We welcomed some new elders to our fold. Not only was it spring, with birdsong, primroses, buds, it was also national poetry day. Blackthorn woke in us the rich vocabulary, its beauty and thorn the juice: Japanese like, friendly looking blossom, strings of pearls, like snow across the hedgerow....Crown of Thorns (or was that hawthorn?),… Continue reading Elders 2 – Blackthorn (Blind Thorn) and Holi Colours
The first leaves popped in the sunshine as we gathered in Whirly Woods today for Forest Families. A gloriously relaxed and creative day filled with crafts, laughter and song. Thank you to all who contributed to our community. See you next time.
Hurrah! we are back in the woods - a rich and warm and fabulous community of Vintage Elders collected, walking up the golden path of woodchip to the fire circle. Here we hugged, exchanged, ate soup, and finally gathered for our first circle of the year. Sex was our theme, the sex of plants and… Continue reading Elders 1 – March – Sex and onion-skin eggs
It was fantastic to see so many families and friends today at Whirly woods for our February Forest Family gathering. To hear the cries of delight and laughter around the woodland as children explored, climbed and swung was wonderful. Potions were mixed, spears whittled, spiders made to hang in willow webs and beautiful drawings with… Continue reading Kinda Forest Family February
The 2024 Gathering of the Kinda tribe. Each February we gather together to circle, review, plan and dream into the next three years. We gathered at A Woodcraft Folk centre in Darsham. Which is a great place to stay and on a train station too. This year we were joined by an Info-graphic goddess Kate.… Continue reading 2024 Rumi Darsham annual gathering
Our Kinda Forest family explored Worlingham woods today. We had apple flapjacake as we greeted each other in circle, sharing things that kept us feeling warm… …. a good stomp around the woods, a cat sleeping on our lap or a woollen blanket wrapped around us, the fire in the garden, a toasty arga inside… Continue reading Kinda Family Forest School 2024
Mud-less, sweet chestnut, open space, Worlingham is a joy for Kinda. First Child in the Woods... At our NEW 'Kinda Alternative and Kinda Forest School Training' woodland in Worlingham today. Six years ago this child was the first to play in our camp at Kali Woods, asleep in a wheel barrow some of the time.… Continue reading 2024 Worlingham Rocks
Wow 2023 - Our 5th year. Kinda Education’s role is to support the children and adults we work alongside to reconnect to the wild, each other and themselves. To observe the joy within the freedom to be themselves, and to be part of the progress they each make in their social confidence and personal development… Continue reading 2023 Kinda reflection – huge developments
if someone had said to me a couple of years ago, I'd be walking though mud to site in a wood on a December day, I wouldn't have believed them. But I wouldn't miss it for the world" Elder in Kaliwoods December 2023 An exhibition of our Tree art work greeted us on display above… Continue reading Elders 11 – it’s a wrap
