Participants enjoyed finding a gesture that represented the connection with the Earth. The initial free write helped participants to explore the experience of stillness and reflect on life pace and change. The group considered and shared their experience of the word regeneration. The wordcloud below illustrates the restorative arena that regeneration evokes. It is always interesting to note the placement of apparently separate words in relation to one another:
The poem elicited a lot of discussion which with many favourite lines in common. There was a fair amount of interweaving of our words whereby similar themes were coming through in our different pieces of writing.
The second exercise reflected invited reflection on our ancestry through metaphor which brought up recollections of people, places, foods and it was interesting to hear these diverse experiences with which we could nonetheless resonate.
We then spent some time reflecting on words we had written or heard from others that we appreciated and would take away from the workshop.
