​eARTh is ART infused with Ritual informed by Earth for the protection and care of all beings.

This group is a call to find and make  eARThists visible to one an other and to our world.  eARThists are bridges between the invisible and the visible. 

We are the listeners, the makers of a new world, the messengers expressing our Earth's wisdom in a way that touches and moves many into action for the World of our Longing , unified, just, beautiful and sacred.  

If you are an eARThist as described above or feel you are called to be, please let yourself known here and share your 'listening' whether that is in music, images, installation, film, dance, etc....  

Together our listening will be deeper, our bridges can become a Mycelium for the love of of all Life's beings.

Much love and thank you
Azul

I woke up sobbing this morning and last. I saw forests dying so fast like a wave of death took them all, i could not run quickly enough to hug each tree goodbye. I just want a little more time to love what needs to be loved before it is to late…a little more time to mature and wake up…just a little more time.

It reminded me of Rainer Maria Rilke:
Dear darkening ground,
you've endured so patiently the walls we've built,
perhaps you'll give the cities one more hour
and grant the churches and cloisters two.
And those that labor—let their work
grip them another five hours, or seven,
before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness
in that hour of inconceivable terror
when you take back your name
from all things.
Just give me a little more time!
I want to love the things
as no one has thought to love them,
until they're worthy of you and real.
Book of Hours, I 61
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<3  Azul-Valerie Thome

FIRST GRIEF CIRCLE HOLDER TRAINING IN DEVON 

NON residential
Learn how to hold a Grief Composting Circle 
for the well being of your Community-Organisation-Group-Family
Informed by the sacred work of Grief of Joanna Macy, Sobonfu Some, Francis Weller and Azul-Valerie Thome

I have completed a Masters in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College entitled: the eARTh of Collective Grief: As if Life and Death really Mattered. 
The training is a leaf coming out of an in depth research and practices of my last 15 years.

The full training to become a Grief Composting Circle Holder will be in 3 parts. April-June-Sept 2107 in Devon

You will need to have done some grief work previously and be able to participate fully.

Part One - in March we will focus on creating a sacred container, making and initiating an eARTh Altar, making and initiating a Talking/Listening eARTh Object and diving in the Truth Mandala informed by Joanna Macy's Work.

Part two - In June we will dive into Sobonfu Some's work and what I have been exploring and practising with how to renegotiate our Ancestral Contract so to bring their support for our time. We will deepen our container making and activating a space that enables release and deep transformation...Composting grief !

Part Three - in September. Still in the forming stage and very exciting. We will learn with Francis Weller and myself about the 5 gates of grief and the 5 gates of Belonging through Initiatory practices of each of the gates and gateways…more soon. 
After the 3 parts of the training you will be ready to hold your own Grief Composting Circles for your community/group/organisation/family … and we pray you will feel a bit more mature and awake.

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For more details and for booking contact me Azul: [email protected]