Over the past few years, most of our writing sessions were conducted online within plant circles, with participants generally isolated in their rooms. Despite this, we were aware that some participants chose to walk outside […]
Category: writing(with)plants
What would you like to learn about the Ash Tree? (Preparing the Writing(with)Ash session, 16 April)
It’s time for another writing session with plants. This time, we welcome another progeny of Eglė—the Ash Tree. Although Baltic mythology doesn’t specifically highlight ash trees, these trees are steeped in rich mythology, folklore, and […]
Flowing with Eglė : Birch, her lover, her fantasy, her carnival mask
Today, I facilitated another Writing(with)Plants session, this time inviting the presence of the birch tree. During the creative writing segment, I found myself exploring who Birch might have been before transforming into a tree, inspired […]
Writing(with)Plants DIWO: Do-It-With-Others
In this blogpost, I share background, recommendations for DIWO sessions, and (screenshots of) slides that I have been using in the 15 online writing(with)plant sessions … that we have been organizing since November 2021 and […]
The water lily, the serpent and the nøkk, an ecofeminist trinity?
This website celebrates it’s 6th birthday today. Since I decided around autumn equinox 2018 to be vulnerable and share my observations, experiences and thoughts about deep human nature connection, the website has been changing a […]
New online writing(with)plant sessions: Pumpkin, ginger & cinnamon
And we are back. After some live experiments in Belgium, we will organize few online circles in the upcoming dark months we organise two new artivist online circles where we foreground a plant or two. […]
Writing (with) A Sycamore tree and ivy weeds in Dubrovnik
A musing about the tensions between urban greening, cultural heritage and the role of the plants Last summer, I went on a trip to the Balkan. I felt already eco-guilt and -shame about the flight […]
Forest bathing as a way of life (?)
The International Forest Therapy Day (IFTD) are returning this summer, with an interesting new theme. I am not original and copied the theme in the title. Forest bathing Forest bathing – or shinrin yoku is […]
Feel invited to join one or more of the 3 new writing(with)plant sessions early February.
The world can look dark, especially in January for the people who live in the northern hemisphere. The days are short, the winter holiday decorations and cosiness fade away. Nature seems asleep or dead, except […]
2 new writing(with)plants sessions in November 2022
Often we underestimate the power of plants. We, humans, think often that we are the only stewards or helpers of the earth, but plants can be our allies too. Therefore, we organise virtual circles where […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 