The Forest Garden

The Forest Garden is an initiative that engages in a decolonial approach to healing our minds, bodies and spirits, actively unlearning patterns of oppression that we have learned through patriarchy, capitalism and whiteness.

Next Gathering: May 19th

11am-1.30pm UK time

 

Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

- Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams

The Forest Garden offers foundational training in developing the skills to cultivate embodied approaches to decolonial healing personally, collectively and professionally.

Our wellness spaces and healing spaces have not acknowledged the role that colonisation, racism or capitalism have in our practices. Embodied antiracism and embodied social justice is an emergent process and a way to truly attend to our collective histories. Most of our experience in therapeutic spaces have offered us a disservice in protecting us from diversity, protecting us from right relationship with the social and political issues and creating positive loving relationships to our body’s inability to fit in western ideals.

The Forest Garden is an invitation to shift the ways we have been taught to be in this world

The Forest Garden is an initiative that engages in a decolonial approach to healing our minds, bodies and spirits, actively unlearning patterns of oppression that we have learned through patriarchy, capitalism and whiteness.

It is a radical reforming of what it means to heal - to heal out of the oppressive systems that we have learned to perpetuate onto our own bodies. It is a deep re-membering of the body’s wisdom: respecting, honouring, and resonating ourselves, our histories and our lineages.

 

Become Part of The Forest Garden

The Forest Garden is for those who want to start doing the inner personal journey of deprogramming and unlearning collectively and in community. You will have access to our monthly calls, interactive community group and peer groups. .

Becoming part of The Forest Garden is an acknowledgement and commitment to the power we have as individuals to tend to the seeds we are planting. To celebrate the choice we have each day to attend to the gifts and wounds we have inherited and to serve with the sense of purpose - gratitude for the responsibilities we have as part of our freedom.

We chose to name our members gardeners as we celebrate and honour that each and everyone has the ability to nurture and nourish our own gardens - we nurture our collective, our medicine, our forests. We appreciate that we are all guardians of this work, stewards of safe travels of this healing and so as we walk this path as gardeners.

We meet monthly online to dive into the themes and explore embodied and somatic approaches. These will be aspirationally decolonial, trauma-centred and interactive.

 

Our souls did not come here to colonise, our souls did not come to be colonised. - Dra. Rocio

 

‘‘This is the warrior spirit, the medicine and the soothing of truth in a time where confusion, fear and anxiety seem to be our closest companions. They are straight like an arrow in coming to the point, bringing us to where we need to meet and give brave voice to those parts of ourselves and our ancestry that need healing so we can go out into the world as our most authentic, untamed and compassionate selves. There was and still is a significant tension in me as I address the truth of my colonising heritage but I can't pray for a new world for my children, my friends and humanity without doing the damn work myself. Thank you for creating such a space to come and show up. With such gratitude and love’’ - Jan 2022

‘‘Healing intergenerational colonialism trauma benefits all humans. Here, there is space for us to do this intense work without judgment or shaming. Doing this work is hard and the meditation that happens during connected breathwork takes a long time to unpack, going beyond the sessions that hosted. We all want to experience joy, love, connectedness. I believe that it is possible, and this work helps enable participants to work towards that joy, connect with one another and love ourselves, each other and the world’’ - Jan 2022

Healing in the modern context serves the new generation, where we fully understand the inherited wisdom and wounds of our recent generations and break cycles in order to reclaim what was once ours. Healing now must look to the ways the body speaks through pain and anguish as deep whispers of rebellion and act on them to walk the path to uncover what freedom really means to them - making the shifts necessary for change.

So what does resistance to the characteristics supremacy culture look like? What can we do in this effort?

This is what The Forest Garden is. It is an initiative that supports you to decolonise your practice, decolonise your minds, bodies and spirits, to decolonise your businesses and decolonise the ways in which you are taught to heal.

We cannot have unity consciousness without decolonisation.