# EcoTerra Retreat: "Weaving the Movement"

## Overview

**Full Name:** "Weaving the Movement: A Lab for Mapping, Prototyping & Regenerative Collaboration"
**Short Name:** "Mapping the Movement"

## Event Details

- **Dates:** Thursday, June 12th through Monday, June 16th, 2025
- *Note: Originally scheduled for June 5-9, but dates were updated based on feedback*
- **Location:** EcoTerra's Incubator & Lodge, Catskills, NY
- **Format:** Donation-based gathering
- **Size:** Approximately 16 people
- **Options:** In-person or virtual attendance for specific sessions

## Organizers & Hosts

### Primary Organizer
**Syd Harvey** ([e-mail])
- Co-Founder of Permatours
- Executive Director of Kinship Earth Flow Fund
- Phone: [phone]
- LinkedIn: [sydneygriffith](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/)

### Co-hosts
- **Susanna Choe** - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannachoe/)
- **Josie Watson** - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephine-watson-81a103a8/)

### Partners
- Spatial Network
- EcoTerra

## Purpose & Mission

The gathering serves as a living lab for bioregional coordination, regenerative systems design, and cultural infrastructure development. It aims to weave together a network of "solutionaries" including:

- Bioregional organizers
- Regenerative project stewards
- Healing artists
- Cultural catalysts
- Systems thinkers

## Key Activities & Goals

- **Relationship Building:** Deepen relationships and build trust across disciplines and bioregions
- **Mapping:** Map people, tools, projects, land, and technologies being stewarded
- **Collaboration:** Explore how work overlaps and how deeper collaboration could amplify existing efforts
- **Documentation:** Capture raw footage of the gathering (full access provided to participants)
- **Innovation:** Explore models like the Planetary Party
- **Co-creation:** Design a co-created space for meaningful collaboration

## Important Links

- **RSVP Form:** https://forms.gle/sHpPtRvj73Lmk8iC7
- **Full Invitation Document:** https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Ci-rcrKpQXFtJs9GPxxEWVuRTLok-oFcYNSRNt7i8A/edit?usp=sharing
- **Prep Meeting Agenda:** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lHdYXFUBMJU_bA6Yk3F558oyyJxJ0SQPPjqLXbBB7XY/edit?usp=sharing
- **EcoTerra Website:** https://thespatialnetwork.com/ecoterra/

## Recent Updates

### Prep Meeting
- **Date:** Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
- **Time:** 7:30-8:45pm Eastern Time
- **Purpose:** Share what's alive for participants, hear ideas for maximizing time together, gather input/contributions

### Meeting Details
- **Zoom Link:** https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9467206189?pwd=6FfJDsRFo8kENNdNiSazJ38WrAU0Lt.1
- **Meeting ID:** 946 720 6189
- **Passcode:** mC3x5h (or 178041 for dial-in)

## Ways to Contribute

This donation-based gathering offers multiple contribution options:

- Bringing food / cooking
- Facilitating a session
- Helping with setup / breakdown
- Offering program feedback
- Making financial contributions for space, utilities, and/or media capture

## Background Context

Syd Harvey invited you and Darren after meeting at the UN, where they learned about your work at GaiaAI. The invitation was extended based on that meaningful connection and shared vision for systems change.

## Contact Information

For questions, ideas, or to suggest other aligned participants:
- **Email:** [e-mail]
- **Phone:** 561-699-0030

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*"May we strengthen the connective tissue between aligned efforts—mapping what's alive and laying foundations for meaningful collaboration moving forward."* - Syd Harvey