WE ARE INTERSTELLAR
a playful day travelling through grief and joy, past, present & future - 9th November 2024 - Boiling Wells, Bristol
Bristol Folks, this one is for you!
I’m co-facilitating a day’s workshop with some of my dear friends next month.
We’ll be hanging out at the beautiful Boiling Wells site in St Werburghs, creating a space for you to be with your grief, your joy and everything in between.
This is part of a series run by KIN who are a brilliant crew of people I met several years ago when I was feeling super-burnt out from my time working in voluntary sector mental health services.
KIN work to support and resource grassroots community workers; providing restorative events/programmes and alliances. I attended this programme as a participant in 2021 and ever since then have been involved with this ever-widening network of activists, artists, change-makers and generally lush folk.
I’ll be running this day alongside Genevieve Cameo and Kanada Gorla, with support from Trace Mulzac and Chiz Williams.
Read below for a little blurb about what the day entails…
Maybe you're tired, maybe you're grappling with anxieties about the world around us, seeking connection or needing some nourishment. If so, this Kin Widening Circles session ‘We are Interstellar’ is the space for you. Join us at the wonderful Boiling Wells site for a restorative and playful day dedicated to meeting these concerns in a sideways kind of way.
November! Some of us love the winter, but some of us know that as the days grow shorter and the light declines, we can start to find things tough. Together, we’ll dig into the past, present and the future. We'll honour the turn of the season, our various lineages and our feelings.
We'll get curious about the complexities and richness of being human at this time in history.
Expect imaginative conversations, creative play, sharing good food, getting your hands dirty and enjoying the warmth of an outdoor fire.
Come as you are. No easy fixes, but an opportunity to rest and rekindle your curiosity for the world and prepare well for the coming winter.
How will you benefit?
Our aims for the day are you will leave feeling:
- nourished and prepared for the dark winter months
- more connected with those who have come before and those who will follow
- a greater sense of your place in the family of things
- clearer, lighter and more resourced
Taking care of yourself and others:
Participation in this group workshop will be with people of various ages and the day will involve some physical activities and emotional conversations to be conducted in a creative and caring environment. It will be therapeutic but it isn’t therapy. Please don’t come if you have any Covid/Flu/Cold symptoms. To all our health!
Access:
The space has muddy walkways and there are slopes, so it may be difficult for people with limited mobility.
A wee breakdown of the day:
10.00: - Arrive
10:15 - 11:30: Session 1: Welcome Circle & Meeting the season
11:40 - 12:00:Drinks/Snack Break
12:00 - 1:30: Session 2: Meeting the ancestors
1:30 - 2:30: Lunch
2:30 - 3:45: Session 3: Meeting a child of the future
3:45 - 4:15: Closing Circle
4:15: Head Home
Tickets start at £20 for the day (but please get in touch if that feels unaffordable - we have a limited amount of bursary tickets).
You can book a place here.
Hope to see some of you there.
Drop me a line if you’ve got any questions.
Love, Lottie X
What a lovely offering! Enjoy 💚💚