HR!Day512 - Personal Rewilding As A Precursor To Ecological Regeneration
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In recent years, there has been a move to “rewild” landscapes, specifically parks,wildlife reserves and private land, through the re-introduction of long lost keystonespecies with the intention that this will help improve the resilience and diversity ofthose individual ecosystems, that it will work to regenerate them.
We can all agree that humanity cannot continue on its current trajectory, our position has become precarious, and our tending of the planet is sloppy at best. We are not only driving the sixth mass extinction event but endangering our own lives.
We have evidence-backed proof that one such seemingly small action can do exactly that, and can have incredible and far-reaching benefits for the individual ecosystems in question. This is all great when the reintroduced species remain within the constraints of the park boundaries, but what happens when those wild beings (wolves, bears, beavers) stray outside of their protected zones? Humanity, we who un-wilded the landscape in the first place, have not changed and remain as top predator. Any wild pecies perceived as getting in the way of economics, of profit and “progress”, once more become prey. We find ourselves following the old story that got us into this mess in the first place. How do we address this? How do we allow new and more vigorous life to take hold, diversity to spread, strengthen and enrich all lives, rather than just those isolated islands of protected refuge?
Going on the old adage that you cannot fix a situation with the same mindset that broke it, first we must change our minds. We as a species must rewild ourselves. We must remember that it is not only the rest of the natural world that is in mortal danger, we as a species are too. We have never been at such a crisis point with regards to mental health and wellbeing. As we have made our planet sick through our behavior, so we have made ourselves sick. The connection is real. Humans are nature. We are intrinsically connected, when the natural world fails, we as a part of it, do so also. But, the simple action of remembering that, remembering that we are just one part of the whole, can have staggering affects. Remembering ourselves as nature and all more-than-human beings as our intelligent, sentient, relations has the power to change everything. Living with acknowledgment and respect for our fellow beings is our internal keystone species. Can more-than-human nature guide us to our own healing? Can our individual and species-specific healing transmute into planetary healing, halting the destruction while nurturing a more resilient and vibrant future for all? What if we opened our hearts and minds to our more-than-human relations and listened to what they had to say?
Presenter
- Rachel Corby spent her early years in suburbia feeling that she did not fit in. Her happiest memories from those times were hiding out in the back garden playing with worms in the compost. After completing a degree in physical geography she went on to travel widely and it was then, during expanded immersions with land based communities, that she finally began to know what home felt like. Her hosts blew her mind with the number of plants that they personally knew and their respectful, reciprocal, relationships with those plants. On returning to the UK Rachel pursued both a sustainable land use and permaculture training. However, it was not until she came across the work of both Eliot Cowan and Stephen Harrod Buhner with regards to communing with the plant realms, that she really found the missing piece. She studied with both and has been guided by the plants themselves ever since. Rachel is the author of four books and teaches, guides and mentors people on plant communication (plant whispering) and in their own personal rewilding process. Links For Rachel Corby: ::http://www.wildgaiansoul.com:: Facebook/ Twitter/ Instagram are all @mugwortdreamer
Recommended Reading
- Rewild Yourself: Becoming Nature by Rachel Corby
- Rewilding & The Art Of Plant Whispering by Rachel Corby
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Lost Language Of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
- The Secret Teachings Of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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