Schedule & Agenda
Discover. Collaborate. Regenerate.
Experience five days of transformative learning, action, and celebration at the 2026 Global Earth Repair Convergence.
Below is a continually updated schedule to give you a sense of what to expect. The final schedule will be shared closer to the event.
✱ Schedule is still under development and subject to change.
Conference Schedule
Thursday,
May 7, 2026
Opening Day –
Registration, Field Trips & Networking
TBA
ꕥ Field Trip to Olympic Rainforest. Details, hours and fee to be announced.
ꕥ Field trip to newly-built Chemacum Tribe Longhouse and hands-on planting of Ethnobotany Garden. Details, hours and fee to be announced.
12:00 Noon
ꕥ Registration opens for Fort Worden Accommodations.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ꕥ Tech team’s orientation.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ꕥ Work-Traders orientation meeting
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
ꕥ Gala Reception! Venue: Finnriver Farm & Cidery.
Friday,
May 8, 2026
Building Momentum
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
ꕥ Opening Ceremony & Keynote
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
ꕥ Workshops & Presentations
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
ꕥ Lunch Break (Fort Worden Meal Packages & Food Trucks Available)
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
ꕥ Workshops & Presentations
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
ꕥ Keynote
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
ꕥ Evening Plenary
ꕥ Music & Cultural Ceremony
Saturday,
May 9, 2026
Digging Deeper – Workshops, Panels, and Collaboration
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM:
ꕥ Morning Meditation & Nature Walk or Gentle Yoga for All Levels
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
ꕥ Keynote
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
ꕥ Workshop, Panels, Activities
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
ꕥ Lunch Break
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM:
ꕥ Working Group, Workshop, Field Trip
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM:
ꕥ Keynote Panel
ꕥ Music & Storytelling
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM:
ꕥ Keynote Panel
Sunday,
May 10, 2026
Action and Celebration
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM
ꕥ Morning Meditation & Nature Walk or Sunrise Yoga on the Lawn
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
ꕥ Morning Keynote
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
ꕥ Workshop, Roundtable, Panel
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
ꕥ Lunch Break
1:15 PM – 3:00 PM:
ꕥ Closing Session, Workshop
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
ꕥ Dinner
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM:
ꕥ Working groups, and special interest groups meetings
ꕥ Music, socializing in the Dormitory lounges
Monday,
May 11, 2026
Final Day –
Closing Celebration
11:00 AM
ꕥ Checking out deadline for Fort Worden Accommodations.
TBA: Olympic Rainforest Field Trip.
ꕥ Details, hours and fees to be announced.
1:00 PM – 5:00PM ~ Intensive Workshops at Fort Worden. $50 admission.
ꕥ Indigenous stewardship/ethnoecology. How Indigenous Peoples interacted with their ecosystems to create abundance for their societies and the web of life.
Speakers to be announced.
ꕥ Rehydrating Landscapes
Speakers to be announced.
ꕥ Cooling the Global Climate: A Synthesis of Convergence Findings, Vegetation, rainfall, and atmospheric interactions.
Speakers to be announced. .
ꕥ Intensive, small-scale polycultures. How to achieve large production in small spaces.
Speakers to be announced. Held at Finnriver in Chimacum.
6:00 PM – 8:00PM
ꕥ Capnote Lecture: Planetary Regeneration: The Way Forward
By a panel of distinguished experts. Names to be announced. The lecture will be open to the general public as well as conference participants. It will be at Fort Worden, at the Wheeler Theatre. By donation.