The Rainmaker Online is a long-form, shared practice that invites participants into a deeper way of working with land, imagination, and profoundly engaged attention. Over a few months, we gather in an online circle to engage art not as production or expression, but as a restorative, relational practice for places, people, and the living space between them.

Through an emergent exploration of ephemeral land art and ritual practice we will listen to the places and beings with whom we live. The emphasis is on cultivating both the diversity and depth of interactive symbiotic relatedness: an inquiry into the nature of deep relatedness as a medium through which meaning, care, and responsibility arise.

At the core of this work is a recognition that one of the most fundamental human needs is a sense of belonging: to place, to culture, to community, and to the living world. 

This course offers practices that support depth of relationship, restoring what might be called spiritual ecology: the web of relationships through which land and people are mutually shaped.

Our central motif is the figure of the Rainmaker. In ancient land-based traditions, the Rainmaker is one who listens deeply to the land, understands balance and reciprocity, and knows how to restore coherence when relationships have frayed. Rain falls not because something has been made decorative or pleasing, but because relationships have been brought back into right relation.

Participants will work with a specific place or being in their own location over the duration of the course. Through sustained attention and simple, responsive practices, you will learn how to make offerings that arise from care rather than intention, and from relationship rather than outcome. In this way, the work becomes less about creating something, and more about being in conversation: with land, with weather, with time, and with what watches back.

Rainmaking is a deeply transformative process, as we have repeatedly witnessed in our residential programmes. Offered online, this circle allows for a slower, longer engagement: an opportunity to work over time, held within a community of shared practice, while remaining rooted in the places where you actually live.

This course is open to artists and non-artists alike. No particular skill, belief system, or prior experience is required. What is asked is a willingness to listen, to stay with not-knowing, and to enter creative practice and making as a modality of building living symbiotic relationship.