Weaving Earth

Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education provides nature-based education for action at the conf

In times of great change, Weaving Earth offers the strengthening of relationship as our response. Our complex, rapidly changing world calls for leaders who deeply feel the inherent interrelationship between all of life. Such leadership must be fueled by creative collaboration, deeply aware of historical and present-day patterns of oppression, and considerate of the health and well-being of many generations to come. Guided by nature, we endeavor to draw out the vital contributions we each have to make to the great work before us.

10/05/2026

Bird Kinship begins tomorrow, October 6! 🐦🌿

Join us for four weeks of slowing down, sharpening our attention, and reconnecting with birds, with community, and with the places we call home.

Through the practices of Bird Language and Mindful Birding, we’ll explore attention, presence, and reciprocity. Together, we’ll listen to the ecological conversation happening all around us and discover the ease, connection, and joy that can emerge when we remember ourselves as part of the more-than-human world.

Whether you’re brand new to birds or have been watching them for years, Bird Kinship is an invitation to experience the natural world and your own place within it.

🌿 October 6–29
🌿 Live online gatherings + guided practice
🌿 Attend live or participate on demand
🌿 No birding experience needed
🌿 Sliding-scale tuition and scholarships available

We begin tomorrow. There’s still time to join us.

Registration at the link in bio.

Facilitators:
Tammah Watts TAMMAH WATTS
brontë velez Brontë Velez
Molly Tsongas Molly
Lauren D. Hage
Dave Hage

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09/30/2026

What happens when we give the birds our attention? 🐦

Research suggests that even a few minutes of listening to birdsong can reduce anxiety and paranoia. And studies have found that spending just 20 minutes in nature can significantly lower cortisol, one of our primary stress hormones.

The word attention comes from the Latin attendere: to extend toward.

And when we extend our attention toward the birds—listening to their songs, noticing their movements, becoming curious about their lives—we nourish our own nervous systems, too.

That’s the practice at the heart of Bird Kinship (link in bio), our four-week community of practice beginning October 6. We’ll gather from our own home places and do bird sits together: listening, noticing, and practicing extending our attention toward the living world.

You don’t need to be a birder. You don’t need to know who is singing.

Just come sit with us. 🌿🐦

08/18/2026

And… we did it. YOU did it. 🌱

Together, our community reached our Ma Earth campaign goal — and because of that, we received the maximum $16,000 matching grant from Ma Earth. More than 200 of you came together to contribute over $10,000 for ATTUNE, and with the match, that generosity has grown into approximately $26,400 to help bring this work to life.

Zooming out even further: across the globe, 11,692 donors came together to raise $985,622 for 200 nature-based projects. Through Ma Earth’s matching model, that collective giving expanded into an estimated $2.18 million for community-led regeneration. We’re honored to be one small part of that bigger story.

“ATTUNE feels like a practice more than just a program. It held me in a way that allowed me to change into who I’ve always been and who I’ve always been becoming.” — Forrest Parks, ATTUNE participant

Your gift is helping make experiences like this possible. Thank you for believing in Weaving Earth, in ATTUNE, and in the power of nature-based education to cultivate resilience, belonging, and leadership. We feel deeply honored to have you as part of this community.

With gratitude, The ATTUNE Team

07/20/2026

“I chose to dedicate my time to ATTUNE because this is way bigger than me.” -Nay

One of our deepest hopes at Weaving Earth is that this life-affirming work doesn’t end when a program does. We hope it ripples outward—into families, neighborhoods, and communities—helping people find a way forward together. As Nay shared, they hope to carry what they’ve learned back to their family, passing down stories and helping younger family members “find a way forward.”

And this weekend, our community showed up for that bigger vision: **we reached our adjusted Ma Earth goal of 100 donors!** 🎉🌱

So we’re optimistically setting a new goal to help us reach the maximum matching funds:

🔥 **150 donors by midnight tomorrow, July 21.** 🔥

That’s 47 more people choosing to be part of what ATTUNE makes possible: connection across differences, relationship with land, and stories and skills that can be carried forward to future generations.

Because this grant is driven by the **number of donors** a gift of any size can have an outsized impact. If you’ve been waiting, this is the moment.

Donate through the link in our bio—and help us spread the word. We’re so close to seeing how far this work can go. 💛

07/18/2026

WE couldn’t have said it better ourselves 🩵

In momo’s words, “ATTUNE is about building the skills we need to sustain ourselves—and to live in better relationship with the Earth.
That means learning controlled burning, wilderness first response and CPR. It also means learning to be with our own nervous systems while becoming attentive to the nervous systems, beauty and intelligence of the birds around us.”

This is the kind of learning your support makes possible. 🌱🔥

We have until July 21 to maximize a matching grant from Ma Earth. This match is based on the number of donors, not the amount donated—so even a small gift can go an extraordinarily long way, potentially creating 4x the impact.

