are the circulatory system of the Earth. They are our lifelines, giving us our drinking water, carrying our trade and sustaining our agriculture.
True bioregional regeneration means shifting our minds from political maps to ecological realities. Joe Brewer reminds us that to heal the planet, we must learn to organize human communities around our shared watersheds. We are not separated by the water; we are bound together by it. Welcome to the living landscape of the North Sea Delta.
What to Expect
Morning: Grounding & Vision
Start: 9.30 (welcome from 9.00)
We begin by stepping into the landscape together. Through an Immersive Landscape Station Walk, we will quiet our minds and attune our senses to the ecology and the deep time of the Eemvalley. We will build a collective altar of our shared commitment, listen to the voices of the next generation of stewards.
The keynote will, of course, be delivered by Joe Brewer on bioregional regeneration and the Dandelion Strategy. Following his talk, you will have the opportunity to engage in a conversation with Joe. Afterward, the Bioregional Weaving Labs and the Bioregional Learning Center of the North Sea Delta will showcase their work, sharing how they are driving bioregional regeneration in our part of the world.
Afternoon: Deep-Dive Workshop Tracks
Closing: 18.30 (including community drinks)
The afternoon is dedicated to capacity building and practical weaving. You will have the opportunity to join specialized parallel tracks, running across two rounds:
- The Bioregional Weaver Inner Work Immersive with Penny Heiple and Joe Brewer.
- Collaborative Funding & Resilience: Navigating place-based financing
- Youth-Led Regeneration: Fresh, generational perspectives on landscape activation.
- Activation: Practical, ground-up steps to kickstart your local watershed
The Journey of the Transformative Fool: Navigating leadership for regional cultivators.
We close the day with an open plenary Q&A to harvest our insights, followed by community drinks.
An impression of the location Eemlandhoeve: the vegetable garden, the restaurant, the chapel and one of the tiny houses to stay overnight.
Join the Movement
Are you ready to help birth the future of the North Sea Delta?
Buy your ticket below.
Ticket Bioregional Activation Day North Sea Delta (org)
€150,00
Ticket Bioregional Activation Day North Sea Delta (Freelancers)
€ 75,00
Stay at the Eemlandhoeve before or after this event? (or both)
Stay in a tiny house, bring your camper or tent and book your spot via the website of the Eemlandhoeve.
This event is co-organised by:
Meet the Weavers & Stewards
This day is held and guided by a collective of regional cultivators, changemakers and catalysts.
Joe Brewer
Founder Design School for Regenerating Earth
Penny Heiple
Founder Design School for Regenerating Earth
Annelieke Verkerk
Systemic Transition Coach, Ecosystem Constellator, stewarding the ‘Rivers of the North Sea Bioregion’.
Karin Müller
Co-founder Bioregional Weaving Labs
Noa Lodeizen
Co-founder Bioregional Weaving Labs
Sandra Barth-Oosting
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Albert-Jan Abma
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Anouk Bolsenbroek
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Lex Hupe
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Floris Koot
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Mieke Elzenga
Co-steward Bioregional Learning Center North Sea Delta (alias Proeftuin voor Transitieversnelling)
Anne-Marie Benschop
Founder Green Heart Community (Groene Hart)
Evelyn Kessels
Founder Green Heart Community (Groene Hart)
Connie van der Post
Green Heart Community (Groene Hart)
