Plants are conscious, but the “flavor” of their aliveness and consciousness, and the manner in which thought is manifested, differ from our own human ways of being in the world. Plants think in relationship, their environment becoming an extension and an expression of themselves, like the way Tim Ingold describes the weave of a basket: “The world of our experience is, indeed, continually and endlessly coming into being around us as we weave. If it has a surface, it is like the surface of the basket: it has no ‘inside’ or ‘outside’. Mind is not above, nor nature below; rather, if we ask where mind is, it is in the weave of the surface itself.”

We will explore the way that plants think and how we can tap into their rhizomatic mycelial web of thinking and our own embodied experience as entangled and authentically ecologically human beings through somatic storytelling. Between walking with Cedar, sensory exploration, and storytelling, we will encounter the ecologies that meet us at our edges and weave us together. What does it feel like when we press human and plant thinking against each other?

Join Sydney Kale for a somatic story-telling walk through Hickory Knoll which is home to an Eastern Red Cedar glade that we will have the privilege of getting to know deeply. Please bring plenty of water, lunch, and your own copy of The Love Language of Plants by Sydney Kale. It is highly recommended to read Kale’s book prior to the event.

This is a donation-based event with a minimum donation of $5 upon arrival.