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UPCOMING EVENTS
10 APR - 16 NOV 2026 | Dartmoor, South Devon
WILDWISE FLAGSHIP COURSE – A YEAR LONG FOUNDATION IN OUTDOOR EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
One of the most effective ways to inspire and enrich ourselves, our communities and each other, is to find our way back to engaging wholeheartedly with the natural world, and to seek ways to offer this connection to others.
7-11 AUG 2026 | Sharpham House, South Devon
Increasing mindful awareness through walking with the land
Connect with yourself and nature as you walk on and develop a mindfulness practice on the beautiful Sharpham Estate.
Long walks, slow walking, walking without an objective
Time for nature and connection with yourself
Observing the natural world
Practices involving walking in nature as a tool for personal reflection and contemplation
BEING NATURE - BODY, AWARENESS, ECOLOGY
2 SEPT 2026 | Dartington, South Devon
Professional Training with WildWise
Often, when we talk about ‘nature connection’ or Deep Ecology, we miss out the human species. And yet here we are, in an animal body, born of evolution just like the oak, the lizard or the chimpanzee. Waking up our embodied awareness gives us and our participants access to deeper connection, somatic intelligence, health and creativity. This introductory workshop offers simple tools, exercises and inquiry questions to tailor to your own work setting.
We will explore questions such as:
How can we know ourselves as nature?
How can we access the insight, wisdom and creativity available through the body?
How do we relate and engage with the world differently when we are ‘embodied’?
How is it different to play at being an animal to knowing oneself as animal?
What ideas influence our relationships with ourselves and other species?
9 SEPT 2026 | Dartington, South Devon
Professional Training with WildWise
How do we enable connection with nature from a deep understanding that we too are part of nature? How does this change how we work with groups?
We will explore themes such as:
Cultivating awareness, curiosity and connection
The role of language, feeling and sensation in shifting perspectives
Balancing structure and emergence
Making connections with other themes through the work
16-23 SEPT 2026 | Dartmoor, Devon
A land art residency
A programme of creative experiences that attune and develop abilities to listen to the seen and the unseen voices of those we co-exist amongst, with creative practices inspired by the Land, Sea and Sky.
Evolve your connection to your most creative self
Inspire and elevate your creative practice
Connect more deeply to the great and small, to the seen and unseen worlds
Spend time in community, living close to the land
Grow your network and restore your perspective for possibility, personally and collectively
18-22 SEPT 2026 | Sharpham House, South Devon
Increasing mindful awareness through walking with the land
Connect with yourself and nature as you walk on and develop a mindfulness practice on the beautiful Sharpham Estate.
Long walks, slow walking, walking without an objective
Time for nature and connection with yourself
Observing the natural world
Practices involving walking in nature as a tool for personal reflection and contemplation
THE REGENERATIVE FUTURES RETREAT
5-7 OCT 2026 | 42 Acres, Somerset
A nature-centred lab for sustainability and systems change leaders
Letters to the Earth are bringing together 10 senior leaders from across sectors to spend time immersed in forests, gardens, a lake and re-wilding sites, to learn together, gather insights and envision change.
Our guiding questions:
How might a deepened relationship with nature and nature inspired thinking help us lead with greater purpose, vision and integrity?
What would organisations look like if nature’s needs were central and love for the Earth was a shared value?
How can the principles or nature and the resilience and intelligence of ecosystmes inform our ways of working
NATURE CONNECTION IN A COMPLEX WORLD
13 OCT 2026 | Dartington, South Devon
Professional Training with WildWise
Exploring roots, responsibility and reciprocity in our work.
This is for you if:
You are an outdoor educator and want to integrate socio-environmental issues in to how you work
You have become uncomfortable with some of the ways Nature Connection work ignores issues in the world or even inadvertently echoes them
You work with groups with mixed backgrounds and want more confidence in supporting conversation and want to know how nature connection can support that
You want to integrate being outside within your activism or activism within your work outside
A GIFT TO YOURSELF CHRISTMAS RETREAT
22-27 JAN 2027 | Sharpham House, South Devon
Experience a contemplative Christmastime
Rest and be supported by the beautiful setting of Sharpham House at Christmas-time.
Relaxation sessions and free time to deeply rest and reconnect with yourself, far from the usual busy-ness of the Christmas period
Restoritive mindfulness and self-compassion practices
Gentle movement practices and tuning into what our bodies need
Periods of silence including a whole day of silence on Chritsmas Day
Living in community with like-minded people, sharing experiences and the opportunity to bring mindfulness to everyday household tasks
8-12 JAN 2027 | Sharpham House, South Devon
An uplifting and soulful 4 night retreat
Find harmony on this soul-enhancing retreat that blends meditation and singing.
Expereince group singing as a resource for wellbeing
Learn songs by ear (no need to read music and no previous singing experience required)
Begin or develop you mindfulness practice, using breath, sound and song to explore mind, body and spirit
Receive rest, replenishment, renewal and inspiration
FIND YOUR PEACE 5 NIGHT SILENT RETREAT
26-31 JAN 2027 | Sharpham House, South Devon
Meditation, community and connecction to nature
Experience quiet and stillness for an extended time, within supportive company in a beautiful, nurturing setting.
This is for you if you:
want to let go of the daily struggles that can get in the way of simplictity, freedom and joy in the present moment
are in need of rest and replenishment
are interested in deepening or reconnecting with your practice in a silent setting
are inspired by spending time reconnecting with nature
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
