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Tom DeaconActive Hope North, UK

Tom feels most at home out with the elementals in the mountains and on the coastlines of the UK. He draws great inspiration from weaving and facilitating lived experiences in wild places with the transformative processes of the Work that Reconnects. As a Mountain Leader, environmental educator, activist and facilitator it is in the entanglement of the web where all these elements of his life meet that he feels most alive.

Why I am called to facilitate the Work

Experiencing the world through a felt sense, a deeper knowing, and a strong desire to enable that in others, has brought me to this work. As someone who identifies their spirituality as oneness with nature, someone who's true nourishment comes from time immersed in wild places, and someone with a great love for the living world, this work meets me at so many levels. Through my work for many years as an environmental educator, and as a facilitator of transformative process around sustainability, tWtR meets me time and again through its roots in deep ecology and systems theory. Ever since first meeting this Work I have felt called to share it, to offer others an opportunity to resource themselves for their part in The Great Turning. At this time of interwoven social, economic and environmental crises the re-connecting web of this work feels ever more vital. This is what calls me to facilitate this Work.

How I see the Work serving the Great Turning

What I appreciate about this Work is the ease with which it holds both complexity and simplicity in one embrace. Holding the complexity of the web of life, weaving science, spirituality and ancient wisdom into the apparent simplicity of a beautiful spiral that enables engagement at so many levels. I appreciate the ease with which this work can morph and change, adapt and re-form in so many situations and for so many diverse communities around the world. I love the integrity it brings, and the safe space for deep exploration and connection it can offer.

At a time when there is so much uncertainty in the world, so much deep and often pent up emotion, this Work is in service to this time through offering a space to release and resource. It serves The Great Turning through offering the resource of gratitude in a world hooked on consumer gratification. It serves The Great Turning through holding a space for people to voice their deep feelings as they witness the Great Unraveling, to release what may otherwise numb them to life. It serves The Great Turning through offering us all the opportunity to see from beyond our ego lens, through multiple lenses that broaden our horizons for change. And it serves The Great Turning in shining a light on intention as a guiding principle for our collective part in the future of life on Earth.

Audiences I work with

Activists. Youth. Community. Educators.

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Background & Training

Background & training in the Work That Reconnects

  • Lighting Fires You Can't Put Out (2015, 3 days)
    Location: Gloucestershire, UK
    Facilitated by: Multiple
    Facilitator development
  • Lighting Fires You Can't Put Out (2016, 3 days)
    Location: North Somerset, UK
    Facilitated by: Multiple
    Facilitator development
  • Learning for Hope (2018, 3 days)
    Location: Shropshire, UK
    Facilitated by: Joanna Blackman
    Active Hope retreat for educators
  • Work that Reconnects - day spiral (2018, 1 days)
    Location: West Yorkshire, UK
    Facilitated by: Ellie Greenwood

Other relevant training

  • Ocean Science degree (2000, 0)
    Location: Plymouth, UK
    Facilitated by: Multiple
    Broad ranging physical science degree with strong systems theory leaning.
  • Environmental Education CPD (2005, 0)
    Location: UK wide
    Facilitated by: Multiple
    Ongoing nature connection and ecological CPD through 15 years of work in environmental ed.
  • Natural Change Facilitator training (2016, 5 days)
    Location: Scotland, UK
    Facilitated by: Dave Key
    Transformative change process based in deep ecology, ecopsychology & systems theory
  • U.Lab (2016, 16 days)
    Location: MIT, online
    Facilitated by: Otto Scharmer
    Transformative change process drawing on deep listening, mindfulness and spirituality

Other relevant skills & experiences

I draw deeply on my experience facilitating in emergent spaces with diverse groups of people. Facilitating groups of young people in challenging environments, facilitating broad spectrum groups of colleagues in business settings, facilitating spaces for climate activism both in planning and action....all offer their valuable experience to draw on.

The lifelong influence of my mother's yoga, meditation and singing bowl teachings and practice offers me a grounding in grounding.

My love of improvising music through my violin and voice offers me much in ways of expression and flow.

As a qualified and experienced Mountain Leader I draw much on my skills and abilities from this work when facilitating WtR in outdoor settings on retreats and currently through online/offline sessions.

Experience facilitating WTR events & workshops

Work That Reconnects workshops I have facilitated

  • Active Hope for Activism (2019, 3 days)
    Location: Shropshire, UK
    Facilitated by: Joanna Blackman & Nagamani
    Nature based WtR retreat for climate activists
  • Oceans for Hope (2019, 4 days)
    Location: Pembrokeshire, UK
    Facilitated by: Mark Ward & Joanna Blackman
    Coastal WtR retreat
  • Work that Reconnects - 1 day workshops for Extinction Rebellion (2017, 9 days)
    Location: Across Northern England
    Facilitated by: Ellie Greenwood
    Multiple 1 day workshops
  • Work that Reconnects - Covid Series (2020, 0)
    Location: Online
    Series of 8 online evening workshops during UK lockdown
  • Active Hope in Turbelent Times (2020, 0)
    Location: Online
    Facilitated by: Medeleince Young & Sarah Jackson
    series of 5 online daytime workshops transitioning out of UK lockdown

Experience facilitating other events & workshops

I have 15 years of experience facilitating outdoor learning residentials, youth expeditions in remote wild land, sustainability workshops for organisations, international learning for sustainability conferences, climate activism workshops/meetings/actions, and regenerative culture workshops.

The Work that Reconnects influences all of my work. I have incorporated practices, and shaped spirals, through my education work, activism, and sustainability work.. Venues for education work would include coastal, mountain, moorland and woodland settings as well as lab based learning. Venues for activism incorporating WtR include in meetings (in person & online), during protests in central London (streets, parks, other public spaces), and through non-viloent direct action & wellbeing/regenerative culture workshops. Venues for sustainability work would include conference settings, in workplaces, and outdoor settings.

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User Info

WTR Facilitator since 2015
Languages served: English
Location: Active Hope North, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Age: 40
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