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The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash, I'm very pleased to say. This is Anna Robinson.

Good morning, Tim. Hello, everyone.

So Anna, what have you been up to since we last spoke, which I think was the Dan McClellan episode a couple of months ago now?

Oh, something fun that I did was take part in the Uncontrolling Love of God conference with

Tom Ord and Simon Cross in the Progressive Christian Network.

And that was really, really engaging, really fun to be part of that.

And I got to meet some really, really interesting people, some great discussions and grappling with open and relational theology. It was really good. I really enjoyed that. Yeah. And what did you do? You lead in some groups or something? So the conference was kind of people were invited to have sort of conversations and then it was opened up to the floor for people to kind of join in

and take part which I really liked. So I was doing a conversation across difference talking

about how we have conversations when we were in different places and different positions,

which was, yeah, it was really good. We enjoyed it. And I led a couple of short reflections as well,

trying to help bring the head knowledge down into the

heart, body, that kind of thing. So yeah, it was fun, really lovely to venture out of Cornwall

and go and meet people. Yeah, talk about face shifting and faith and emerging theologies and all sorts of

things. Yeah, it was great. How about you? What have you been up to? Yeah, you'll like this one.

Anna, I've been forest bathing a couple of times. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I came across a group that goes to a local

wood near here and everybody kind of takes a mat and some chairs and then you just kind of meditate

while listening to nature. It's amazing. Absolutely loved it. We did one on the summer solstice as well.

Slightly different. We were kind of encouraged to kind of look up through the tree canopy and

kind of reflect on the interplay of light and dark. It was, it's quite profound, actually. Like,

I can easily walk through a wood and miss the orchestra of sounds that's going on. And it really

does sound like an orchestra when you tune into it. Like the, you know, the wind and the leaves,

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