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Voice of Place: At Alma La Masure


Our relationship to place runs deep — sometimes as a source of rootedness and belonging, sometimes as a site of loss, longing, or dislocation. We are forever connected to the places that have shaped us — the land we grew up on, the places we return to, the ones that call us without quite knowing why. What if that pull is not just personal, but relational? What if place has something it wants to say?

Place is not just a location. It is a living gathering of memory, experience, and meaning — where past and present meet, and where human and more-than-human life are intertwined.

Over three days, we will move together through a deepening arc: arriving into relationship with the land around us in the French Alps, listening deeply, and integrating what we've heard into our lives. Through ritual, time outdoors, and the embodied practice of systemic constellations — a relational, embodied way of making visible what is hidden or entangled in a place — we will come into dialogue with elements of place: the ancestors, the waters, time, and the more-than-human world around us.

What becomes visible reminds us that our decisions and well-being are interconnected with the health of the places that hold us. What emerges is not just insight, but our remembered belonging and how to be in right relationship with the land.

You will leave with:
• a felt sense of what it means to be in conversation with place
• a way of listening you can bring home — to the land you live on, steward, or love
• threads of meaning that connect your personal story to the wider living world

No previous experience needed. If so called, participants are welcome to travel with a personal question — whether it is about the land on which you live, the land you steward, or a land project you are working on.‍ ‍

For questions and bookings, 
please Alma La Masure: here.

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