Ben je ook een beetje klaar met (super)heldenverhalen?Altijd iemand die alles oplost, alles overwint… het begint voorspelbaar en wat leeg te voelen. Misschien ligt het niet aan jou, maar aan het soort verhalen dat we […]
Author: Wendy Wuyts
A certified forest therapy guide, storyteller, researcher and writer.
A NW-European woman interested in restorying (wounded healing) landscapes.
The wounded healer and wounded healing land – The on-land Writing(with)Plants workshop at the Rooted Festival 2026 in Aarhus, Denmark
Website screenshots from https://www.rootedfestival.com and https://institutforx.dk/ Last weekend, I attended the Rooted Festival in Aarhus. It was already the second time edition, and probably not the last edition. The program You might recognize two bloggers […]
Plants and bog bodies before and after the Ragnarok – a Danish National Museum experience
Today I had landed in Michael Ende’s the NeverEnding Stort. I visited the THE VIKING SORCERESS exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen. The feeling of the first part of the exhibition was an installation […]
Penelope, Unravelled — On Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and the Trickster Who Never Left Home
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has been out for five minutes and people are already arguing about the wrong things. The casting. The runtime. Whether Matt Damon can pull off a Greek hero. Meanwhile, the most interesting character in the whole epic is being ignored again, the way she has been for three thousand years. I’m talking about Penelope. Not the patient wife. The trickster.
The Writing(with)plants Campaign Closed … but You Have One More Month
The crowdfunding campaign for Writing(with)Plants has ended successfully. The book is now in production. But for those who missed it, there is one final opportunity to order your copy at the early supporter price of €40 … this month […]
Quebracho trees in Argentina – on greeting and giving gifts to trees
Every so often, I sit at a table with environmental humanities scholars and discuss topics such as multispecies design. This is how I frequently come across new threads for stories about the wood wide web. […]
The Women and Plants who shape(d) Rome
Another view on Rome, the Eternal city in Italy
Toads, Mice, a Cuckoo and Saint Gertrude
… or how my transition into a wooden tiny house perched on stone legs in sandy soil intertwines with my Rewilding Saint project, creating a mid-spring ritual. My personal lived experience (the inspiration): At the […]
On Whit Monday (25 May), let’s rewild and reroot local female saints
I am back with another symposium, this time on Whit Monday (May 25th, 12.00-20.00 Brussels time / CEST / UTC+2) to discuss and create eco-myths, this time blending botany and Catholic female saints’ stories. I […]
How to write nonhuman characters in healing fiction
This blogpost is based on my 20 minute talk (15 April) during the “Join the Orca Uprising!” Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice. 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, hosted in Utrecht University (14–17 April 2026). The photographs are taken […]