Input Needed for BIPOC Rewilding Workshops
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Rewilding Workshops are Coming Soon
These last few years of getting reacquainted with nature has been transformational. It has helped me learn to find joy and love for myself—a blessing that I didn’t know I needed. After reflecting on my healing journey, I recognized that there is a need for more people who look like me to experience the same acceptance and healing.
With my background in learning experience design, I wanted to find a way to bring this to more people. To invite more BIPOC people who have been historically excluded from outdoor spaces in this space of healing and reflection. After several months of talking and molding this idea, and it is finally coming to life as Rewilding Workshops!
Rewilding Workshops are nature-based experiences that center rest, care, and healing of BIPOC folks. They blend the healing kindness of nature with the creative brilliance of BIPOC collaborators to offer softness, support, and relaxation. They are safe spaces of joy and rejuvenation that are so needed right now.
Each workshop will be situated in stunning outdoor spaces that are safe and inviting for guests. They will feature collaborators with unique perspectives on healing. Imagine an iconic PNW forest enclosed in ferns and towing trees. You are welcomed into a space to spend the day doing yoga, sipping foraged teas, eating local foods, taking in joyful art, wandering forest trails, and listening to healing sounds.
Are you in?? I hope so because I want your input to make these a success!
As I continue to iterate on this idea, I would LOVE your help in the following areas:
Outdoor venues: I am prioritizing venues that have expressed values around social justice work to ensure safe spaces for participants, such as Whidbey Institute. Are there other outdoor venues in the PNW that meet this bar?
Collaborators: I want to work with other BIPOC folks who are looking at healing through lots of different lenses: art, history, movement, food, joy, etc. Are there BIPOC people you follow who would be a great fit for these workshops?
Similar concepts: When it comes to creating spaces of healing, I believe in collaboration, not competition. Are there other people you know of that are already doing this work that I should check out?
Hit reply to email me directly or send me a message on IG with people / places that I should know about.
Your input and ideas are greatly appreciated! I would not be doing this work without your support, and I am excited to see what we can come up with together.
PS: I am also working on a model that will create access to these events for people across the economic spectrum. Stay tuned for more details!
Thanks for taking time to slow down and be present with me this week. Take care, be kind, and we'll talk soon,
Hillarie
Obsessed with this idea. I love it. Let me know if there are anyways I can support!