REGENERATION IN PLACE

Cultivating an Ecology for a Place-based Economy

Regeneration in Place
Cultivating an Ecology for a Place-based Economy

Thursday, March 26 - Sunday, March 29, 2026
World’s End Farm | Esperance, NY 

INTENTION

Join us for Regeneration in Place - Cultivating an Ecology for a Place-based Economy, at World’s End Farm in Esperance, NY. This workshop invites participants into an embodied experience of regeneration by exploring place as catalyst. Through guided experience and reflection, rhythm, play, and contrast between extractive and regenerative practices, regeneration is felt through embodiment, rather than taught as an abstract concept.

Within the 100 acre sanctuary of World’s End Farm, we will attune to the living systems around us, observing flows of energy and noticing points of care and stress. Through a lifecycle framework of soil, roots & shoots, fruits and composting– we will consider how the mechanisms of plant ecologies reveal how place-based economies work.

Practically speaking, we will explore the farm, move our bodies, make art, weave stories, share meals, and practice with warm data. Using the ecology of communications, we will recover and discover how our communities seed and tend to localized economies that value interdependence across species while infusing the health of air, water, and land.

The weekend culminates in cross-pollinating these insights to deepen our capacity to care for ourselves, each other, and our communities: our PLACE.

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? 

❋ Listen: 

Abel Selaocoe - Takamba (music)

Leonard Koren - Wabi-Sabi (audible book)

❋ Explore embodied practice:

Arawana Hayashi - Social Presencing Theater (website)

Our daily rhythm will reflect a living system, inhaling experiences together, and exhaling individually and collectively. This rhythm of activity and rest will be foundational to our time together. Soil creates conditions for life. Roots anchor the integrity of life. Fruits are the unique expressions of life. Pruning sets intentions for future life.

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.

The end of March can still feel like winter but there is a lot of percolation! The peepers start, and there are tiny bits of green pushing through everywhere. The creek is running high - full of snowmelt. Our greenhouse comes to life with soil preparation and seeding. The sheep are heavily pregnant and restless. There can be snow and bitter cold nights, or there may be days warm enough to sit outside for lunch.

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 3 private bedrooms each with one double bed and 2 single beds in bunk-house style loft room.

2) RUSTIC CABINS - three minutes walk from COMMUNAL BARN. Each of the 3 cabins has a queen size bed, a small woodstove for heating and a private outhouse. There is no electricity in the cabins.

3) CAMPING - there is a flat camping area in a field 5 minute walk from the COMMUNAL BARN. Bring your own tents, tarps, gear.

4) 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:

We are offering this workshop on a sliding scale of $250-$1000. We ask that you choose a value that you can comfortably afford.

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