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

Gifts from the Sentient Forest offers a range of seminars and workshops in 2024 and 2025 including:

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• Encountering Plant Sentience: Communication & Collaboration Between Plants & People (4-6pm, 19 March 2024)

• Attending to Plants: Botanical Intelligence and Phenomenology (4-6pm, 6 May 2024)

• Gifts from the Sentient Forest: Sámi Perspectives on Plants, Fungi, and Culture (3-5pm, 14 August 2024)

• Sauna Cultures, Plant Magic, and Healing Traditions in Finland (3-5pm, 16 October 2024)

• ​Plants in/as Art: Collaboration and Co-Creation (3-5pm, 11 December 2024)

• Gifts from the Sentient Forest: A Conversation with Åsa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan (in collaboration with Global Tapestry of Alternatives) (6 December 2024)

• ​Tea Cultures of the North: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic (in collaboration with the International Network for Tea Studies and The White Horse Press) (3-5pm, 19 March 2025)

• From the Arctic to Australia: Four Perspectives on Forest Sentience (with Åsa Andersson Martti, Janne Sirniö, Francis Joy, and John C. Ryan) (part of the Talking Heads Seminar Series at the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia) (15 October 2025)