Current Projects
Call of the Wild
Co-Facilitator alongside Chris Salisbury
Run by Wildwise in Devon, Call of the Wild is a year-long foundation in outdoor educational leadership.
We are living life in a time of tremendous global change. In a post-Covid world, many of us are sensing the shifts both without, and within us, and we feel called to change, and called to act. The current paradigm of the industrial growth model is unsustainable is also not meeting the needs of its citizens living within the system. The formal education system is creaking under the strain of the national curriculum and our children are receiving instruction rather than a true education, within a context of reaching goals and targets that fail to address the body/mind/spirit potential within each child, or the deeper cultural need.
One of the most effective ways to inspire and enrich ourselves, our communities and each other, is to find our way back to engaging wholeheartedly with the natural world, and to seek ways to offer this connection to others. An extraordinary syllabus is available to anyone open to spending time in nature, and our job as environmental/outdoor educators is to cultivate this ‘nature connection’ in helpful and meaningful ways. Therefore, we invite you to become one of the new generation of change-makers through the Call of the Wild programme.
Find out more at: Wildwise
The Lodge
Co-Lead
The Lodge is a self-directed and consent-based learning community for home-educated young people. Based in Saffron Walden, it is open for two days a week, and is accessed by young people aged 10-16.
The Lodge is based on principles of self-direction, consent, ed(ucation) positivity, shared decision-making, and children’s rights. We are committed to equity, inclusion, social and environmental justice and striving to be a welcoming and inclusive space for all children, young people, families, and staff.
The Lodge is linked with The Cabin, an exemplary self-directed and consent-based learning community for home educated people aged 5-11.
Write on changemakers
Lead
Write On Changemakers aims to support changemakers to share their passions, ideas, innovations, energies and motivations. The activists, campaigners, educators, innovators and social entrepreneurs who are fighting to change the world. Changemakers with big ideas and limited time. Changemakers who want to get a message across to a wider audience but don’t know how to do it. Changemakers with a vision about writing – a book, a website, a blog post, a manifesto, a zine – but who struggle to get this done.
Join one of our Soul Fire Writing Retreats, write a blog post, ask for some one-to-one or group mentoring, be part of something with other activists and changemakers.
Check out the website: writeonchangemakers.com
COACHING AND MENTORING
One-to-one coaching and mentoring
I am an experienced coach, mentor, and independent academic supervisor. I am available for face-to-face and online relationships.
I am particularly interested in:
– supporting people with writing projects, including working through challenges, obstacles and barriers to writing
– professional development for facilitators and educators
– independent supervision of research projects and/or doctorates