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Go outside, find an organism, and ask it how it's doing. Stay quiet afterward and try to interpret the answer, how it seems to want to grow, what it seems to need, what it seems to be avoiding. It's an intuitive skill that develops the more you practice it.
Add your voice, your hands, or an instrument to the outdoor soundscape around you. Play alongside the birds, the wind, and the water, and let their unpredictability shape what you make.
Pick an organism and imagine its life, what its childhood felt like, which memories mattered to it, which connections shaped it. It doesn't need to be accurate; let yourself have fun with it.
You may live in an urban environment and want to re-member the connection we have lost
You wish develop a network of reciprocal support with other beings for shouldering the burdens of modernity
You see our future as tied with that of the land and want to work for that future
You don't believe that a tech solution is what will "fix" our relationship with nature
You don't want to only extract "wellness" from nature, but are curious to get to know it