Wednesday, July 24, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 pm Central US Time
Join us for this free online conversation with Rachel Corby about appreciating, connecting, and communicating with plants.
How can we more deeply connect with plants and what can this mean in our lives?
Join author and plant whisperer Rachel Corby in a conversation about growing your connection with plants with moderator Paul Moss, executive director of The Plant Initiative.
Learn about a journey of plant enchantment, where recognition of those other beings as animate, en-spirited and intelligent, opens the door to a whole new way of being. Communicating with plants can help change everything, influencing how we behave and enriching our lives with intimacy and meaning.
There will be time for questions from the audience following the discussion. This free program will be livestreamed with a link to be sent to participants before the event and will also be recorded and available for viewing online afterwards.
Rachel Corby is an author, personal rewilding coach, plant whisperer and sacred plant medicine mentor, based in the west of England. Rachel first began to hear the whispers of plants while completing research for her Geography degree, in a remote Scottish valley during the early 1990's. She followed their call across five continents, learning in each place from the peoples of those lands, but also directly from the plants, mushrooms and the land herself.
Rachel's work is entirely experiential, constantly guided and nudged by direct communication with Gaia, by her plant and fungal allies. She is the author of four books including Rewild Yourself: Becoming Nature and most recently Rewilding & The Art of Plant Whispering.
Learn more about Rachel and her work on her web site.
Each month, The Plant Initiative sends out an e-mail newsletter to provide timely information and resources about improving the plant-human connection as well as to keep you up to date on our work.
Here's the link to the May 2024 e-newsletter which was sent on May 15, 2024.
To subscribe to the e-newsletter, just visit our home page and enter your e-mail address on the form on that page. If you have a suggestion for a resource, event, or other item that may be of interest to subscribers, please consider sharing it with us at info@plantinitiative.org.
Thank you
The video recording is now posted on The Plant Initiative's YouTube channel of the online program "Conversing with Leaves: plants, politics and more-than-human witnessing - A conversation with Uriel Orlow" with Giovanni Aloi held May 14, 2024. Access the one-hour video directly here!
2023 was the third full year of The Plant Initiative and we experienced a lot of growth in our programing this year as is described in this report. This included online events, grants, our monthly e-mail newsletter, podcasts, a report, social media, and collaboration with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
A big thanks to Plant Initiative board member Mya Hummel for donating the design for the report and to Betsey Crawford of The Soul of the Earth for allowing us to include her beautiful photos of flowers.
As an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff, we have done a lot with a modest budget. Thank you for all of the support and interest you have shown over the past year!
Learn more about our work by reading or downloading the report here or by clicking on the report cover..
The video recording is now posted on The Plant Initiative's YouTube channel of the online program "Back to the future: Gift logic and sacred responsibilities to our plant kin - with Keith Williams" with Laura Pustarfi held April 9, 2024. Access the one-hour video directly here!
The Plant Initiative is posting podcast episodes on our YouTube channel.
Our fourth episode, recorded on March 29, 2024, features a wonderful conversation with Grant Wilson, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center and Plant Initiative board member Sue Fager about the Rights of Nature.
The video recording is now posted on The Plant Initiative's YouTube channel of the online program "Plant Intelligence, Rights & Ethics - A conversation with Alessandra Viola" held January 31, 2024. Access the one-hour video directly here!
A December 2023 Plant Initiative report Toward a Plant Advocacy Movement is available now for download. This report presents reasons why a plant advocacy movement is timely, outlines challenges that such a movement would face, considers what can be learned from the animal advocacy movement, and suggests potential approaches that could be useful for operationalizing a plant advocacy movement. Access it free here.
Join the new Plant Networking site on Hylo!
This new free Hylo networking tool is a special interactive web site set up for those interested in the human-plant connection supported by The Plant Initiative and Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene. It's a space for sharing active research, collaborations, art, and any forms of humans and plant relations. Use this page to collaborate, share, and to connect with others interested in thoughtful ways of relating to plants.
Visitors to The Plant Initiative's web site are especially invited to join this online community!
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