This workshop is a challenging and empowering
opportunity to renew your personal and/or educational practice.
For many of us, our environmentalism is rooted in a feeling
of love for the natural world. This workshop offers a way to
re-connect with this deep wellspring of connectedness. Through
dancing, writing, ritual theatre and personal sharing you will
be supported to re-engage with the original source of your
inspiration and release new untapped creative power.
The Council of all Beings was a workshop created in the 1980’s
by environmental activists John Seed, Joanna Macy and Pat Fleming
to address the deepening sense of alienation from the natural
world that many of us feel.
Through a series of dynamic experiential exercises, movement
work, reflection, visualisations, and time spent in nature
we will explore our concern and love for our
planet, rediscovering our “deep ecology”– our
interconnectedness with the myriad species and landscapes of
the Earth.
The workshop is a transformative opportunity to experience our
relationship with nature and find new sources of power, inspiration
and commitment to regenerating the Earth.
Course Leaders -
Pat Fleming trained and worked extensively with Joanna Macy
over 25 years and helped develop the Council of All Beings as a workshop ritual
form along with John Seed and Joanna Macy in Australia. The Council of All
Beings is a process to enable us explore a deeper identification with our Ecological
sense of self, one which encompasses all other life forms, which can be a powerful
source of inspiration and renewal, especially in working for the planet.
Pat now lives on Dartmoor where she works as a writer, researcher, business
advisor and also an organic grower specialising in medicinal plants.
Chris Salisbury founded WildWise after many years working as an education officer
for Devon Wildlife Trust. With a background in the theatre, a training in therapy
and a career in environmental education he uses every creative means at his disposal
to encourage people to enjoy and value the natural world. He has worked with
Ray Mears and John Rhyder, amongst many others.
We will provide an evening meal and a simple breakfast. You will need to bring
your own food for lunch on both days.
Location: This camp will take place at a beautiful wild
woodland near Bovey Tracey, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
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