Attending to Place – getting to know the land you love (5 workshops)

Attending to Place is a place-based practice that develops ways of personally relating to wounded places and is particularly applicable to ecotherapists and nature-based facilitators.

It offers participants a focus for deep immersion over time into a place we care about that is hurting—and so is hurting us in turn. Through guidance from an experienced practitioner, participants can connect into awareness of the wounds and the gifts of the place.

This fully immersive practice will both expand and deepen the ways in which we relate to wounded places, to ourselves in relationship with them, and to our communities as we all search for ways of living with ecological damage in the years and generations to come.

Each person will commit to spending time at a particular wounded place near them, and meeting at the below times/dates in a group-sharing Zoom call for two hours.

This course takes place over five sessions.

The dates for this series are 15th and 29th April, 13th and 27th May and 10th June 2026. All sessions run from 1-3 pm (UK timezone). When you book, you will receive a Zoom link for the first meeting. Please keep this link safe as this is the link for all future meetings.

Please note that we will not be recording these sessions. We kindly ask that participants have their cameras switched on to interact with this course (except, of course, if there are connection issues.)

Although this series is part of the Ten Directions course for trainee ecotherapy practitioners, anyone can book and take part – it is open to all :)

About Harriet Sams

Harriet Sams teaches, mentors, and facilitates archaeotherapy. She is a core tutor for the Tariki Trust, co-hosts online conversations with ecological creators, thinkers and writers for the charity Radical Joy for Hard Times and co-facilitates imaginal workshops for the Climate Psychology Alliance. She writes about interconnected threads such as myth, archaeology, Earth-based spirituality, environmental art, and climate/ecological chaos. Harriet has recently contributed a chapter to the influential book: ‘Climate, Psychology and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety’, edited by Steffi Bednarek, and is currently researching the phenomenon of Archaeotherapy for her PhD.

Hari’s lifelong connection to the spirit of Land inspires the ways in which she approaches ecology, heritage and soul. A Druid with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and a Quaker, Hari’s esoteric, mystical experiences weave through all she does.

Her work can be followed here: www.nwyfre-earth.co