In a time marked by social anxiety, ecological grief, and cultural exhaustion, this “clinic” offers a two-hour participatory space for collective reflection and gentle experimentation.
Rather than diagnosing or fixing, we invite participants to slow down, listen, and re-ground together — exploring how art, ecology, and community care can nourish emotional and cultural resilience.
Through a short poetic presentation and soundscape, we will introduce EMCCINNO – a Horizon Europe sister project, and our local pilot – Trees, Water, Commons: Cultures for a Regenerative Future – before moving into an embodied, interactive workshop.
Using elements of the Work That Reconnects, the session guides participants from gratitude to mourning to renewal, transforming emotion into insight through movement, dialogue, and symbolic ritual.
Objectives
- To demonstrate how creative and ecological practice can support mental and cultural health.
- To share the EMCCINNO framework linking local regeneration with European collaboration.
- To cultivate emotional literacy and collective presence as foundations for regenerative design.
- To leave participants with simple, embodied tools for integrating these practices in their own contexts.
Joanna Crowson is working with Be.Time as pilot in EMCCINNO - arts and culture mobilising transformation
Cultural mediator in a small village south of Cádiz, developing projects for the regeneration of species, imaginaries and landscapes.
Andrew Zionts Abrams: Permaculture designer and cultural ecologist exploring how water, art, and community can regenerate landscapes and belonging.