This action invites you to identify an unloved place, a place of multispecies trauma in or near your community. These may include: toxic land or waters, areas of cut down or dying hedges or trees, urban blight, litter-strewn green spaces, or sites with violent histories. Please feel free to choose wherever is meaningful to you. You may do this alone or with others.
On the day of practice, you are invited to go to your chosen site and conduct an action by sitting in meditation, in silence or in a guided meditation. Sitting and simply offering your presence, bearing witness in this way, could be your practice, or you may wish to offer gestures such as a song, a poem. You might sow seeds at the site or do a litter pick before sitting, you may also use a banner, or a placard with a written or visual message. We sit in this way to pay homage, as a statement of the worthiness of the local ecosystem, past, present, and future.
Saturday June 13th at 9am and 5pm: before and after the action to connect with each other, to find ground, and to share and reflect on our experiences of the day. You are welcome to take part even if you cannot make one or all of these meetings.
