Created for the 2025 International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters (WAC 25), Walking Home / Walking in Transition, this walk was offered in Prespa on July 1, 2025. It was also offered as part of the Kristinestad Artist’s Residency in Kristinestad, Finland on August 20, 2025, and in Lethbridge, Canada in October, 2025.

This is a slow, contemplative walk that guides walkers through connecting with the elements through experiential and sensory prompts interspersed with periods of mindful walking. By connecting with the elements of water, earth, air and fire, we recognize that wherever we find ourselves, we are deeply interconnected with the environment—we are literally made up of water, air, earth and sunlight.
The walk is an opportunity to feel at one with the environment and recognize it as our home. There is potential for healing in the experience of deep relationship and appreciation for the place where you find yourself, particularly when it is a natural environment. Healing relations with elements and with the land can shift us from a detached, disembodied, extractive way of being to a sense of deep connection, belonging, and caring.