"Our current responses accelerate us towards either ecological collapse or a techno-fascist dystopia. At WAVES, we ask: Is there another way?" - WAVES site

Bioindicators are guides who teach us about the ecosystem - shifts in its status, health and wellbeing often due to the impact of human activity.

In this nature-connection, guided meditation through deep time and contemplative walk, we invite our more-than-human lichin kin into conversation to learn and process together.

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"I also want to thank and acknowledge the passion and work of Andrea Gilly and Eloise Smith-Foster. Their session on bioindicators as guides for a world in crisis was truly beautiful [...]

Afterwards, we were already imagining how similar sessions could become a central part of future gatherings." - Aly Noyola Cabrera, WAVES

Learning from our Lichen (Pl)antcestors

Lichen is ancient. Scientists believe they first formed 400-600 million years ago, around the time plants were just starting to transition onto land. In fact, they may have helped prepare the Earth for forests by breaking down rock into soil on a timescale hard for humans to contemplate. They have survived through much more change and challenging transitions than us young humans, so there is a lot we can learn from them.

This session centres lichen as ancestral guides, elders and teachers to converse and co-inquire with and find different ways of being together. This took the form of a guided meditation, reflective discussion and lichen-engagement Andrea and I co-facilitate.

We make time to learn from the world of relatives and the more-than-human that is always there, but sometimes only becomes present for us when we slow down and pay attention.