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, 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, 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 setting up a social enterprise: Strode Waterfall Land & Story Project.
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. Order here or contact me for UK orders.
https://breakdownbreakdown.net/publishing/
Other ways I work in service for life is by facilitating transformative leadership programmes alongside a group of fantastic facilitators www.catalista.co.uk
I can offer a 3 hour workshop 'Climate Fresk' - to help raise you and your team/organisation/group's understanding on the climate science and what to do about it. Contact me for availability.
"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, 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, 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 setting up a social enterprise: Strode Waterfall Land & Story Project.
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. Order here or contact me for UK orders.
https://breakdownbreakdown.net/publishing/
Other ways I work in service for life is by facilitating transformative leadership programmes alongside a group of fantastic facilitators www.catalista.co.uk
I can offer a 3 hour workshop 'Climate Fresk' - to help raise you and your team/organisation/group's understanding on the climate science and what to do about it. Contact me for availability.
"We are nature defending itself."
Concept artwork for The Fifth Sacred Thing Film by Jessica Perlstein http://dreamstreamart.com/
