Connected to Place
Regenerating Nature, Community and Local Wealth through Systems Change
Place-Based Systems Change
Writing. Presentations. Workshops.
Matt Biggar, Ph.D., Principal and Founder of Connected to Place, writes, presents, and facilitates workshops on place-based systems change that enables living deeply connected to community and nature and leads to the regeneration of nature, community, and local wealth. A place-based orientation to living is urgently needed to effectively confront our interrelated societal crises and the underlying crisis of alienation from nature, community, and each other. This shift in lifestyles and our daily lives is entirely possible but requires supportive systems in regions, counties, and cities.
Place-Based Collaboration
Design. Facilitation. Coaching. Evaluation. Workshops.
To support the transformation of communities, cities, counties, and regions into healthy, thriving places, we support the design, implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of place-based collaboratives. We give presentations and facilitate workshops. We provide expert meeting/retreat facilitation (in-person and virtual) and strategic planning services for collaboratives, nonprofits, government, and foundations. We coach leaders and help them build and sustain systems-oriented, impactful collaboration.
Connected to Place is located on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. The Ramaytush were the original peoples of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and one of over 50 Ohlone tribes. The Ohlone and other first peoples across the greater region understood and respected the web of life, living deeply connected to place and maintaining balance with nature for millennia. Today, over 18,500 Ohlone, Miwok, Yokuts, and Patwin peoples live, work, carry on cultural traditions and uphold sacred relations with the land throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.