Free, booking required.
Please email jenny@deveron-projects.com, phone 01466 794494 or message us on social media to book a spot. This workshop will take place in the Brander Garden, McVeagh Street, Huntly.  Sensing Care is a workshop connecting the therapeutic practice of Haptonomy with growing, gardening and food production, led by artist and Haptonomic professional Rosalie Bak.
 Haptonomy is about touch and how it feels to ‘be-in-contact-with’ others. Developed by Dutch physiotherapist Franz Veltman, it offers a series of guiding principles that aim to support participants to recognise, understand and embody the sensations we all experience in human-to-human interactions. These principles have the acronym G.R.O.U.N.D. in Dutch and are detailed below.
 Introducing this practice, Rosalie will guide participants through gentle exercises that will play with proximity and distance, as well as attunement, touch and reflection to help us pay attention to how our body exists in relation to others. Building from this, Rosalie will expand haptonomic practices to introduce embodied interactions with the world around us, including plants, soil and practices of growing food. This will aim to explore how we affect or are affected by the more-than-human world, in our presence and intentions, and support participants to develop alternative understandings of their role in growing, gardening or food production.

The acronym stands for:G - (Grenzen) - Boundaries
R - (Ruimte) - Space
O - (Openen en sluiten) - Opening and closing
U - (Uitnodigen) - Inviting
N - (Naderen) - Approaching
D - (Doorvoelen) - ‘Extending touch and feeling through
Other details

• We will provide a vegan lunch and refreshments as part of this workshop. Please let us know if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.
• This workshop is suitable for any adults with an interest in these practices and questions. All bodies and abilities are welcome, and exercises can be practiced from sitting or standing.
• If you would like to chat about accessing the workshop, please contact us, as we will make adjustments so everyone is comfortable and able to participate.
• Weather depending, this workshop will take place outdoors. Please dress for the weather and bring warm layers.This event is part of the ongoing project, Good Gut! by artist Margherita Soldati at Deveron Projects. Good Gut! is exploring soil, its microbes and networks, to build connections between where and how food is grown, and how it is connected to our gut. With some of the same microbes found in our guts as in the soil, Margherita is asking if healthy soil can affect the health of our microbiome – does caring for one affect the health of the other?  About Rosalie Bak

Rosalie Bak (Studio) is an Amsterdam based art-informed haptonomic professional, educator, weather-walker and designer of interactions. Within her studio she works with an audience of zero, one, to some, to facilitate creative exchanges at the intersection of ecology, matter, the body and relationally. Within her personal practice Rosalie uses methods such as erasure, assemblage, inquiry, scores, trance writing and associative drawing to investigate the ambiguity of (her) personal experiences and the relationship between the human, weather, micro-organisms, city, death and ecology. Her current interest is mainly experiential and collaborative in nature, working with the walk as a way of mapping inner/outer weather and exploring the field of Necro-ecology and Haptoherapy as a deepening paradigm within her art/design research.