This Tree Journey invites the listener to engage with the concept of the scorched, regenerating forest as a metaphor for the body/mind/world. This enables listeners to access some of their most tender parts and work with these in an embodied, creative, meaningful way.  It was created while Dr Rosalind Watts was recovering from surgery in early 2025, and felt how many different types of cells in her body were coming together to create new strong and healthy skin over painful fissures. During this time, the body of our world, our society, our Earth, was bearing new levels of rupture and wounding. 

Whilst watching the LA fires online,  Dr Watts started exploring the concept of  ecological succession: the natural recovery and transformation of a traumatised ecosystem. Ecological succession is a sequence of  radical shifts in habitat characteristics leading to the establishment of a mature ecosystem, called a ‘climax community’,  which is well enough adapted to current conditions to flourish long term.  

This Tree Journey invites us to enter a forest that has been through fire, to merge with a ‘Veteran Tree’ which has survived the crisis, and watch as the forest goes through different stages of ecological succession.  We meet the mushrooms, creating mycelial networks of goodness, composting what was poisonous.  We meet the pinecones which had been glued shut for years,  but, activated by the flames,  open up  and release their contribution to the regenerating soil.   We meet many other allies in our journey of ‘superblooming the aftermath’, but we invite you to listen to the journey in order  to meet each one in their true majesty: through the lens of the great power, wisdom and healing of your own imaginative capacity.  

We invite you to watch the short film first, then listen to the journey.  You might like to do this regularly, perhaps once a month. Your journey will be different each time. And you might like to share this with clients in individual sessions, group workshops, and gatherings.  There is a trigger warning for people who have lived through fires.  However the emotional tone of the film and journey is hopeful, reassuring, and inspiring.   

We can learn so much from trees about what  connectedness looks like and how powerful it is.  We hope this journey helps you remember that you are connected to your own integrity, caring community, and the magnificent regenerative power of Nature.