Ben Still | Frome |🌞

Reimagining Education: Nature as Teacher 🌿 In times of crisis, we need radically new ways of learning and being in the world. I’ve written a piece on my Substack, where I explore a transformative approach to education—Insight Herbalism—a practice that places Nature at the center of our learning. At the School of Intuitive Herbalism in Stroud, UK, the plants themselves set the curriculum. Through personal, intuitive experiences, we reawaken our deep, ancestral connection to the natural world. Instead of top-down corporatised education, we listen to the land, honor our own innate knowing, and embrace Nature as teacher. 🌍 As my teacher Nathaniel Hughes says: "We already know how to listen to the plants, the land, how to heal ourselves and how to live well. This knowledge is our birthright." - Wild Enchantments, 2024 🌸 Follow the link in my bio to read the full post… #herbalism #insightherbalism #healing #learning #education #plants #imagination #ancestral #gaia #earth #wisdom #trees

The first post on Seership, my Substack newsletter, is now live. ‘From Individuation to Interdividuation’ explores key processes of the living world, how they inter-relate, and inform our personal becoming. Weaving topics ranging from process philosophy, animism, Gaia theory, and embodied cognition. While offering insights and practices to help deepen our relationships and understanding of the living world. See excerpt below: ‘To be in the world is to perceive and be perceived. It is a given. But perception is also a creative act. While its transformative capacity can become latent through habits of mind, it is never truly passive. To reawaken a direct-imaginal perception requires a kind of synaesthesia. A blending of senses, imagination, and intuition so the ‘other’ can be witnessed in Wholeness, if only for a moment. Such witnessing is akin to insight, and invites the subtle layers of the other to unravel and be known. Living perceptions extend outwards and merge with the surrounding others, becoming a fluid co-inhabitance of an emergent metamorphic space. This affects the world in real embodied ways, creating novel synthesis, deconstruction, and integration in situated ecologies of consciousness.’ Follow the link in my bio to read the full article… . . . #substack #seership #processphilosophy #gaia #animism #earth #wholeness #insight #livingworld #entangledlife

[ONGOING CALL-OUT] Hi all, I’m currently looking for people interested in being case studies as part of my ongoing Insight Herbalism apprenticeship. I’m studying with Herbalist Nathanial Hugh’s at the School of Intuitive Herbalism in Stroud. His teaching, and what I am offering here, is a direct, experiential approach to plant work. Through various techniques, from simple tea tasting to plant journeying and bodywork, we can enter into a process of learning and healing. Deepening awareness of ourselves, and the intelligence of the plants. The practice is supported and kept safe by the knowledge of western medical herbalism, and other world herbal traditions. But goes beyond this, working with direct experience, intuition, embodiment, and imagination. If you feel the call to dive more deeply into the living world, and are interested in a holistic approach to healing. Then don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’m ideally looking for people who can commit to a process (around 3 sessions). Which can be over any agreed time scale that works for us both 🙏🏻 Just drop me an email at [email protected] or message me on here. More info on my website (link in the bio) 🌿 📷 @wildjesse

Bring your child to work day #composthappens

Balm of Warriors In the beating heart of being, A pebble on divine shores awaits and welcomes me, Perfect is my despair, Glazed bare in infinite love, The chubby cheeks of God in drag, A Soul brought forth, into my quivering palms. Ben Still 📷 @wildjesse

Big love to my g @lilameddings and the @rye_bakery fam 🥐 📷 @edschofieldphoto

Yuletide Scoundrel 🦌

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‘Keep it Frome is a new campaign to show how a circular economy is growing fast in our town!’ Been fantastic to be a part of the team creating this over the last 8 months! ☀️ With @loopfrome @peterfloydmacfadyen @weglimpse @jamesleavold @sugscott and the plethora of others who helped along the way! #keepitfrome #circulareconomy #localism #nature

Happy 1st birthday Nāda 🤍

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