With this group my intention has been to offer a space where we bring all that is sitting within us through our daily interactions in this volatile and uncertain world, and lean into the wider systems and processes we are part of at the level of biosphere, with the part of our psyches that is …
EcoWild Director Emily Malik looks back on a decade of EcoWild. Back in 2012 I was aware that we all needed to get out in beautiful living spaces more and how helpful it was for my sanity. I had 3 young children at the time so began a woodland baby and toddler group called Nature …
EcoWild Board Member Owain Jones reflects on 10 years of EcoWild. It is an honour to be associated with EcoWild and to write this reflection. I have been involved in thinking about, researching, writing and teaching about the environmental crisis since the early 1990s. Then I was drawing upon pioneering books such as Tim O’Riordan’s …
People from all over the world have begun to develop a familiarity and ease with our local landscape, through sessions led by EcoWild as part of a project with refugees and non-EU migrants. In partnership with The Community Farm and Groundwork’s IMPACT project, 10 City Nature sessions in Bristol and 24 wellbeing and farming days at the Community farm in …
In my role supporting the Nature Health Practice Network in the West of England, I chair a special interest group on Diversity and Inclusion in Nature and Health. We have some great discussions in this group, sharing successes of our work to challenge inequality of access to health benefits of green spaces. St Paul’s …
Covid 19 – Some describe this time by saying we’re all on the same sea but in different vessels. Yes we’re all in this together, but with so many different outlooks. There is widespread compassion for the plight of those in struggle. But that compassion finds its limit for many when their residential area is …
Leaving primary school for secondary is a big change that we all remember, as life changes dramatically at this age. The 27 children in Year 6 at St Mary’s in Timsbury will soon be spreading their wings to secondary and the new horizons this brings. In symbolism of this transition, during their last term they have …
What will we do as we move towards a less stable climate, as extreme weather becomes more common? Already we are a species divorced from the natural environment, in concert with which we spent millennia evolving. We have lost not only our intuition, instinct and responsiveness to the rhythms of the living world, but also …
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