Fallow - Forest Frolicking - Community Care for BPOC🌿

Fallow Session 3 - Forest Frolicking: July 7th - 12pm - 4pm at Epping Forest (Meet-up location TBC)

For this Fallow session we will have a special guest Maymana join Dre & LION for a journey through London’s largest forest, Epping Forest. In this Fallow session, the forest serves as both therapist and playground, with Dre & Maymana as your guides. This session aims to revitalise connections between humans and nature, strengthen your observation skills, and be a moment for the restorative effects of nature to support your health and well-being.🌿🌲☀️

You can expect a blend of frolicking and reflecting, with opportunities for journaling to capture your thoughts and experiences.

Please dress comfortably and appropriately for the weather, as we will be outdoors for the entire duration. You will receive a pin with the location of the meet-up point a few days prior. 📍

Feel free to bring snacks and water to keep you nourished as we will be in the forest for a few hours. 

This event is pay what you can but if cost is a barrier to attending, please email sumayyah@landinournames.community for a free ticket. 

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Dre Ferdinand is a licensed social worker, artist and therapist, whose practices include movement, energy, sound,  soil, and EMDR, a modality that has informed her approach which she refers to as ‘MESSE’. Dre’s practice framework is rooted in healing, social and restorative justice. Her professional journey involves aiding individuals and communities in processing and recovering from systemic harm and trauma as well as advocating for therapeutic support for social workers. Her teachings are centred on helping people navigate their internal landscape, collective care, and processing trauma. You can contact Dre at hello@dreferdinand.com or @idreferdi

Land In Our Names is a grassroots collective of Black and People of Colour getting land through reparations. Our collective is based in London, Britain, and works to reconnect Black and People of Colour to land, both in the city and in the countryside. Our work addresses the inequalities in access to land and food, and reimagines land stewardship towards climate and racial justice. We are organising toward collective ownership and land stewardship by Black and People of Colour, to heal the colonial-rooted trauma that has separated us and continues to extract from the land.

Fallow

Fallow is a series of community care workshops integrating the healing and repair element of Land In Our Names’ aims and values into our work. We believe that there is a deep need for accessible healing spaces for Black and People of Colour (BPOC) landworkers and earthworkers, climate, food, farming, land and racial justice organisers. Moreover, it is vital to connect this work to land and food, in particular political understandings of land and food that are rooted in ancestral, anti-colonial, and radical practices. We see collective care as essential in supporting food growers and other landworkers who experience physical and mental burnout from low wages and intensive physical labour. It is important for social justice organisers who similarly struggle with low wages, long hours and demanding work.

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Here’s some snaps from our last Fallow session, just for our newsletter subscribers!🌿