Nature Dates: A community practice session
Nature doesn’t need us to save her, she needs us to love her.
Believing that humans are responsible for “saving” the rest of the natural world is the same approach of exceptionalism that has made us a threat to other beings on this planet and ourselves. What the future asks of us instead, is to enter in reciprocal relationships with the rest of life, as equals in a wider web. This is a shift that we can't abstract or intellectualize. Becoming the kind of people nature would be proud of, is something we have to practice every day.
It was on this premise that Nature Dates was created; an initiative where we create and share simple practices for re-membering our relationship with nature. Over the past months, we’ve been sharing Nature Dates through our newsletter and now we invite you to join us to practice in community.
About the session:
During the practice session we will engage with two autumn Nature Dates: “Stockpiling” and “The grateful ritual” to honor the season we are going through and the rhythms of our world.
Stockpiling is an activity for pausing to reflect on what ideas, practices and relationships we have gathered in our perpetually busy lives, that we want to honor with our renewed time and attention and intentionally take with us in the winter.
The grateful ritual is an activity for cultivating our feelings of contentment, fulfillment and appreciation for the gifts the rest of the natural world shares with us each day. A declaration of gratitude for the countless ways in which this planet and the beings on it allow us to exist.
You’ll be invited to engage with prompts and reflect on your own experience with attention, rituals, and gratitude towards the living earth.
Whether you’ve been on a Nature Date before or not, this session is a chance to co-create and have conversations about what it means to be a good partner to Life with folks who share the same sensibilities.
This online event might be for you if:
🌾Being in a loving, reciprocal relationship with nature is something you wish for and would appreciate some practical guidance on what activities could support that.
🍂You have been subscribed to our newsletter but couldn’t find the time to do the activities so far or have been missing the warmth and support of community.
🍁You found out about Nature Dates recently and would like to participate in activities that have already gone
The session is hosted by Ida and Thanasis through DesignShifts and Soil to Grow.
Proceeds from this event will go towards funding the creation of physical Nature Dates materials, so hopefully one day soon we can go into the forest to play with cards and books instead of screens.