Events
Wayfinders
A monthly walking group - for men navigating the challenges of modern life.
If you are based near Bristol / Bath or the SW and would like to explore together - please join the mailing list.
Register below for more information and updates - launching in 2025.
A Deep Time Walk Guided
Once I have completed my facilitation training in late Summer 2024; I will be offering seasonal Deep Time Walks to small groups, communities and business teams in Bristol, Somerset and across the south west of UK.
A transformative Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km guided walk, as you journey through 4.6 billion years of Planet Earth’s evolution.
An invitation to experience the world differently, encouraging positive action and to viscerally fathom our infinitesimal place in space and time. To ponder how humans have become a sudden, perilous geological force. This is not about human exceptionalism, but how we are part of a wider web of sacred life.
Through a physical walk of 4.6km, participants walk across Earth's 4.6 billion year timeline at a uniform rate of one million years per metre. Starting at the formation of the solar system and the creation of Earth, the walk covers some of the most signicant events and key revolutions in Earth's deep history, including the formation of the Moon, the oceans, the atmosphere, the early evolution of single-celled life, plate tectonics, multicellular life, the Cambrian Explosion, mass extinctions, dinosaurs and right at the end, our own species, Homo sapiens - just in the last 30 centimetres!
The Deep Time Walk Project’s theory of change is that through a deep experience of participating in a walk, participants deeply question their place in the living world which in turn leads to a deep commitment for positive change and a lifelong exploration of locating and expressing their relationship within our living world. This cycle is based on the work of philosopher Arne Naess, and adapted by Stephan Harding, one of the co-creators of the Deep Time Walk and a founding member of the faculty at Schumacher College, UK.
Deep time provides "a radical perspective, provoking action not apathy ... [it] is the catalysing context of intergenerational justice; it is what frames the inspiring activism of Greta Thunberg and the school climate-strikers, and the Sunrise campaigners pushing for a Green New Deal in America. A deep-time perspective requires us to consider not only how we will imagine the future, but how the future will imagine us. It asks a version of Jonas Salk’s arresting question: “Are we being good ancestors? ” – Robert MacFarlane
Check out this episode from The Spaceship Earth’s podcast with Dr. Stephan Harding and his new book Gaia Alchemy - The Reuniting of Science. Psyche, and Soul.
Facilitated and guided walk for groups [12 people max]
Suitable for small groups, communities and business teams.
£ TBC
Please register below for more information and updates.
ReRooted: Ecological Masculinities
Join a small learning community, over four workshop sessions dedicated to unravelling, rewilding and reimagining the complexities of masculinity narratives. Created and hosted by Virginia Vigliar
As we see the results of what an extractive patriarchal society has led to (violence, war, climate disasters) it becomes fundamental to collectively unpack and understand how we reimagine masculinity and explore a community focussed and ecological approach to the topic.
We are looking to gather a small learning cohort (max. 10 places) - to enable this community to ‘take root’.
If you are interested in finding out more - please register below.
‘Through ecological, political, historical, sociocultural and mythopoetic lens, we’ll blend the personal with the collective, the interpersonal with the intra-personal. We’ll unearth fresh narratives for masculinity, engage in enriching dialogues, explore the work of remarkable artists and writers, and employ creative exercises to transform our personal and collective stories for the future.
In a world where the narrative of masculinity is often fragmented, misunderstood, or stagnant, the Ecological Approach to Masculinities online workshop offers a transformative space to engage in deep dialogue, introspection, and creative exploration through ecological and mythopoetic lens.
The workshop is born from the need for an approach to masculinity that holds nuances, respects personal stories, and is aware of collective narratives. In patriarchy, stories about masculinity are stagnant, they speak of conquest, violence, and a constant pressure to perform. This lack of malleability in storytelling is something very important to tend to and how we can reimagine and weave new narratives for radical change together.’
Online workshop (4 sessions)
Dates to be confirmed
£275 per place
Limited sponsored places available for those unable to afford full rate. Please get in touch for more info.
