Rewilding and Nature Connection Workshop
A Mirawara event
Sun, 17 Sep 2023
A family-friendly introductory course in wilderness survival skills, bush crafts, deep nature connection with rewilding guides Claire Dunn, Daniel Amrein and Yonke van Geloven. This workshop at Leanganook will include fire-by-friction, foraging for edible weeds, natural fibre rope making, deep ecology, nature connection games and so much more.
Facilitators
Claire Dunn Founder of Nature’s Apprentice and author, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and belonging is key to regenerating wildness on the planet.
For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage.
Claire is the author of memoir My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild. Her recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives in Warbuton with her partner Dan, where they are enjoying the wild and deep journey of parenthood.
When we apprentice ourselves to nature, to the wilds both inside and outside of us, we can awaken into our full potential, our senses alive, our visions and passions on fire." www.naturesapprentice.com.au
Daniel Amrein
Daniel (Dan) Amrein is a carpenter and father of three living in the village of Warburton in the Yarra Valley. Dan’s introduction to earth based ceremony was at age 16, and since then ceremony, sweat lodge and Vision Quest has been a powerfully consistent thread and guiding principle in his life, both as participant and more recently as a trained Vision Quest guide. Since a kid Dan has had a deep love and curiosity for the wild world. Conversations with the wild other are part of his everyday vernacular, and tracking a way of life. Dan is currently apprenticing to the arts of storytelling, song, deep authentic relating, wandering, and the mythic in wild landscapes. You will often find him tending his garden, catching stories from friends, baking bread, running the trails of his mountain home, and spending sweet time with his children, and partner Claire.
Yonke van Geloven
Yonke is a mother, teacher, farmer and rewilding facilitator. She facilitates community gatherings on her honeybee permaculture property ‘La Fleur de Soul’ in Central Victoria such as seasonal celebrations, moon gatherings, olive harvest festival, dandelion festival etc. She is passionate about deep listening to the sacred wild for healing. Always in wander and wonder, she is co-learning the crafts which bring us into deeper relationship with nature and the more than human world.