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The economy is a story.
It's time we wrote a new one.

Across Canada, people are already building something different — rooted in wellbeing, not extraction. The festival is where we bring it all together: pooling research, frameworks, and lived experience into a shared, evolving picture.

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📅 2 weeks, August 12–26🪶 Pay-what-you-can, $0 option always available🌱 Every voice shapes the program
A few of the threads we're weaving together
Wellbeing EconomyDoughnut EconomySolidarity EconomyDegrowthLand BackCooperativesFlourishing EnterpriseMutual AidPurpose EconomyAbundanceCommunity DevelopmentReFiRegenerative GovernanceCommons+ 30 more
Prologue

One story we made up — and can rewrite

The economy isn't a law of nature. It's a story we agreed to live inside: profit first, growth always, consequences later. The cracks are showing — in wellbeing data, in inequality, in the places we live.

For decades, people across the country have been writing a different story — through research, cooperatives, land trusts, and communities that already live the alternative. This festival is where those threads meet.

The shift is fractal: it shows up in how one person thinks, how an organization defines its purpose, and in the policies that shape us all.

ExtractiveRegenerative
Profit-firstWellbeing-first
Short-termLong-term
Isolated effortsCollective insight

This shift happens at every scale: in how you think, in how your organization works, and in the rules that govern us all. The festival makes room to work on all three, together.

How it works

This festival is what we make of it

There's no fixed agenda from above. The program comes from sessions that participants propose — conversations, workshops, practices, and stories that fill the shared calendar everyone explores.

You bring it

Propose a session

Host a dialogue, workshop, story circle, or practice — on anything that moves us toward a wellbeing economy. You pick the title, format, and capacity.

It's shared

It joins the calendar

Your session appears on the shared schedule alongside everyone else's. Participants browse, RSVP, and build their own path through the festival.

We gather

Meet with curiosity

Sessions are recorded and gently captured. Reflections afterward ("harvest") pull out what was learned — for hosts and for the wider festival.

It compounds

It enters the Commons

Recordings, harvests, and insights go into a shared library — a growing picture of what a better economy actually looks like.

Many lenses, one shift

Whatever you call it — there's room for it here

No single framework has it all figured out. The festival is a meeting place for the movements, models, and vocabularies already pointing the same direction.

Wellbeing EconomyCircular EconomyCooperativesJust TransitionSolidarity EconomyMutual AidDoughnut EconomyWorker-Owned BusinessDegrowthLand TrustsUniversal Basic IncomePost-GrowthUnionsCare EconomyFlourishing EnterpriseGift EconomyB CorpsHuman WorkIndigenous EconomicsLocal CurrenciesCommons-Based ProductionSocial EnterpriseTime BankingRegenerative AgricultureParticipatory BudgetingSteady-State EconomicsCommunity Wealth BuildingOpen SourceSharing EconomyBioregionalismCooperative FinanceEcological EconomicsRight to RepairPurpose EconomyAbundanceCommunity DevelopmentReFiRegenerative GovernanceReciprocity EconomicsPlatform Cooperatives

This is a starting point, not a boundary. If your work points toward wellbeing and shared flourishing — it belongs here.

Once we're underway

Watch the program take shape, in real time

As people propose sessions, a live feed appears here — and as they join, a map of the community grows alongside it.

Recently proposed sessions

Updates live during the festival
Dialogue

Inspiration Session #1

Find the soul!

Dialogue

Inspiration Session #2

A place for us to discover the soul of the festival.

Dialogue

Festival Planning Jam

A lightly facilitated space to offer our thinking in service of the festival. We may talk about tech, marketing, culture, session brainstorming, whatever!

+ hundreds more, proposed by participants like you

The growing community

Anonymized
Every dot is a person who's joined. No names, no details — just the shape of the connections forming.
Why gather like this

From many ideas of a better economy, one complex picture

"Difference is a catalyst for learning, not a problem to solve."

We're not here to agree on one model. We're here to see how degrowth, cooperatives, doughnut economics, and a dozen other lenses fit together — and where they disagree in useful ways.

"The work itself is where we find wellbeing."

This isn't a festival about wellbeing held at arm's length. The pace, format, and facilitation are meant to feel like what we're working toward.

"A movement grows because it's felt, not just argued."

Every session, harvest, and connection goes into a shared Commons — proof, for anyone who finds it later, that a better story is already being lived.

Real people, real work

The story is already being written

This festival belongs to the people doing the work — hosts, organizers, participants. Their faces and words belong here too.

We keep showing up — in co-ops, in kitchens, in town halls — with the same stubborn question: what would enough look like, if we measured it in each other?

— invitation poem, Festival for Reimagining the Economy
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Workshop circle
Harvest moment
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Come help write the next chapter

Registration is pay-what-you-can — including $0 — because this story belongs to everyone. A short survey on arrival helps us connect you with your people and your sessions.

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