On Not Doing, by Simone Melanie Find the beautiful hand written version, with a full list of references, here. ‘Don’t just do something Sit There’ Thick Nat Hanh Recent reveries have rekindled the spark of joy that I find in contemplating, and practicing, the ‘art of doing nothing’ or ‘wuwei’ as the Daoists call …
Programme of the Weekend (TBC): Workshops Blurbs People of Colour (PoC) and the Land An open space to consider our relationship to land, rural and urban spaces and to reflect and begin to decolonise our thinking around this. The session space will be held by Raman Mundair – writer/artist/activist – who is interested in and …
Safer Spaces Agreement Why have a Safer Spaces Agreement? The Scottish Radical Herbal Network wants to address and challenge the root causes of ill health, and work for social and ecological justice. We recognise that this is a complex endeavour: we have all grown up in a world of structural oppression, inequality and injustice, and …
You are welcome to our free gathering that we are hosting on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2019 at Toryglen Community Hall and Urban Roots in Glasgow. You may come for the whole weekend or simply pop in when you can. The theme of the weekend is ‘Collective Care’. Our goal is to discuss this theme together, offer workshops to provide tools and/or food for thoughts …
**Taking Care of our Communities: Saturday 3rd August 2019, Glasgow Autonomous Space** We would like to invite you along to a free event that we are hosting on 3rd August at Glasgow Autonomous Space. We are hoping to bring together a whole load of groups and individuals that are engaged in radical social change and/or resisting through their very survival. The theme of the day is ‘Community Care’. As well as hosting a discussion on ways that we can better support each other through these difficult times we’d like to offer: – A big yummy meal, – A medicine-making session using herbs from the garden, – A bodywork session sharing techniques to ground and rest the body, – Some massage appointments, – Herbal foot baths – Kids activities. We are happy to cover bus fares to attend the event. Also just be in touch if you have any questions or accessibility issues you’d like to discuss.
Hello! We’re looking for contributors to our blog to help us explore radical herbalism in Scotland today. As a network we are aiming to take a radical approach to health and justice, this means looking at the root causes of ill health and working for a society without oppression – where people and the natural …
Legend has it that if Imbolc is a beautiful day, then spring is a long way off. Cailleach – the divine hag of Gaelic tradition – gathers her firewood for the rest of winter on Imbolc. If she wishes to draw it out, she will ensure the weather is fine so she can get a …
In December a public NHS/Edinburgh Council body called the Edinburgh Integrated Joint Board (EIJB) met to allocate funding for Health &Social Care projects within Edinburgh over the next three years.Their budget for this was a mere £14.1 million pounds, down from £35million for the previous three year period. A combination of a change in policy …
We have some money (currently £3750) that we would like to distribute to other groups in Scotland. We have applied for money to redistribute from the Seedbed Trust and decided that we didn’t want to sit on money that we didn’t have definite plans for so have decided to share it out. We particularly want …
Sometimes life is a bit of a maze. The walls are high and you can rarely see anything except the path ahead and behind you. You have a map, but it doesn’t really tell you which way to go. There are junctions: decisions to make. It is important to reach the destination on the map, …
