In this 90 minute workshop investigation I wish to unpack the terminology of ‘visceral empathy’ and share some scores of my performance practice homing-in: radical capacities of the sensate. An ongoing work in outdoor natural environments that activates what Jane Bennet describes as “the ability to discern the vitality of matter” (Bennet 2010, 119). A mode of sensing past the outer surface of animate things, able to penetrate into their fleshy interiority with our own felt sensation. I will lead into a series of indoor and outdoor explorations interested in the subjective experience of my co-researchers and how we can develop the sensibilities and language articulation for communicating with other animate matters, how we can expand our relate and responds-ability. Living in an age where climate change is a physical matter, I would like to discuss this capacity as a potential remedial practice to the increasing symptoms of environmental apathy, increasing sensory deprivation, the intellectually thought and bodily felt separateness from the rest of the animate world. I wonder how cultivating this visceral capacity can contribute towards developing a stronger eco-somatic literacy and how it can inform a more embodied system change in both environmental and social arenas.