A Year of Rewilding

ReWilding: Lab
End-of-Year Note

ReWilding: Lab exists as a space devoted to ART + NATURE + MIND—a place for returning to lived experience through attention, relationship, and creative practice.

This year marked the first public unfolding of the work.

Across the seasons, ReWilding: Lab hosted its earliest workshops and gatherings, inviting participants into practices shaped by sensory awareness, creative expression, and relationship with the more-than-human world.

Ideas emerging from the Lab moved beyond the studio.

The work was featured in goop, contributing to a wider cultural conversation about well-being and reconnection. It was also highlighted by Star Shopper NWA, reflecting its presence within the local community.

Public talks, including Creative Mornings and TEDx Bentonville, explored how modern life has diminished essential human capacities—and how rewilding the inner world may help restore imagination, resilience, and a felt sense of belonging.

In the public square, Wild Twins—a participatory exhibition presented during Sundays on the Square—invited moments of reflection and play, offering a mirror between the human and the more-than-human worlds.

Alongside these outward expressions, quieter work continued: refining original frameworks, developing future offerings, and laying the foundation for research-informed approaches to human rewilding.

This work exists in response to a shared recognition: that something essential has been diminished in modern life, and that what restores us is not acceleration, but attention; not mastery, but relationship.

With gratitude for all who have been part of this unfolding,

Dana Klisanin, PhD
Founder, ReWilding: Lab