Eco—Relational Presencing
A guided experiential practice for exploring embodied relational presence with the living world — through 1:1 sessions and an online practice group.
Breathing in, I notice the out-breath of the trees.
Breathing out, I notice the in-breath of the trees.
The trees are breathing me, and I am breathing them.
Noticing the physical sensations of breathing, I become aware of all the human bodies alive on Earth at this very moment, breathing, just like my own body.
Noticing any thoughts or emotions present at this moment, I am aware that billions of living, breathing humans also think and feel, just like me.
Breathing in, I practice receiving: "I am not alone in this world".
Breathing out, I practice offering: "You are not alone in this world".
Eco-Relational Presencing is a guided dialogical and experiential practice for coming into deeper contact with ourselves and our own belonging to the greater web of life in the present moment — through noticing what it’s like to be here now, in this place, in relationship with many beings, only some of whom are human.
On the outside, it can look like a meditative conversation, in which we are sometimes directing our shared curiosity towards how we are experiencing our immediate environment right now, what stories and meanings those experiences may connect to, and how it feels to be revealing them to another person.
What you may experience on the inside:
being able to slow down enough to notice many subtle details of everyday life — joy, wonder, and curiosity towards mundane things
increasing awareness of how sensory and environmental conditions affect your inner state — and clarity on what your body needs to feel safe, grounded and supported
deeper curiosity and appreciation of similarities and differences that arise in human connection — by discovering how we experience the same environment differently, or different environments similarly
greater ease with unmasking and empowerment to share your embodied truth with others — while being held in a space of non-judgement that is directly informed by how nature holds space
cultivating experiential knowledge of one’s own interconnectedness with the living world — becoming aware of all the ways in which nature is supporting you, and present within you
Free & open practice group
Every Wednesday, 19-20 CET
A weekly online practice space for exploring relational mindfulness, nature connection, and embodied presence with people joining from different places and ecosystems around the world.
The group format is not primarily a coaching or therapeutic offering, although you may well leave a session having learned some new skills or received some therapeutic benefit. It is a living laboratory, where a variety of activities — mostly prompts for noticing, listening, sharing, and engaging in creative experimentation — are used to guide us in exploring what if, what happens when, and how can we….
expand our experiential understanding of (human) relationship and connection?
expand our experiential understanding of what counts as “nature” connection?
expand our experiential understanding of what is possible with the internet as a medium for connection?
Every session will be different, with the content shaped in real time by the unique constellation of people and places represented. The structure is generally:
Arrive together with a meditation and check-in
A pair activity
A whole group activity
Check-out and harvest of learnings
If you are experienced in practices such as Authentic Relating and Forest Therapy, many of the activities may feel like slight twists on things you already know well. However, prior experience with such practices is not necessary to join.
Join from any environment you want — indoors or outdoors.
The open practice group will run weekly until the end of 2026. For now, attendance is without cost — the energy exchange I request is feedback and anything else that may contribute to the ongoing development of this body of work as a group practice. What did you learn? How did you benefit? What can be made better? Do you know of anyone else who offers something similar?
Sign up below to receive the meeting link. It is the same every week, and you can join as often as you want.
A different kind of relational practice
What if getting to know another person deeply could include knowing how they experience the place they are in right now, and how their body relates itself to the many other bodies around them — only some of which might also be human?
What happens when we lean together into non-western ways of seeing human beings and bodies as inseparable from their environments? What happens when we try on seeing each meeting between individuals as a meeting of all the cultures, ecosystems, and ancestors that have contributed — to shaping who we understand ourselves to be, and how we show up in connection with others? What happens when we introduce important plants, animals, places, and “objects” from our lives to other people, and allow ourselves to be seen as a person with those relationships?
How can we cultivate a relational orientation that opens us up to all the connection and community that life on Earth has to offer, beyond the confines of individualism and anthropocentrism?
A different kind of nature connection
What if it was possible to feel connected to and present with nature — no matter where we are and what is around us — indoors, in bed, in the office, stuck in traffic — and more?
What happens when we get curious about everything we can see, hear, smell, touch or taste around us without labelling or categorising them? What happens when we bring attention to our every breath and body movement as acts of communication and relationship with the living world? What happens when another person’s curiosity directs us to notice environmental features and their impact on our bodies, which had been unconscious or taken for granted?
How can we support each other to rediscover our capacity for curiosity, playfulness, and engagement — with the elements of nature that are always around us, and within us?
A different kind of online meeting
What if the online meeting room could be the doorway into a deeper and broader type of embodied relational connection which is not possible in-person?
