Kinship: a feeling of being close or similar to other people or things
The seemingly benign word ‘nature’ severs humans from a relational way of being by destroying bonds of kinship with the more-than-human world. It is both the product and proprietor of a worldview that stipulates a dichotomy between Mind and body, that dileneates strict borders between the sacred and mundane, animate and inanimate, Self and other. Yet from the microcosm of the microbiome to the macrocosm of the Earth System, these neat categories come undone. Reality defies borders because it is relational and emergent. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This yarn seeks to explore how we might rekindle these ties of kinship with the web of being.
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More-than-human
What teachings does the more-than-human world gift us on the nature of reality and avenues for cultivating emergent futures?
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Biomimicry
In what ways would anthropogenic structures change if we modelled them after the wisdom and beauty intrinsic to the natural world?
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Regeneration
How does re-storying the land enable it to ‘speak’, and what does Earth have to say?
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Seeding Earthbound Stories
How does story work and what role does it play in helping us to navigate the complex nature of reality?
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An Uprooted Existence
How does our relationship with trees affect us?
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Thinking Like a Forest
How can thinking like a forest help us to reclaim the parts of ourselves that are lost to a materialist worldview?
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Re-weaving the Web of Meaning
How can the wisdom of the Tree of Life help us to navigate the Great Unravelling and re-weave the web of meaning?
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The Embodied Language of Plants
A meditation on the linguistic reality of plants.
