Last summer, I was for a week in Czech Republic, visited Prague and dreamed about a rewilded story of Sarka. Afterwards, I participated in the Summer training school programme “Tracing & dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes“, […]
Author: Wendy Wuyts
A certified forest therapy guide, storyteller, researcher and writer.
A NW-European woman interested in restorying (wounded healing) landscapes.
Rewilding the Czech legend of Libuše’s vision and Wild Sarka
I met Libuše and Sarka nine years ago. I lived in Prague for a year, because I was enrolled in a vocational training in film making, with focus on video editing and script writing. My […]
A Linden Tree in Tongerlo (and educational philosophy for the future)
One of my new short stories got published as part of a book of speculative social fiction that present different possible futures of education. About the book: Educational Fabulations *Teaching and Learning for a World […]
That special tree/plant in our lives is often rooted in a landscape of the past
One of the invitations that I give to my participants at the beginning of my nature based practices is to share a memory about a special tree in their life. I pair them up and […]
Rewilding Cinderella
One of the outcomes of the global pandemic is that people discover that digital technologies can create a new space of gathering and storytelling. Today I attended an event organised by the George Ewart Evans Storytelling […]
Ecofeminism anno 2022: writing wild
This winter, one of the mentors of the writers academy in Antwerp, recommended me this book. I bought it. I do not get only inspiration for my current fiction book, but I also start dreaming […]
Sacred garden trees, pt. 3: an ash tree in Gjøvik
Two weeks ago, I took the bus for 15 minutes, just out of Gjøvik, and walked another 15 minutes to reach @indalforestretreat .Plan: receiving, being in the presence. No wifi. And getting out of my winter cocoon. […]
a musing: evergreens in Christmas songs, midwinter poems and cultural heritage
Traditionally, the spruce is the Christmas tree in the North-West of Europe, but this is not always the evergreen with is the subject of christmas carols. In Flanders, we have a famous christmas song about […]
Sacred trees in science fiction
Some weeks ago, I watched the movie “Dune (part 1)”, the latest adaption of the science fiction book by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. One of the scenes that struck me was the introduction of […]
Phytographia – or writing with plants
I am involved in several projects where we want to cultivate more nature connection and a deeper conscious how connected we are with more than human beings, like plants. One of the big problems – […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 