What happens when people meet together, from all over the world, and consciously practice being curious about each other’s ecosystems? What happens when morning and evening, winter and summer, urban and rural, backyard and bedroom, get to interact with one another in real time? What happens when we relate with one another, grounded in the awareness that behind the 2d screen are other 3d beings, in other 3d spaces, standing on the same earth, breathing air from the same atmosphere?
How can we use technology, together with other people — to widen our felt sense of connection, groundedness and embodiment to the planetary scale?
1-1 sessions
A dedicated time and space centred around your experience, and your place
1-1 sessions might be a good fit for you who:
want to examine something specific regarding your personal relationship with: yourself, your body, nature, places, significant animals or plants, other people, human cultures or systems, institutions and technologies
or are just curious to experience Eco-Relational Presencing applied to a 1-1 context
During our time together, my intention and focus is to be with you in your world, and explore what it’s like to be you right now — to have your body, in the place where you are. I will sometimes ask about and guide our shared attention towards the sensory environment (examples):
Where are you, and what is it like to be there? What do you see, hear, feel around you right now? What would I be able to notice if I was in the space with you? What happens inside of you when you bring attention to those details?
Imagine that the tree or bookshelf behind you just heard everything you shared — what do you imagine they might suggest or advise?
What might it be like to open the window just a tiny amount, to let in some fresh air? What do you notice happens in you, at the sound of this possibility?
You are welcome to share anything you like, show up in any way you like, respond to my curiosities and invitations in any way you like. It’s not possible to “do it wrong”. If “slowing down” and “staying in the present moment” sounds difficult for you, don’t worry about that — that’s my job, not yours.
1-1 sessions are 60 minutes each, at my regular hourly rate which is 85€ or 900 NOK. If you prefer to have a longer session, or need a reduced rate, feel free to contact me and we can work it out :)
a synthesis of 3 lineages of work
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Mindfulness Meditation
Practices for slowing down and being deeply connected to the present moment mind-body experience. Being with experience without trying to change or fix them. Influences from Buddhist practices and Daoist philosophies: non-attachment, non-action, compassion, loving-kindness, equanimity, yin-yang harmony.
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Relatefulness & Authentic Relating
Methods for practising mindfulness while in conversation with another human being. Being with another person as the focus of meditative awareness. Deep listening and genuine curiosity. Revealing of personal experience for the purpose of deepening trust and attunement.
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Nature & Forest Therapy
Guided somatic and sensory invitations to increase awareness of our immediate physical and ecological environment, and our own bodies’ relationship with it. Cultivating reciprocally healing and therapeutic relationships with the more-than-human world. Recognising the nature that is also in “human-created” environments.
Questions you may have
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This practice initially arose out of me discovering that I can never “circle” nor “authentically relate” with another human being without also being curious about — and actively inviting in — their embodied here-and-now experience of their physical environment and of sharing space with the other bodies that inhabit it.
I would say that the foundation of Circling, Relatefulness, and Authentic Relating is: noticing what it’s like to be here now, in relationship with other people.
And what this is: noticing what it’s like to be here now, in this place, in relationship with many beings, only some of whom are human.
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Prior experience with meditation, Circling, Relatefulness, Authentic Relating, Forest Therapy, or any other particular practice is not necessary. Complete beginners are perfectly welcome :)
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All of the activities and exercises I present under the banner of this practice have been inspired by online interactions, formulated online, tested online, and at least partially intended to address some common misconceptions (or “missed opportunities”) about engaging in relational or embodiment work online.
However, they can mostly all be adapted to an in-person format :)If you are in Oslo, you are welcome to request a 1-1 session in-person. In this case, we may choose either to meet indoors at my studio or outdoors (“in nature”), depending on what seems more interesting or helpful for you.
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Each session begins with arriving together through meditation and check-in, followed by paired and whole-group experiential activities, and ends with a collective check-out and harvesting of what we learned. The specific activities change from week to week.
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It’s never required to share anything that you don’t feel comfortable with. Noticing and honouring one’s own boundaries is one of the opening agreements in the group space.
For the practice to work well, it is important that some kind of contact is possible with each participant — if that means having your video off and only typing with the group in the chat, then, this is an opportunity for the group to practice being present with that as a feature of online interaction :)
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You can join from anywhere you want — just be prepared that there may be curiosity directed towards you about what it’s like to be in the place you are in, so ideally it is a place where you feel comfortable practising being mindful in, and possibly sharing about with others.