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What's The Portal Collective?
What's The Meadow-verse?
What's Accessible Nature Connection?
All excellent questions...
The Portal Collective
The Portal is a new platform for creators and facilitators, created by the brilliant and very lovely Sally.It is an antidote to the algorithm-focused, male billionaire-owned, competitive, individualistic social media platforms. It centres community, collaboration and meaningful learning.
I am a creator on the site, awaiting the next phase of it's development where I can start hosting offerings there - including the Community Membership, which I will be delighted to move over to a more ethical (and hopefully less glitchy) site than Substack. Sally's background is in creating interactive, learner and community-centred online learning programmes. I'm really excited to learn more from her as I build offerings for you all on the portal
The Meadow-verse
This is an online summer festival, where creators from the portal are offering workshops and events to explore how to be in the polycrisis. From somatics to stitching to self and community care, there is a beautiful array of offerings that you can check out here.
Tickets are still available and you can catch up on recordings of all the events so far.
Accessible Nature Connection
Those who have been here for a while will know how passionate I am about Accessible Nature Connection. Often we think of Nature Connection as being 'in nature', meaning being somewhere wild and beautfiul and green. Sitting peacefully (or hiking peacefully) in a forest / on a mountain / by the sea.
My first issue with this is that it draws such a stark distinction between nature and 'non-nature' - forgetting that we are in fact part of nature.
And my second and important issue with this is that we can't all go to these places. This might because of barriers such as physical accessibility, limited energy, limited time, caring responsibilities, lack of local green space, lack of transport options, racial, economic and social disaprities that make green spaces less available and accessible for many (not to mention the privatisation of land in the UK, and particularly England - where only 8% of the land is open to access. Check out 'Right to Roam' to learn more!) When I was training in Forest Therapy, I was astounded by the ways that I was able to take the learnings and apply them in accessible ways. That Nature Connection doesn't have to be in a specific place, it doesn't have to be a long practice, it doesn't have to inaccessible. There are so many ways to connect with nature, that will work for your specific situation, needs and preferences.
You can join me for the workshop on Saturday, where I'll share a variety of practices, for you to find which work for you and to find ways to weave nature connection into your days.
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