An expansive exploration of rewilding land, body, mind and spirit. How can we contribute to resilient landscapes in the face of climate change and the Anthropocene? How can we be inspired by the correlations between inner and outer ecologies? How can Indigenous wisdom psychologically rewild us, re-sacralise our lives and our relationship with the Earth?

This series of conversations, hosted by Pete Yeo, reconciliation ecologist and Nature connections guide, will take place on the following dates:

Monday 21 February – ‘Rewilding the land and ourselves within a radical political framework’ with Kara Moses, rewilding facilitator. *You will receive the recording for this talk when you purchase the series.

Monday 28 February – ‘An inflamed world – as within, so without’ with Danny Shmulevitch, retreats leader and founder of The Makhad Trust.

Monday 7 March – 'Rewilding our minds and resacralising our living planet' with Monica Gagliano, evolutionary ecologist.

All events 7.30–9pm GMT

Tickets £6.50, or £15 for the series

Kara Moses is a facilitator of rewilding and socio-ecological regeneration. She is passionate about the transformation of self and society to become more deeply connected to Nature as an essential part of rewilding alongside wide-scale ecological restoration. She developed Radical Nature Connection as an approach and co-holds this strand of work at the Ecodharma and Ulex centres in the Pyrenees.

Kara delivers courses in Nature connection, rewilding, wild living skills and woodland management at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College and elsewhere, as well as a Wild Recovery programme for people in recovery from addiction. She chairs a charity that runs the 350-acre Cambrian Wildwood project, which is restoring ancient wildwood and other wild habitats, creating opportunities for accessible immersion in wild Nature.

Danny Shmulevitch grew up in the Sinai desert. He lived with the semi-nomadic Sawad tribe near his family home in Galilee, and his formative years were spent sleeping under the stars. For over two decades he worked with the Bedouin tribes to lead retreats and longer journeys in the Sinai desert, sharing how we expand when we connect deeply with ourselves in Nature.

He set up the Makhad Trust in 2002 to support the preservation of the natural heritage of the Bedouin and other nomadic communities of the world, and he led the restoration of oasis gardens throughout the Sinai region and built community wells and a school. He also worked with Indigenous communities in Tibet to restore precious murals and Mani walls.

In 2011, Danny became seriously ill with liver inflammation. It was at this point that his belief in the mind–body connection came to the fore. Rather than accept the transplant he had been offered in the UK, he persuaded specialists to allow him 24 hours in a quiet room, disconnected from medical equipment, to take charge of” his body. After seven hours the inflammation had completely subsided and eventually he returned to full health. You can read more about his experience here.

Monica Gagliano is a research associate professor in evolutionary ecology. She is currently based at the University of Sydney as a research affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute and a senior research fellow at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. She is the author of numerous scientific articles in the fields of animal and plant behavioural and evolutionary ecology, and is a co-editor of ‘The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World’ (Lexington Books, 2015), ‘The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy and Literature’ (Minnesota University Press, 2017) and ‘Memory and Learning in Plants’ (Springer, 2018). Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory and consciousness) in plants.

Monica has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments.