Number of participants: 20
Location: Longva, Norway
Date: August 28th, 2025
Duration: 14:00-16:00 (2 – 4 pm)
Co-conspirators: LongvaAIR
Created for Between Sky & Sea VII: Flying Blind
Ingredients: bodily memories of a walk taken yesterday where the group has experienced several encounters with geological time, movements, surges, swells and ripples between the interior space and its surroundings, shifts in weather between sunshine, gusting wind and rain, a news story about extreme temperatures and dying reindeer, a story about environmental loss and wonder, freshly harvested garlic, raw sugar, kitchen scale
Soft Score
14:00 Introduction
Each takes a seat, forming a circle in the room.
Welcome and introduction.
Checking in.
Introduction to group agreements.
14:10 Grounding
An invitation to ground oneself in whatever is supporting, and to bring your attention and awareness to the space around you,
to the movements, surges, swells and ripples in the outside surroundings.
Revisit the encounters with geological time from yesterday’s walk
14:20 Introduction to the Ingredients
An introduction to the ingredients for a garlic fermentation preparation,
their strengths and properties.
14:30 Reading the News
Together listen to a news story about extreme temperatures, wildfires, reindeer dying from the heat, the effects of the heatwave on reindeer that threaten the livelihoods of Indigenous Sámi communities as it is read out loud.
14:35 Reading a Story about Loss and Wonder
Together read a story by Rachel Carson about developing a sense of wonder and imagination for the natural world in order not destroy it.
14:40 Co-regulating with the Daily News
Take a moment to let the news and the story about wonder and loss settle in the body.
An invitation to name what generates a sense of wonder, or feelings of loss when listening to the news.
Begin preparation of garlic mixture.
The collective crushes the garlic, each takes a turn, then passes onto the next person, moving in a clockwise direction around the circle.
15:30 Tasting and Closing the Circle
Add raw sugar to the crushed garlic mixture then taste the mixture, passing the bowl around the circle.
A reminder of the mixture’s properties as well as the soft score, to help build up collective resilience, for the dark times that lie ahead.
15:40 Connecting
Name out loud or in silence how each might connect to the earth and others, people, plants, animals, oceans, etc.
Imagine that you are not separated from what is has been named, but that everything is in you.
15:50 Checking in and Last Reflections
15:55 Bee Breath
A collective breath for ecological grief.
16:00 End
