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?

Through nature connection exercises, pair and personal work, theory, story and discussion we’ll explore how to engage with these themes and ways we might do things differently, depending on our context. The space will be held in a way that supports compassion and courage in the conversations and an awareness that we all have different histories, lived experience, understandings and learning edges. 

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