Linguist, author, filmmaker + pioneer of the new economy movement, Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localisation Day + the Planet Local Summit. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures and Local is Our Future, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, of Planet Local + Closer to Home. She is the founder of the International Alliance for Localisation, and a cofounder of the International Forum on Globalisation + the Global Ecovillage Network. Helena is a recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award + the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide”. Listen to Helena on our podcast.

brontë’s work + rest is guided by the cosmology + promise of sabbath for black people + the land. As a black-latine transdisciplinary artist, trickster, educator, jíbare + wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking, abolitionist theologies, environmental regeneration, death doulaship, + the levity of absurdity. The prayer of their life is to support safe and hilarious passage through climate collapse. They serve as a creative director for Lead to Life ritual arts collective + director/educator for ancestral arts skills + nature-connection school Weaving Earth. They are currently practicing pastoral care (in an ecological and ministerial sense) as a co-steward of a land refuge in Kashia Pomo territory in northern California.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar + founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. Tyson illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cosmic order.

Li An is works towards a world with drinkable rivers and founded the charity Drinkable Rivers to raise awareness and to weave this with mobilising people for action. Li An organises river walks, citizen science and action communities, like Mayors for Drinkable Rivers. Li An walked over 18,500km for drinkable rivers and a documentary film has been made of her 1.000k walk along the Meuse River. The book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher’ was published in English in 2023. Most recently, Li An completed the Thames walk, a 4-week journey from the source in the Cotswolds to the mouth in the North Sea.

Amisha's work is deeply rooted in ritual, energy and the weave between activism, the sacred, regeneration and creativity. She creates brave and tender spaces for you to come into deeper relationship with your inner world and creative vision through her Beautiful Leadership mentoring, retreats and online spaces. She is a bridge between worlds, combining the ancient wisdom traditions of her motherland India, with all she has learnt through a life in England. Amisha is the host of the globally acclaimed podcast ALL THAT WE ARE and is the author of INTUITION: Access your inner wisdom, Trust your instincts, Find your Path + the collaborative book The Future Is Beautiful. 

Sophie is a well-loved writer who focuses on the intersections of spirituality, storytelling and ecology. She is a "neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories". Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine and her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret reroot stories that have been uprooted from their culture and place. Listen to our podcast with Sophie.

Karine is a mindfulness, embodiment + somatics teacher, + a somatic experiencing practitioner dedicated to spreading the word about healing through the body. She is the founder of the online community Rooted — “a global village healing the human family and co-imagining new ways of being”. Motherhood was a powerful catalyst for Karine’s commitment to trauma alchemy work — transforming inherited and early life trauma so that we don’t pass the same pain onto our children and the next generation. A bi-cultural black woman, she is also a cultural anthropologist working with how our present bodily and mental experience is shaped by cultural narratives and our collective histories.

Andy is a Senior Lecturer at Schumacher College, Devon UK, where he is the Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology. He is the author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, and numerous papers on psychedelics, ecology, animism and paganism. Andy has doctorates in Ecology (from the University of Oxford) and the Study of Religion (King Alfred’s College, Winchester). He is currently researching ritual and animistic usage of psychedelics by contemporary British Druids, and the contemporary use of the Fly Agaric mushroom. He is a renowned speaker and also a folk musician (with love for English bagpipes, low whistle, and Dark Age lyre).

Leticia is a psychotherapist + educator specialising in cross-cultural communication, motivation + creativity. Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers ways to develop skills to promote social justice. Leticia brings an innovative approach to her training + facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight + change. In addition to her degrees in clinical psychology and human development, she is skilled in Action Methods, including Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed.

Gabriela is a writer, mythologist, independent scholar and teacher of ancient wisdom. Her work is focused on the revival of knowledge traditions in Europe and the Near + Middle East. Born in Spain to a Welsh mother and Spanish father, Gabriela had an unusual childhood raised in movement. She worked as a human right's defender in Ghana, Palestine, Bolivia and with Tibetan ex-political prisoners in the Himalayas. In 2012 she lived and studied with renunciant Jain nuns in the Rajasthani desert and then trained extensively with shamans in Bolivia, Peru and Britain before completing an MA in the Poetics of Imagination with mythologist Dr. Martin Shaw and poet Alice Oswald.  She travels to ancient sites and shares her findings at Under a Fig Tree.

