Courses and Events

Bringing It Home

Yearlong Online Journey
Join in May or June 2024, the course runs until February 2025

Do you long to be part of an earth-based culture based on the cycles of nature and to grow more fully into a healthy, connected leader and community builder? 

Are you inspired by 8 Shields events like Art of Mentoring and Nature Culture Regeneration, or other nature-based and personal development work?

Are you looking to grow a heart led nature-based culture?

Whether you are called to leadership within yourself, your family, your community or your professional life, our courses of nature-based transformative learning will support you to bring regenerative cultural practices into your life and seed cultural healing in your communities.

Ecological Homecoming

Befriending your Place and all the Life around you
Join in May or June 2024, the course runs until February 2025

Ecological Homecoming can be taken as a standalone online training, and it is included as part of the Bringing It Home journey.

16 evening calls introducing outdoor activities to help you to connect and root more deeply to your place, and the flow of the seasons and the rest of life going through it. 

Based on the 8 Shields model of nature connection and culture repair, this yearlong journey supports you to use tried and tested core routines of deep nature connection practices where you live.

Permaculture Design Course
Tinos Island, greece

May 25th to June 8th 2024

I am returning to Tinos Ecolodge to lead my sixth PDC there, and I look forward to sharing the power of permaculture design, and exploring the brilliant eco houses, water systems and gardens they are developing there.

Join us for 2 weeks of connective culture and ecological inspirations, learning how to grow resilience and abundances in your life.