From the River to the Tree

From the River to the Tree

🌿✨ **From the River to the Tree** ✨🌿

**An Experimental Politico-Spiritual Summer Solstice Reflective Gathering**

📅 **June 22, 2024**

🕐 **13:00**

📍 **Zürich Brunau**

🎟️ **Participation is free!**

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**What to Expect:**

🌊 **River Walk:** Start your journey with exercises by the river to deepen your connection with the land.

🌿 **Foraging Session:** Dive into a foraging adventure, complete with inquiry-based activities and group reflection.

🌳 **Guided Voyage:** Experience a journey by the tree, enhanced by the aroma of locally foraged plant smoke.

🔥 **Fractal Power Structures:** Engage in self-organising group dynamics as we gather wood, build a bonfire, and prepare a communal meal with foraged plants.

✨ **Sharing Circle:** Enjoy a communal meal, share art, stories, and learnings, fostering a sense of community and connection.

🌌 **Evening Activities:** Participate in practices designed to deepen your relationship with yourself, others, and the world through movement and interactive activities.

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**Reflection Questions:**

- What is indigenous to me?

- What are my roots?

- How do I view colonisation and how does coloniality benefit me today?

- How do I relate to the land where I come from and where I live?

- Do I know the plants and folklore of my region?

- What did my ancestors practice?

- In what ways do I feel most colonised today?

- In what ways am I most colonising today?

- How can I decolonize my mind, heart, and daily practices?

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**What to Bring:**

🎨 Art supplies (any medium)

📝 Pens and paper

🌳 Offering for the forest

🥗 Food to share (plant-based preferred; label non-plant-based items)

🎶 Music instruments

🧺 Basket for foraging

🍲 Bowls for food

🌰 Offerings for the inhabitants of the forest (nuts, seeds, fruit, etc.)

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**Contact:**

📞 Sophie: +41 79 176 7312

📸 Telegram: https://t.me/+4iEJAu92m1xkMThk or message @nobutirock to be added to the group chat for easier coordination. Thank you.

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This event is open to anyone interested in nature-based practices and serving the world. Please dress appropriately for the weather. We can accommodate non-able-bodied participants. Hate speech of any kind will not be tolerated.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Zürich Brunau, Zürich Brunau, Zürich, Switzerland