Sit-along Spot

“The idea is simple: …find a special place in nature and then become comfortable with just being there, still and quiet. In this place, the lessons of nature will seep in.” – Jon Young  

Sit-spot practice is a classic nature connection practice. Over these two weeks in May and June, we invite you to join us each morning for a 15 minute sit-spot practice. Sit spot practice is usually done alone, but during these periods there will be a whole group of us practicing at the same time. You can join us at Orleans House Gallery, or from wherever you are in the world. There are a couple of rules: no phones and no photographs – just your senses. And then each day after you’re done, we invite you to share a few words from your experience via our social media pages. 

Kinship Workshop is an annual programme of seasonal nature connection workshops. Participants are invited into an experiential and embodied relationship to nature, landscape and other species through grounding physical practices. After five successful years of taking participants out into nature, co-facilitators Tom Goodwin, Katye Coe plus other collaborators are very happy to be engaging in a year-long Cultural Reforesting residency at Orleans House Gallery, looking at how embodied practices in nature might bring nature-centred thinking into organisational structures.  

Kinship Workshop:  

Tom Goodwin – founder and co-facilitator  

Katye Coe – co-facilitator  

Plus collaborators:  

Holly Thomas – dance artist  

Chand Starin Basi – group facilitator and psychotherapist  

Poh-Eng San – facilitator and doula  

Natifah White – dance artist-researcher  

Becky Horne – placement dance artist  

Sophie Holland – placement dance artist  

Kinship Workshop will be based in and around Orleans House Gallery for periods in May, June and into the Autumn. The team will be given time to reflect on the last five years of activity and then to review, revise and re-imagine how Kinship Workshop operates to be more impactful in the future.  

Visit the Kinship Workshop website for more information: Kinship Workshop