.
“What if the world is holding its breath –
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?”
Connection is our birthright. Connection to self, to earth, and community.
While the world is speeding up, there is another movement inviting us to slow down, to sink our roots deep into the red dirt and the rainforests, to remember our place in the family of things, to remember who we really are.
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.
Now is the time. For as we Rewild ourselves, so too do we Rewild the planet.
.
Personal Mentoring
Helping you dive more deeply into your life, connecting to your essence, and bringing alive your unique gifts.
About
Claire to provide new text
.
.
“It may be that our task now, as it has always been, is to listen. Simple that.
If we really listen, the land will tell us what it wants and how we can live more responsively”
.
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.
Our culture might domesticate our minds, limiting what we perceive, feel, think and imagine, but our minds are actually wild! They possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and eventually integrate them into our everyday lives in service to ourselves, our culture, and the more-than-human-world. Join us for this day long workshop exploring wholeness and animate perception, drawing on Bill Plotkin’s ground-breaking eco-psychology as described in Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
Wild by Nature Village Camps plant seeds of healthy nature-connected villages.
Check out some scenes from the last year of camps...
.
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best”
.
Keep up to date - sign up to the Nature's Apprentice newsletter
Latest Blog Posts
If my life were a long walk down a river, I could look over my shoulder and see a string of stepping stones rising up out of the water, stretching back to the headwaters. Some are large boulders that I rested on for a time, others small rocks that nonetheless gave me vital foothold on the journey downstream. All of them leading me to the point at which I now stand.
I’m excited to announce that Malcolm Ringwalt of the Earth Heart Institute of Vision and Healing is confirmed to visit Australia in November this year, to offer two profound courses that may change your life the way they did mine.
I've just returned from holding space for thirteen courageous people who walked solo into the bush at first light one morning carrying not much more than water and a sleeping bag, to sit in a small circle, fasting, praying and dancing for four days and four nights.
Nature makes you happy. I don’t need to tell you that. But what is less understood is what happens if you walk a little further down the trail. Lingering longer and oftentimes alone in wild places you may find yourself stumbling into a grove of grief; deep, unexpected and potentially disorientating.
'Rewilding' is an invitation for us to inhabit our bodies, and this ancient continent, without apology; to sink our roots deep into the red dirt and the rainforests, healing ourselves as we heal the land.

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.