01/03/2025
In the Healing garden woods and in the Y Beudy Melin cottage with Andrew Dugmore, founding director of Reconnect in nature, has 30 years of lived experience as an educator in the field of mental health, family man, father and grandfather and Shôn Devey, community development project worker, forest gardener, father, grandfather, wave-rider, wanderer/ seeker…
“Cynefin is a concept in Welsh which links people and other than human life forms to their natural place. A simple definition of Cynefin would be: - “A place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong. It is where the nature around you feels right”.
The verb Cynefino describes the action of looking for and finding that place.
In Shôn’s work supporting the development of Nature-based health and Wellbeing services with WWAMH he was inspired and guided by a saying that comes from the ancient Welsh Legends of the Mabinogion. The saying comes from the tale of Bendigeidfran (Brân the Blessed) who used his giant body as a bridge to help his compatriots to cross a river.
“A fo ben, bid bont”
“Let the wise one be a bridge”.
A testament to the power of networking, of connecting people, projects and organisations together, stepping out of the way and letting things happen organically.
“We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon - and we got to get our selves back to the garden”
https://www.westwalesholidaycottages.co.uk/property/y-beudy-coed-melin
https://youtu.be/QMkFWffpjNc?si=87hXxf09jAv_9-2I
https://youtu.be/fEoe2X6H8Mc?si=1nySNZ4cMMUPDVyd
