Nature, the Arts within

05/01/2022

The kurdish say that the mountains are their friends when they have no other friends. Working in Northern Iraq was revelatory, because it meant thinking through things or rather through non human beings, in order to help healing process --as poet Birago Diop once encouraged us : BreathsListen more often to things rather than beings. Hear the fire's voice,...

The kurdish say that the mountains are their friends when they have no other friends. Working in Northern Iraq was revelatory, because it meant thinking through things or rather through non human b…

05/01/2022

Recently, two of my very different practices overlapped harshly in the near same time-space. Speaking about mental health in post colonial polyphonic multiple spaces of consciousness and the emotional labour involved when alter(ed)-identity is rehearsed daily with all public signifiers indicative of an expected réduction or brasure of these same selves. Writing and performing original text with creative musiciens based on the poignant réflections of issues of transcende, and transition, and transit through bodies and countries and langages as they arise in the novels of James Baldwin.

Recently, two of my very different practices overlapped harshly in the near same time-space. Speaking about mental health in post colonial polyphonic multiple spaces of consciousness and the emotio…

06/11/2020

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02/11/2020

13/10/2020

No ships on this horizon. Yeah it’s Oct 12. Learn something new. Indigenous Mental Health https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQbQvID1Bo/?igshid=its8k4lbu8ym

13/10/2020

Phobia of spaces experienced as repressive spaces. Social norms have varying psychological effects on various groups of people. We don’t all have the same symbolic and cultural capital. Think about that if you are an ecotherapist, a nature therapist, a forest therapist or an horticultural therapist or a counselor working outdoors.

06/07/2020

Mourning is resistance.

06/07/2020

We continue to mourn through a practice of breathing as resistance. Alternate Monday evenings of July (13,27) and August (10, 24). Sign up form in bio.

29/06/2020

It’s been one month. Come and Breathe https://forms.gle/W9iQ4wwvPSkM8BMM8

05/06/2020

Black Mental Health Matters as we try to make sense of events that repeat themselves over and over. Professionals are here to help support you at this time. There are several possibilities :

Individual support through the Nature based Art therapy I provide.

A crisis cell providing brief counseling is available.

And in a few days a mourning circle will be active. More on that later.

Dans la continuité de notre permanence solidaire d’écoute tout au long du confinement, nous vous proposons d’ouvrir des espaces d’écoute les lundis, mercredis et samedis, afin d’accompagner ce nouveau temps après deux mois d’isolement social pour certainEs. Notre expérience d’écout...

19/05/2020

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Si le confinement a eu un aspect bénéfique sur la biodiversité, il a aussi eu des effets sociétaux et psychologiques néfastes sur les citadins qui ont été coupés de la nature. Pourquoi les espaces naturels sont-ils tant vitaux en cette période ?