Galway City Museum in collaboration with Our Story bring you Rewilding the Self: Awakening the Wild Within, one of a series of free workshops offered at the Museum over the next couple of months.  This is an invitation to transform climate anxiety into a joyful and healing reconnection with nature, inspiring action as we co-create a sustainable future for people and the planet. The Éiru film has been shortlisted for the 2026 Academy Awards and will be screened at the workshops so participants will have a chance to see it!

Rewilding the Self: Awakening the Wild Within

This immersive workshop invites participants to activate their imagination and shift their perception of nature and self. Through storytelling, reflection, and creative writing, we reconnect with the wild, untamed energy of the natural world—and of ourselves. Participants will explore nature not as a commodity or resource, but as sacred, sentient life that we belong to. By embodying non-human perspectives and drawing inspiration from natural elements, we cultivate empathy, imagination, and emotional resilience. The experience encourages a sense of interconnectedness and reverence for the living world, offering a counter-narrative to environmental despair and disconnection.

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To book your free place please contact the Museum by emailing Museum@GalwayCity.ie or by phoning 091 532460. If you cannot attend, please contact the Museum to cancel so we can give your place to someone else.

The programme is designed for lifelong adult learning, secondary school students (age 12+), university students, and informal community education.

The Éiru education programme is created by Our Story and funded by the Lifes2Good Foundation. This timely series of immersive workshops is inspired by Éiru, the animation film co-produced by Cartoon Saloon and HerStory, with support from Screen Ireland and BCP Asset Management. 

This workshop series is organised in conjunction with the exhibition Earth Action supported by the Creative Climate Action Fund, an initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme, funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport in collaboration with the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment. The fund supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural transformations.