I love beauty, wildness, generosity and passion. My work, my life, has always been about connecting people with information, ideas and experiences that can shift perspectives and lead to action on behalf of life on Earth.
The delivery vehicle comes in many forms but my aim is to find ways that people can fall in love with the world again....and feel empowered and motivated to care for it. Facilitator of the Work That Reconnects since 2012 I'm also an ecological farmer, natural builder, permaculturist, Qi Gong practitioner, dancer, wild swimmer. I'm currently exploring how embodied experiences of connection to a larger self can be more of a focus in my workshops and how integrating embodiment into everyday life can strengthen commitment to the Great Turning.
Why I am called to facilitate the Work
The Work That Reconnects has enabled me to connect with my grief, sense into a larger view of time, have a deeper sense of my place in the web of life and support me to live with hope for the future. I am called to share this with others in as many different places as possible.
How I see the Work serving the Great Turning
I have a deep appreciation for the different stories of our time and use this often in my work to provoke people to consider what story they live by, and support people to tell their own stories of how they are living the Great Turning and actively stepping toward a hoped-for future. I also give space to the practices that honour pain for the world the deep need many of us have to express our witnessing of the Great Unravelling which appears to be happening with such speed and scope. By offering this Work my hope is always to give people opportunities to express grief (anxiety, fear, loss, numbness) in community, to develop appreciation of and caring attitudes to nature, to hear about and experience interconnection, to find motivation and sense of purpose and to build confidence in talking about these things with others -family, friends, colleagues.
I have been active in environmental movements to highlight and demand action on the crises we face, I’ve been part of educating about and building practical solutions to the problems we face (I’m a permaculture teacher, organic grower, eco-builder) and yet it wasn’t until I started to facilitate this work that I found the missing piece of my contribution to the world; facilitating experiences where perspectives shift, both social and ecological identities expand, and people plug in to the beautiful possibilities of working together to create the future we hope for.
I’m currently exploring and offering the Work through the lens of social justice and looking at how it can be accessible to more people.
Audiences I work with
activists, youth, elders, community-based groups, permaculture students, academic
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