Today I went bicycling in my paternal grandparents’ region. Some time ago, an old friend from university, a linguist with a big passion for history, who is born in the same village as my grandfather, […]
Guiding my first Forest Bath – and reconnecting with Belgium in October
As part of my 6 month long practicum with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT), I have to guide 4 forest baths. Directly after I did the on-site training in Colorado and explored […]
Changing the Stories We Live By #2: The Forest Sees You.
In the past weeks I am studying forest therapy and ecolinguistics, as part of my journey these days which I can call the Way of the Guide, but also to see if the Flemish circular […]
The Forest Awakens – or starting my journey to become a forest therapy guide
Earlier in September, two weeks before the autumn equinox, I started my 6 month long training to become a certified guide of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides (ANFT). I traveled to this […]
One Year of Wood Wide Web Stories
Last year, during the autumn equinox, I decided to start this website and blog. It has been already one year that I posted my first blog: How the Search for Tree Spirits Started. I am starting […]
Changing the Stories We Live by #1: Appreciating Rain
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories that individuals or nations live by and you change the individuals and nations themselves (Ben Okri). A friend recommended me the free on-line course Ecolinguistics, […]
Forests, Mountains and other therapists
On the last day of August, I reflect what the forests, my ‘soft’ therapists, and the mountains, my ‘raw’ therapists taught me this summer in Japan. Middle of June – Mt Fuji from below Ten […]
Fireworks, Bamboo and the Height of Japanese Summer
After Summer solstice (and my bestie from Norway left), the weather changed very dramatically in Nagoya, Japan. In the last week of June, I felt myself suffocating in the evenings. The temperature and humidity started […]
Wood weaving & forest bathing in Nagano, Japan
Last weekend, I co-organised a trilingual forest retreat weekend in Nagano, Japan I helped to organize. Yes, trilingual 😃. At some point I was mixing Japanese, Spanish and English 😅. On the program we had wood weaving, yoga, […]
Poison Ivy Teachings
Originally posted on The Druid's Garden:
Sometimes, as druids and as nature-oriented people, we focus only on the fuzzy and happy parts of nature: blooming edible flowers, fuzzy soft rabbits, cute animals, soft mats…
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 