A Regenerative ramble
5am Sunrise
9pm Sunset
SUN DAY
May 24th
Regenerative ramble
Connect - Explore - Reflect - Share
9am - 10am
Connecting over a cuppa
Meet your fellow ramblers at the start of the day on the Zoom link below
Anytime during the day....
Your Ramble
Go for a walk in nature near where you live, find a living thing to observe, reflect and capture your response to it
9pm - 10pm
Fireside Sharing
After the sun sets, reflecting on our rambles and sharing our responses, on the same Zoom link
The Regenerative Ramble - Reflective Practice
An invitation to be fully present with nature
Set off for your walk, paying attention to the natural world around where you live. As you’re walking, reflect on what the concept of regeneration means to you.
Identify a spot that grabs your interest and get comfortable. Take a moment to channel your senses, can you quiet the cleverness of your brain as you connect with nature?
Settle into a comfortable position, and spend 15-20 minutes just observing the environment and all the living things around you. You might like to make observation notes and/or sketches. What do you see when you look carefully? What sounds do you hear near and far? What do you feel with your touch or what is touching you? What smells are in the air? Is there a particular taste in your mouth?
What can you learn from the living things around you for yourself personally and/or for what the world needs.
We invite you to engage with what you’ve experienced creatively either by taking a photograph or using the haiku guidance on the next page to write three lines about it.
* Reflective exercise from the Biomimicry Institute’s - 30 days of Reconnection - Embracing a Regenerative Now - https://biomimicry.org/30days/#Day%202
Three ideas for connecting with your
creativity and curiosity
A SOUNDSCAPE DRAWING
Try to diagram the sounds around you, what you see, and how close or far they feel from you. What would these sounds look like as a shape?
A PHOTOGRAPH
Could you capture the essence of what you’ve observed through taking a photograph?
Let’s create a tapestry of images of our collective walk.
A POEM
Poetry is powerfully emotive. Inspired by nature, why not you try to write your own?
We love the simplicity of the Haiku - it’s a form of Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that evoke natural imagery.
Haiku can come in a variety of different formats of short verses, though the most common is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Haiku often feature a juxtaposition of two or more vivid images.
HAIKUs for you
An old pond!
A frog jumps in –
The sound of water.
A caterpillar,
this deep in fall –
still not a butterfly.
In Kyoto,
Hearing the cuckoo,
I long for Kyoto.
An invitation to share your photos or poems by the fire or on social media using #RegenerativeRamble so we can feel together while apart