art of mentoring

Things we talk about in this episode

• The Journey from disconnection to nature connection
• Pivotal moments of change and how they show up
• The Art of Mentoring
• Eight Shields Community a culture of nature connection
• Mentoring
• Conscious Eldering- James Stark- living from deep compassion and joy
• Our struggles to be human beings
• Regenerative Design in Nature Awareness RDNA
• Weaving Earth School
• Deep nature connection
• Cultural elements
• Rites of passage, Grief tending, Ancestors, Fire Quests
• How to be in relationship
• Integration
• Sacred Fire
• Jon Young
• Gratitude Ceremony
• Forest Therapy Guide Training
• People who have had a healing connection in nature and want to bring that to others.
• The long Journey of coming home to self
• The pain of living in a disconnected culture when you've had a vision of how things can be different
• Culture can shift in our life time

Links we mention in this episode

Information about all of my events is here

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To find out more about the yearlong deep nature connection and culture repair program Bringing it Home (based on the 8 shields model) visit here

You can also find out about the lighter touch 8 Shields course Ecological Homecoming here, which focuses on the core routines of deep nature connection that are mapped onto each of the 8 directions, also co-hosted by Sky and Peter.

For more resources on the 8 Shields there is a free video mini series you can sign up for here here, there are carousel images for each direction on instagram, and you can watch free sample videos of Jon Youngs/the 8 Shields Institute 512 project here

The training program Sky talks about its here- https://weavingearth.org/about-us/

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The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson https://www.soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Sky- Maria Buitenhuis has extensive experience supporting people to deepen their connection to nature, including our own inner nature as part of the larger natural landscape. She is the co-founder of GIFT (Global Institute of Forest Therapy) and the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Aswell as designing and directing the organizations training programs, she has personally trained and mentored 100s of people to follow their passions of becoming forest therapy guides. She is currently the co-host for the Bringing it Home program, a yearlong journey of deep nature connection and culture repair based on the 8 Shields model.

As a nature connection guide, she draws on her trainings as a Work-That-Re-Connects (as founded by Joanna Macy) and an 8-Shields (a pan-cultural model for deep nature connection and cultural repair) facilitator as well as many other influences and her own on-going personal journey of remembering and embodying her most enlivened natural state of being, and continues to actively learn from indigenous cultures and wisdom-keepers,.
As a facilitator, her passion is to offer people the experience of 'coming home', that is remembering that as a human we are embedded in this complex and infinitely diverse web of life on our beautiful planet Earth. She is deeply moved and nourished by supporting and witnessing others having this embodied, innately human, experience of returning home to wholeness.

Within her nature connection work she also has a deep passion for supporting women's journeys of returning to the wisdom of their bodies through teaching fertility awareness/natural family planning and womb wellness.

Sky loves to get elemental! What makes her feel most vital is communing with the Earth in various ways, such as wild-crafting with her hands, tracking animals, wild swimming and sitting quietly and listening out on the land. She really enjoyed getting her Level 2 Track & Sign cybertracker evaluation with the San people in Namibia. She also loves to dance, to sing and catch songs, and reading and writing poetry.

Things we talk about in this episode

• Why are there certain groups who are not connected?
• Jon's story about family and connection observations
• Research project-
• Tom Brown jar- Apache teacher
• San Bushmen of the Kalihari- oldest Culture on the planet- the cradle of connected culture
• Common Elements of connection
• Gratitude Customs
• Connection Practices
• Creation of The Art of Mentoring
• Connection is a different pathway to cognitive development/learning
• 64 Cultural Elements of connection
• Ingwe- Master /Elder Acomba- Bushmen
• Jen Wolfe
• Embodied experiences
• Looby's way into People and Permaculture
• Is there enough of us?
• One person can do so much
• Small actions big outcomes
• Activating hope
• Cultural Emergence Effective Design (CEED)

Links mentioned in this episode

https://cultural-emergence.com/

https://www.jonyoung.online/

https://loobymacnamara.com/

https://applewoodcourses.com/

https://artofmentoring.life/

http://8shields.org/

Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/

My personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/

The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson

Biography

Jon Young
Jon Young is the founder of the 8 Shields Institute. He is an acknowledged expert on mentoring especially with respect to deep nature connection and culture. Jon was mentored himself by numerous Native Elders from traditional cultures of Europe, Africa and North America. He is also an inspirational storyteller who has been invited all over the planet to share his vision of a truly regenerative and peaceful world. Jon is author of What the Robin Knows, and co-author of Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature. .
www.8Shields.org

Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is a pioneer of permaculture and co-founder of Cultural Emergence.
She is an author, facilitator, designer, gardener, mother. She has written 4 books; Cultural Emergence, People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity.
Looby has been deeply immersed in the permaculture movement since she came across it in 1999. She has been a trustee and chair of the Permaculture Association and is a senior diploma tutor. She has been teaching since 2002 and has run many courses including a dozen teacher trainings.
In 2016 Looby set up the Applewood Permaculture Centre with her family, where they run courses and grow food.
Looby is also part of the Mother Nature project - to support mothers in their process of personal transformation.

