Interwoven: A gentle, poetic & practical adventure
a guided exploration of nature and a life lived in relationship
A gentle journey of deep noticing, imagination, and appreciation for humans wanting to connect to their creativity, each other & the glistening, wild world.
Interwoven is an intimate, shared journey in reclaiming, remembering and rewilding. It’s exclusively available to paid member’s of my Substack, Another Beautiful Question delivered in weekly letters that you can enjoy and devour into at your own pace.
NB: This weekend we have our intentional journalling workshop. Signing up for interwoven automatically includes you in as part of this workshop.
arrival
Interwoven will land in your inbox every Friday if you’re in the Southern hemisphere, Thursday for those of you in the North. It will be the same each week for the duration of each chapter block.
Each week will include:
· Seasonal Time Clock: My recording of the signs and signals from the world around me that indicate the passing of the seasons and the time from week to week.
· Noticings: A list of observations from my daily journaling practice. I make a list of ten, or thereabouts.
· Small Stories: Prose & poetry, taken from my own explorations relating to our weekly theme.
· Invitations and Writing Prompts: Offerings of practical adventures, contemplations, and creative expression, for you to take or leave. How you choose to make your way through them is completely up to you.
· Interwoven Chat Thread: Each week, I will create a private chat thread where you’re invited to share your thoughts and observations of your own adventures that week. This is important, so if you feel brave, please come in and join the conversation. What we are doing, what you are doing matters. Your voice in and of itself is affirmation.
Each “block” will unfold in five chapters of around six weeks each, including a live workshop (recorded for those who can’t attend or who wish to revisit); we will schedule our first zoom workshop shortly after we begin and community calls.
interwoven is enlivening my senses, stimulating my brain, opening my mind & nurturing my imagination. I’m thrilled with the deepening connection to my natural surroundings, to the rest of the world & to my own internal world- my life is significantly enriched. With all my heart, thank you Jane. ~ Clare Frost
What is it exactly?
Interwoven is…
An invitation to develop a deeper sense of where you find yourself right now. Your place, the land that owns you, even if you find yourself in the midst of a transition. Urban, rural, farm or backyard.
A call to more expansive attention. To understand the signs and signals that are offered forward to us every day. Through weather, intuition, the way the trees lean this way or that. The clues offered by the way the animals you share your life with orient themselves or behave.
To practice listening to the land, with the intention of hearing back.
Delighting in learning what different cloud configurations mean, understanding more about the systems at play around you. Ecological. Neurological. Communal.
Exploring and understanding what’s collectible, what’s edible, the ground beneath your feet.
Looking up so we’re aware, understanding of the cycles of the moon, the anatomy of the stars and how they guide us.
Our experience of the darkness and the light.
To discern, know, name the native trees and animals of our area and those that found their way.
To carve small pockets space into our lives to develop our awareness, to develop an ecology of care. To move and be in the world outside the house, the office or our desk.
We will notice. We will become more aware. We will become more rooted.
And should it be what we desire, we will share in our adventures, speak of them with each other and if we’re moved to, write them down.
How will Interwoven work?
I will share with you my own explorations and contemplations offering you questions for your own adventures. In this way, I hope that what I offer serves as a guidepost and a lantern, something to help light the path as your own feet map the way.
If you are a paid subscriber already (thank you!) you are automatically included. If not, and you want to be a part of Interwoven, you can upgrade for $10USD a month, or $100 USD for the year.
We begin
Every week, a contemplation and a prompt for your own exploration will land directly in your inbox, along with invitations for weekly threads and conversation with your fellow Interwoven friends.
Each chapter block will have it’s own dedicated workshop designed that you are invited to attend, each with a focus on something different.
Chapter blocks will unfurl as follows…
29th March—May 15th 2024
June 1st—July 15th 2024
September 1st—October 15th 2024
November 1st—December 15th 2024
Feb 1st – March 15th 2025
You can choose to do it with me at the pace that it’s delivered, or make your way through it as a time and speed that is your own.
My hope is that you will make it your own.
Got Questions?
I’m here for them! You can email me jane@janepike.com, hit reply to this email or let me know in the comments 🌿
I would love to have you join me.
xx Jane
I’m still not certain how to navigate through this, I believe I’m subscribed, I downloaded the Substack app but am having trouble getting it to open. Is that necessary, or can we access you through this area?
I’m looking forward to this. I’ve just started with you and everything you are doing resonates deeply. This one is very exciting…. Thank you!