Bird Language and Expanded Awareness
A CERES Event
Sunday 4th October 9:30am-3pm, CERES Brunswick
Learn about birds and the local ecology through a combination of observation, storytelling, research, discussion, imagination, intuition and embodiment.
At any moment of the day, bird activity, or lack of it, allows us to sense what is happening in the landscape beyond what we can directly see or hear. Attuning to birds’ voices and behaviour, we can deduce the presence of other animals, predators, plants and seasonal changes. We pick up the more subtle ripples of energy moving through the landscape, invisible like the wind, but just as real. To others it can seem like magic, but the information is all there, waiting for us.
With practice we can be in this state all the time, with a sliver of awareness tuned to the movements of the beings around us. Becoming more diffuse, we feel the earth as an extension of our body. The mind stills and quietens. This natural state is our birthright.
In this immersive workshop we will be learning about birds and the local ecology through a combination of observation, storytelling, research, discussion, imagination, intuition and embodiment. And we will be quietening our minds and expanding our awareness through practices that are effective at bringing us into a deeper silence and greater relationship to the natural world.
Facilitator
Emily Coats
Emily Coats is a facilitator of deep nature connection practices, ancestral skills and soulcentric nature-based ceremony. Recently returned from seven months alone in the wild, she brings passion for practices that awaken full sensory awareness, quieten the mind, and enliven body and Soul, and feels that a reweaving of these capabilities back into our culture is essential medicine for these times in which we live.
Emily’s teachers include master tracker Tom Brown Junior, nature connection expert Jon Young and Australian bird language teacher Andrew Turbill, as well as Nature’s Apprentice founder Claire Dunn, who set her on this path some seven years ago. Emily has been working with Claire at Nature’s Apprentice since 2021 and has her own home on the internet at emilycoats.net
Workshop Specifics
What will I Learn?
Five common types of bird calls, what they mean and how to recognise them
Increasing your zone of awareness and decreasing your zone of disturbance
Core practices such as the sit spot, wide angle vision, fox walking, storytelling, journalling, mimicry, research, mapping, wandering
What should I bring and wear?
Pen and notebook
something to sit on that’s easy to carry (e.g. picnic rug, waterproof cushion, or light chair)
clothes for all weather including rain
water bottle, lunch, snacks – food options are also available to purchase onsite at CERES
Binoculars (optional)
Field Guides (optional)
Terms and conditions
See our refund policy and terms & conditions here
Location: CERES Environment Park, Brunswick East
Cost: $134 - $149