Walk with the Living World

Every day we pass trees, flowers, and plants. Most of us don’t truly see them.

We’ve been trained to treat green things as mechanisms, objects — resources to be managed or ignored. That way of looking is the same mechanistic story that’s pushed us toward crisis.

From cradle to grave we learn to put “nature” over there, separate from us — a place to visit, not a living kin we are entangled with. E.O. Wilson called our present age the Eremocene: an era of loneliness. That loneliness isn’t just about fewer birdsong or wilted meadows. It’s the ache of disconnection from the intelligence that moves through streams, roots and rock. We’ve lost the simple, animistic habit of reverence.

I’m not inviting a backward-looking myth. The way forward isn’t a time machine — it’s attention. Simone Weil said it best: attention is the rarest, purest form of generosity. Attention repairs the split. Attention teaches us to feel first, know second.

Imagine slowing. Not to categorise, not to collect facts — but to look and listen so closely that you recognise the agency in a plant’s posture, the way a stream negotiates a bend, the specific humour of a particular wood. This is an easy thing to describe and a hard thing to practice. Most people never make the move; they swipe, scroll, and pass by.

Wild Coaching teaches you to stop. To practice attention in the field, in the weather, in your body. It shifts perception from outside/inside to with — from “it’s over there” to “we are with this.” That shift matters for how you lead, relate, grieve, and decide.

Why choose one-to-one Wild Coaching?

• Learn to attend: practical practice for calm focus, clarity and presence in everyday life.
• Trauma-informed pacing: safe, slow work that meets what’s present in the body and the story.
• Personal ecology: explore your internal landscape next to actual landscape — patterns surface differently when you walk.
• Field-ready tools: breath, attention, small rituals, and movement that anchor you under pressure.
• Deep listening: build the capacity to hear yourself and the more-than-human world — better decisions, steadier resilience.

Why join The Fellowship (men’s retreat)?

• A held container for honest conversation, ritual, and repair among other men who want to grow, not perform.
• Shared practices: guided walks, partner exercises, and communal reflection that rewire how you relate.
• Resourcing & return: learn somatic tools to carry home — breathwork, grounding practices, and simple ceremonial acts.
• Brotherhood without bravado: courage, compassion and accountability in equal measure.
• Nature as teacher: days spent learning from place — wood, water, weather — so you can lead and live with more humility and power.

Who this is for

Men who are tired of the status quo: the numbing busy-ness, the small victories that hollow out, the sense that something essential is missing. If you want to be steadier in work, kinder in relationship, and more aligned with the living world, this work is for you.

Practical

We’ve got small, invitation-only spaces for one-to-one sessions and a limited number of Fellowship places. Next retreats: January or February — bring a mate or come alone. If you want to explore a one-to-one path first, we’ll use a short walk to map a way forward.