A Growing Gathering Around Plants and Stories The latest Writing (with) Plants session brought together a large and geographically diverse group of participants for a two-hour online gathering dedicated to marsh reeds and the myth of Syrinx. I […]
Tag: ecomythology
Skipping International Women’s Day, Rewilding St Patrick’s Day instead
Bringing Back the Snakes and Wild Waters to Ireland Every year as Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about snakes. Not the symbolic ones we are told were driven out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, but […]
Rivers, Folk Songs, and the More-Than-Human World: Exploring Latvian Ecomythology
Our summer symposium 2026 will take place in Latvia. Therefore, during our NSU circle winter symposium on Eco-mythology (17-18 January 2026), Kārlis Lakševics, a lecturer at the University of Latvia, shared ideas what an Eco-mythology […]
An ecomyth: Rewriting and living the Kalevala’s Nine diseases and sampo
Eco + MythologyEco from oikos: home, household.Myth from mythos: story, narrative.Logy from logos: knowledge, deep inquiry. Eco+Mythology is the art and practice of creating new stories, ceremonies, and rituals calibrated to the needs, challenges, and resources of our time. We live […]
Swamp-thinking, Soil soups and a Billion Folk Songs in the Nordic-Baltic region of Europe – a synthesis of our eco+mythology symposium
The eco+mythology winter symposium was dense with richness and layers. What I carried out of it will inevitably differ from what others took home. What follows is not a neutral report, but a situated retelling, […]
Brewing Soil Soup in a Cauldron – Tools for an online symposium
During the weekend of 17–18 January 2026, we hosted an online Winter Symposium for our study circle Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In a More-than-human World. This gathering marked the third of six symposia taking place […]
EcoMythology online winter symposium (17-18 January 2026)
We welcome anyone on this online weekend event, who wants to learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood, or your life. The programme Timezone: Brussels […]
Eco-imagination: A place-based writing workshop during Ecoliteracy festival in Heimdall’s home in Denmark
In August 2025, I attended the International Ecoliteracy Research Festival, held at the enchanting Himmelberggaarden in Ry, Denmark. A few days beforehand, I learned from Anika, a wandering “serial rooter” currently based in Aarhus (just […]
ECO+MYTHOLOGY 2026: Call for contributions for our online NSU winter symposium (Deadline 31 october 2025)
The Word of 2026 will be Eco+mythology (home+narrative). Co-create an eco-mythology with us in the weekend of 17-18 January 2026 Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human […]
Flowing with Eglė: From desexualised wastelands to hydrosexuality in Skagen
In this blog post (20 minutes reading time, please brew some tea and enjoy), I share reflections on my short holiday visit to Skagen in Denmark, the place where the Baltic Sea meets the North […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 