We are, so many of us, lost in the wide world;
perhaps the trees can help us to dream our way home...
(Deborah Templeton, The Dreaming of Trees)
perhaps the trees can help us to dream our way home...
(Deborah Templeton, The Dreaming of Trees)
one thus gone is a pocket companion for contemplative woodland walking. It contains the eight poems written by Deborah for a National Trust mindfulness trail, designed by Grant Lowe, at Hardcastle Crags in West Yorkshire in 2019. The poems are accompanied by mindfulness prompts, and illustrations by painter, John Britton. A new version, including links to audio is forthcoming in 2025.
The one thus gone poems, with full audio guidelines for contemplative practice, set in music by Monty Adkins, are also the basis of a Mindfulness Audio Trail on the Love Exploring app. Developed for Love Exploring by Deborah and Grant Lowe, the trail is now located in parks and nature reserves across England.
Other Woodland and Forest-based Work:
El Ensueño de los Árboles (2017) - an immersive and contemplative theatre experience, designed for forest or woodland locations. This project was conceived with Mexican theatre director, Nicolás Núñez, and developed with a small international team in the jungle village of Armila in the remote indigenous region of Guna Yala, Panama. An English version of the text - The Dreaming of Trees - was subsequently rewritten as an audio installation, with music and sound by Julio d'Escriván, and published as a fine limited edition book by Leonora Press in 2018. El Ensueño/The Dreaming has been performed and presented in Panama, Mexico, and the UK.
The Way Through the Woods: Art-Nature-Wellbeing (2019). This day-long event brought together artists, researchers and others to explore the rich potential of arts and mindfulness in woodland settings. It was a collaboration between Deborah Templeton for the University of Huddersfield's Mindfulness and Performance Research Project, and Grant Lowe of the National Trust at Hardcastle Crags. Highlights included a keynote address by author Jay Griffiths and a live multimedia performance of The Dreaming of Trees by Templeton, composer Monty Adkins and video artist Zoe MacLean.
The one thus gone poems, with full audio guidelines for contemplative practice, set in music by Monty Adkins, are also the basis of a Mindfulness Audio Trail on the Love Exploring app. Developed for Love Exploring by Deborah and Grant Lowe, the trail is now located in parks and nature reserves across England.
Other Woodland and Forest-based Work:
El Ensueño de los Árboles (2017) - an immersive and contemplative theatre experience, designed for forest or woodland locations. This project was conceived with Mexican theatre director, Nicolás Núñez, and developed with a small international team in the jungle village of Armila in the remote indigenous region of Guna Yala, Panama. An English version of the text - The Dreaming of Trees - was subsequently rewritten as an audio installation, with music and sound by Julio d'Escriván, and published as a fine limited edition book by Leonora Press in 2018. El Ensueño/The Dreaming has been performed and presented in Panama, Mexico, and the UK.
The Way Through the Woods: Art-Nature-Wellbeing (2019). This day-long event brought together artists, researchers and others to explore the rich potential of arts and mindfulness in woodland settings. It was a collaboration between Deborah Templeton for the University of Huddersfield's Mindfulness and Performance Research Project, and Grant Lowe of the National Trust at Hardcastle Crags. Highlights included a keynote address by author Jay Griffiths and a live multimedia performance of The Dreaming of Trees by Templeton, composer Monty Adkins and video artist Zoe MacLean.
