REGENERATION IN PLACE
Cultivating an Ecology for a Place-based Economy
Regeneration in Place
Cultivating an Ecology for a Place-based Economy
Thursday, August 27 - Sunday, August 30, 2026
World’s End Farm | Esperance, NY
Cost: $1000 (sliding scale options available)
INTENTIONWe'll explore Cultivating a Place-based Economy on a 110-acre farm which will include a 3 night-4 day experience, two Warm Data Labs, and a range of facilitated experiences organized by "roots, shoots, fruits, and compost" – a design to reconnect our own economic embodiment with the living systems surrounding us. The cost for full weekend experience is $1000 and you will be fed three meals a day by our excellent kitchen team. If you reserve a bedroom in the communal barn or a rustic cabin we will provide all the bedding and blankets you need.
What is Regeneration in Place? It’s a response to the “Great Work” of our times which is how to be with, design for, and compost dying systems while simultaneously exploring what’s possible in emerging systems of value(s) exchange. How do we break free of individual problem-solving and move to collective possibilities? How might we lean into an interdependent model when we live as individuals with different needs in the system? How might we weave community together without proximity as a core ingredient? If capital flows aren’t possible, what is another practice of economic exchange that enables a flourishing community?
Together with farmers and land stewards we will weave soil, summer, stargazing, chickens, sheep, art, play, sensing, and nourishing farm meals. We will explore regeneration through embodiment, navigating the contrast between extractive and regenerative practices, rather than solely as an abstract concept. We will explore how Worlds End brings raw materials to life as a model for what else is possible in your Place-based economy. Expect to learn and unlearn, go within and without, and laugh at expectations altogether. This late summer gathering on the farm welcomes us in all our messy complexity and whole selves.
CONSIDERATIONS/PREPARATIONS
Here are some inspirations for our TIME together. We invite you to explore, as you wish, prior to our arrival. Note: there is no preparation, knowledge, or skill required for embodied practice!❋ Read:
Bayo Akomolafe and Marta Benavides - The Times are Urgent Let’s Slow Down
Nora Bateson - Aphanipoiesis
John Fullerton - What is Regenerative Economics?
Wes Jackson - Consulting the Genius of the Place
❋ Listen:
Abel Selaocoe - Takamba (music)
Leonard Koren - Wabi-Sabi (audible book)
❋ Explore embodied practice:
Arawana Hayashi - Social Presencing Theater (website)
Who is this for?
For leaders who are actively reimagining leadership styles to separate from patterns of domination and extraction.
For land and community stewards feeling stuck in dissolution of old systems, grappling to find solidarity or communities of practice.
For young people who refuse to contribute to the old structures and struggle to bridge between old and new.
For those with money interested in experimenting with multiple forms of capital flows.
And all the curious ones. We welcome you.
Day 1 ✴︎ Tending Inner and Outer Soil
We will begin with learning more about the land, this place, and each other. Through stories, embodiment, and rhythm, we will open our experience at World’s End Farm. We will end our day cultivating the soil between us with a Warm Data Lab. We will share a communal dinner, music and perhaps a fire together.
Day 2 ✴︎ Roots + Shoots
We will examine our roots as individuals, as a collective, within our living systems, and plant seeds of potential in a regenerative economy. We will explore what areas of growth are possible in your living system and end our day with a warm data practice, tending the roots and shoots between us.
Day 3 ✴︎ Our Abundant Fruits
We will explore what projects, connections, and other “fruits” are emerging, notice what is ripening in our living system, and what others are exploring. It’s a time to celebrate - to recognize what we’ve grown and also, what we might change and alter that supports our living system. We will then cross-pollinate, combining our learnings together as a group to enliven the possibilities and find ways to increase our potential and share capital(s). We will close with a communal dinner, music, and a fire circle.
Day 4 ✴︎ Composting
There is a clever balance between nourishment and overwhelm with the possibilities of many shoots and fruits. Getting strategic in how and where we invest our energy creates healthier conditions for thriving. Pruning cultivates life. We will close our time together, enjoy a communal meal, and bid farewell to the farm.
DETAILS & WHAT TO EXPECT
Worlds End School’s campus is nestled within a diversified, handscale working farm. We raise Icelandic sheep and chickens in addition to growing vegetables and flowers.
As you consider attending this workshop - know that you will be fed three meals a day by our excellent kitchen team. If you reserve a bedroom in the communal barn or a rustic cabin we will provide all the bedding and blankets you need.
LODGING DETAILS:
LODGING OPTIONS ARE FIRST COME/FIRST SERVED
1) COMMUNAL BARN - with three shared bathrooms and full electricity. There are 4 private bedrooms each with a queen or double bed.
2) CAMPING - there is a flat camping area in a field 5 minute walk from the COMMUNAL BARN. Bring your own tents, tarps, gear.
3) Stay OFFSITE and COMMUTE to Worlds End Farm. There is a Quality Inn & Suites 10 minutes away in Central Bridge, NY or a handful of airBnB rentals within 30min driving time.
COST:
$1000 (bedroom in communal barn) or $650 (camping on farm/offsite lodging)
FACILITATORS:
Sarah Ryhanen – World’s End Farm Land steward/Director of Worlds End School
Wendy Moomaw – Wendy Moomaw is a visionary healing-centered strategist and coach. She is the Founder of the conscious collaboratory, where she supports organizations to lead while composting and unlearning - cultural, societal, structural, and ancestral patterns - making room for creativity and play to flourish. This enables leaders to sense systems differently and weave care and connection into reimagining futures. She co-created and led an intergenerational community-based solution, navigating existing structures and systems through citizen-enabled change over seven years. She led Conscious Capitalism of Central MD and has worked with hundreds of leaders from the US District Courts to global biopharma to global financial institutions. She began her career as a software engineer on an air traffic control program. She loves weaving ancient practices and travel and mutually learns alongside three young adults. Find out more at consciouscollaboratory.com.
Jess Groopman - Jessica Groopman is bridge-builder. For over 20 years, she has worked across the intersections of emerging technologies, new economics, and regenerative systems change in Silicon Valley and facilitating events around the world. Jess is the Founder of the Regenerative Technology Project, a think-and-do-tank on a mission to accelerate systemic health and healing in the Tech sector. She is also a co-founder of RegenBridge, which helps bridge funders, practitioners and the next generation towards next horizon investments and innovations. A drummer and facilitator, she senses rhythms and patterns. A former paleoarchaeologist and long-time researcher, she digs deep. A certified Warm Data Host and tech innovation strategist, she explores how our relationships with technology can serve, rather than diminish our connections to Life. Learn more about at jessgroopman.com.
Yvan Greenberg - Yvan Greenberg believes that creative connection between people fosters understanding of complexity and seeds new possibilities. As a diviner, spiritual companion, author, artist, and certified Warm Data Host, he helps other curious individuals and organizations navigate the wilds of the world we live in through storytelling, ecological thinking, and orientation to the sacred. A professional card reader for over a decade, Yvan is also an ICF-Certified Professional Life Coach and a trained Peer Counselor. For 20 years, Yvan had a multifaceted career in non-profit performing arts management, leading and managing some of the most important experimental theater and contemporary dance companies in the US, and was the Artistic Director of Laboratory Theater. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, and is a member of Spiritual Directors International. Learn more at yvangreenberg.com.