Creating spaces for and sharing collective wisdom is a unifying arc throughout Bloom Network. How can we best make wise collective decisions and take wise collective action together? What are the tools we have on hand to help enable this? And what are ways to support the protection and respect of traditional wisdom, as we collectively share ways to be together that are deeply life serving?

This theme will explore frameworks for collaboration networks across industries, sectors, scales and differing belief systems, to move through today’s complex problems. Tools include wise democracy, conflict resolution, arts based research tools, decentralization, and many other facets of emergent group wisdom. Creating more regenerative cultures is dependent on not just having the answers now, but also the capacity to generate wise answers together on an ongoing basis as circumstances change.

Global Justice is about decolonizing our global power structures to empower equitable leadership and resource sharing. Some central goals of Bloom Network in this area are to support collective liberation and care for our bioregions. The planetary scale, whole-systems container presented at this conference is designed to shed light into the silo barriers which still hold people in oppression and inequality related to race, gender, class, religious and political constructs.

​This working group will look at how to leverage large scale collaboration across social movements and sectors, to improve localized adoption of just, equitable community leadership. From conflict resolution to restorative justice to local production by minority-owned businesses and more.

This focus area will look at preventative and restorative practices that provide low cost opportunities for fostering health in ourselves, our homes, our communities and in our places of work.

​Bloom’s approach to health is inclusive of the recovery and protection of ancestral health practices, ecopsychology, and holding space for deep ways of knowing and sensing. Psychedelics and their role in the integration of the psyche and consciousness has historically been part of what brings people to our network and will continue to be a strong focus area. We’ll also explore health offerings that reverse the systemic oppression that contributes to violence and disease. Lastly, we will not shy away from acknowledging the metaphysical and spiritual realities that underpin community healing for many of us.

Creating a hub for sharing the latest developments and research in sustainable technology is a critical focus of the Bloom Network. Participants will explore a large-scale view of this content area, with an introduction to recent advances in energy, materials science, and online governance tools, and the broad and diverse range of technologies which support a regenerative society.

Examples that will come to the fore will include community-owned solar and wind power, decentralized energy technologies such as biogasification, liquid democracy and other governance innovations presented by blockchain technologies, sustainable packaging advances and many more progressive innovations.

While these tools are scaling up slowly around the world, they could be more widely and quickly adopted at an appropriate scale and distribution. This focus area will look at pathways to accelerate proven solutions over the year following our conference.

The peer-to-peer economy is a model of economic exchange where individuals or organizations interact to buy and sell goods directly with each other, without the need for third-party intermediaries like banks or companies. The slow and steady emergence of increasingly decentralized and human-centered ways of creating, making and exchanging goods and services is collapsing established economic monopolies and overriding the status quo. There is significant potential for bringing the tools and means of production, power and agency in economic networks back to the people, and now is the time to make the most of these opportunities and build better, more functional economic futures.

Bloom Network will explore cooperatives, leading-edge applications of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, collaborative consumption, and other distributed and sharing oriented economic infrastructure. We’ll also practice ways of making and doing that contribute to the growth of a stable and healthy decentralized, regenerative economy.

Earth Stewardship is about positively contributing to care of the earth. It incorporates environmental activism, deep ecology, conservation biology, permaculture, community forestry and other endeavors increasing our nurture of the planet we depend on to survive.

Learn what networking and backbone organizations are working in this space, what large-scale institutional support may be available, and identify key opportunities for growing their impact in collaboration.

​This theme includes regenerative agriculture approaches to farming and food systems such as regenerating topsoil, increasing biodiversity, improving food security and fostering resilience. These agricultural approaches are important in a changing climate, and they strengthen the health and vitality of farming and food production communities.