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 acutely. The biodiversity loss, the deforestation, the ocean acidification, the poverty, the wars, the list of hurts goes on. My generation is the first that is predicted to die younger than their parents. What are we evolving to?
This is not good enough. Surely humans can do better than 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 am inspired by the emergency action taken during Covid-19 - the whole world made rapid, unprecedented changes to society - and this is what we need again in response to the climate and ecological emergency.
I steward some land near Bristol with my partner Ben and our daughter Maya. We are regenerating the land, allowing some areas so rewild. We have planted approximately 5000 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, many species of trees and there are signs of an otter...(although we've never seen one). We have been working on this quietly for some years, and have formalised some of the work in setting up a social enterprise: Strode Waterfall Land & Story Project. It's here that I design and develop nature-connection experiences.
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. International orders via the link here or contact me for UK orders. https://halfletterpress.com/reclaim-your-sh-t-water-beyond-value/
If you're looking for a leadership and/or team building training that is suited to these challenging times, our team at Catalista have designed an Awareness-Based Leadership Programme that offers an experiential journey into what it means to lead in the midst of climate breakdown. For more of my offerings check out the About page.
I'm open to collaboration, so please get in touch if you have an idea where my experience could be of service.
"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 acutely. The biodiversity loss, the deforestation, the ocean acidification, the poverty, the wars, the list of hurts goes on. My generation is the first that is predicted to die younger than their parents. What are we evolving to?
This is not good enough. Surely humans can do better than 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 am inspired by the emergency action taken during Covid-19 - the whole world made rapid, unprecedented changes to society - and this is what we need again in response to the climate and ecological emergency.
I steward some land near Bristol with my partner Ben and our daughter Maya. We are regenerating the land, allowing some areas so rewild. We have planted approximately 5000 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, many species of trees and there are signs of an otter...(although we've never seen one). We have been working on this quietly for some years, and have formalised some of the work in setting up a social enterprise: Strode Waterfall Land & Story Project. It's here that I design and develop nature-connection experiences.
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. International orders via the link here or contact me for UK orders. https://halfletterpress.com/reclaim-your-sh-t-water-beyond-value/
If you're looking for a leadership and/or team building training that is suited to these challenging times, our team at Catalista have designed an Awareness-Based Leadership Programme that offers an experiential journey into what it means to lead in the midst of climate breakdown. For more of my offerings check out the About page.
I'm open to collaboration, so please get in touch if you have an idea where my experience could be of service.
"We are nature defending itself."
Concept artwork for The Fifth Sacred Thing Film by Jessica Perlstein http://dreamstreamart.com/
