About this Event
Resilient by Nature: How Community Traditions & Connection to the Land & Each Other Can Support Healing When Our Healthcare, Community and Climate Systems Are Strained.
Join us in circle as we welcome our speaker for this month, Jess Linton, a registered art therapist, forest school leader, creative practitioner and artist, with a particular passion for addressing human rights, social-upheaval and climate crisis through creative acts that bring community together. She is the Founder and Co-Director of The Plot Stanmer CIC - a creative outdoor community wellbeing space on the edge of Stanmer Woods, Brighton, addressing mental health, resilience and community cohesion via nature connection, arts and traditional craft. Jess will guide us through a presentation exploring how nature-connected traditions of community-building, collective care and reciprocity in nature, can bolster us in an age of systemic strain. Illustrated through a snapshot of recent projects at The Plot Stanmer, centred on the fundamental theme of "connection and belonging." Including Short film.
Further Info
The Plot Stanmer is a creative community sanctuary rooted in the historical landscape of Stanmer Park and South Downs. We co-create a space for nurturing creativity, community spirit, and connection, specifically supporting those facing mental health challenges, social isolation, and systemic oppression.
Our practice, led by therapists, creatives and trauma-informed nature-based practitioners, integrates earth care, nature-connection, group work, ecotherapy, environmental art therapy and indigenous craft. By working the land, harvesting food, sharing fire-cooked meals, willow-weaving, charcoal making, pottery, we engage in ritual and folk heritage that bridge the gap between ancestral heritage and modern recovery.
We celebrate this practice as radical self-care, and integrate it alongside forest bathing, mindful grounding techniques and the symbolism of language, the metaphor of nature, for acknowledging natural cycles, the need for rest and a slower pace of life - all vital for system regulation.
Our community includes a high percentage of LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, refugee, and domestic abuse survivors, who we work alongside to create a sanctuary space that challenges more mainstream clinical approaches.
Climate Women is a collaborative, inclusive project founded by international speaker, writer, activist Benita Matofska for women in the Brighton & Hove area – circles take place on the last Wednesday of the month.
Event Running Order
6pm – Arrival and networking
6.30pm – Open circle and welcome & intros
7.00pm – Intro speaker Jess Linton
7.05pm- 7.50pm – Jess speaks
7.50pm – 8.05pm – Tea, networking
8.05pm – 8.45pm – Jess continues
8.45pm - 9.00pm – Close circle, pledge.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Breathe Wellbeing, 21-23 Church Street, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00
