WHAT IS WE WHO WALK - WHO ARE OUR WALKS FOR - FACILITATORS
We go on walking adventures, creating safe spaces to meet the unpredictable, journeying through landscapes of wonder.
We Live for a few days in co-creative community, to explore who we are in relation to ourselves, each other and the world.
Through walking, living outdoors, being in community, entering into relationship with nature, inquiry and living in sacred ways we find doorways to empowerment. We believe we all have the right to follow our paths, and we believe that sleeping under the stars is a good first step.
We Live for a few days in co-creative community, to explore who we are in relation to ourselves, each other and the world.
Through walking, living outdoors, being in community, entering into relationship with nature, inquiry and living in sacred ways we find doorways to empowerment. We believe we all have the right to follow our paths, and we believe that sleeping under the stars is a good first step.
WHAT IS WE WHO WALK?
WE walk, WE explore, WE empower.
"I'll tell you what freedom is to me. No Fear." - Nina Simone
WE was born out of a conversation between two women who wanted to go walking alone, to sleep under the stars, go on unpredictable adventures and feel the freedom that that brings. These women also realised they were full of fear and this was stopping them from going on these journeys and stopping them from feeling empowered to simply take the first step and walk. They wanted to find ways to meet and explore these fears and resource themselves. If you want to read more about this, check out our blog post - Why we started We Who Walk: fears and stepping forward
In 2016 the idea emerged to start a walking project, and in 2017 we walked for 10 days across Dartmoor, and for 2 months across the wilderness in Sweden as a part of our sibling project: Land in Curiosity. Building up and out from our roots of LiC, we also decided to create We Who Walk, to meet a different dynamic and challenge that some of us find ourselves facing.
We are on this journey and we want to take you with us.
As organisers and facilitators, we bring a basic framework to these walks, and a toolbox of community and nature based skills. These walks are also collectively shaped, challenging the mainstream hierarchical systems. Plenty of space is created for others to step up, whether that is by participating in the essential, practical everyday care of the group or sharing something with the group, like a workshop, song, practical skill or anything else you wish to bring. We are here to support individuals in bringing and shaping offerings, especially if that feels like an edge.
Each group is unique, and each walk is unique. Both the landscape and the group will shape the journey.
By walking through physical landscapes, we embark upon a parallel journey exploring the inner and outer worlds we inhabit. Walking provides a framework; a chance for adventure; a deep connection to self, group and nature; mental and physical well being, a shifting of moods, thoughts, emotions, patterns; and space for quiet and reflection.
Walking in nature means we won't know exactly what will happen each day, who we might encounter, where we will sleep, how the weather will be etc. We all have different edges, for some it may be practical, for others it may be being in a group, or for someone it may be sharing a song. This is all welcome and we encounter all of this within the safety, support and holding of the community, nature and facilitation.
"I'll tell you what freedom is to me. No Fear." - Nina Simone
WE was born out of a conversation between two women who wanted to go walking alone, to sleep under the stars, go on unpredictable adventures and feel the freedom that that brings. These women also realised they were full of fear and this was stopping them from going on these journeys and stopping them from feeling empowered to simply take the first step and walk. They wanted to find ways to meet and explore these fears and resource themselves. If you want to read more about this, check out our blog post - Why we started We Who Walk: fears and stepping forward
In 2016 the idea emerged to start a walking project, and in 2017 we walked for 10 days across Dartmoor, and for 2 months across the wilderness in Sweden as a part of our sibling project: Land in Curiosity. Building up and out from our roots of LiC, we also decided to create We Who Walk, to meet a different dynamic and challenge that some of us find ourselves facing.
We are on this journey and we want to take you with us.
As organisers and facilitators, we bring a basic framework to these walks, and a toolbox of community and nature based skills. These walks are also collectively shaped, challenging the mainstream hierarchical systems. Plenty of space is created for others to step up, whether that is by participating in the essential, practical everyday care of the group or sharing something with the group, like a workshop, song, practical skill or anything else you wish to bring. We are here to support individuals in bringing and shaping offerings, especially if that feels like an edge.
Each group is unique, and each walk is unique. Both the landscape and the group will shape the journey.
By walking through physical landscapes, we embark upon a parallel journey exploring the inner and outer worlds we inhabit. Walking provides a framework; a chance for adventure; a deep connection to self, group and nature; mental and physical well being, a shifting of moods, thoughts, emotions, patterns; and space for quiet and reflection.
Walking in nature means we won't know exactly what will happen each day, who we might encounter, where we will sleep, how the weather will be etc. We all have different edges, for some it may be practical, for others it may be being in a group, or for someone it may be sharing a song. This is all welcome and we encounter all of this within the safety, support and holding of the community, nature and facilitation.
WHO ARE OUR WALKS FOR?
Our walks are for women, and trans people.
We want to create a safe space for those of us who may often feel difficulties and discrimination from living in a patriarchal society.
We want to create a safe space for those of us who may often feel difficulties and discrimination from living in a patriarchal society.
FACILITATORS
Lauren and Joana have been facilitating, exploring, learning, organising and walking together since 2014.
Lauren Goodey
Lauren is an illustrator, facilitator and social entrepreneur with a passion for and strong practice in spirituality, creativity, and nature connection, which she weaves together in her work. She has an experiential and experimental approach to her life and her work. After studying for a year at university, Lauren decided to leave and create her own learning journey that was hands on, adaptive, creative and full of exploration.
She started training as a facilitator and social entrepreneur in 2014 at Edventure: a school for community enterprise. In 2017 she joined Land In Curiosity (a nomadic school exploring community, nature and alternative education) as an organiser and facilitator. She has been studying and practicing meditation in the insight tradition since 2011, since then she has been on many short and long term retreats, including a four month long silent retreat. She is a co-founder of Frome Insight, and is training under the Community Dharma Leadership Programme, at Gaia house, mentored by Kirsten Kratz. In 2012 she trained as a yoga teacher in India with the SriMa International school of transformational yoga. Lauren loves to walk and has been on many walks, long and short, alone and with others. Current explorations: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Birds, Soulmaking Dharma, metta, emptiness and ways of looking, identity politics and oppression, looking after ducks, Tarot, ritual, mythology, christian mysticism, living an ethical and integrated life, activism. |
Joana Esteves
Joana is a facilitator of nature connection and group dynamics, she is a social entrepreneur and has a Bsc in Biology (2011), with a passion for learning, healthy groups, the natural world and the relationship we have with and within it.
Joana believes that the ecological crisis we are facing stems from a deep disconnect with ourselves and the world we are part of and depend upon. She rooted the academic teachings in environmental activism, with Greenpeace for three years, and has since then spent longer periods immersed in the wild north of Scandinavia, as well as trained at the Schumacher college - Call of the Wild, 2015, trained with Lynx Vilden, the Kamana naturalist training, and both worked and trained with the 8 shields UK - art of mentoring, working with children and adults alike. She has explored nature connection as a practice that lies as a foundation for all her work and life. In 2014 she trained as a facilitator and social entrepreneur at Edventure Frome: a school for community enterprise, and further trained in coaching with MoE, group dynamics with Oliver-Barclay Partnership, and is currently studying psychology. In 2016 she co-founded Land in Curiosity, bringing together all her passions of alternative education, nature and community. She believes we need to learn how to live and work well together, as well as valuing each others differences and strengths, to be able to respond to the times of change, challenge and opportunity, she sees us facing today. Current explorations: Birds and their language, tracking, naturalist skills, sensory awareness, psychology, fertility and cycle awareness, gender politics, inclusive language, decision making processes, conscious relating, ecological regeneration, ecocentric development stages, stories and myths. |