We’re at 78 donors and need to reach at least 100.

Will you be one of the 22 people who gets us there?

Donate any amount through the link in our bio—and please share this with someone who believes in preparing for the future through deeper relationship with the living world.

Every donor counts. Truly.

07/13/2026

Our hearts are full. 💚

*We are so grateful for the ATTUNE Season 2 cohort.*

Over the last twelve months, we gathered again and again to learn alongside one another—tending prescribed fire, building emergency response skills, practicing embodied ecology, learning somatic practices that support mental health and wellbeing, studying a wild fluency through bird language and ecological tracking, telling stories, sharing meals, laughing, grieving, and returning our attention to the living world and to each other.

Together, participants earned Wilderness First Responder+ certification, Firefighter Type 2 qualification, and Weaving Earth’s Embodied Ecology Naturalist Certification.

Those certifications matter.
And so does everything they can’t measure.

Over the course of a year, we practiced becoming the kinds of people who know how to respond together. We built trust through shared work, shared responsibility, long days, difficult conversations, delight, and care. We strengthened what Joanna Macy calls *Rough Weather Networks*—relationships that help us meet uncertainty with skill, courage, and companionship.

To every participant: thank you.

Thank you for bringing your whole selves, your questions, your gifts, and your willingness to practice together.

To our facilitators, guest teachers, cooks, childcare providers, land stewards, and partners: thank you for shaping this experience with such generosity, wisdom, and heart.

We leave this year changed by one another, and we’re excited to see how these relationships, practices, and skills continue to ripple outward into homes, neighborhoods, movements, ecosystems, and communities.

Special gratitude to:
chagga 💫 star 🇹🇿🇩🇪
tayla shanaye MA, PhD
Jiordi Rosales
Brontë Velez

Will Scott
Boreal Faun
David Hage
Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd
Edward D Willie
Milena Castañeda Bice
Solidarity Field School
Pınar & So
school for inclement weather
Green Valley Farm + Mill
…and the many others who helped weave this season together. ❤️

Here’s to carrying this work home. 🌿🔥

07/03/2026

For tens of thousands of years, humans have lived in close relationship with the land, and birds have been among our closest teachers—revealing what is happening in the landscape through voices movement, and behavior.

Their songs mark the seasons.

Their movements tell stories about what’s unfolding around us.

Their alarms reveal danger.

But bird language offers something else, too.

In a world that constantly pulls our attention away, birds invite us back into relationship—with place, with our own awareness, and with the living communities we share this Earth with.

Whether you’re brand new to birds or have been watching them for years, Bird Kinship is an invitation to slow down, sharpen your attention, and experience the natural world in a completely different way.

🌿 Live online beginning Tuesday, July 7
🦉 Four weeks of guided learning and practice
📍No experience needed

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to spend more time outside…

This might be it.

(Link in bio.)

07/01/2026

We’ve got some exciting news.

Weaving Earth has been selected to participate in Ma Earth’s Round 3 collective funding campaign—a global initiative supporting community-led ecological regeneration.

What makes this campaign different is that matching funds are unlocked based on how many people participate (not just based on how much is raised.)

That means a $20 gift can have an outsized impact.

We are looking for 200 people to give $20 or more! Are you one of those people?

We’ve already raised $21,000 toward our $100,000 July 31 goal, and now this opportunity could help us unlock additional funding if enough people join in.

If you’ve ever wanted to support Weaving Earth but thought, “I can only give a little,” this is your moment.

🌿 Every gift matters.
🌿 Every donor counts.
🌿 Every share helps.

Visit the link in our bio (or comment ATTUNE and we’ll send you the campaign link).

Thank you for helping grow a future rooted in ecological literacy, collective care, and community resilience.

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06/26/2026

Our next session of Bird Kinship starts on Tuesday, July 7. Being present with the birds allows us to tune into the nervous system of the land — awakening the reciprocal conversation between the living world and ourselves. It's an opportunity for slowing down and dropping in with the more-than-human world and with community.

Summer session: July 7–30⁠
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Register at: https://weavingearth.org/bird-kinship/
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→More about the course: Bird Kinship is a journey into mindful birding and bird language. These simple yet potent practices cultivate a quiet mind, bring relaxation, deepen our kinship with birds, and invite us into the ecological conversation happening all around us. Meets online twice per week for four weeks. Cohorts are available in spring, summer, and fall. ⁠
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→Lifeways Back fund, sliding scale, and scholarships are available.⁠
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06/25/2026

“Feeling is revolutionary, a disruption of the status quo. Though it feels personal and happens in our bodies, it doesn’t need to be a solitary action. Feeling and connection bring us into the world and into relationship with one another. Some things seem too big to be felt alone because they are. They require the collective to hold the space for big feeling, for it to move through, and to remind us that we’re not alone.” —Prentis Hemphill, “What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World”

Photo: Dave Hage

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