Gifts from the Sentient Forest
Communication & Collaboration Between People & Trees in Northern Finland

Gifts from the Sentient Forest develops a suite of accessible, everyday techniques for connecting with the sentience of plants, trees, and forests. These include:

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• Attuning to rowan sentience

• Cultivating attentiveness to forests

• Developing dragon awareness​

• Entraining to the seasons

• Identifying empathically with trees

• Pattern-thinking through pareidolia

• Podcasting as technological mediation

• Remembering with trees

• Walking with gestural openness