Kinship Workshop
How do we re-centre nature intentionally and every day? How can we do this in our bodies, in how we think and act in the world, even when daily life is very busy?
kin·ship n. Relationship by nature, character, affinity or common origin
Kinship Workshop is a seasonal programme that invites participants into wilder landscapes. Participants spend unhurried time in, and as part of, nature. They explore connection to land and other living beings through simple embodiment exercises.
Artists Katye Coe and Tom Goodwin developed a workplace-friendly Kinship training with Richmond & Wandsworth Councils. Though the training, council staff explore their relationship to nature. The training reflects on personal and collective wellbeing and responses to climate change and environmental degradation. It looks at how embodied practices in nature might bring nature-centred thinking and wellbeing into organisational structures.
‘Kinship (2024-2025)’, a film by Simon Ellis, documents the experience of 18 council staff members who embarked on a 10-week nature-centred wellbeing programme exploring relationship to nature, place and themselves.
About Kinship Workshop
Kinship Workshop facilitator and founder Tom Goodwin has a background in various movement practices and somatic trainings. He also has extensive experience in teaching and facilitation.
Kinship Workshop draws from his experiences of spending time with other animals both in sanctuaries and through wild and domestic encounters. He completed an internship at The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence in 2014 studying trans-species psychology and self-determination from which he developed the material included in Kinship Workshop.
Katye Coe has been involved with Kinship Workshop since 2016 and joined as a facilitator in 2018. Katye is a dancer, performer and teacher working collaboratively in the UK and internationally. Katye is a certified Skinner Releasing Technique teacher and has completed 4 years of site and movement work in Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life Programme. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
Katye grew up on a farm and later worked extensively alongside horses. Her intention in the context of Kinship Workshops relates to the importance of understanding and embracing the ‘right relationship’ with nature, yourself and others.
Visit their website at www.kinshipworkshop.info.