About this event
🌿 What to Expect
1 hour of simple, guided exercises to connect with nature through your senses.
You’ll get clear instructions, gentle guidance, and space to share or stay quiet—whatever feels comfortable for you.
While most of the guidance is sensory, there will be a moment to reflect on our individual and collective queer grief, and make room for it.
We’ll meet at 16:30 at one of the side park entrance (
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ky5Cti9q5ZNhD1iN6). From there, we’ll walk together to the spot where our circle and other activities will take place.
By 17:30, we’ll be back at the entrance where we started.
🌈 Why Join?
Because nature is the best! And so are queers! And so is community!
Spending time in nature supports health and wellbeing — it helps us relax, recharge, and feel more connected to ourselves and others.
Our grief needs a moment also.
You’ll meet new queers or spend time with familiar faces, all while surrounded by trees and fresh air.
🚫 What This Is Not
Not nature therapy — it’s a nature connection activity.
Not a herbal medicine walk.
Not a ritual.
💚 Cost
It is for free.
🌾 Who Is This For?
Queer folks who love nature — or who want to explore what it’s like to be more present and connected in nature.
If you cannot make it, please cancel in advance, so that someone else can take your spot.
🎒 What to Bring
Sturdy shoes
Rainproof clothes and/or an umbrella
Tea to warm up
Extra layer of clothing (it will be FREEZING!)
🕵️ Who Is Organising this?
Touch Grass is a nature connection initiative in Amsterdam for queer communities. It runs guided outdoor sessions in urban parks and nature reserves, where people slow down, tune into their senses, and connect with nature and with each other. It draws on queer ecology and forest therapy, and nurtures awe and softness.
🍲📝What’s next?
Following this, we'll gather at SUPERMERCATOR who will offer a yummy menu of soup, bread and dips, and cake with vegan options for those who wish to eat together.
At 19:00 60/40 Playspace will offer a creative workshop called 'What's Lost, What's Found' exploring the shape of grief with the help of reflective writing prompts and calming painting exercises. This two-hour session is a gentle invitation to reflect on the experience of loss through creativity. For this part of the evening, those who are able to are invited to pay a small fee to help cover costs. Book in advance.
You can join just Touch grass, just soup, just writing or all of it!
This collaboration is made possible by Waterworks —founded by Rajni Shah and Sanne Pols. It is a home for queer grief and queer grievers. We create gatherings where our widest queer community can be held by people who understand what it means to be queer and queered, people who celebrate and respect difference.
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