Autumn Nature Immersion in Honey Woods

About This Event 

Come to this workshop to expand your understanding of what nature is, and explore your immersion within it! Through touch, smell, play, imagination and language, we will un-ravel multiple questions. How can we navigate through using lichen on a tree and learn to sense the micro-climates around us? How do Kent's infrastructure shapes how we know the natural world? What can we learn how our own pasts have been shaped by the non-human world? How do different cultures define nature?

By the end of the workshop participants may feel empowered to re-shape how ‘nature’ shapes their personal lives. Participants will be emailed a pack of resources for further explorations. You will also leave having read your natural environment using nothing but clues found in nature, from learning how time is written on trees to the way wind shapes the woods. Lastly, many of my past attendees have described feeling 'calmer' after the workshop. The de-stressing power of nature immersion can not be underestimated! See photos from my last workshop here. 

Logistics

We will meet outside Tyler Hill Memorial Hall at 2pm. We will then make our way into Honey Woods (connecting to Blean woods), and return to the village hall for the second half of the workshop - warming up with tea and biscuits! For those who wish, we can head to Tyler Hill's cosy village pub after, Tyler's Kiln! There will be a maximum of 22 participants.

See here to find the meeting place on the map. It's about a 15 minute walk from Kent University Campus, while you can catch the Number 5 bus to Tyler Hill from Canterbury Bus station (11 min journey). 

Who is this workshop for?

Any one with the desire to connect to nature in a new way! This event is not suitable for young children. 

Who’s facilitating it?

My name is Flora Hastings. I’m a third year PhD Researcher at SOAS, University of London. My research explores the growth of urban food gardens in Barcelona and within them, shifting relations to the natural world within them. I am also an educator who creates immersive, outdoors workshop, facilitating sessions for SOAS anthropology department to educational institution in Berlin and Barcelona. In the past few years I have learnt closely from individuals with inspiring relations to the natural world, from former peasant farmers to local activists who have created ecological food gardens in their neighbourhood!

See my website here: www.florahastings.com. Past workshops (as shared on my websites) were mainly geared towards anthropology students, and so this session will be considerably different!

Cost

For those who earn the minimum hourly wage or are students, tickets are £10.

For those who earn more than 40k p/annum, tickets are £15.

There will be some tickets for those who cannot pay, please email me if this is the case: florahastings3@gmail.com

Accessibility

While the walk currently involves steps, this session can be shaped to be step free for accessibility requirements. Please reach out if this is required.

* the photo on this page was from my last workshop (permission from photographed participants was granted)