Wednesday Webinars - Women Who Walk

Women Who Walk explores walking as a creative, reflective and empowering practice. Drawing on psychogeography, nature connection and the legacy of women such as Ethel Hawthornthwaite, this session considers how movement through landscapes - urban or rural - shapes creativity, wellbeing and agency.

Walking becomes a way of navigating place, purpose and identity, offering space for reflection, imagination and care. We’ll explore how women connect to environments, negotiate barriers and reclaim space through everyday acts of movement.

This webinar invites participants to think about walking not just as travel, but as a form of making - a gentle, embodied practice that supports resilience, creative thinking and connection to both place and self.

Women Who Walk brings together a thoughtful and inspiring panel exploring walking as a creative, political and deeply personal act. Chaired by Morag Rose - artist, writer and author of The Feminist Art of Walking - this conversation weaves together perspectives on landscape, access and storytelling.

Joining her is award-winning writer and former Derbyshire Poet Laureate Helen Mort, whose work is rooted in the Peak District and the legacy of environmental pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite, and Stephanie Walsh, a photographer and facilitator working at the intersection of arts, wellbeing and nature connection. Together, they will reflect on walking as a way of seeing, making and reclaiming space - sharing stories of place, movement and the power of women’s presence in the landscape.