Anna-Marie Swan
@somethingbird.bsky.social
Exploring complex relationality in a multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world | Authoring ecological enquiry, including Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens (in creative commons).
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𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀
There is a lovely small group of us that are journeying together as part of the first 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 season, and 𝘄𝗲'𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀.
Details: bit.ly/critical-bad...
There is a lovely small group of us that are journeying together as part of the first 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 season, and 𝘄𝗲'𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀.
Details: bit.ly/critical-bad...
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀
There is a lovely small group of us that are journeying together as part of the first 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 season, and 𝘄𝗲'𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀.
Details: bit.ly/critical-bad...
There is a lovely small group of us that are journeying together as part of the first 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 season, and 𝘄𝗲'𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀.
Details: bit.ly/critical-bad...
The freely-shared Ecological Enquiry Guidebook now houses more information about the theory and practise.
Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being.
Head to ecologicalenquiry.co.uk.
Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being.
Head to ecologicalenquiry.co.uk.
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The freely-shared Ecological Enquiry Guidebook now houses more information about the theory and practise.
Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being.
Head to ecologicalenquiry.co.uk.
Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being.
Head to ecologicalenquiry.co.uk.
⟶ You're warmly invited to join the last introduction session of the year, on 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟬.𝟯𝟬 - 𝟭𝟭.𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝗨𝗞 // 𝟭𝟭.𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗺 - 𝟭𝟮.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧.
(If you aren't able to donate, you're invited to offer something in reciprocity. Sessions are in English, and on Zoom.)
(If you aren't able to donate, you're invited to offer something in reciprocity. Sessions are in English, and on Zoom.)
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
⟶ You're warmly invited to join the last introduction session of the year, on 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟬.𝟯𝟬 - 𝟭𝟭.𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝗨𝗞 // 𝟭𝟭.𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗺 - 𝟭𝟮.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧.
(If you aren't able to donate, you're invited to offer something in reciprocity. Sessions are in English, and on Zoom.)
(If you aren't able to donate, you're invited to offer something in reciprocity. Sessions are in English, and on Zoom.)
Food prices up 37% in the last 5 years.
@sainsburys.bsky.social 's profit: over £1 billion this year.
It's all alright though; they're teaming up with @thecomicrelief.bsky.social this Christmas to tackle food poverty.
Phew.
@sainsburys.bsky.social 's profit: over £1 billion this year.
It's all alright though; they're teaming up with @thecomicrelief.bsky.social this Christmas to tackle food poverty.
Phew.
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Food prices up 37% in the last 5 years.
@sainsburys.bsky.social 's profit: over £1 billion this year.
It's all alright though; they're teaming up with @thecomicrelief.bsky.social this Christmas to tackle food poverty.
Phew.
@sainsburys.bsky.social 's profit: over £1 billion this year.
It's all alright though; they're teaming up with @thecomicrelief.bsky.social this Christmas to tackle food poverty.
Phew.
The depth of isolation my husband and I live within stuns me. Not in terms of friendships or meaning or how we connect to place, but how few systems of support and resource we have to support us when in emergency.
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The depth of isolation my husband and I live within stuns me. Not in terms of friendships or meaning or how we connect to place, but how few systems of support and resource we have to support us when in emergency.
𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 and would appreciate help in reaching organisational leaders that recognise the thoughtfulness, experience, and skills I bring to an organisation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 and would appreciate help in reaching organisational leaders that recognise the thoughtfulness, experience, and skills I bring to an organisation.
I spent a lot of my life believing that I'm socially shy and a bit introverted but it turns out that I just don't enjoy people talking over each other, people talking at me rather than to me, and meeting new people that only talk to people they already know.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I spent a lot of my life believing that I'm socially shy and a bit introverted but it turns out that I just don't enjoy people talking over each other, people talking at me rather than to me, and meeting new people that only talk to people they already know.
We humans seem to be ecological creatures, living within an ecological universe, shaping & shaped by ecological beings and happenings.
Ecological enquiry is the living study of the relationship 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 living things and their environment and how living things 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 relationship.
Ecological enquiry is the living study of the relationship 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 living things and their environment and how living things 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 relationship.
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We humans seem to be ecological creatures, living within an ecological universe, shaping & shaped by ecological beings and happenings.
Ecological enquiry is the living study of the relationship 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 living things and their environment and how living things 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 relationship.
Ecological enquiry is the living study of the relationship 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 living things and their environment and how living things 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 relationship.
The badgers and I are excited to invite you to join the first season of The Critical Badger Book Club, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 with a difference.
Read about the Critical Badger Book Club's intention, container, and hopes - and join us - at bit.ly/critical-bad...
Read about the Critical Badger Book Club's intention, container, and hopes - and join us - at bit.ly/critical-bad...
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The badgers and I are excited to invite you to join the first season of The Critical Badger Book Club, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 with a difference.
Read about the Critical Badger Book Club's intention, container, and hopes - and join us - at bit.ly/critical-bad...
Read about the Critical Badger Book Club's intention, container, and hopes - and join us - at bit.ly/critical-bad...
Are you in Leeds, or nearby? So excited that a Wild Service festival is in the world and it's starting this weekend 😍
www.leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/w...
www.leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/w...
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Are you in Leeds, or nearby? So excited that a Wild Service festival is in the world and it's starting this weekend 😍
www.leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/w...
www.leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/w...
