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 enough 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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