Welcome home.
This is a place where you can step into the true nature of yourself, your ecological self.
With a deeper ecological awareness of our interconnectivity with the elements and the Earth, we can speak from a place beyond the ego - from Nature itself.
From this place, we feel everything that is currently damaging the Earth more accutely. The biodiversity loss, the deforestation, the ocean acidification, the poverty, the wars, the lists of hurts goes on. This is not good enough. Surely humans can do better then this?
The size and nature of these issues can make us feel hopeless, insignificant and wonder how we can make a difference.
Well, I say, let's start here. And let's start in our homes, work and communities. Think global, act local.
If we keep thinking that someone else needs to do this or that, it may never happen.
What makes you angry or upset? How can this energy be turned into positive action?
I steward some land near Bristol with my partner Ben. We are regenerating the land, allowing some areas so rewild, planted approximately 4000 trees (many for expanding woodland for wildlife, some for food crops and wind breaks - using agroforestry methods), we are protecting wild flower meadows, a stream and ancient hedgerows. This land is the home to orchids, owls, snakes, crayfish, stoat, hare, deer, kingfisher, butterflies, damsel and dragon flies, wild flowers, trees and there are signs of an otter...(although we've never seen one). We have been quietly working on this for some years on the side of other work, but are slowly moving towards this becoming our full time work. Watch this space for updates.
I have written a book about our relationship to water and so-called 'waste' based on my academic research called: Reclaim Your Sh*t. I worked alongside an incredible artist Kione Kochi and publisher Breakdown Breakdown Press.
https://breakdownbreakdown.net/publishing/
Other ways I work in service for life is by facilitating transformative learning and nature-based experiences alongside a group of other fantastic facilitators. All work has been cancelled due to Covid-19, so we're currently working out how this much needed work can be offered online effectively. Read more here: www.catalista.co.uk
"We are nature defending itself."
This is a place where you can step into the true nature of yourself, your ecological self.
With a deeper ecological awareness of our interconnectivity with the elements and the Earth, we can speak from a place beyond the ego - from Nature itself.
From this place, we feel everything that is currently damaging the Earth more accutely. The biodiversity loss, the deforestation, the ocean acidification, the poverty, the wars, the lists of hurts goes on. This is not good enough. Surely humans can do better then this?
The size and nature of these issues can make us feel hopeless, insignificant and wonder how we can make a difference.
Well, I say, let's start here. And let's start in our homes, work and communities. Think global, act local.
If we keep thinking that someone else needs to do this or that, it may never happen.
What makes you angry or upset? How can this energy be turned into positive action?
I steward some land near Bristol with my partner Ben. We are regenerating the land, allowing some areas so rewild, planted approximately 4000 trees (many for expanding woodland for wildlife, some for food crops and wind breaks - using agroforestry methods), we are protecting wild flower meadows, a stream and ancient hedgerows. This land is the home to orchids, owls, snakes, crayfish, stoat, hare, deer, kingfisher, butterflies, damsel and dragon flies, wild flowers, trees and there are signs of an otter...(although we've never seen one). We have been quietly working on this for some years on the side of other work, but are slowly moving towards this becoming our full time work. Watch this space for updates.
I have written a book about our relationship to water and so-called 'waste' based on my academic research called: Reclaim Your Sh*t. I worked alongside an incredible artist Kione Kochi and publisher Breakdown Breakdown Press.
https://breakdownbreakdown.net/publishing/
Other ways I work in service for life is by facilitating transformative learning and nature-based experiences alongside a group of other fantastic facilitators. All work has been cancelled due to Covid-19, so we're currently working out how this much needed work can be offered online effectively. Read more here: www.catalista.co.uk
"We are nature defending itself."
Concept artwork for The Fifth Sacred Thing Film by Jessica Perlstein http://dreamstreamart.com/
