Permatours Northeast Eco Communities Convergence

🔥 A Transformational Gathering for Regenerative Living in the Northeast Bioregion

This August 21st-24th (2025), we invite you to a 4-day immersive gathering of land stewards, cultural carriers, community organizers, artists, healing practitioners, educators, funders, scientists, builders, technologists, families, and others working toward a regenerative future in the Northeast bioregion of North America.

Whether you're living in an intentional community, stewarding a farm or land project, organizing mutual aid, designing alternative economies, holding space for healing and cultural transformation, or seeking your place in this larger movement - this event is for you.

The Northeast Eco-Communities Convergence is a space for learning, connection, celebration, and collaborative action. It’s a time to gather across generations, build lasting relationships, and strengthen the bioregional ecosystem of people and projects working toward a just and abundant future.

INTEREST FORMS

Want to get involved? We invite you to fill out the relevant form(s) here:

• Contributor / Feature Interest Form (Educators, Artists, Wellness Practitioners, Wisdom Keepers, Etc.)

• Vendors / Artisans Interest Form

• Volunteer Interest Form

• Scholarship Application Form

• Partner Interest Form

• Funder Interest Form

✨ What to Expect

🔧 Hands-On Action Projects — We Build While We Gather

Join us in co-creating:

• Permaculture installations like food forests, hugelkultur beds, and water retention systems

• Natural building projects such as earth benches, compost systems, or small ecological structures

• Land-based healing practices to support soil health, pollinators, and water systems on-site
  

Whether you're experienced or new to this kind of earth-healing work, you’ll learn by doing—alongside a team of educators, land stewards, and community members.

💬 Stewards’ Circle: Share Your Vision, Call In Support

Throughout the event, we’ll host dedicated sessions for community land stewards across the Northeast to:

• Present what they’re working on

• Name the challenges they’re facing

• Call in the support, collaborators, funding, or tools they need
  

These gatherings are a key part of bioregional regeneration—helping us witness one another, build trust, and align around shared priorities.

📚 Workshops, Panels & Skill-Sharing

Learn from community leaders and peers through interactive sessions on:

• Permaculture Design & Food Sovereignty

• Natural Building, Tiny Homes & Earth-Based Construction

• Water Systems, Off-Grid Tech & Eco-Infrastructure

• Governance, Conflict Resolution, Legal Models & Land Trusts

• Justice, Equity, Inclusion & Reciprocity in Community Building

• Restorative Economics & Regenerative Finance

• Indigenous Land Stewardship & Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• Ancestral Healing Arts, Herbalism, and Somatic Wisdom

• Family-Friendly & Intergenerational Learning Zones

• Compassionate Communication, Authentic Relating & Circling Practices (restorative justice, heart circles, and tools for community coherence)

• & more! Please reach out via the forms linked above if you’re interested in contributing on a specific subject matter that is not mentioned.

🎶 Cultural Offerings & Celebration

We gather in reverence and revelry—with:

• Live music & movement experiences

• Sound journeys & dance floors

• Open mic & theatrical offerings

• Fire circles, storytelling, and improv jams

• Visual art, installations, and collaborative murals
  

🧭 Emergent Sessions & Open Space

We’ll also host Open Space Forums—where YOU can create and lead a session on what you’re passionate about. Whether it’s mycelial governance, seed sovereignty, or community compost systems—there’s room for your wisdom and curiosity.

💠 Real-Time Mapping of Our Collective Impact

We’ll be actively mapping:

• The people, communities, and projects present

• What each of us is working on

• What we’re calling in (support, tools, funding, collaborators)

• What we’re offering (skills, knowledge, resources)
  

Every person becomes visible in the “web.” This mapping will help identify synergies, gaps, and opportunities for long-term collaboration. It also tracks the impact we’re making—not just at the event, but rippling outward.

🔁 We Leave a Positive Trace

Our intention is to cultivate:

• Deepened relationships and long-term collaborations

• Real-world land-based improvements through permaculture builds

• A shared network of stewards and supporters mapped and mobilized

• A replicable model for regenerative gatherings

• Joy, reverence, and renewed purpose
  

🌀 Who Is This For?

This convergence is for:

• People living in or building eco-communities, co-housing, or regenerative land projects

• Educators, organizers, and practitioners wanting to share their knowledge

• Artists, musicians, and healers who tend to culture, story, and spirit

• Youth, elders, and families who believe in a more beautiful future

• Funders, technologists, and solution builders supporting on-the-ground transformation

• You, if you feel the call
  

✋ Ready to Join the Convergence?

We’re inviting you to step into co-creation. Whether you want to:

• Offer a workshop or healing arts session

• Share your art or music

• Present a relevant project

• Support behind the scenes

• Join a permaculture or natural building crew

• Or simply be present, curious, and committed
  

We want to hear from you. In the forms linked above, please tell us who you are, what you’re passionate about, and what you’d like to bring.
This helps us shape the gathering with you.

We also welcome aligned sponsors, foundations, and community partners to help us make this gathering more accessible, equitable, and impactful.