A contemplative workshop with meditation, mindful walking, deep listening, and reflective writing to connect with water as a source.

Water Wisdoms - Reconnecting with Source

As autumn settles across the wetlands, we are invited to slow down, reflect, and attune to the quiet wisdom of the season. Water is our first home. Flowing through our bodies and shaping the landscapes around us, water connects all living things. Through meditation, mindful walking, deep listening, and reflective writing, this contemplative workshop explores our relationship with water as both a physical presence and a source of inner knowing. Immersed in the wetland landscape, we will create space for deep listening and see how returning to this elemental relationship can reconnect us with a deeper sense of self and source.

Open to all levels

Info about the event

Location: Pulborough Brooks, Wiggonholt, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 2EL

Suitable for: all ages with a focus on BPOC folks; under 16+ must be accompanied by an adult.

Price:

If you are a Black, Asian, or ethnically diverse/BPOC creative, you can sign up for our Free WOL Creatives' Network and come to the walk for free.

If you are taking the minibus, we will ask for a refundable £5 deposit, which will be returned to you if you turn up or give us 48 hours' notice.

If you are not a WOL Creatives' Network member (general public), you are welcome to join us for a £10 ticket. If you are taking the minibus, it will be £20.

No provision for dogs

Please bring a pen and notebook and a question to carry into the landscape and explore.

About the walk & terrain

The workshop includes gentle walking, sensory exploration, and time spent outdoors within the wetland landscape.

There will also be an option to stay in one location for those who don't want to participate in the walk.

The terrain at RSPB Pulborough Brooks is generally flat, easy, and level, featuring a mix of sandy tracks, grassy paths, and wetland trails.

Please bring adequate shoes and clothes based on the weather forecast.

Accessibility

Venue fully accessible: wheelchair accessible and flat gravel surfaces and facilities. Contact us with any additional access needs at access@writingourlegacy.org.uk

Transport

From Brighton on our minibus. Limited spaces, you have to book this with your ticket. Pick up at 10:30am from the back of Brighton Station (please select minibus in the ticket options). The minibus will be leaving the venue at 2:30pm to return to Brighton.

Price of minibus

For WOL members, we will ask for a refundable £5 deposit, which will be returned to if you turn up or give us 48 hours notice.

For non-WOL members: Minibus and ticket £20

You can get there by car. Paid parking on site.

By bus: Compass Bus 100, from Burgess Hill to Horsham, stops at Pulborough train station and serves the stop immediately outside the reserve. It is a request stop, so you will need to ask the driver to drop you outside the reserve when you board.

By train: The nearest station is Pulborough 2 miles (4 km) from the reserve. Taxi's are available.

About the artist

Sense Turner is a multi-arts practitioner and an experienced creative community developer with over 15 yrs in creative organisations, museums & heritage and multi-arts socially engaged projects.

As a writer Sense has performed written work both nationally and internationally from Keats House and Southbank Centre to the Salihara Literature Festival in Indonesia to the Valley of Kings in Egypt. Shade Us Wonder Book, Sense’s first collection of poems was shortlisted by Brick Books Canada and Sense’s self-published limited edition box of handmade paper poems ‘Have You Heard the Buzz’ sold out.

Sense is currently voluntarily developing and co-leading Walks of Wisdom (WOW), a grassroots organisation for women and non-binary BPOC exploring the Sussex landscape.

About the Downs to the Sea Partnership

Downs to the Sea brings together a partnership comprising the South Downs National Park Trust, South Downs National Park Authority, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Western Sussex Rivers Trust (formerly known as Arun and Rother Rivers Trust), Brighton and Hove City Council, and Writing Our Legacy.

The partnership focuses on the two following strands:

Water in the landscape, focused on restoring and improving vital wetlands, ponds and rivers, and increasing the landscape’s resilience to climate change and other threats;

Water in people’s lives, focused on connecting people to natural heritage and the water in their lives, to benefit their health and wellbeing, to develop skills and knowledge, and to help protect precious freshwater resources that are vital to our communities.

Refunds

All ticket purchases are non-refundable. As a small grassroots organisation, ticket income directly supports the delivery of our events and programmes. Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer refunds for non-attendance or changes in personal circumstances, as doing so would put our work at risk.

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