Grounded in Garnock - Week 1 - Seminar 1 - Stories of Place

Grounded in Garnock - Unearthing Networks in Nature

Sometimes we don’t know what is happening when it is right in front of us! Whether it is on land, sea, sky, above the soil, beneath the soil and within communities around us. The Grounded in Garnock - Unearthing Networks in Nature project aims to showcase, shine a light on and further develop some of the amazing networks and nature within our area! 

Grounded in Garnock has been funded by North Ayrshire Council and has been co-created by The Beith Community Trust and local Social Entrepreneur, Michelle Sutherland. It is a 6 week series of seminars and hands-on workshops which take a different topic each week focusing on exploring and nurturing the living systems we live in. We are looking to maximise the natural resource, grassroot activities and infrastructure of the Garnock Valley for educational activity. 

Week 1 Seminar will be: Grounded in Garnock - Stories of Place

You will learn about:

• Why & how the Grounded in Garnock project was born & its aims

• The Garnock Valley and how powerful storytelling is to connect to a place

• The key principles of Ecology and Human Ecology

• Learn about Patrick Geddes concept on Place, Work, Folk - the relationship between Geography (place), Economics (work) and Anthropology (folk),

Meet our Educator for this Seminar: Svenja Meyerricks

Svenja is a human ecologist, independent researcher and educator based in Glasgow.  Her main interests are community initiatives, commons and co-operation and alternative economic principles and practices. She is a member of the Enough Collective and has worked as a project manager, gardener and workshop leader in community food growing projects across Glasgow.

Svenja holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews titled ‘Community projects as liminal spaces for climate action and sustainability practices in Scotland‘. She also has an MSc in Human Ecology from the University of Strathclyde/ Centre for Human Ecology and an MA in Social Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Glasgow.

We will then invite you to join us on a journey into the wonderful world of networks and nature in a 4 hour practical workshop the same week. One that hopes to bring new perspectives about our living world - where the soil breathes, livelihoods are enriched and everything is connected. We will explore how we relate to,  influence and respond to the land around us. It is an opportunity to stop, breathe and look and listen to stories of the earth, those of the past, present and future!

We encourage you to come to both the Seminar AND the Practical Workshop in Week 1 if you are interested in Stories of Place.

If you sign up to this Seminar then please sign up to the Practical Workshop too:

https://events.humanitix.com/grounded-in-garnock-week-1-practical-workshop-1-stories-of-place

Seminars and Practical Workshops are open to adults over 18yrs.