The Pear Tree Fund and Kinda Education, through the umbrella of Compassionate Communities, are inviting you to the Kaliwoods and the Pear Tree Centre to talk and walk around the ideas of love, life and end of life. This ‘Life in our Time’ year long project is in support of nurturing a compassionate community in Halesworth and surrounding area.
The Pear Tree supports cradle to grave, local community well being, the edges of well being, including death and dying, that are often not addressed by the main stream systems. Kinda Education promotes kindness through nature connection also cradle to grave, specialising in children with Kinda Forest school.
This project embraces death and dying, aptly starting at Samhain, the time to recall on our ancestors. It embraces a reflection of our own life path, celebrating connection with nature, the natural cycles and systems in the Wood Wild Web, or inside where the Pear Tree grows.
October 31st 2021 – October 31st 2022
The calendar for the years events is What we’re cooking up here
A page of resources which we have found is here
Here’s a record of each event
It’s Spring, Saint Brigid’s day, the time the earth begins to warm up, snowdrops break through, the wheel turns, we’re coming out of our winter hibernation. It is the time to begin the talking, writing, drawing, time to turn our mind.
Equinox – Sunday 20th March Gathering to share the music which has shaped our lives during our special Desert Island Discs event. Compassionate conversations, to talk openly about love, life, and end of life and begin or contribute to a ‘This is your Life’ book
An an invitation to explore the question why do we find it so difficult to talk about death and dying? Using the socratic method.
Here is what we wove at our first event, October 2021.
Kinda Forest School 