DAY 6: Regenerative Bioregions

Diwa / Jiwa: Activating the Spirit of Bioregional Regeneration in South East Asia at Bangkok Climate Action Week

Across Southeast Asia, languages and cultures describe the essence of life and place in subtly different ways:

  • Bahasa Indonesia & Bahasa Melayu: jiwa — soul, essence

  • Tagalog: diwa — spirit, consciousness

  • Thai: diwa/tiwa — daylight

Together, these terms evoke the spirit of Southeast Asia’s megadiversity and interconnectedness, emphasizing that regeneration is both ecological and cultural—a living, mindful approach to thriving futures.

Launching at Bangkok Climate Action Week as part of Lokal: Regenerative, Diwa hosts 3 events for bioregional regeneration on October 3, 2025 at 66 Courtyard and via Zoom for some hybrid events.

Morning Session - Diwa / Jiwa: Activating the Spirit of Bioregional Regeneration in South East Asia

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 9.30am-11am

Venue: Online

Hosts: Re:Source Regeneration Ecosystems, The Shoal Co., the Global Ecovillage Network Oceania and Asia, United in Diversity, and LOKAL Re:Generative. 

An interactive webinar exploring real-world case studies of bioregional regeneration across Southeast Asia, reflecting on how local cultures and languages express relationships between people and place, and learning how systemic, regenerative approaches can guide design, governance, and finance in the region. Through stories, dialogue, and reflection, participants will connect cultural perspectives, ecological realities, and strategic insights to understand what it takes to shift whole systems toward regeneration in Southeast Asia.

Moderators: Sarah Queblatin (Living Story Landscapes), Pei Ya Boon, (The Shoal Co.) and Cokorda Istri Dewi (United in Diversity - TBC)

Invitees (TBC):

  • Jerome Montemayor, Executive Director for ASEAN Center for Biodiversity 

  • Mekong Butterfly (Thailand)

  • Forever Sabah (Malaysia)

  • Regeneration Food Facility (Global)

In this interactive session, participants will:

  • Explore real-world case studies of bioregional regeneration across Southeast Asia

  • Reflect on how local cultures and languages express relationships between people and place

  • Learn how systemic, regenerative approaches can guide design, governance, and finance in the region

Contribution: Free

Afternoon Session - Bioregional Storymapping Workshop

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 1pm-3pm

Venue: The 66 Cottage

Hosts: Living Story Landscapes and LOKAL Re:Generative 

An interactive, creative workshop on bioregional narrative mapping, exploring ways to restore and restory relationships between people, place, and purpose - while also touching upon our agroforestry field visit the following day. The workshop also includes a reflection and harvest on the week’s key insights and threads, with light refreshments and informal exchange among participants, partners, and speakers. Closing remarks and a gratitude circle formally conclude the day.

In this interactive session, participants will:

  • Value a bioregion’s biocultural heritage through storymaps

  • Map systemic relationships across regenerative actors in a landscape

Through arts and narratives, we remember, value, and retell the story of place within our bioregions to deepen our understanding of the potential for climate regeneration in an ecosystem in a whole systems way. 

Afternoon Session - A Bioregional Approach for Regenerative Food Ecosystems for the COP30’s Global Mutirao

This hybrid webinar is still under discussion and development. Please check back again soon.

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 3.30pm-5.30pm

Venue: Online / The 66 Cottage

Hosts:  Living Story Landscapes, UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance,  LOKAL Re:Generative, Global Citizens Assembly (Tentative)

A webinar exploring the value of scaling regenerative food systems through a citizens assembly to meet the aims of the global mutirao, the COP30's call to action for self organized climate initiatives. In this session, participants will:

In this interactive session, participants will:

  • Learn about the call for collective action through the COP30’s Global Mutirao, aTupi-Guarani Indigenous term for voluntary collective action. 

  • Discover how a citizens assembly can activate or catalyze food system actors to scale their climate solutions

  • Meet local and international actors that use bioregional governance in transforming food systems. 

Evening Social - Bioregional Weaving and Collective Harvest Socials 

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 530pm-7pm

Venue: Online / The 66 Cottage

Hosts:   LOKAL Re:Generative and Living Story Landscapes 

Connect with systemic transformation actors of Bangkok and South East Asia and collectively reflect on the week that took place to sense emerging pathways for a regenerative future for the bioregions involved. An orientation to an agroforestry immersion during the weekend will take place in between. 

Contribution: 2,500 Baht (includes onsite workshop, hybrid webinar, social, and mid-afternoon and evening food and beverage, 1pm-7pm). Those joining the online webinars only (930am-11am; 330pm-530pm) may do so at no cost.