Relating to Land and Nature
Collective Wounds of Ownership
Online | English
What will we be exploring in this Lab?
Through a deeper sensing of how wild and ownership/property live in each of us, our intention is to support the surfacing and integration of disconnection, numbing, fear, perpetration, and victim layers that inform decision-making, habits, attitudes, and behaviors regarding wild land, animals and plants. By attuning to our individual, ancestral, and collective field, we will investigate what arises and what are possible futures and alternatives for relating to wild land, plants and animals including reciprocity, stewardship, and communion.
Who is invited to participate?
The lab is designed for participants who are longing to feel a more intimate relating and connecting to land and who are interested in exploring the wounds in relation to wild land and non-human inhabitants. We are inviting participants who are interested in exploring our relating to land inhabited by plants and animals, including borders, nations, and various ownership structures (ie., common land, privately owned, government owned, corporate owned, Indigenously held, or terra nullius “nobody’s land”). Participants who want to explore the wildness within and around us are welcome.
More about the journey of the Lab
In the first meetings, we will build group coherence and develop skills to support a collective container. This foundation will allow us to share and explore individual, ancestral, and collective experiences and traumas of how ownership of land inhabited by animals and plants affects natural rhythms and wildness within and around us. In addition to hosting and integrating trauma and lost kinship with nature, the lab will provide opportunities to explore alternate ways of relating including stewardship, reciprocity, and communion.
When will we be meeting?
We will be meeting for 2 hours for most sessions. We will meet for 3 hours for 2 sessions. Meeting will be Sundays from 12pm - 2pm EST. The dates are March 15, March 29, April 26, May 24 (3 hours), June 14, July 12, Aug 2 (3 hours) , Aug 23, Sept 13, Oct 4, Oct 18, Nov 8
