Reconnecting with nature via a beautiful blend of ethnobotany, storytelling and creative writing.
Have you ever held an acorn in your hand and wondered at the world it contains within? Have you ever sat with a tree, and imagined its story - past, present and future?
Join writer and broadcaster Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and ethnobotanist Pridie Tiernan on this immersive nature-based writing workshop, where you'll explore and deepen your connection with the more than human world via a beautiful blend of ethnobotany, storytelling and joyful writing exercises.
It's easy to feel disconnected from our natural world - we spend so much time indoors we often forget what’s happening in nature. And the less we interact with the natural world, the more detached we can feel. Engaging in simple outdoor practices, tuning in to the folklore and stories of our plants, trees and creatures, and exploring all that we think and feel in these moments through our own writing, can offer us a beautiful opportunity to rekindle that relationship.
Antonia and Pridie share a passion for exploring how practical and storied immersion in nature can connect people with the natural world. The more we become engaged with nature, the more we want to do all we can to protect it!
In essence this workshop is a very gentle form of environmental activism, done through the joyful medium of ethnobotany, outdoor storytelling and the written word. We'll be sharing stories around the fire, encountering some of the 'old ways' of interacting with the land, and getting creative with some imaginative, uplifting writing exercises that will help you sink deeper into the folds of the natural world.
Included:
Expert guidance in a series of writing exercises inspired by nature.
The chance to spend the day (and a night, if you wish) on Pridie’s gorgeous hill farm in the stunning surroundings of Wales’ Bannau Brycheiniog.
The sharing of traditional plant practice, folklore and folktales.
A delicious vegan supper cooked on the campfire.
Also available:
The option to camp at Cwmffrwd Farm Campsite (the farm is in a Dark Sky Reserve and is perfect for stargazing!) £10p/ adult, per night.
Bell tents are also available to book, as is our beautiful 17th Century Hayloft (sleeps up to six) - please see www.thewildofthewords.co.uk for more info.
Please note that participants are asked to bring their own lunch to eat on our afternoon walk.
Practical information:
-16+ years only
-Supper is provided, please bring a light lunch to eat while walking.
-Bring your own camping equipment if staying.
About Antonia
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is a writer and broadcaster with a particular interest in environmental and humanitarian narratives.
Her latest book, Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains was Shortlisted for the 2018 Stanford's Adventure Travel Book of the Year, and she writes for The Guardian, The Financial Times and Geographical, among others.
In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's prestigious Neville Shulman Challenge Award.
Antonia has presented a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, on subjects ranging from shamanism, snow leopards, community conservation in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland and the rise of vehicle dwellers in the UK.
Antonia lives in Wales’ Black Mountains, is a self-confessed nature nerd and can often be found wandering the hills, sitting under (or in) trees and ogling birds.
Find out more at www.antoniabk.com
About Pridie
Pridie Tiernan is an ethnobotanist and storyteller committed to reconnecting us with the plants we once used to nourish, nurture and heal. She weaves a rich mix of oral storytelling into the teaching of wilderness skills; rekindling our relationship with the natural world and empowering us to feel at one with the wild.
As an ethnobotanist, Pridie has long been fascinated by the power of plants. Her sensory herbalism, seasonal woodcraft and rewilding workshops, draw our native flora onto centre stage, embracing them as a potent way of gaining insight into ourselves and our place in the world, taking control of our bodies, and tapping into the magic of the natural world.
As a storyteller, she has spent many years performing stories that create a sense of familiarity and connection with nature, especially in those that gift us the opportunity to explore the concept of our "wild self" - that powerful, untamed force connected to the natural world that can be both nurturing and fierce, instinctual, passionate and creative. Her work encourages a reconnection with that wildness - rediscovering our feral inventiveness and power - through the sharing of ancient stories and the teaching of practical survival skills.
Find out more at www.thewildofthewords.co.uk
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