ABOUT

 

In this landscape of rained soaked lichen and weathered rock I am shaped by the possibility of another story. A story rooted in solidarity with the natural world from which we are inseparable. With one foot on the earth I feel a sense of being planted among something I can only describe as ancient. The other, in a dance with uncertainty. How to land in such shifting times?. Yet, it is those moments between that feel most alive. In Japanese arts & culture there is the concept of Ma -  the fundamental time and space from which life needs to grow. It is my experience that if I can turn towards these moments with open curiosity, there is medicine to be found. Here, light streams through the smallest break in the wall and life is imbued with new meaning. It is these moments that capture my imagination and inspire my life and work as a nature-based practitioner and ecological-artist.

 

If I could trace back to my most formative moments that have led me to working with people in nature today, it would be my own research into the mountain living communities and cultures I have been fortunate enough to spend time among. An early interest in exploring more ecocentric ways of living led me to the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, supported by a Zibby Garnett Travel Fellowship. Onward travels led me to hillside nunneries in Myanmar, the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and the Chapadas of Northern Brazil. With my hands now firmly placed in home soil, my motivation for sharing what has been gathered in my basket is ever enriched by those I encounter within the gardens and landscapes around me.

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My background and training includes over fifteen years of evolving a creative and therapeutic nature-based practice and much of my work today finds itself at the confluence of human/nature relations, tending, growing and communal story making. My work is located within community based organisations and in private practice. My training to date includes studies in the Arts Therapies (British Assocciation of Arts Therapists) Environmental Education & Leadership (Schumacher College), Permaculture, Horticulture (Women's Farm & Garden Association) Horticultural Therapy, (Thrive) as well as in group work facilitation (The Work that Reconnects & London Gestalt Centre.) I am currently in my final year of training with the Natural Academy on the Advanced Pathway in Ecopsychology and Nature-based practice. You can find out more about my experience in bringing these threads of practice together here. And, if you are interested in exploring what it might be like to work together individually, or as a group, you can find out more here.

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In nourishing my own life and work, I find sustenance through regular time for making and moving with others in the landscape. In recent years I have been cultivating an eco-philosophical movement practice as a way towards tending to my own healing relationship with the natural world. I feel fortunate to have studied with environmental movement artist Helen Poyner and internationally renowned Butoh expert, Marie Gabrielle-Rotie, supported by the elemental soundscapes of Nick Parkin.

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