Listening Slow

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Social Innovation Seed Fund

Listening Slow

Jul 11, 2022 | Social Innovation Seed Fund

What happens when we slow down and listen deeply, to the wind, our breath, the trees, the earth?

This week we were gifted with time to be slow, because we made that space for ourselves and our community, and what happened was magic. And because we were moving slowly, in circle and connection, we noticed. And what we notice, what we give our energy to, in deeply rooted connection, we may grow.

The Hastings Folk Garden is on the 100 block of East Hastings in what is colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia, and which has many other names, including K’emk’em’elay, the Place Where the Maples Grow, the unceded lands and shared territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Wau’tuth Nations since time immemorial, time out of mind. We share this name K’emk’em’elay, as it has been shared with us, and we have been asked to witness and share on that name, a Squamish name for this place we call home, and it’s meaning, so that we might imagine a return to K’emk’em’elay, a food forest, giving life, connecting us all.

Listening Slow Part 1 – June, 2022

Orienting on sound equipment provided by Youth Innovation Component of the Enabling Accessibility Fund (Government of Canada) while discussing Care Work and the land.

A box painted with blue decoration and the words Land Back on it sit outdoors on a brick walkway.
Two people sit in a garden, one wearing headphones recording their surroundings.
A hand holds a white book titled Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice.

Deepening ‘how we host’ by sharing gifts with each other from a place that is resourced and abundant – modeling how we slow down and activating our sensory landscapes through iterative curiosity.

A hand holds a small brown sachet to the camera over green grass.
An open cheesecloth sachet holds evergreen needles and other dusty greens, on a table next to a sticker that reads go stick your hands in some dirt.
A hand holds a thermos with a tag that reads compost capitalism tea with a small drawing of a mushroom.

Learn more about Embark Sustainability and RADIUS SFU’s Social Innovation Seed Fund.