Naming or framing our relationship with the world as a “nature connection” is a bit risky. When we use those words, we somehow assume that it is going to be easily definable in a way […]
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Writing(with)plants – On-land: Minitopia, ‘s Hertogenbosch (in Dutch)
Kom naar Minitopia Poeldonk in ‘s Hertogenbosch voor een middag schrijven, wandelen en vertragen te midden van wilgen, circulaire tiny huisjes en de meer-dan-menselijke bewoners van deze plek. Dit is writing(with)plants zoals het bedoeld is: […]
Join us in Finland (21-28 July) for learning with Trees, Rocks, Water, … perhaps Moomins
In the week of 21–28 July, 2025, Jyväskylä, Finland, I will be part of the Nordic Summer University study circle about learning and transforming with/for/in the more than human world. Will you join us – […]
Writing(with)Oak trees – an outdoor experiment in Denmark and Discovering the initial thread for a new journey into financial ecofeminism.
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 […]
Join us this summer in Finland for a week-long experimentation and learning with the More than Human World
In the week of 21–28 July, 2025, Jyväskylä, Finland, I will be part of the Nordic Summer University study circle about learning and transforming with/for/in the more than human world. Currently there is a call […]
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 […]
There is no such thing as an Empty Landscape.
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“, […]
An Austrian Oak and a Daydream
Am I Alice, lying dreamily in the meadow and watching the clouds in the sky in the middle of a sea of daisies? She longs for a different world with different rules. Isn’t that what […]
One year already as a certified forest therapy guide (In Belgium): a spiralling perpetual journey
In the end of March 2020, I published my harvest project ‘Becoming the Frog’, some kind of graduation project if you follow the training via ANFT and did a small medicine walk to show I […]
Learning more about the effects of a nature immersion with the help of children’s drawings before and after a forest bath
Some weeks ago, just before the second lockdown in Belgium, I had the honor to guide a forest bath to 34 Flemish children in a nearby village. They were age 10-11. I know one of […]