Earth Time: Into the Wild World
What is it to live an unmediated life? A life in direct contact with the physical, wild world, rather than through the intermediary of our devices?
Earth Time: Into the Wild World is an invitation to step out of screen life and into real life. Into the wild, sensual and fascinating world of nature, humans, and real connection. Here we awaken our ancient capacities for intuition, enchantment, adventure, discovery, wonder, joy, and the beauty of small things.
This program is born of both a sadness that some of our ancient capabilities are being lost, and a passion to reclaim them. We explore such questions as: Rather than always use google maps to navigate, how might we create connections with the wild world to help us find our way? What other avenues are available to remember, integrate and embody significant moments and places and beings, than photographing or recording them? How might we learn to listen to the voices of nature and synchronicity when we have questions, and not always need to ask the internet? If it is part of our humanness to use tools, what does it look like to be in right relationship with them?
And so, through ancestral practices of deep nature connection, rewilding, deep listening and curiosity, we will start to engage in sacred, mutually beneficial ways of interacting with our natural world that are neither extractive to the landscape nor self-destructive to the human, but regenerative, restorative and enlivening.
Over the course of the day, we will:
🦋 build slow connections with real beings, human and non-human
🦋 open our senses, including our intuition
🦋 practice routines of nature observation and awareness that root us deeply in place and time
🦋 allow life to be an adventure
🦋 learn skills to replace reliance on apps and enable more time offline
🦋 learn psychospiritual and practical tools for more mindful engagement with technology
We will explore different nature connection practices as alternatives to a common app, such as:
🪶 Natural navigation and songlines (alternative to google maps)
🪶 Bird language, mimicry and multi-year mysteries (alternative to Merlin ID app or voice recorder)
🪶 Plant observation and drawing (alternative to plant ID app or camera)
🪶 Sense meditation and silence (alternative to scrolling)
🪶 Sensory opening practices to reduce reliance on sight (alternative to phone torch)
🪶 Wandering with questions and intuitive tracking (alternative to googling)
🗿 PLUS: Making peace with your phone: physical and spiritual practices for befriending your pet rock
Program info
Saturday 18th April, 9:30-3pm, Westerfolds Park
This is for adults or older teenagers. Babes in arms welcome.
This is a one day 'taster event' on a similar theme to the 9-part series Earth Time: The Lost Art of Being Human. See
https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/events/earth-time-human
Facilitator
Emily Coats
Emily Coats has been with Nature’s Apprentice since 2021 and is a facilitator of deep nature connection practices, ancestral skills and soulcentric nature-based ceremony. Recently returned from seven months alone in the wild, she brings passion for practices that awaken full sensory awareness, quieten the mind, and enliven body and Soul, and feels that a reweaving of these capabilities back into our culture is essential medicine for these times in which we live. Emily's teachers include master tracker Tom Brown Junior, nature connection expert Jon Young and Australian bird language teacher Andrew Turbill, as well as Nature's Apprentice founder Claire Dunn, who set her on this path some seven years ago.
Emily has a complex relationship with technology, having previously worked as a policy analyst researching a circular economy for consumer electronics, and as a software developer in a renewable energy company. She is an advocate of open-source software, a Linux user since 2010, and yet even as a programmer, never liked computers and wished she could write her code with pen and paper. Emily was also co-director of the UK Tar Sands Network, a grassroots organisation partnering with First Nations Canadians battling oil developments on their lands. Emily has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and a MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, both from the University of Oxford. More recently she has completed an Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, and is a trained Vision Quest Guide.
Testimonials from Earth Time 2024
“Emily has a deep knowing and understanding of the land. Her expertise in the natural environment and the means to engage organically are extraordinary. I’m pleased her guidance has led me to the profound wisdom within nature alongside the ways to continue my rewilding journey.”
—Paula Saltalamacchia
“Earth Time was a powerfully embodied learning experience. I was guided into new ways of tuning deeply inwards while at the same time strengthening my connection to the living world, with all of my senses. Our facilitator Emily (a remarkably embodied and perceptive storyteller) generously shared with us myriad ways to further belong and be in right relations with nature as a lifelong orientation, in a way that is grounded in wisdom.”
—Kim Lam
Cost:
EARLY BIRD (before Mar 19): $95
Full price: $105
Or save $20 when you purchase both this program and Wild Belonging, a day-long nature connection introduction, with Claire, Dan and Emily. See
https://www.facebook.com/events/1210625057806510/
Thanks to a generous donor, (a previous participant of Earth Time), two free places are available for those in need.
"With the world’s turmoils there is always some solace in the power and joy that nature can bring to the patient observer . Making these opportunities available to others is a little way I can help…"
If you are interested in a free place, please email
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Cover photo by Max Roux
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