LOKAL Re:Generative is a 8-day immersive journey held during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025, 28 September - 5 October 2025, exploring the emerging evolution from sustainability towards "regeneration" across sectors - whether academia, food systems, hospitality, design, finance, bioregions or agroforestry.

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DAY 1: BKKCAW Opening
Date and Time: Sun 28 September 2025, 3pm onwards

Venue: Museum Siam

Hosts: BKKCAW, LOKAL

Day 1 sets the tone for the LOKAL Re:Generative Week with a relaxed informal gathering fostering connection, and shared experience. Participants are invited to attend the BKKCAW Opening Day together, to start early conversations and discover synergies in an unstructured, welcoming environment.

Contribution: Free

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DAY 2: What is Regeneration?

Morning Session

Date and Time: Mon 29 September 2025, 10am-12pm

Venue: CMMU

Hosts: CMMU, SMAC

As the keystone of the LOKAL Re:Generative Week, Day 2 explores the concept of regeneration and the regenerative mindset as a catalyst for systems transformation. Participants will journey through theory and empirical research to understand how regenerative thinking shows up in real-world practice - from tourism and community development to systems-based decision-making. Hosted by CMMU, with contributions from SMAC Network, this morning offers the space to question, reflect, connect, and activate a new perspective that focuses on restoration, renewal, and regeneration.

Contribution: General - 300 Baht; CMMU Students / Faculty - Free

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Afternoon Session

Date and Time: Mon 29 September 2025, 4pm-6pm

Venue: Benchakitti Park

Hosts: Community Action Hub

The afternoon invites participants to ground their learning in embodied experience - a reflective walk and connection time at Benchakitti Park. Through shared presence and sharing, participants experience regeneration not just as a concept, but as a way of living and relating.

Contribution: Free

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DAY 3: Regenerative Food Systems

Note: The organisers of this session are still finalising arrangements. Registration will open once details are confirmed. Please check back again soon.

Date and Time: Tuesday 30 September 2025, 10am-12pm

Venue: Tham Me Restaurant

Hosts: Community Action Hub, Climate Reality Project

Regenerative Food Systems explores the intersection between climate, culture, and cuisine. As the industrialized food system continues to drive ecological and social crises, this session brings together innovators working at the frontier of regenerative food futures. Hosted at Tham Me, a venue rooted in values of sufficiency and sustainability, the session invites participants to experience food not only as nourishment, but as a site of transformation.

Contribution: Free-400THB

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DAY 4: Regenerative Hospitality & Design

Morning Session

Date and Time: Thursday 1 October 2025, 10am-12pm

Venue: Online

Hosts: III Muses, Koh Jum Beach Villas, Ipse Ipsa Ipsum

Regenerative Hospitality & Design invites us to reimagine hospitality and design not as consumption but as deep connection - to land, culture, and community. This session spotlights Koh Jum Beach Villas, a pioneer in sustainable and regenerative hospitality in Southern Thailand, and Ipse Ipsa Ipsum, a leading light in regenerative furniture design based in Singapore and India. Participants will explore what it means to host and design in a way that honours place, reduces harm, and restores vitality - ecologically, culturally, and socially.

Contribution: Free

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Lunch

Date and Time: Thursday 1 October, 1pm onwards

Venue: Pintopor Restaurant

Hosts: LOKAL

Reflect on the morning's discussions together over a delicious, authentic, homecooked Southern Thai meal prepared by Pintopor Restaurant - located in the Chef's own quaint home and garden! :)

Contribution: 500 Baht

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DAY 5: Regenerative Finance (By Invitation Only)

Date and Time: Thursday 2 October 2025, 4pm-10pm

Venue: Baan Tepa, 2* Michelin & Green Star Restaurant

Hosts: Berlin Institute for Leadership and Governance, III Muses

Regenerative Finance is an emerging global field exploring how capital can be stewarded in service of ecological and social regeneration. While the field is still nascent in Southeast Asia, this exclusive invite-only session brings together pioneering figures from Thailand, the region, and beyond to explore how finance can evolve from extractive to regenerative. Hosted at the two-Michelin-star and Green Star-awarded Baan Tepa, and for which regeneration is a key pillar, the evening offers a reflective, immersive space for deep dialogue, meaningful connection, and shared imagination of the future of finance.

Contribution: 19,000 Baht (includes 7-course 2* Michelin dinner with wine pairing, and admission to the Regenerative Finance Round Table)

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DAY 6: Regenerative Bioregions

Morning Session

Diwa / Jiwa: Nurturing the Spirit of Bioregional Regeneration in South East Asia

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 9am-11.30am Bangkok time

Venue: Online

Hosts: Re:Source Regeneration Ecosystems, United in Diversity, Global Citizens Assembly and LOKAL Re:Generative.

Bioregional Regeneration in South East Asia

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.

This gathering recognizes that communities across Southeast Asia are already innovating ways to restore bioregional ecosystems while strengthening resilience:

Design – integrating ecological, cultural, and economic needs into living systems
Governance – co-creating new forms of community stewardship
Finance – pioneering regenerative capital and bioregional financing models

These efforts illustrate how entire bioregions can shift from extraction to regeneration.

Contribution: Free

Evening Social - Bioregional Weaving and Collective Harvest Socials

Date and Time: Friday 3rd October 2025, 6pm onwards

Venue: Wasteland

Hosts: Informal networking

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: Food and beverage onsite at own cost.

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DAYS 7-8: Regenerative Agroforestry

Date and Time: Saturday 4 October - Sunday 5 October 2025

Venue: Choktawee Agroforestry and surrounds, Nakhon Ratchasima Province

Hosts: Choktawee Agroforestry, Sarnsaan

A field visit to Korat to explore the Choktawee Agroforestry Initiative, and Northeastern Thai food and heritage. A hands-on composting workshop and a walk through the agroforestry land, followed by shared local meals, an exploration of a nearby ancient Khmer temple, and a morning visit to the vibrant train-side market where fresh produces arrive by train from surrounding communities.

Contribution: 7,900 Baht (includes 1 night boutique hotel accommodation, private van transfer to and from Bangkok (300km both ways), transport within Nakhon Ratchasima, 2x breakfast, 1x lunch, 1x dinner)

To join us please register directly at our website: tinyurl.com/lokalapplication

Full program: tinyurl.com/lokalregenerative

Location

Bangkok

Thailand

Various locations across Bangkok, and a 2-day field visit to Nakhon Ratchasima Province.

Hosted By

34 Went

Climate

Wellness