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UPCOMING EVENTS
29 Sep 2024 – 1 Dec 2024
This year’s course has now begun.
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Are you involved in the work of personal or societal transformation?
Based in Devon? Interested in the dance between personal, local and systemic global issues?
We will be looking back to Devon’s colonial past and its legacy today to inform how we can creatively look forward to uncertain futures…
THE EMERGENCE NETWORK: BECOMING MONSTER
1 Nov 2024
A PEDAGOGY OF DEATH, DECAY & DESTRUCTION: SANCTUARY MAKING
A testing of a deck of cards for practical and oracular possibilities… Looking to the teachers of demise and emergence in the more- than-human world can offer something of a homecoming to our wider being. What might we encounter in hanging out in the company of vultures, maggots, forest fires or detritivores? What flirtations or invocations might arise in re/membering kinship with these ones? This work taps into the wisdom of compost, termites and hurricanes, of elephant feet, beavers and fallen trees.
This session is part of a wider inquiry you can read about here, and builds on the ten course: Vulture and the seeds of Vulture: A Compostancy / Un-Consultancy.
4 Apr 2025 – 10 Nov 2025
The process of developing our capacity to be a mentor for nature connection is a thrilling and soulful adventure that’s full of potential opportunities, challenges and possibilities. This programme will give you the skills and tools to navigate this journey for yourself and bring your leadership potential into focus, supported by experienced professionals, a community of like-minded and inspired peers, and a deep connection with the natural world itself.
This summer I’m deep in creative research for ‘a pedagogy of death, decay and destruction’, developing group practices and readying to interview Siv Watkins of Micro-Animism (on ‘the smalls’), Paul Wolflight of the Ahimsa project (on violence and heart) and Adam and Holly of the Horstmann Trust (on vultures). I’m also ridiculously excited to be heading to visit ‘their’ vultures in the wilds of Wales.
Yes, I will bring you back audio and images of these glorious birds doing their thing…
We (with Ruth Ben-Tovim and our team) are in full swing putting the word out and developing ‘A Devon Un/Learning Journey’, calling in a cohort of folk keen to look back, look around and imagine forward together. We’re plotting visits to Drake’s Mayflower, deepest Dartmoor and the suffragettes headquarters in Torquay amongst other experiential learning moments.
We’re also seeing what it takes to find funding for a project like this that enables a broad range of participants to get involved. If you’re interested in sponsoring someone or sending and funding a team / community member get in touch!
Kara Moses and I are also plotting our offerings for 2025, building on the ‘Radical Ecological Pedagogies’ work of the last few years. Watch this space.
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Lessons in Listening – 12 Sep 2024 – 16 Sep 2024
I am a guest practitioner offering into this Land Art Residency that is guiding “participants through a programme of creative experiences that will attune & develop their abilities to listen to the seen & the unseen with practices inspired by the Land, Sea & Sky.”
Wildwise: Eco-Facilitation: Skills For Experiential Environmental Education – 5 Sep 2024
This 1 day workshop introduces creative practices and simple inquiries to help open deeper connections within the natural world…
Wildwise: Nature Connection in a Complex World – 18 Jul 2024
If we go back far enough, we all have lineages that root us in healthy relationships within nature, this is our birthright as humans. We are one of the billions of species that make up this extraordinary planet. Over the centuries and across continents, different beliefs, power dynamics, societal structures and modern economics have created great imbalances and harm between humans, and to the ecologies we are part of. As we find and facilitate ways to reconnect with nature, how might we keep an awareness of the bigger picture?
Palestine - Peace, Action and Possibility - A Community Gathering – 2 Jul 2024
Do you feel helpless or stuck with how to respond to the crisis in Palestine?
Do you have endless questions? Are you raging inside? Overwhelmed, grief stricken or afraid? Unsure what to do? We all feel this, we can all relate: you are not alone.
poddd: Creative Lab – 28 Mar 2024
Within Modernity, we hide away signs of death, decay and destruction. Within nature, these is constant breakdown in intricate relationships with emergent life, and all the in betweens. Come and explore ideas through creative exercises, collaborative responses and discussion, applying some activities directly to your own context. For change agents, artists, systemic thinkers, facilitators, activists interested in processes and practices of change.
A Council Of All Beings... with a difference – 17 Mar 2024
A Council Of All Beings is a powerful practice developed by Joanna Macy and others to invite the voices of the more-than-human world to speak through us. Rooted in deep ecology, ritual, and collective inquiry, the experience will include time outside, mask making, play and a council ritual.
This Council will focus on listening for insights only from species, elements and patterns in nature that perform the essential tasks of death, decay, collapse, destruction and decomposition.
Letting Life Lead: A Systemic Constellations retreat – 2023
Devon Transformed Festival – September 2023