Our manifesto

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we are grounded in a deep longing for social and ecological justice, alongside years of working toward it. we believe that we need to change the way we connect with each other and the ecologies we are part of that we need to rest upon what we need to
It's about taking care of the land - not out of guilt, but because we have fallen deeply in love with it, and because we are part of nature. It is about taking care of each other because our liberation is bound up together. It is about mutual aid exp
we believe in joy and platy, in reverence and love, in action, reflection and connection
we aim to create moments of home and belonging with the land in a society that is disconnecting and dislocating. We aim to nurture an inner sense of home.
we aim to get comfy with failing - even if we fail, as humans, as communities, and as members of ecosystems, and even though we face uncertainty - we love anyway, and find joy anyway.
we offer creative facilitation and nature connection to a diverse range of groups - from informal queer communities to NGOs. We offer facilitated sessions that might include community building, facilitation training, team building, strategy days for
We believe in paying ourselves and our collaborators a fair wage. We believe in transparency and honesty about navigating capitalism as an inter-class and anti-capitalist business made up of people who need to pay their bills.
We build brave spaces which acknowledge that disconnection, mistakes and hurt can happen, but which strive to be as safe and supporting as possible. We will always prioritise the safety and comfort of marginalised people in any space we hold.
We are grounded in our queer communities, and we want to create spaces where queers can feel safe, held and relaxed in our ecosystems. We want to expand the queer magic of kin making to include non-human beings. We know that nature is queer, and that
a summer ritual bowl of harvested apple, elderberries, nettle, sage, oak leaf, with a tattooed hand reaching down
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What we are inspired by

We are grateful to be among people imagining new ways — and safeguarding old ways — to make change collectively, sustainably, and without abandoning our own delight, pleasure and wellbeing. We pay our respects to indigenous and permacultural ways of relating. We appreciate the reciprocity of ecosystems, and our place within them.

We marvel at mycelia, starlings and forests. We are guided by storytellers, peacemakers, artists and visionaries of better worlds.

Special gratitude to teachers, thinkers, and artists important to us include: Dan Glass, Deepa Iyer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mary Oliver, Akala, Paulo Freire, Jay Griffiths, Emma Dabiri, Katherine May, Parker Palmer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Macy, Bayard Rustin, bell hooks, Simon Barnes, Olivia Laing, Becky Chambers, adrienne maree brown, Rebecca Solnit, Ruthanna Emrys, Krista Tippett, and so many more.