An artist-led, schooled-by-the-forest for grown ups
Ground Provisions is an artist-led schooled-by-the-forest for grown ups founded grounded by artist Becky Lyon. It is based in the forest-park-stream-pond-hedgerow world of London!
Ground Provisions is an offering born from an understanding that the earth is a teacher and a source book of many types wisdom. It is full of curriculums - seasonal rhythms, ecological processes and multi-species partnerships offer cues and invitations for how to take care and flourish alongside each other in ruinous times. Engaging with these wisdoms not only instructs ourselves but also offers opportunities to reflect on how our political, social and bodily worlds have been shaped and how they might be shaped differently. Alongside forest school, the forest is the school!
Ground Provisions is softly-structured as an ecology-led syllabus split into 15 sessions across Autumn-Winter, Winter-Spring, Spring-Summer. Each session includes grounding practices, prompts and creative activities encouraging us to tune into the current moment whether it's the compost and decay of late Autumn; the quiet and rest of deep dark Winter or the fizz of symbiosis in High Spring.
Ground Provisions takes the form of one-off events, durational programmes and a handbook, hand-nose-footbook.
Welcome!
The syllabus
The Ground Provisions hand-nose-foot book is a companion structured around a ‘syllabus’ of 15 modules from “autumn” to “summer”. The book includes seasonal instructions, nature connection practices, spells, journaling prompts and artist-led activities for responding and reflecting.
The "Autumn- Winter" segment centres around honouring and gratitude…reflection…clearing the ground…recomposing and priming ourselves for new connections and perspectives…opening out…preparing for possibility…strategies for renewal …shedding and collating… The”Winter-Spring" segment focuses on rebel curriculums and new toolkits…tools and practices for doing things differently…countering and imagining inherited systems otherwise…visionary fictioning… The "Spring-Summer”. This segment is all about…ways of relating…joy…collectivity…pleasure activism…companions…growing well together…
Contact me below to receive an extract.
Join an event
I host plenty of one-off events, walks and gatherings exploring a specific theme or module. Most are carried out in person but I occasionally run online events. I can also deliver the whole programme as part of a year-long event series! I recently took a group around the wheel of the year for Camden Art Centre where we looked to seasonal rhythms and ecological patterns as guidance for our creative practice and processing. Sign up below to receive my newsletter or get in touch to talk about programming a session for your group or organisation.
Sign up
Past Collaborators
