Connect to the Forest Gallery & Nature Tour

The morning will begin with a gallery tour by artist Clare Hewitt of her exhibition ‘Everything in the forest is the forest’. Responding to a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK, acclaimed photographer Clare’s exhibition celebrates trees and their remarkable ability to nurture and communicate.   Following a break for tea, you’re invited to step beyond observation into embodied experience. Led by Laura Babb (The Clear Space) we’ll journey to meet the trees of Cannon Hill Park and explore what it means to be in community with the more-than-human world and with each other. 

Through gentle guided eco-somatic and nature-therapy based practices, we’ll consider how, just like trees, we can thrive through interconnection, reciprocity and responsiveness. When we move from exploring the forest as metaphor to experiencing it as a living, nurturing presence, we can begin to find ourselves in relationship with it, receiving holding, grounding and connecting, while offering our attention and responsibility in return.