Stories from the Wood Wide Web

Welcome to Wood Wide Web Stories, a journey since 2018 along many paths: misty, winding, hidden paths through forests, wetlands, coastlines, plantations, abandoned places, and the landscapes shaped by both memory and extraction.

We live in a time of deep disenchantment. Across much of the Germanic and Western world, and increasingly far beyond it, many people have inherited landscapes stripped of story, ritual, reciprocity, and belonging. Forests became plantations. Rivers became resources. Life became optimized, accelerated, fragmented. Many of us feel this wound intimately: in our bodies, communities, and imaginations.

Wood Wide Web Stories with the question of how to sit with the woundedness of our times and how to slowly participate in the re-enchantment of life and landscape.

Wood Wide Web Stories is a living documentation of deep experimental learning, story-making, and nature connection. It is created for all who are interested in working with plants, fungi, animals, waters, places, and other more-than-human beings as companions and collaborators rather than as background scenery or resources.

It is for those who believe that science, ecology, and critical thinking can coexist with mystery, imagination, ritual, and meaning-making. That evidence and enchantment do not need to be enemies.

It is for storytellers, artists, researchers, educators, healers, and cultural workers who feel the need for new eco-myths and living narratives. Sometimes old stories, ceremonies, and traditions can be recalibrated to meet the needs of our time. Sometimes they cannot … and we must invent new stories, practices, and rituals capable of helping us belong again.

Here you may find inspiration, networks, tools, frameworks, practices, templates, and companions for your own journey toward deeper rooting, creativity, justice, biodiversity, and health.

This work grows through newsletters, gatherings, trainings, and collaborations online and across Europe, especially in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Baltic Sea region.

It also grows through partnerships and co-created projects connected to initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus, Biodiversa, and other regenerative cultural and ecological movements. You can contact Wood wide web stories through the contact form. Please introduce yourself, through place and three more-than-human relationships you have with this place, and for which service you would like to receive an offer.

I hope this website offers seeds for your own misty and windy path to help spin and weave more wood-wide creativity, justice, health, and belonging into the world.

Blog … our ever-changing bog

Since autumn equinox 2018, you can visit here the open-access blog to read various stories from ‘woods’ and other (re)enchanted places from the whole world. Some posts are the results of explorations of academic work, while others are reflections, musings or descriptions of visits to the woods, beaches, deserts or other magical places. The blog is like a big bog. Some posts might be outdated; they reflect part of our (sometimes naive) learning, unlearning and transformation process.

This blog is started by Wendy Wuyts during autumn equinox 2018. In April 2020, Wendy started to invite others to contribute as guest bloggers to share their woodwide stories. In the menu, you can find a menu to explore the blogposts through various geographies.

If you want to learn about everything that is addressed here and can cope with the chaos of the bog, it is recommended to subscribe (via the WordPress system) to this website.