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Becoming the Water Body
A perspective-shift practice from the Ocean Ambassadors Compass: imagine being your local river, sea, or one of its animals or plants, and voice its needs and challenges in first person — and/or write the water a thank-you letter that ends with a wish. Done alone or together, anywhere there is a water body to be in relationship with.
Practical
- Time
- 20-45 min
- Group
- 1–30 · individual, small-group
- Settings
- outdoors, self-guided, in-person
- Materials
- Ideally the water body itself; paper for the letter
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, nature-connection, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- bauhaus-seas.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/OACompass_onscreen… — Ocean Ambassadors Compass, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Ocean Ambassadors Compass (Malmö University & partners, Bauhaus of the Seas Sails) — Deep-ecology perspective work (council-of-all-beings family), applied to aquatic ecosystems
In this directory via Ocean Ambassadors Compass
Related: Council of All Beings (variant-of)
The Compass frames all its invitations as adaptable, solo-or-together, and duration-free; the workbook's planning pages explicitly offer the IDG framework for designing journeys around invitations like this one.
status: checked · added 2026-08-26