🪱 Interspecies Council: Life-Centred Practice for Land Stewardship at ORFC 2025 🌳

What would it mean to truly listen, feel, and dream with the land—the rivers, trees, soil, and the countless beings we share it with?

At this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference we’re honoured to present Interspecies Council: Life-Centred Practice for Land Stewardship, centred around a transformative group practice developed by Moral Imaginations and engaged with during the Roots and Rhythms project at Lopemede Farm.

Inspired by Joanna Macy’s Council of All Beings, the workshop invites you to step into the perspective of a non-human being. Together, we’ll cultivate empathy for the species and systems that cohabit our landscapes, awaken imagination, and explore how regenerative decision-making emerges when we creatively consider the voices of living beings and systems.

This session brings together:
Eddie Rixon, multi-generational farmer at Lopemede Farm
Emma Gardner, ecologist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
Julian Ellerby, facilitator, outsider, and designer at WYRD
George Simons, facilitator, weaver, and creative producer at WYRD

We’d love to connect with you at ORFC 2025. Please join us to experience how a more-than-human perspective can transform the way we connect with and steward the land— or get in touch if you’ll be there and want to discuss these ideas.

The Interspecies Council, created and stewarded by Phoebe Tickell at Moral Imaginations (CC BY-NC 4.0), is a growing practice and community. Phoebe and her team will be gathering a facilitator community and launching a training programme in 2025.

With care and quiet solstice wishes.