Right to Healing Resources
April has become something of a ritualistic blossoming for us here at Peaks of Colour.
It’s the month we emerge from our annual hibernation. It marks the anniversary of the Kinder Mass Trespass which took place in our beloved Peak District in 1932. Earth Day takes place later in the month. And, it is one year on from the first of a series of ‘Right to Healing’ walkshops we held in collaboration with Nadia Shaikh, of the present day Right to Roam campaign.
Below you will find a non-exhaustive list of resources which compile contributions from both facilitators and participants during each session.
As we bare witness to the the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and the atrocities taking place in Congo, Haiti and beyond, how we look after ourselves, each other and our environments has never been more important. It is how we continue fighting towards a liberated future.
We share these resources now, in the hopes that they can support our wider community through the individual and collective journeys of grief, embodiment and nature connection which necessitate our freedom.
Thank you to everyone who joined us on last years exploration of healing. We look forward to seeing you again this year for our upcoming walkshops which we will be announcing soon.
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Books
We, The Heartbroken by Gargi Bhattacaryya
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Links
The Grief Toolkit by Camille Sapara Barton
Nature Meditation available on Insight Timer
A Beautiful and Strange Otherness (and other works) by Francis Weller
Monthly grief circle held by Healing Justice London
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Books
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham
Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home by Amanda Thompson
Outsiders: Reclaim your place in Nature by Flock Together
Links
The Power of Somatics for Transformative Change - a Guided Centring Practice by Stacey Haynes @ 1 hr 26min
The Seek app - an app for identifying trees and plants
Lucy Lapwing's Birdsong Lessons - a youtube series by Nadia's lovely housemate, that helps you to identify bird call
Ecosomatics by Nowadays on Earth
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Books
Foraging Pocket Guide by WildFood UK
Mushrooms by Roger Phillips
Mushrooms: all you need to know by Collins gem
The Democracy Of Species by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi
Fugitive Feminism by Akwugo Emejulu
Links
'Wood Wide Web Meditation' - by Maymana Arefin
Communion with a Shaggy Inkcap by Maymana Arefin
Matter of Life and Death by Willow Defebaugh