Nature Connection .... we are a part of nature - as Indigenous Peoples have always known!  Nature Connection, being "sustainable at heart", is about re-connecting with our natural environment, its inherent spirit, and ourselves. John Young always says "our nervous system is hard-wired for connection!"

 

Connection with others also means creating and sharing practises to connect and protect the beautiful world we live in. For me, it is as much sharing stories around a campfire as it is about environmental management in companies, policy work or gaining ecological literacy in our local environment.

 

Knowing this is a life-long journey of learning, I still want to offer whatever I have to give to facilitate spaces of re-connection and bold action for a sustainable future. For example

  • Sustainability management in organisations
  • Advocacy and policy work for sustainability
  • Coaching with nature and mindfulness
  • Hosting community and safe spaces of re-connection e.g. leadership programs involving inner and outer work, safe spaces for youth to just be themselves and share what is going on for them, rites of passage, enjoying the wonders of nature with children, experiencing the magic of nature with the elderly...
If you would like to co-create such spaces with me, in a professional or private capacity, let's connect!

My threads of Nature Connection


  • Many consultancy & Facilitation projects in the field of sustainability (see my work)
  • "Re-Wilidng the Soul - how immersion in nature supports the transofrmation twoards a sustainable society" - faculty lecturer at Alanus University
  • Wilderness Education Training (Wildnispädagogik Ausbildung in German) - Wildnistraining.de
  • Mentoring for Gifts - Jon Young & Calire Dunn (Nature's Apprentice)
  • Living Connection First community - Jon Young & Sarah Fontaine
  • Wilderness Education Basics - Wildniswissen
  • MBA in Sustainability Management, thesis on "Sustainable at heart" - how the way we connect with each other can create more sustainable organisations (incl. innovation) and well-being (concrete application of Theory U, Indigenous and Eastern concepts)
  • Permaculture Design Certificate - Permaculture Research Institute, Australia
  • Landcare and Environmental Studies - NSW Further Education Commission, Australia
  • BSocScience, major in Australian Aborginal Studies incl. Resource Management of Human Geography focussing on Deconstructing the colonialist concept of wilderness, Sense of PLace, Aboriginal Land Management, Aboriginal Culture & Identity, Aboriginal Biological resources, Aboriginal Studies course with weekly differing Aboriginal Leaders
  • BA in Socio-Economics, thesis on How Patents on Living Organisms relate to Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples
  • Forest Activist, protecting old growth forests in Australia, campaigning, identifying species, taking people on tours, practsiing 'the work that re-connects' (Joanna Macey) despair and empowerment practises
  • Bush Regenerator (removing non-native species) - Sydney Bush Regenration Company
  • Information and Retail Offcer, Royal National Park, Australia
  • Sustainable Agriculture and True Food Campaigner, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and Greenpeace Germany
  • Native Plant Nursery volunteer; Courses in native plant identification
  • Founder of Ecology Group at Hamurg School of Polictics & Economics; Co-founder at Macquarie University, Sydney