The Foundation is running a new research project – Forest Respite Protocol.
The author and leader of the project is Katarzyna Pawlak – founder and board member of the Areté Foundation, art therapist, choreographer, performer, partnering teacher according to the OC Method and certified teacher of working with parents and children ContaKids, member of the Association of Theatre Pedagogues and co-founder of the site-specific performative collective SzurSure.
About the Project:
The Forest Respite Protocol (Protokół Leśnego Wytchnienia) is Katarzyna Pawlak's practice-based research project, developed in the protected Puszcza Napiwodzko-Ramucka forest. It grows out of her art-therapy diploma work "Space of Respite" — a regulation model for women in chronic overload — and asks how the natural world can co-regulate an overloaded nervous system without the cost of social contact. Bringing together polyvagal theory, enactivism and expressive arts therapy, it maps the different "registers" of an ecosystem by how they act on the body. It draws on attentiveness and perception, breath, movement, and the Oddaj Ciężar (Give Weight) partnering method of Karolina Kroczak — carrying the tools of working with another human body into relationship with a more-than-human being: tree, stone, ground, water.
We will keep you informed about the progress of the project and news on our website and social media channels.
Information about the project can also be found in the PROJECTS.
