Our Changing Earth: Touching Climate Grief through Writing & Community Land Art
A Tree School Collaboration
Unsure how to process the grief of witnessing climate change and disaster here in New Mexico and beyond?
Longing for a space of rest, care, and welcome that can support you to be with that grief?
Do you long to be able to cry and laugh in the same breath and be supported and witnessed with kindness and love?
Curious about how writing and community art building can transform our relationship to our grief and the changing world around us?
Join land tender and certified arborist Corva Rose; music and rest sharer maria mcCullough; and writer and grief worker mai cortez đoán for this gentle, interactive playshop.
This playshop will offer spaciousness and welcome to turn inward and be with climate grief. Over the course of four hours, we will weave our hearts and grief through reflection, personal writing time, gentle movement, and the collective building of a fence mosaic. Together, we will connect to the inner + outer resilience that can emerge when we share and hold our grief in community through creative pathways.
What We Will Cover
Navigating and normalizing climate grief
Using personal writing to be with climate grief
Natural fence building & privacy screening techniques
Time for Q+A with all three teachers!
A couple of notes:
– While this space welcomes feelings and invites you to show up as you are, we are not therapists and this is not a group therapy space. We ask that you come ready to self-regulate, and to take care of yourself and others as you participate in this space.
– In this playshop, we will facilitate space for self-reflection, personal writing, and collaborative art-building. All participation is optional and we will offer alternatives throughout the day so that you may participate at your own comfort level.
The Playshop will be held at the Filling Station in the South Valley (address will be included in your confirmation email) on the unceded ancestral lands of the Pueblo of Isleta and Sandia in now-called Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Wheelchair access: If your power chair can move over compacted mulch, this garden/playshop will be accessible for you, including the composting toilet. Please reach out to us here if you have questions.
Community Pricing
This Playshop is donation-based – a donation jar and Venmo code will be available at the event, and you can contribute what you are able.
Our wish is that this donation-based sliding scale allows you to pick your payment amount in the spirit of equity, accessibility, generosity, reciprocity, and redistribution.
We invite your conscious investment in a gardening and land-tending culture that honors community grief tending, collective musical healing, and compassionate habitat weaving and supports three non-binary babes to do their work sustainably.
If you can pay more, you’ll help cover the cost for someone else who needs to pay less. If you can’t pay anything at this time, you are equally welcome here! No one is keeping track of who does/doesn’t contribute.
We are operating in the spirit of trust and openness.