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Come away with me to the dappled green wild.
Come away to the dwelling of plants and trees.
And the four-legged, the winged, the creeping, burrowing, swimming ones.
Come away to slip through the wild and gentle air,
under the arching sky, across the strong land.
Come away with me
You and your animal body
Out into the world that formed you
Across two million years.
Come away down paths less traveled
Since our modern culture drowned out
The song of the earth.
And what will you find there?
It all depends on what you come looking for …
Some peace in mind and emotions
A sense of wellbeing in a stress-filled life?
A deep attunement with the natural world
Embodied, Sensory, Unspoken?
The chance to ground yourself
Find your bearings, a new sense of self, a fresh phase in life?
Or maybe you’re trying to make sense of the civilisation we have created.
Wanting to work out your place in it
From the ground up?
Or is there yet something else
That calls you closer
To the land?
Come away with me
Out into the dappled green wild
And discover ways of knowing, being and living
That will surprise, delight and inspire.
“The major problems in the world
are the result of the difference
between how nature works
and the way people think”
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference
between how nature works and the way people think”
Come and do a workshop or a longer programme with me.
There are workshops that offer different focuses – wellbeing, nature awareness, navigating life’s phases and cultural reflection.
They all share common principles and practices as their foundation, developed over the last fifteen years. They suit different budgets and have different levels of facilities offered. Most are one day, some are multi-week, one lasts six months.
Find out more about the workshops and about me through the buttons below.
I also offer one-to-one personal development and coaching. Email me to find out more.
"a unique and wonderfully potent experience of very high quality"
I was moved and impressed by the workshop which was a multi layered experience. I am very used to this kind of experience and so was especially amazed and delighted to get so much out of it. Alistair’s mix of spiritual aptitude, philosophical knowledge, facilitation and practical skills is unusual in my experience and combined to make this a unique and wonderfully potent experience of very high quality.
Mindfulness in Nature Participant
Latest Update – Friday 26th February
Thank you so much for clicking your way to my website. I appreciate you passing by.
The big event for me in 2026 is a week long programme at the Pari Center in Tuscany in Italy. It’s called Inscendence I will be running it with a co-facititator Jonathan Code.
The flyer reads:
In a time riven by fragmentation, dislocation and conflicting narratives, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land, body and consciousness meet.
Inscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.
In resonance with Pari, its landscape, history, and community, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight, relationship and action can emerge.
Inscendence—the impulse not to rise above the world but to climb into it, to seek its core.
Thomas Berry, via Robert Macfarlane
You can read more by clicking the button:
And I also have three Nature Connection workshops at Woods Mill Nature Reserve near Henfield. The ones in March and June I am calling Part I and they will be the same popular ones I have run in recent years. The one in October will be a Part II especially for those who have done workshops with me in the past and want a refresher and to take things further. The link for this one will be up soon.
You can find out more and book the first two here:
Thank you
Alistair
about me
Hi. I am Alistair and I am endlessly curious about how we humans can “live life well”. For me, that has something to do with seeking to live life in the present moment with heart and harmony. And I have a strong conviction that we have the best chance of making sense of our lives if we rediscover a place of deep attunement with the more-than-human world. For the last 15 years, I have worked as a trainer, eco-psychologist and coach/therapist helping people explore ways of living their lives well with an open ended approach I call “a way of natural being”.
“We are human only
in contact,and conviviality,
with what is not human.”
David Abram[sape]“We are human only in contact, and conviviality,
with what is not human.”
David Abram