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DATING WITH PLANTS
Or “three years wood wide web stories” I am 32 years old and I have always been single … in the eyes of my parents. I never introduced someone as my significant other to them. There were men whom I loved dearly and my parents knew about some of my romances, though. As in the life of other single women, there are friends who analyze why I have never had a long relationship ;). The biggest denominator of their theories is that I am unrooted. I do not settle. And it is true. I have lived in different places around…
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 – and root causes of other big problems – is our alienation of the more-than-human world. We move the whole time indoors, leave the house via the garage, using our car, enter another building for work, and then travel again inside a car to another indoor environment. At my new work, I was helping writing a funding for a project to improve the indoor environment, and…
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. We had 3-4 online sessions last spring. This is a brave space for sharing, deep listening, for different knowledge systems and backgrounds, and for creating something after all this pollination. During the International Forest therapy days, early June, we did a session with dandelion and had around 15 participants. But there was a session where nobody showed up. Maybe it was bad timing, maybe the…
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 many humans, always in a rush in this accelerating society. We get tired, isolated, stressed. In 2021, I started to organise virtual roundtables, first on rooting and belonging, both in Flemish and English. I invited always a plant to be part of these online circles of wisdom. Towards the end of the 2021, the writing(with)plant sessions grew out of these circles. These are small moments…
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 and anxiety about the hot temperatures. I joined a friend who loves the Balkan; but can only take holidays in July. In the next weeks, I will share tree-inspired stories from the Balkan, because these trees were some of the beings that kept me sane in the scorching heat. This blog is about a visit to Dubrovnik in Croatia. Being a tourist with fleeting experiences…
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 we can remember their roles and our connections – through some creative practices of knowledge and healing. Writing(with)plants – what is this? Last year, I wrote some thoughts about dating with plants, plant companions and then we organised some writing(with)plants sessions. Please find here some thoughts about phytographia or writing (with) plants we wrote in winter 2021. After some circles and a summer break outside,…
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 sprouted from older projects (Re)*Rooting Circles and Brussels Health Gardens. This blog envelopes the invitation to organize your own writing(with)plant sessions or to join the online circles that we organize. I announce the next circles on my Instagram profile wendywuytswriter. Acknowledging vegetal intelligence This practice is informed by the knowledge that plants are intelligent. Western science starts to acknowledge this, but in other, especially indigenous…
Flowing with Eglė meets Writing(with)Birch
In this winter and spring, we are combining two projects: the Flowing with Eglė – Project and the Writing (with) plants – Project. The myth of Eglė who transforms herself and her four children into trees lends itself to the shapeshifting exercise at the end of each Writing(with) plants circle. We will do five circles, one for Eglė (spruce) and her four children. In the end of January 2025, we had a first circle with Eglė (Spruce). As we foreground this queen in many other blogs, I want to focus on one of her children, which will be our guest…
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 scientific facts. I have been fascinated by ash trees for a long time and, unsurprisingly, I wrote a short story featuring one: “An Ash Tree in Os”—a feminist science fiction tale about grief and loss that was published. It was inevitable that the Ash Tree would be invited. Preparing a session with an Ash Tree is straightforward, but I want to remain open to what…
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 during the sessions, which indeed required a certain level of presence. The facilitator, however, always remained indoors. During a spring equinox gathering at the Nordic Summer University, we chose to hold our session outdoors, seated beside the oak trees. This time, I stepped back from my usual role as facilitator and allowed Heide to lead the session. This blog captures my impressions of being outdoors,…
Flowing with Eglė: Ash, Blood, Passover, Sacrifice
As aforementioned, this spring and summer, we are combining the method of Writing (with) plants with the Flowing with Eglė – Project, where we create a new eco-myth. In this old myth, different human characters transform in trees, and we invite these trees as our guests in writing(with)plant sessions. the HARVEST FROM OUR WRITING(WITH)ASH SESSION A few days before Easter celebration on Sunday April 20th, and in the middle of the Jewish Passover, which began on Saturday, April 12, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20, we invited the Ash Tree in our space. We had ten attendees, who called…
Writing(with)mugwort on Friday 12 september
Update (25 September): This blogpost has been transformed from an announcement and call to join… to a musing where you can find the slides (free download link) and some notes. The call (sent in august 2025) As some of you know, we have been organizing online and live writing(with)plant sessions for some years. Mostly we are more active at this time of the year, when the days here in the northern hemisphere are getting shorter and darker, and we tend to turn inward. This time we invite Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris) as our special guest. You can read more about this method/practice on this page: Writing (with)…
Siding with Cedar
Language is a scaffold for architectures which create, inform and shape infrastructures- actual spaces for connection, coherence and sensemaking among cultural and biological complex adaptive systems which are relational, multilayered and shifting over time and space. I work/play at weaving experience for which we do not have language but merges and moves through us as dimensionalities, connected and breaking apart. Held in light by bonds of caring and desire for wholeheartedness, for healing, for inclusion not exclusion, to be filled with joy and gratitude, openness not fear, anger or contraction. I feel backward and forward in time. My feet touch…
Writing(with) Hogweed on Friday 10 October 2025
Update 16 October: The announcement became a musing with some reflections afterwards. Why this plant? After Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, one of the co-founders of writing(with)plants, representing a bigger collective did a session on the Dose Symposium foregrounding the hogweed, there was a fascinating email exchange between some of us.. Is it an evil plant? We found text connecting the hogweed with imperialism in Russia and post-soviet landscapes. The song by Genesis is also portraying this plant as something scary. It is tricky to not fall in binary thinking and label plants as good or wrong, poison or medicine. Perhaps they are…
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