In 2023, we embarked on a Kin based journey with Civic Square that led us to the creation of a programme called Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods.
A 9 month learning journey was supported by 3 retreats deep in the mountains of North Cymru, where we were all held and guided by the Air, Soil, Trees, and Land of this beautiful and pained ecosystem. This is where we learned from each other through workshops, walkshops, experience mapping, and spiritual guidings, that the Land that holds us is pained, sick, unliberated, we learned that this is the origin of our own ill health. We learned the various systemic structures that keep both Land and Beings oppressed, contaminated, and sick.
We imagined and enacted different realities rooted in epistemologies of Kinship, solidarity, and love.
We cannot be free until the Land is free
We will not heal until the Land is healed
There is no end to the project or a final outcome as this was the start of life long journey. A journey that will take back to the Land.
The time together created space for a Declaration, and we share it with you here.
It is a spiritual and cognitive tool can be used to generate a rallying cry, a demand, invocation, a wish, or a prayer. With the purpose of honing and shaping thought into an enactment.