Live the Change

26/01/2026

WALK THE LAND - REWILD YOUR HEART!

Join me for an online intro course to “Rewild your Heart! Meet with me and the group 4 Tuesdays and get loads of information and reflection practice on what it is to rewild oneself, other beings, other humans, the world…

We start tomorrow!

https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewild-your-heart-winter-2026

From the article:

Every living being has a mind of its own

Matthews suggested that the western concept of panpsychism perhaps is the closest we come to the aboriginal concept of Liyan.

“Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality”.

Meaning it ascribes a mind to all living beings, but also to the world itself, as if the world is a being too. And if every living being has a mind of its own, we can have relationships with them and there will be an exchange between that being and ourselves, in a more embodied and worldless way, at least in a less traditional way of understanding the concept of words and language.

Liyan is partly described as a cognitive way of feeling — that is a visceral, body-based, intuitive way of knowing. That you learn from Land and “the more than human” world. And one way of learning it is to “walk the land,” seek a relationship with Land, as an entity of its own.

https://open.substack.com/pub/livethechange/p/walk-the-land?r=2onhr8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

25/01/2026

REWILDING YOUR HEART IS ABOUT CARING

Online intro course starts on Tuesday, January 27. Cost – 145 euro – and for that you get a lot!

Caring for yourself, your “animals”, your human family and friends, colleagues and strangers, your surroundings, environment, “nature” and the earth.

I am putting “animals” in brackets, because we humans are an animal too. And I am also putting “nature” in brackets – because we are nature too.

Disconnection, dissociation, numbness, withdrawal, egocentrism, anthropocentrism – is the opposite to connection, association, alertness/awareness/being awake to, presence, altruism and ecocentrism.

We Think progress is only about doing better science. I don’t believe that. While I think science is important, the western kind, I think there is so much else we need to pay attention to and learn from. That includes indigenous sciences, but also practices, knowledge, experience, that comes from living, thinking and doing outside of an academy or school at all.

When I decided on a name on what I both am about, work with and try to pass on in different ways, I read a book by Marc Bekoff called “Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence and it inspired me

“We do not need more science. We need a new mind-set and social movement that is transformational and centers on empathy, compassion, and being proactive. By rewilding our hearts, we focus on building strong and intimate connections with nature, and these experiences are essential for effective social change. This is deep work."
— Marc Bekoff

I am running our online intro course to “Rewild your Heart” in its current form for the last time now, starting on Tuesday, January 27 with our first zoom meeting.

You can still join us!

https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewild-your-heart-winter-2026

Pictures: Out in the Polish woods, observing and "meeting" feral-living Konik horses.

12/01/2026

JANUARY NEWSLETTER!

I just sent out my own first newsletter since 2018 I think... Have been sending them in the name of other organizations in the meantime - but it feels good to be back to deciding for myself what to send out!

As usual I am about mixing passions and interests - my newsletter will contain all that I work with - which spans from ecotherapy - rewilding - trauma & dissociation - writing, photography and art, advocacy and activism - and some more :-)

I hope you find something interesting to read about, or to sign up for.

https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1986465/emails/176199050317530397

Warm regards,

Felicia Katarina

12/01/2026

MONGOLIA'S WILD HORSES

This is a 20 page long PDF with an article on how the Przewalski horse was reintroduced in Mongolia after having been extinct in the wild, or the Takhi, which is the Mongolian name on this horse.

To learn about wild living horses helps us understand the welfare as well as the behaviors of our domestic horses.

I have had the privilege to travel to Mongolia twice and been traveling the country both with Mongolian friends and visited with Mongolian wildlife researchers in Hustai National Park.

I have added pictures and an extensive bibliography to the story. In this article you get a good introduction to many topics as rewilding, the horse culture of Mongolia, equine life lived without human management, equine welfare, equine cognition, equine welfare and so on.

Enjoy! I will add more articles to the library on both rewilded/wild living horses, equine welfare, equine assisted interventions - and the usual mix that is my hallmark (since I see the world as connected...).

Przewalski horses (or Takhis), picture taken by me on my study visit in Hustai National Park.

Warmly,

Felicia Katarina

23/11/2025

WHAT IS "REWILDING YOUR HEART"?

Two years ago I lived in Italy for a year. I explored the possibility of setting up my non-profit/NGO there to work with rewilding, ecotherapy, equine assisted interventions, nature assisted mindfulness etc.

It did not happen. But I explored. And learned, and rewilded myself some more.

In this short film clip I am taking about what rewild your heart means to me, what it is to rewild oneself, on the inside, and the outside.

It was a pretty wild thing to do - to go to Italy to try to find a place and people to set up a rewilding/ecotherapy place. And I loved it there! And maybe I will come back, who knows?

Check the courses I offer online out: https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/home - I am updating them, they have been somewhat in sleeping mode for 2 years, but 4 of them are up and running.

You can also check my webpage out, it is a bit more updated and have some more info about me and who I am, if you are curious: https://livethechange.se/index.php

https://youtu.be/EKnqRgNYkTM

I am being interviewed about what rewilding is to me. And I reflect a bit on it. Sitting on the wall, looking out over the hills at the place in Italy I live...

12/11/2025

Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.'

"In 2018, Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle, and their colleagues in the UK launched the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF). This framework shifts the notion of 'What is wrong with you?' in the DSM to 'What has happened to you?' and by doing so rejects medical process of diagnosing 'disorders' in favour of a narrative response that tells of contexts, power dynamics, and systems.

At a time when the Global Mental Health Movement is exporting the Western biomedical model around the world, Johnstone, Boyle and the PTMF project team, which includes those who identify as service users/survivors, are seeking to promote a radically different way of understanding distress.

Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who has experience working in adult mental health settings for many years, believes that the current mental health system has failed, and we are now in the process of witnessing the crumbling of the medical paradigm of emotional distress.

She believes we need an approach based on fundamentally different principles. The PTMF, which draws on a wide range of evidence and examples of existing alternatives, is an attempt to outline what that might look like. The PTMF project team hopes that it can be a contribution to the much needed revolution.

Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.

One of the things we wanted to do was to really make very clear the link between personal distress and social context, social inequality, and social injustices. In other words, to put power on the map. Power is not only missing from psychiatric thinking, but it’s also missing from a lot of psychological thinking, and it’s missing from much psychotherapeutic thinking.

In the Power Threat Meaning Framework terms, one of our core arguments is that instead of understanding distress through biological patterns, patterns that are borrowed from the kinds of patterns that we see when things go wrong in our bodies, we need to understand distress through patterns that are organized by meaning. They’re organized by meaning, not by biology, which is a big conceptual leap, one of the fundamental conceptual leaps I think we made. We need to be thinking about how those patterns are based on or organized by social and cultural meanings, not by biology and something that’s gone wrong with our bodies'."

More info on the book here: https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-the-power-threat-meaning-framework-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis