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The process of developing our capacity to be a mentor for nature connection is a thrilling and soulful adventure that’s full of potential opportunities, challenges and possibilities. This programme will give you the skills and tools to navigate this journey for yourself and bring your leadership potential into focus, supported by experienced professionals, a community of like-minded and inspired peers, and a deep connection with the natural world itself.
PLYMOUTH CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT 2026 - Workshop Facilitation
24th September 2025, 2-3pm, Space A in Sherwell United Church
Uprooting colonial & capitalist approaches to the Climate Crisis
We are swimming in explicit and unconscious patterns of harm, rooted in colonial, class and capitalist world views. How do we make sure these don’t live on in our approaches to Climate Justice? Through stories of ‘a Devon Un/Learning Journey’ (a project looking back at Devon’s colonial past to see how it informs today’s activism, and creative ways to face uncertain futures) – we’ll explore opportunities for inner and outer change.
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A Devon Un/Learning Journey looks back to Devon’s colonial past and its legacy today to inform how we can creatively look forward to uncertain futures.
Our first iteration was in 2024 – of a series of community gatherings, workshops and creative experiences in Plymouth, Torquay and Dartington.
The Devon Un/learning journey invites you to re-imagine your change making practice in the light of Devon’s colonial past and current local and global ecological, climate and social challenges.
Weaving creativity, embodiment, history and mystery we will look back, lean in and face forward together…
With Toni Spencer, Sandhya Dave and Ruth Ben-Tovim
We are currently looking for funding and partners to run the next iteration of this exciting course! Get in touch if you’d like to support this learning and un/learning journey as a funder, champion, partner, or participant.
BIO-REGIONAL BANQUET - Co-Host
24th September 2025, 2-3pm, Space A in Sherwell United Church
A unique evening bringing together farmers, food producers and people from across South Devon working to provide food - for everyone. This is not a banquet marked by indulgence and privilege. It is a celebration for the people of this land and sea; a gathering to honour our place and the hard work of those who care for it.
This season I am continuing work with a pedagogy of death, decay and destruction, now developing a deck of cards to support facilitators, consultants, educators, creative practitioners and anyone else who is interested to invite these themes into their strategy, design, visioning, or problem solving. Watch this space and if you'd like to be invited to a Zoom test of the cards or to know when they are available to buy, please contact me here.
A Devon Un/Learning Journey finished in December. It was such a rich journey with a great group of 17 participants and an amazing team and group of contributors. We are now looking at an updated design for this year and looking out for funding ot support the course to run. Again, get in touch if you are keen to know about the course and if you have ideas for funding, including you might want to sponsor a place. I'll be writing more about this soon.
Running alongside this, as ever, I am loving my work as a mentor supporting leaders, educators and artists across sectors who are interested in the strategic, systemic and soul work in meeting the challenges of our times. If you'd like to chat about me coming alongside you in your work or in a life transition, or in supporting your practice, get in touch.
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LESSONS IN LISTENING: A LAND ART RESIDENCY - 11th - 15th September 2025
A guest space holder offering a session on Pause in Practice: Kissing the Void. Meet the unknown as a source of creative renewal. Rest and emerge in a space for participants to pause and listen beyond the noise of urgency and overwhelm.
ECO-FACILITATION: SKILLS FOR EXPERIENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION - 4th September 2025
How do we enable connection with nature from a deep understanding that we too are part of nature? How might we co-facilitate with the places we work in? How does presence and connection in ourselves change how we work with groups? A workshop that introduces creative practices and simple inquiries to help open deeper connections within the natural world.
A Devon Un/Learning Journey – 29 Sep 2024 – 1 Dec 2024
Are you involved in the work of personal or societal transformation? Based in Devon? Interested in the dance between personal, local and systemic global issues? We will be looking back to Devon’s colonial past and its legacy today to inform how we can creatively look forward to uncertain futures…
The Emergence Network: Becoming Monster – 1 Nov 2024
A PEDAGOGY OF DEATH, DECAY & DESTRUCTION: SANCTUARY MAKING
A testing of a deck of cards for practical and oracular possibilities… Looking to the teachers of demise and emergence in the more- than-human world can offer something of a homecoming to our wider being. What might we encounter in hanging out in the company of vultures, maggots, forest fires or detritivores? What flirtations or invocations might arise in re/membering kinship with these ones? This work taps into the wisdom of compost, termites and hurricanes, of elephant feet, beavers and fallen trees.
Lessons in Listening – 12 Sep 2024 – 16 Sep 2024
I am a guest practitioner offering into this Land Art Residency that is guiding “participants through a programme of creative experiences that will attune & develop their abilities to listen to the seen & the unseen with practices inspired by the Land, Sea & Sky.”
Wildwise: Eco-Facilitation: Skills For Experiential Environmental Education – 5 Sep 2024
This 1 day workshop introduces creative practices and simple inquiries to help open deeper connections within the natural world…
Wildwise: Nature Connection in a Complex World – 18 Jul 2024
If we go back far enough, we all have lineages that root us in healthy relationships within nature, this is our birthright as humans. We are one of the billions of species that make up this extraordinary planet. Over the centuries and across continents, different beliefs, power dynamics, societal structures and modern economics have created great imbalances and harm between humans, and to the ecologies we are part of. As we find and facilitate ways to reconnect with nature, how might we keep an awareness of the bigger picture?
Palestine - Peace, Action and Possibility - A Community Gathering – 2 Jul 2024
Do you feel helpless or stuck with how to respond to the crisis in Palestine?
Do you have endless questions? Are you raging inside? Overwhelmed, grief stricken or afraid? Unsure what to do? We all feel this, we can all relate: you are not alone.
poddd: Creative Lab – 28 Mar 2024
Within Modernity, we hide away signs of death, decay and destruction. Within nature, these is constant breakdown in intricate relationships with emergent life, and all the in betweens. Come and explore ideas through creative exercises, collaborative responses and discussion, applying some activities directly to your own context. For change agents, artists, systemic thinkers, facilitators, activists interested in processes and practices of change.
A Council Of All Beings... with a difference – 17 Mar 2024
A Council Of All Beings is a powerful practice developed by Joanna Macy and others to invite the voices of the more-than-human world to speak through us. Rooted in deep ecology, ritual, and collective inquiry, the experience will include time outside, mask making, play and a council ritual.
This Council will focus on listening for insights only from species, elements and patterns in nature that perform the essential tasks of death, decay, collapse, destruction and decomposition.
Letting Life Lead: A Systemic Constellations retreat – 2023
Devon Transformed Festival – September 2023
