Wellbeing

Wellbeing is a flexible concept, able to encompass health, experience, balance, spiritual practice, the psyche, and a host of other dimensions. But what might it mean for more-than-human worlds to “be well”? Is this too much like the enclosure of infinitely complex and “other” worlds within human-centric experiences and concerns? Without offering hard and fast answers, we turn this question on its head - or at the very least, on its side. Drawing from our own sedimented experiential knowledge with gatherings of plants, people, wind, and water in peaty landscapes, we acknowledge how a “boggy knowledge” permeates thinking and understanding. We suggest that with careful human sensing and reflection, other-than-humans offer up clues which can not only foster alternative possibilities for engaging with the world – in ways that are slow, porous and in flux – but also help ground wellbeing in a tangible form of “being well with ”.