Jon and Looby

Jon and Looby have been collaborating since 2016. They have been working together to emerge new tools and wisdom with the Cultural Emergence toolkit. Looby also mentored the 8 Shields Institute in design. Jon and Looby have taught many courses together including Cultural Emergence Leadership Training, an online Cultural Emergence Design course and both the Activating Cultural Emergence (ACE) and Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence (PEACE) courses.

Things we talk about in this episode

• The Art of Mentoring
• Cultural Healing
• The power and magic in catching storie
• The Eight Shields Model for nature connection
• The Village- the many elements of the Art of Mentoring that make a well held and healthy, safe and happy gathering
• Grief Ceremony - a place to be witnessed, supported and to release whatever needs to move -
• Dominant Culture not connected, with natural cycles, nature, fullness of emotions
• Modern phobia’s- nature, death, difficult and strong emotions
• When we are in a safe place in a strong container, a well held space, grief naturally arises. The experience can really deepen.
• When we give time to REALLY thinking about ancestral pain, displacement, colonisation, witch hunts, the grief arises with force.
• Trauma held from ancestral lineages
• Macro- Cultural grief, history, climate
  Micro- trauma, personal grief
• Grief work, stepping stone to addressing trauma
• Things we expected but did not receive- elders, welcoming,
• The awakening- realisations from COVID-19
• Lessons from the return to simplicity- community, family, natur
• What would a culture that tends to its grief well look like? How do we tend to grief well?
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world
• Modelling and tending our own grief leads to a more authentic way of living, leads to love.
• Is Grief tending morbid and depressing?
• The good feeling that comes from tending grief- warmth, love, belonging, togetherness, beauty
• Stuckness and depressions is a sickness that comes when we cannot express our grief in a healthy way.
• Lost Connections - book
• Grief is intimate, connection, authentic, openness
• How do we tend to our own grief
  Build relationships- to an anchor, a person, being that can listen to our story
  Connection to the elements and other beings
  Water-transmuter of grief
  Trees, special places, the earth
• The earth can take the grief, rage, despair and compost it.
• Offering grief in service to life- with the intention for healing
• Grief is not self indulgent, selfish, grief is needed.
• Creating points and places of connection to life-
• Stephen Jenkinson- No need to fetishise death.
• Nature based human development
• Facets of wholeness- sub personalities
• Transitional Threshold work

Links mentioned in this episode

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Sulustu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHlBJGM-XyQ

http://8shields.org/

https://www.jonyoung.online/

https://thelostconnections.com/

https://orphanwisdom.com/

https://naturewisdom.life/

Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

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Support us here www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

Biography

I work as a Guide, Facilitator and Ceremonialist of Nature~based Wisdom, Cultural Healing and Soul Initiation.  I’m a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide and Cultural Mentor supporting people to re~member Wholeness as part of the collective initiation I believe is needed at this time and as part of the journey towards knowing our belonging to the earth and the earth community.

I am also a qualified and experienced Yoga teacher, Meditation Instructor and Somatic Movement facilitator. My encounters with the other-than-human world and tracking the journey of soul inspire me to write creatively.  I have trained in the ways of Apache Scout and Shaman, Grandfather Stalking Wolf, and I’m involved with the 8 Shields UK as a Village Builder, organising and facilitating 8 Shields programs.

I believe in the power of ceremony, community and sitting in circle for deep healing and authentic connection. My passion is in  re~membering Wholeness and finding creative ways to explore that. My joy is in tending the hearth, the garden, being with the birds. the land and spending time nurturing deeply fulfilling friendships.

Things we talk about in this episode

• Gratitude for natures power to restore
• Happiness and wellbeing
• Dan’s early experience of noticing nature
• Biophilia - we all have a natural love of life and the living world; the affinity of human beings for other life forms
• The importance of adults mentoring children in nature
• The importance for nature connection for mental health
• The beauty and miracle of nature
• Kamana naturalist training programThe benefits of nature connection, recreation and education.
• Connection first and then the knowledge and desire for the details come naturally
• The benefits of mentoring through working with passions and edges
• 'The art of mentoring' and the eight shields.
• The long term benefits of long term mentoring from childhood.
• Nature connection as a gateway to healing and belonging

Links mentioned in this episode

Dan's website including 1:1 mentoring with Dan

www.danpuplett.co.uk

Kamana Naturalist Training Programme

https://wildernessawareness.org/adult-programs/kamana

FSC Guide to British Bird Tracks and Signs by Dan Puplett

www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publications/bird-tracks-and-signs/

Facebook

www.facebook.com/danpuplettnature

Instagram

www.instagram.com/danpuplettnature/

Our website

 www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

Connect with us on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/

My personal instagram

https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/

The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson 

https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Support us on patreon

https://www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

Biography

Dan Puplett is a naturalist, conservationist and nature educator (and lifelong biophile). He is a certified tracker and teaches a range of naturalist skills including wildlife tracking, bird language, botany and nature connection. Dan mentors people of all ages, from Forest School kids to professional ecologists. He is also a Kamana Naturalist Training Programme instructor and an Associate Tutor for the Field Studies Council. He worked for rewilding charity Trees for Life for over a decade and continues his involvement with this project. Dan sometimes drools when he sees good tracks.