New substack essay out now. Read 'An Enquiry Practise 'Of Us' here: bit.ly/enquiryofus
October 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New substack essay out now. Read 'An Enquiry Practise 'Of Us' here: bit.ly/enquiryofus
From ecosystems to social systems, technology to language, chemical reactions to biological happenings, ideas to language, histories to possible futures, the non-human to the more-than-human and the universe, all things seems to be entangled in relationship with something else (often, many things).
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From ecosystems to social systems, technology to language, chemical reactions to biological happenings, ideas to language, histories to possible futures, the non-human to the more-than-human and the universe, all things seems to be entangled in relationship with something else (often, many things).
I've started attending a quaker's meeting. I don't resonate with their religious foundational beliefs but I very much resonate with their commitment to welcoming people into their meetings that don't, and I love their way of being together: sitting in contemplation and silence until moved to speak.
September 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I've started attending a quaker's meeting. I don't resonate with their religious foundational beliefs but I very much resonate with their commitment to welcoming people into their meetings that don't, and I love their way of being together: sitting in contemplation and silence until moved to speak.
I have an ever-growing dislike for joining online events with a bunch of folk I've never met and then (without being offered an alternative) being placed in breakout rooms to discuss meaningful things and work together.
September 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I have an ever-growing dislike for joining online events with a bunch of folk I've never met and then (without being offered an alternative) being placed in breakout rooms to discuss meaningful things and work together.
Sharing my latest essay on my free-to-all substack, Ecological Us, 'Leaving Traces: Remembering an ancient/new story of sacred responsibility'.
Read the essay here: annamarieswan.substack.com/p/leaving-tr...
Read the essay here: annamarieswan.substack.com/p/leaving-tr...
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sharing my latest essay on my free-to-all substack, Ecological Us, 'Leaving Traces: Remembering an ancient/new story of sacred responsibility'.
Read the essay here: annamarieswan.substack.com/p/leaving-tr...
Read the essay here: annamarieswan.substack.com/p/leaving-tr...
I am awed by the human creatures that, finding themselves with so many logical and justifiable reasons for small and large unkindnesses, hatreds, bitternesses, arrogances, and greeds, instead look to have their days moved by love, repair, compassion, empathy, and self-attunement.
August 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I am awed by the human creatures that, finding themselves with so many logical and justifiable reasons for small and large unkindnesses, hatreds, bitternesses, arrogances, and greeds, instead look to have their days moved by love, repair, compassion, empathy, and self-attunement.
What if being with ourselves, is to discover that ourselves is not a singular, arranged self but an ecological re-arrangement of relationship to other? Self as me and...
Me and the grass beneath my feet, me and my beloved, me and the birdsong, me and the library walls, me and, me and, me and...
Me and the grass beneath my feet, me and my beloved, me and the birdsong, me and the library walls, me and, me and, me and...
April 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What if being with ourselves, is to discover that ourselves is not a singular, arranged self but an ecological re-arrangement of relationship to other? Self as me and...
Me and the grass beneath my feet, me and my beloved, me and the birdsong, me and the library walls, me and, me and, me and...
Me and the grass beneath my feet, me and my beloved, me and the birdsong, me and the library walls, me and, me and, me and...
I have *genuinely* evolved into someone that can eat just a piece of chocolate at a time. I'm assuming this is the adulting that I've heard so much about. If it is, it's both a let down and a fricking spiritual event.
April 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have *genuinely* evolved into someone that can eat just a piece of chocolate at a time. I'm assuming this is the adulting that I've heard so much about. If it is, it's both a let down and a fricking spiritual event.
Perhaps it's through being really curious about ourselves as relationally complex ecosystems, whole and integrated but constantly being rearranged and dependent on so much, that we learn to love and appreciate the relational complexity we exist within.
April 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Perhaps it's through being really curious about ourselves as relationally complex ecosystems, whole and integrated but constantly being rearranged and dependent on so much, that we learn to love and appreciate the relational complexity we exist within.
Sharing Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, a free resource for organisational founders, stewards, and guides to help organisations become more ecological.
Download different formats and find lots of ecol. orgs. info here: bit.ly/ecologicalor...
Download different formats and find lots of ecol. orgs. info here: bit.ly/ecologicalor...
January 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Sharing Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, a free resource for organisational founders, stewards, and guides to help organisations become more ecological.
Download different formats and find lots of ecol. orgs. info here: bit.ly/ecologicalor...
Download different formats and find lots of ecol. orgs. info here: bit.ly/ecologicalor...
Come join these low-cost 'ecological organisations' action enquiry circles, designed so that organisational founders and leaders can work directly with me, the author of Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, as they start to run experiments within the organisation they're a member of.
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Come join these low-cost 'ecological organisations' action enquiry circles, designed so that organisational founders and leaders can work directly with me, the author of Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, as they start to run experiments within the organisation they're a member of.
It is with deeply felt tenderness and gentle excitement that I share Cellular Rearranging's first co-authorship ✮⋆
annamarieswan.substack.com/p/source-as-...
annamarieswan.substack.com/p/source-as-...
Source as Ecologically Entangled Yet Distinct and Bounded
Learnings (so far) from crafting a relationship covenant between two people in source roles.
annamarieswan.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:50 AM
It is with deeply felt tenderness and gentle excitement that I share Cellular Rearranging's first co-authorship ✮⋆
annamarieswan.substack.com/p/source-as-...
annamarieswan.substack.com/p/source-as-...