Tree Feeling Walk & Online meet up

This is a two-part event: When you register for the event you will be sent a link to an audio file for you to listen to whilst taking a walk amongst trees near you. How do I feel about this tree? How am I when we are together? How does the tree encourage me to behave? 

This walk can take place anytime before the online meet up on 22nd May. We will then join together online to discuss our experience.

Get up close and cosy with an urban tree

 Find out whether and why you value it

 Use your own bodily experience to do this, rather than information from a book, screen or expert

 Collect and compile data about the tree by using a wide variety of ways to find out their effect on you, including your sensual and personal reactions

Age and ability: You can do this walk and the associated activities whatever your age and ability. Please adjust it to fit you and your circumstances. 

Making a record of your tree-feelings: Throughout this walk you will be encouraged to record your tree-feelings using any medium you want. Please choose the ones you like, or want to experiment with. There is more information on the webpage - see below.

What will the online meeting involve? We will listen, talk to, and share our tree-feelings with each other. We will start with ‘Standing Like a Tree’ a very simple chi gung exercise (2 minutes) to root ourselves and a few moments of sitting quietly to recall our tree-time. Then we will have a conversation about:

 Our symbiosis with trees: the interaction between trees and us, organisms which live in close physical association, to the advantage of us both

 Our relationship with them: the way in which we are connected

 How we cohabit with trees: the state or fact that we live and exist at the same time and in the same place

 Our co-dependency: how we both need each other, sometimes to the detriment of the other

 Our reliance: how we depend on or trust in trees and them in us, how we depend on each other

The plan is to draw some conclusions about the value of feelings when it comes to our respect and protection of trees, something to add to the better-known ways of relating to them - counting, describing, naming and classifying.

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