(Un)Learning Eco-Mythic Trails with Sofia Batalha
Individual or Small Group Sessions.
Your topics, your questions, your time.
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Did you know?
- I am certified in Ecopsychology and Indigenous and Community Psychologies from Pacifica University, as well as an ongoing learner in Deep Education and FHW.
- For four years, I was deeply involved in The Emergence Network, a global collective of artists, thinkers, and activists who explore radical alternatives to modern/colonial epistemologies, grief literacy, and multispecies kinship.
- I have been organizing pedagogically (creating content and structure) and teaching various courses since 2007.
- I am currently an external collaborator with the Research Group: Socio-Ecological Transition, at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Changes.
- My current work contributes to the growing field of relational pedagogies, eco-mythology, and meta-relational ecopsychology, engaging me in ongoing global conversations about grief literacy, multispecies responsibility, and relational repair in the context of the modern/colonial rupture.
- I have written several books, short stories, articles, and poems over the years.
(Un)Learning Eco-Mythic Trails
{an invitation to walk together, without a fixed map, with an attentive heart}
The sessions I offer here are not classes, consultations, or solution packages. They are living encounters, places of listening, presence, and co-meaning, where we can open up questions, feel the body, let go of certainties, or simply be with what is.
Each session is a small journey, made with our hands in the present. It can be individual, listening just for you, or in small groups (up to 4 people). You can come alone, or invite friends, family, or accomplices with whom you wish to share the journey.
Possible routes
You can choose from pre-mapped trails, like small constellations of themes, practices, and relational landscapes, or bring a single theme, a raw question, a concern that is fermenting within you, or a project you want to share. There are no mandatory journeys. There are webs and bodies that meet. You can see some available trails below, or choose another trail that is calling to your body-place. You are free to start at any point and even weave your question and have a session specifically about what moves you. We can also talk about any of the articles or chapters from the books I have written…
How it works
- Each session lasts approximately 1 hour, via googelmeets
- Sessions are not recorded, as each meeting is unique, unrepeatable, and breathes better without being stored
- There is space for pause, silence, and not knowing
- The cost is offered in ranges of reciprocity, so that each person can contribute according to their reality
The invitation
This is a proposal for those who want to walk with presence and open pores.
For those who would like to breathe outside the logic of productivity and cultivate another type of listening, slower, broader, more relational.
You can choose a path…
Or simply arrive with your question, like someone bringing a seed to the fire.
The journey will begin there.
Trail 1
Planetary Grief
Three 1-hour sessions on the paths of Ecopsychology.
Accompanying those who feel the weight of collapse (ecological, personal, collective) and want to metabolize pain without hardening.
✦ Session 1 “Naming the Unnameable” Conversation about sadness, collapse, eco-anxiety, and complexity
✦ Session 2 “Bury to Regenerate” Symbolic mourning ritual (can be silent, guided, visual)
✦ Session 3 “Seeds that Survive Winter” Reintegration session, listening to desire, mapping the possible
Trail 2
Modernity Traps
Two 1-hour sessions on the paths of Ecopsychology.
For those who feel the discomfort of living in a world in collapse… and want to listen to what that discomfort has to teach.
This trail is an invitation to cross the contours of modernity with open eyes and a present body. We explore the wounds of separation, of the Earth, of the body, of the community, and touch the finest threads of your inner ecology.
✦ Session 1 “Modernity in me” Feel the narratives and pressures that shape you: productivity, usefulness, autonomy, impact
✦ Session 2 “Reforesting the self” Recover a broader vision of yourself: rooted, relational, transmutable
Ideal for those who want to understand burnout, anxiety, and fatigue as collective symptoms rather than individual failures.
Trail 3
Eco-Mythologies
Three 1-hour sessions on the paths of Eco-Mythology.
Explore myths, living archetypes, and narratives that help us understand our internal and collective transitions.
✦ Session 1 “The Snake That Sheds Its Skin” Working with an ecological myth
✦ Session 2 “Crossing the Desert” Session on crossings, losses, and temporary meanings
✦ Session 3 “The Voice of the Forest” Session on listening to non-human voices
Trail 4
Writing
with the Earth
Three 1-hour sessions on the paths of Eco-Mythology.
✦ Create and listen to narratives outside the modern hero’s arc (without salvation, glory, or control).
✦ Activate the imagination as a space for relationship, revelation, and responsibility.
✦Investigate and fabulate with eco-mythical tales as portals to other forms of existence.
✦ Re-learn to listen to the world as a narrating being and not just a narrated one.
✦ Session 1 “Disenchanting the Hero’s Journey” Why and how to compost modern narrative structures?
✦ Session 2 “Fictionalizing Outside the Straight Line” Conjure stories with non-modern bodies, territories, and temporalities.
✦ Session 3 “Listening and Being Heard by the Earth” Listening as a practice of narrative co-creation.
Trail 5
Eco-Mythic
Activism
Two 1-hour sessions on the paths of Eco-Mythology.
For those who feel called to act, but no longer believe in the old ways of fighting.
We are not looking for linear strategies; we are looking for gestures rooted in myth, in dreams, and in the rhythm of the Earth. Eco-Mythical Activism is not about shouting louder—it is about listening deeper.
