 It's been a tough few weeks in the UK… but if you’re looking for a way to feel better about it all, a sit spot can help.
I first came across the idea of a sit spot on a Meetup walk run by Mark Sears - just before he landed a job as head of The Wild Network. Mark led us up Hollingbury Hill to a spot near the fort and quietly told me he'd been going there every day to sit for half an hour, for a year, come rain or shine. He'd got to know the birds and the plants, and it'd helped him to find some calm, and decompress after hectic days. It's an idea that I read more about in Jon Young's excellent book What the Robin Knows. If you haven't heard of it, a sit spot is somewhere you go regularly on your own to sit quietly and look, listen, smell and feel the surrounding landscape. It could be in your back garden, or a park, or somewhere a bit wilder. |
Author & CuratorNigel Berman is the founder of School of the Wild. |
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