LAND IN CURIOSITY

What is Land in curiosity?

Land in curiosity is a project creating walking, learning journeys to explore community, nature & self directed learning.
We are asking the question: What happens when a group of people come together in community, with the common purpose of deepening their relationship with the natural world and taking responsibility for their own learning and co-creation of the experience? Visit the website.

Whats next?

LiC is planning a year long walk around Britain from May 2019 - May 2020.  Visit the website here.

my part in Lic

I started working with LiC shortly before the first walk.
So far my roles have been:

• Organising walks
• Facilitating
• Coaching
• Website building, branding & graphic design
  
• Photography
• Social media and communications
  

My intentions for LiC & the year long so far

• Diversity, patriarchy, white supremacy: I am asking questions. Why are the people who are on our walks on them? Who has the privilege to take the time out to explore education and nature? Who does not? Who feels safe enough to do these walks and who does not? What would camping illegally in Britain mean to a black woman or an immigrant? Why is it that the men in our groups make fires more often than women? How am I participating in these dynamics? How can i unlearn patriarchy and white supremacy and learn new ways? Is that even possible?
  
• Decolonisation: I live in a country that has colonised and continues to colonise people, and places. I have the mind of a coloniser. I go 'into' nature, neglecting to recall that I am a part of it, or that it 'owns' me. I call nature an 'it'. I see an opportunity and I see it as mine, something that I can have. Colonisation as a way of seeing is quite new to me, so I am asking questions. How can i critically examine my mind and the institutions and structures that are the very air I breath? How can i listen best to the voices of those who have been colonised?
• Self-led learning: I grew up going to a mainstream schooling system, a system that was originally designed for industrialisation. I was taught to remember information for exams and I forgot the rest. Now I am exploring self-led learning and sometimes I feel like I have no idea what I am doing. I want to find the best ways and resources to plan a beautiful and adaptive learning journey, to follow my learning intentions, get support and mentoring, document and share via art, writing, workshops etc.
• Ways of knowing: There are certain ways of knowing that are privileged than other, the mind for example seems to have a giant privilege. I want to explore these different ways of knowing, such as the cognitive, emotive, energetic, imaginative, intuitive, instinctive, magical, and bodily ways.

LiC so far

So far, we have been on two journeys:
1. A Walk in Curiosity: May 2017
A Walk in Curiosity was a 10 day long walk across Dartmoor with 10 participants and 3 facilitators (Myself, Joana & Tom - Joana & Tom are both founders of LiC).
We walked about four hours per day, and spent around 4 hours studying. There was a focus on this walk around peer led and collective learning. It was spring (Beltane) so there was a lot of energy in and around the group. Workshops were held by different people on different explorations such as: foraging, bird language, interpretive dance, story telling, curiosity and theater of the oppressed. We spent much necessary time with practical things like cooking, setting up camp and taking it down, scouting for good places to camp, self care etc. It's currently legal to camp anywhere on Dartmoor national park.

2. Swedish Immersion: Autumn 2017
A Walk in Curiosity was a 2 month long walk in Sweden with 9 participants and 4 facilitators (Myself, Joana, Tom and Karl - Karl was on the Walk in Curiosity, so we invited him to join us). We held the group for the first two weeks of the journey and then attempted to pass over the roles, the roles included food team, route team, time keeper, learning and group facilitation team. We kept the roles or 'organisers' as it would have taken way too much time to impart all of the information from organising.
Autumn in Sweden is cold and dark, and knowing that we would be together for two months, there was a strong focus on process work and learning to live together. There was much less focus on self-led learning.  It's legal to camp anywhere in Sweden so long as it's not in direct view of someones house.

Click here if you want to read more about the walks.