Join us for our Autumn Walking meditation - the fourth and final of our guided series of walking meditations in the woods. 

Experience deep listening, witness and presence, through aspects of forest bathing to deepen our sense of belonging.

The walking mediation is guided by Deborah Kelly and Clare Whistler. Rebecca E Marshall accompanies to film the traces we leave in the woodland environment, generating a film of our belonging through the seasons.
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The first walk was in Winter at dawn, the second in Spring at mid-morning, the third was Summer at midday, and the fourth and final walk is Autumn at dusk.
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The walks have offered different routes through the woodland to connect with each season. The four walks are generating a film that will be presented on November 24th 2024 with live music. Tickets will be available for the premiere screening alongside a banquet meal to celebrate the year, cooked by Homeground Kitchen at the Dear Future Festival.
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Autumn Walk:
Saturday October 19th, 3.30pm-6.30pm
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Meet whatever the weather. Wear suitable clothes.
12 places. £20pp

About the workshop leaders:

Dr. Deborah Kelly (D Pysch) is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, group facilitator and teacher. With a background in nursing, and shiatsu, she has worked in end-of-life care for over 25 years, initiating projects for palliative care groups, in and with nature and drawing on principles of Asclepian healing. She works with ritual, myth, creative exploration and bodywork within the cycle of the seasons. Her interests lie in therapeutic aspects of place, and, more specifically, working with nature and embodied imagination in her practice and academic research. She has published works on Eco-therapy, palliative care, environmental arts and transpersonal research.

Clare Whistler is a collaborative artist who makes site specific work in the landscape, poetry, performance, music and visual art. Current collaborative projects include Kin’d & kin’d with poet Kay Syrad as a composite eco poet; Waterweek & Watercycle with visual artist Charlotte Still; Turner & Whistler installations with visual artist Nicola Turner and Elephant Press for collaborative books with Raphael Whittle. This year she is touring ‘Something Light Written - two poets and an oak tree’ with poet Alice Willits.

Clare has worked with Deborah Kelly for ten years in the woods and for the Sara Lee trust. She has collaborated with filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall over many years and is a charter member of Dear Future.

Dr. Rebecca E Marshall is a filmmaker and Doctor of Philosophy though the practice of film. Her daily exercise includes filming moments of everyday life to plunge into spaces of deep looking as a type of care. For over twenty-five years she has used the camera as a personal method of conversing with the world, using the camera lens like a fingertip to feel into moments, collecting footage as pages of a filmic sketch book. As a filmmaker she embraces uncertainty and ongoing change to explore experiences of time. Her workshops facilitate creative thinking through the practice of film.