✦ Session 1 “The myth that runs through us” How myths shape us without us knowing
✦ Session 2 “The invisible gesture” Activism as sowing, spell, daily and relational gesture
Who is this invitation for?
- For those who feel they can no longer live with the old discourses of “positive or inspirational impact.”
- For those who are torn apart by the friction of today’s world and are looking for tools for composting and caring.
- For those who want to practice another way of being—less ego-centered, more rooted in the Earth.
- For those who are willing to feel, listen, resist, and regenerate in relation.
ATTENTION, this is not the place for you if…
- You are looking for a quick, linear, or “clean” path to transformation, based on fixed methods and static formulas.
- You just want more tools to “improve” your modern self.
- You are not willing to sit with discomfort, paradox, and slowness, or to break down your certainties.
Relational Consent Protocol
This is a ritual of attunement, which helps you tune in to what is available (and what is not), so that our relationship is not based on expectation, obligation, or transactional automatism. May we forge presence, heartfelt choice, and co-responsibility.
Before you sign up for a trail, I invite you to pause for a moment. Breathe. Listen. This is an invitation to presence, not to haste.
These tutorials are not service provision. They are a living, relational web, where something may or may not be born. For this shared body to root and flourish with integrity, we need to enter with intention and a consent that goes beyond the automatic “yes.”
Below is a verification ritual to help you feel if you are available for this encounter:
VERIFICATION RITUAL
How is your body today?
- Is there space to listen and be heard?
- Is there tension? Haste? Thirst? Exhaustion?
- Do you feel pushed into this? Or are you being called?
Do you have relational energy to be present with others?
- Can you maintain space for yourself and the other without overwhelming yourself?
- Do you feel you have something to offer, even if it is just silence or listening?
What do you hope to receive?
- Are you looking for answers, direction, healing, or companionship?
- Can these expectations be brought with lightness, without demand?
Are you open to not knowing?
- To hear something you didn’t expect?
- To allow the unexpected to happen, or not happen?
And if nothing changes, is it still worthwhile?
- Would you be open to the mentoring being just a moment of shared presence, with no guarantees of learning or revelation?
RELATIONAL CONSENT
If, after going through this ritual, you feel a “yes” in your whole body, then I invite you to say (to yourself and to the field we are going to open):
I consent to enter this space with respect and curiosity.
I bring what I can, not what I feel is required.
I listen with my body and share with care.
I am open to whatever emerges and to pausing if I need to.
I recognize this tutoring as an encounter between living bodies, not as a product to be consumed.
What if it’s not the right moment?
That’s okay. Honor the no. The web thanks you for your honesty. The Serpent and the Moon also dance with refusals. You can come back on another moon, in another body, at another time.
About Reciprocity and Value
These (Un)Learning Eco-Mythic Trails are offered in a web of care, not consumption. Therefore, instead of a fixed price, I suggest ranges of reciprocity, so that each person can contribute according to their reality, with autonomy and respect. It is not a system of “who can pay more,” but an invitation to listen inwardly: What is the way to contribute that honors both your reality and the energy that these sessions involves?
Here are three ranges that can guide you (these are prices for each individual session, you can always share with friends):
- Root – For those who live with limited access to resources – €35 (individual or group of up to 2 people)
- Stem – For those who have stable but not abundant access – €55 (individual or group of up to 4 people)
- Canopy – For those who live with comfortable access or wish to support other registrations – €75+ (individual or group of up to 4 people)
None of the ranges give “more access” or “more time.” They are all doors to the same field.
After registration, each session can be scheduled with the desired frequency, weekly, biweekly, monthly…
Instructions for filling out the form below
Before filling it out, take a deep breath. This is not a form to “purchase a service,” but rather a gesture of listening and entering into a relational field. Filling out the form is already part of the ritual. Do it with presence.
1. Choose the format of the meeting
- Individual – if you intend to come alone.
- Group – if you are coming with other people (up to 4). Even if there are only two of you, choose this option. Please note that the groups are yours to choose, for I will not organize groups from different people enrolling.
2. Enter your name and email address
- This information is essential for contacting you and arranging the sessions.
3. Choose your reciprocity range
This is an internal listening exercise, not a label of personal value. Choose what honors your reality and the care involved:
- Root – €35 per session (for those with limited access to resources).
- Stem – €55 per session (stable access).
- Canopy – €75 or more per session (comfortable access or desire to support other registrations).
- Or choose “I want to talk about another way to contribute” if you need to arrange something different.
4. Select the track(s) that resonate with you
You can choose from these pre-defined trails:
- Trail 1 – Planetary Mourning (3 sessions)
- Trail 2 – Meanderings of Modernity (2 sessions)
- Trail 3 – Eco-Mythologies (3 sessions)
- Trail 4 – Writing with the Earth (3 sessions)
- Trail 5 – Eco-Mythical Activism (2 sessions)
5. (Optional) If you want a trail tailored to your needs…
Use this space to share:
- a specific question
- topics you want to explore (e.g., ecofeminism, decoloniality, ecological self, myths, articles, books)
- a desire to listen that does not fit into any of the proposed trails.