Seth is driven by a determination to remind humans of their intrinsic relationship with the natural world. He believes passionately that the modern human is both lost and disempowered, suffering from a kind of collective amnesia about their roots - but that they have an opportunity now to reconnect with the knowledge - and the simple joy - of our indigenous ancestors. Seth's professional background is in filmmaking but more recently he decided to adapt these skills for his own brand of digital storytelling. His videos have struck an emotional chord, frequently garnering millions of views. Listen to our podcast with Seth.

It is Isla’s deepest wish to inspire and support a remembrance of what is sacred in our lives, guiding folk back home to the natural world. Isla is a renowned ceremonialist and the author of the beloved book ‘Rituals for Life’. Through offering a container for transformation, held with the deepest love and respect, Isla helps others access forgotten treasures and their innate gifts to share with the world. Isla is devoted to unearthing our indigenous roots here on Brighid's isle, and exploring how we as humans can cultivate an intimate, meaningful, reciprocal relationship with the Web of Life.

Nici is a grief worker, transformational coach and founder of The Grief Space. Through her own deep experiences of loss, she came to recognise that our modern culture has forgotten how to grieve. Over the years, Nici has been blessed to learn from great teachers, experience beautiful grief rituals and familiarise herself with traditions and practices of tending to grief. Her work is built on the foundation that grief is sacred and is a radical gateway to a deeper appreciation of life. Listen to our podcast with Nici..

Dorrie lives and works as a prolific multi-disciplinary Artist, teaching ancestral skills and traditional crafts. She is also a folkloric herbalist, forager, poet, writer, international speaker and ceremonial leader. For almost 30 years she has been initiated by and trained intimately with Indigenous women + Elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony. A Mother of three and a Grandmother of two, her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity. Dorrie is joining us in one of our bonus sessions (and is technically our 14th special guest).

Muti is a multidisciplinary immersive performance artist, musician, coach, and the founder of Ubuntu Village, curating Afrofuturistic Indigenous healing, and Village101, bringing black-led arts organisation for regenerative culture, decolonial education and artistic innovation. He helps people embody their medicine, bridging ancient wisdom into futurist visioning, harnessing creativity for social change because “it takes a village to raise a child”. Muti will be joining us to inspire innovative community projects that shake the foundations of the colonial models and demand a realness, aliveness and awareness that gives gumption and gravitas to grass roots change.

Sam has a lifelong love of nature and wildlife, and a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen. Sam works on the cutting edge of psychedelic research, and was Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Beckley Foundation, as well as a collaborator with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. Sam is a wildlife regeneration innovation leader with Ecosulis and an advocate for our work with ceremonial psilocybin retreats. His passion for ecology is infectious and enshrouded in wit and humour. Listen to our podcast with Sam.

Robin is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable, just and equal world. He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. His work has been covered by media worldwide including National Geographic and he’s been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV. Robin’s life is an embodiment of Gandhi’s philosophy, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” He believes that our actions really do matter and that as individuals, and communities we have the power to improve the world around us. We are honoured to have Robin join us to inspire food systems knowledge and Active Hope.

Born of Jamaican and Iranian descent, Andrew has been raised by parents and elders who have helped guide him towards rediscovering the ancient forms in which communities gather, heal, and grow together. For over a decade, he has been studying, learning from, and working directly with various plant teachers and their respective ceremonies. Andrew seeks to create community and art that inspires others to lead courageous, fulfilling lives. Listen to our podcast with Andrew.

Saskia is the founder of Ecofluency, a budding organisation that offers consulting, teaching and facilitation in the science, art and practical magic of Nature communication worldwide. She has a PhD in plant pathology and has held two international collaborative postdoctoral fellowships to research intuitive farming. She's also trained in Family Constellations and in the Way of the Warrior Healer. Born during apartheid in a mixed-race family, she is committed to healing the internal, ancestral and socio-cultural damage that sexism, racism and privilege (white or class-based) causes in the world. Ecofluency also promotes other human voices in the broader field of Nature communication, presenting multiple invitations into these deeper ways of knowing, for individual and collective transformation.

Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism. She is the founder of The Academy of Oracle Arts and Imaginal Community where she teaches many classes alongside other luminaries. With the loss of her Mother, Deborah, at age of 4, her desire to commune with the Unseen, the Ancestors, and those on the other side has been at the forefront of her life and what led her to Ritual as a way of Life. At the age of 17 she moved to the US and began her studies in mythology + breathwork, which led to the focus of Ancient Mystery studies, Sacred Sciences, and Earth Wisdom Traditions.