Chapter 1 of My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild.
A journey of leaving the city and finding my soul.
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This immersive program is the first of its kind in Australia. Using the modalities of circle time, myth, physical practice, deep nature connection and natural movement, hands on earth skills, ceremony, community and extended solitude in nature, this program is designed to fundamentally shift one’s experience of being a man…
What does it mean to be a participant in the wider earth community, in these times of human centrism and uber technological consciousness? How does one experience a wider, wilder sense of self in busy daily life?
This day-long gathering is in service to a rewilding of our bodies, minds and souls, not through any peak experience on a mountain, but by coming together on the city outskirts to explore ancestral lifeways and deep nature connection practices. Come gather by the Birrarung River for a day of nature connection, community, and creative play.
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.
We are pleased to be finally inviting all graduates of the Nature-Based Leadership Training to an alumni Spring weekend, a time to reconnect with the practices, philosophy and spirit of Nature Based Leadership.
Across the five cohort years of NBLT we will gather over a weekend and again dive into a mix of hands of head, heart and hands practices.
Join NBLT Alumni and passionate bushfood educator Leila for a journey with the plants of Country – their gifts of food, fibre and medicine. Discover the joy of being in relationship with the native plants that nourish and heal.
An Art of Mentoring event
Deep in all of our roots, there are stories of our ancestors living in healthy, regenerative communities—villages where people of all ages were in deep relationship with the land, each other, and themselves. This workshop is an experiential, nature based gathering designed to help us remember these old ways and learn to apply them to our modern communities - in particular to understand the lost art of mentoring which lies at the core of building deep connection.
If you are keen to understand the relationship between nature connection and mentoring, then this workshop is for you.
The Wild Threshold Crossing is a 7-day program centred on two days and two nights of solo fasting in nature – a wild solo in the tradition of the vision fast, as old as human culture itself. We offer this as an alternative to our longer Vision Quest for those who are not ready for a four day fast or are unable to take 11 days out from their other commitments.
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“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen”
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Gunaikurnai traditional owners on whose lands we gather. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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This immersive, nature-based leadership program is the first of its kind in Australia. Building from many years’ experience delivering community learning that is grounded in the natural world, CERES and Nature’s Apprentice are coming together to offer a 10-month program that will create the kind of earth-based leadership and resilience we and our communities will need in the coming decades.