How?

Nature shows us another way: cycles instead of straight lines, adaptation instead of control, collaboration instead of competition, regeneration instead of depletion. These patterns work – they’ve sustained life for billions of years. What if we organised our lives, our economies, our minds and communities to work more like healthy ecosystems? However, we will never be able to change our outcomes if we don’t have visibility of our relationships. So we want to:

• Help people FEEL their connection to place through workshops, experiences and imagination exercises.
• Give nature a voice in decisions by working with businesses and councils to see how nature’s perspective can support them.
• Help organisations learn from nature itself to promote resilience by mimicking healthy ecosystems and organisms.
• Build connections with people and organisations creating positive relationships with place, learning together.
• Create accessible entry points so people from all backgrounds can participate in reimagining our relationships.
• Localise best practice so that Anglia benefits from fantastic work happening around the country and world.
• Collectively unlearn internalised thought processes – to recognise and re-evaluate unconscious patterns that cause harm.

Mission: To support people and organisations to co-create regenerative futures with the Anglian chalk hills, fens, heaths and rivers, integrating millennia of Brittonic wisdom whilst harnessing contemporary capabilities. Through experiential learning, governance innovation and collaborative practice we support the shift towards living in relationship with nature – as part of it and learning from it.

Vision: A thriving Anglian river basin where ecosystems have been restored and children grow up in kinship as part of nature, trusting and adapting to its cycles. Nature’s voice, seven generation thinking and land-based wisdom from this watershed’s Iceni, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni peoples and from ancestors worldwide inform how people govern, trade and live in relationship with the land and waters. Communities have strong identity and adaptive capacity, knowing their watersheds as intimately as their families. They are nature and they treat all beings with respect and responsibility.

Photo by J. Ramos – Dog Rose at Magog Down; beech trees at National Trust Anglesey Abbey.

ReAnglia CIC (Company No. 17185336)