Goal
To help participants understand how uprooting contributes to today’s global challenges, and experience ways to re-root in place, community and self
Through guided reflection, meditation, and interactive tools like the Landscape Archetypes and the Rooting Compass, participants explore their personal and collective roots. The workshop combines insights from Simone Weil and Joe Brewer with experiential exercises to reconnect with nature, community, rituals, and inner life.
- Personal Insight – Each participant identifies where they currently feel rooted or uprooted across key life dimensions.
- Practical Direction – Participants leave with one concrete action to strengthen their rootedness in daily life
- Shared Awareness – The group develops a common language around rooting as a counterforce to disconnection, useful for personal and collective resilience.
Videos
The Need for Roots
A profound summary of Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots
Creating a Bioregional Learning Ecosystem
Sitting in a forest I have been growing with my own hands for the last few years… and feeling into the web of regenerative processes that are birthing a learning ecosystem for Barichara, Colombia.
To Work
This is an overview of a 1,5 hour workshop you can do with the material provided below in the downloads.
- Opening & context (10 min)
- Stel de vraag: Wat roept het woord ‘worteling’ bij je op?
- Deel Simone Weil’s en Joe Brewer’s gedachtegoed
- Geleide meditatie/gronding (10 min)
- Archetypische oefening – Welk landschap roept jou? (15 min)
- Vraag: Welk landschap geeft jou kracht? Waar voel jij je geworteld?
- Laat deelnemers kiezen (met kaarten of beelden).
- Delen in tweetallen: wat zegt dit over jouw worteling?
- Het Wortelingskompas invullen (25 min)
- Reflectie & verbinding (20 min)
- Afsluiting (10 min) ieder noemt een woord dat ze meenemen
Source
Simone Weil describes aspects of rooting in her book The Need for Roots. These form the basis for this exercise.
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