Goethean Plant Study Days

Get to know one of our medicinal plants in depth at the beautiful Weleda Gardens in Derbyshire

There’s now a greater understanding of the importance and benefit for people to re-connect to nature. Goethean plant study can help us to develop a closer relationship to whatever it is in nature that we’re studying. Working as a group can also validate our individual experiences and show us that we are often more observant and perceptive than we give ourselves credit for.

Following the ideas of Goethe, we will look at the plant in the living sequence of it's movement and transformation from a seed through rooting, leafing and flowering to when it bears seeds itself.

Unlike the conventional scientific approach, Geothean science includes (and validates) our human intuitive and emotional responses to whatever it is we’re studying. Scientific rigour is still an important part of the process, but as the ‘instruments of perception’ we as humans can learn so much more about a plant than just relying on lab tests and chemical analyses.

We will participate in detailed observation, sketching and 'sensing', and then use our memory to 're-grow' the plant in our imagination. In this way, together, we will try to relate to the plant's being and gesture (what the plant is telling us) and finally explore how that may relate to the human being.

We will discover lots of aspects we didn't know before and forge new connections to the plant world!

Please note, this event is for 18+, or over 16s if accompanied by an adult.

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