Becoming Kin is a 6 week experiential journey to help us remember the wild wisdom of the web of life. It takes place online, in community, and, through homeplay outdoors where you live. It offers potent practices to strengthen our relationship with the more than human world around us, right where we are, including in our own bodies, so that we can expand the possibilities of living from a place of embodied interconnection. It is an opportunity to find ground, inspiration and creative responses to the challenges of our times.
Through movement, embodied and creative enquiry, time outside and time with each other, sharing, listening, practicing and learning, we explore how we might come into communion with the world around us, not from the place of preconceived story about the other beings but from an embodied place, with curiosity, respect and awareness of the sentience and intelligence of the life that is there in front of us? And from a place of listening to more than just ourselves and the human world, what stories do we then tell about who we are and what our place is in the web of relationship? What is it that matters to us? To what do we devote our time and thereby make it important or even sacred?
We live in a time of many crises, in a dominant culture that enforces an impoverished and harmful view of our relationship to the more than human world. We need practices that serve as reminders that the world around us is sentient and communicates with us every step of the way. And we need to remember that we, too, are part of nature and belong to the web of life. Only if we change our stories about the relationship between ourselves and all other beings in the web, the kinds of changes that we need now to address the many crises on our planet can become possible. And how do we change the story? Through experience and practice, in community.
This path of pursuing change in the world is not separate from the personal quests and questions we might be grappling with (and vice versa): the longing for purpose, meaning and a sense of aliveness, the desire to to navigate change and challenge with more resilience, ground and guidance, the pursuit of a better understanding of who we are and what we are here to do: To find the meaning and purpose we long for, we need to reclaim our belonging to the web of life. The path there leads us via our own bodies where we can most directly access our interconnected nature and the wisdom of life.
You can find out more about the journey at www.becomingkin.earth
