A year-long spiral in

embodied deep ecology

Enrolling now - February 2026

Explore belonging  through an animate ecology that reconnects inner and outer landscapes.

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Together, we will ask:

How do we heal uprooted selves and societies amidst unravelling modernity? 

Deracinated, uprooted, displaced, exiled, lost. These are common underlying experiences of the modern human. We are in turbulent times, both individually and collectively. The Anthropocene is collapsing as we realise how entangled our lives are with one another, and beyond into the more-than-human terrain. Deepen Your Roots offers a map to navigate this immense threshold. It is a map that bridges inner and outer worlds through animistic eyes and stirs us to listen, deeply, to what is being asked of us at this time.

The call is communal - join a vibrant collective of rooting ones who are ready to embody the Great Turning.

you’ve arrived, rooting one.

Perhaps you no longer inhabit the lands of your ancestors. Or you are multi-cultural with complex realities and histories. Most of us are reluctantly acclimatising to degenerating eco + social systems. Amidst a global unravelling full of terrors, with increasing oppression and polarisation, what is your role in creating a beautiful world? What are the stories preventing you from digging deeper? How can you overcome the overwhelm and entrapment of modern, fast-paced life so that you may tend to the roots of existence, belonging, aliveness and interconnection?

With ever-growing displacement, detachment and dissociative sensibilities, we call to those who yearn to dig deep and cultivate the connection, awareness and service that is needed in these times.

  • You are ready to compost un-wellness (societally, ecologically, spiritually, personally) and garden medicine for thriving life

  • You are experiencing eco-anxiety, eco + social grief, motionlessness, burnout, a lack of belonging, uprootedness, and a longing to deepen your sense of connection and purpose

  • You seek more facilitation frameworks and practices for your own work and life

  • You desire to awaken your animistic sense of interbeing

  • You yearn to cultivate community, connection and regenerative life-ways

  • You long to bridge ancient wisdom with new eyes and ideas

  • You hear the call to step into a deeper state of stewardship and leadership

  • You seek to actively rewild + localise your practices, deconstructing the prescription of mainstream monoculture

this is for you if…

with special guests

  • Alastair McIntosh

    Alastair is a Scottish writer, scholar and activist best known for his influential book Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power. His work weaves together ecology, spirituality, community empowerment and nonviolence, exploring how we might root social and environmental justice in deeper cultural and spiritual traditions. He has been a founding trustee of the GalGael Trust in Glasgow, helped secure the community land buyout of the Isle of Eigg, and has written widely on land, identity, belonging and the sacred in our times. Listen to Alastair on our podcast.

  • Mutima Imani

    Mutima is a reverend, social justice visionary and global diversity specialist devoted to healing the heart of humanity. A longtime teacher of The Work That Reconnects, she facilitates transformative processes that help communities resolve conflict, restore trust and remember their interdependence. Her work bridges spiritual practice, restorative justice and deep ecology, cultivating spaces where grief and gratitude, story and song, can return us to right relationship with one another and the living Earth.

  • Satish Kumar

    Satish is a lifelong peace activist, former Jain monk and ecological visionary. Known for his epic 8,000-mile peace walk to the world’s nuclear capitals in the 1960s, he has since inspired countless people through his teachings on simplicity, reverence for nature and nonviolence. Satish was the long-time editor of Resurgence magazine and co-founded Schumacher College in Devon, a centre for ecological learning.

  • Helene Lindmark

    Helene is a Sámi elder, therapist and cultural keeper devoted to the renewal of ancestral wisdom in our times. With roots in the Sámi reindeer herding tradition of northern Scandinavia, she works with individuals and communities to transform collective and intergenerational trauma into resilience, creativity and belonging. Through ceremony, story and embodied practice, she helps people reconnect with the living land and the deeper threads of identity that sustain us.

  • Helena Norberg-Hodge

    Helena is a linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement. She founded Local Futures and convenes World Localisation Day and the Planet Local Summit. Author of Ancient Futures and Local is Our Future, and producer of The Economics of Happiness, Planet Local and Closer to Home, her work champions cultural and biological diversity and the renewal of local economies. A recipient of the Alternative Nobel, Arthur Morgan and Goi Peace Prizes, Helena continues to inspire global movements for localisation and community resilience. Listen to Helena on our podcast.

  • Iya Tahirah Abubakr

    Tahirah is a spiritual elder, healer, teacher and storyteller rooted in ancestral traditions and community service. She has devoted her life to guiding rites of passage and tending the soul of community through ritual, story and counsel. A practitioner of African and Native American shamanism, and an initiate in training within the cosmology of the Daga people of West Africa, she brings together earth-honouring lineages of healing and remembrance. Tahirah serves as a Council Elder with the Vermont Wilderness Community, where she continues to share her wisdom in service of collective renewal and reconnection with the sacred.

  • John Seed

    John is an Australian deep ecologist, rainforest activist, writer and teacher who has worked since 1979 to protect rainforests and restore our relationship with the natural world. As founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre he has led actions, campaigns and workshops across Australia, South America, Asia and the Pacific, including co-authoring Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings with Arne Næss, Joanna Macy and Pat Fleming. He is an experienced facilitator of re-earthing processes and has received the Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to conservation and environmental consciousness. Listen to John on our podcast.

  • Louise Marra

    Louise is from the Ngai Tuhoe Maori tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand and also from several Celtic ancestral rivers - Scottish, Irish, English.  She describes herself as a braided river. She is an author, movement maker and systems healer.  Her leadership experience has spanned all sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, private sector, philanthropy and NGO sector. She has studied for many years individual, transpersonal, somatic and collective and intergenerational trauma and how these might be applied to healing systems.   She is the author and founder of the social enterprise ReRoot,  founder of Unity House , co-founder of the Pakeha Project and an associate of the Centre for Social Impact.

  • Dr Andy Letcher

    Andy is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter University and previously Schumacher College, UK, where he was 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 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). Listen to our podcast with Andy.

  • Angharad Wynne

    Angharad Wynne

    Angharad is a Welsh storyteller, place-maker, heritage specialist and speaker who draws deeply from myth, landscape and ancient wisdom. With over 25 years’ experience in Wales, the UK, Ireland and the US, she leads creative pilgrimages, retreats, mythic walking-expeditions, and programmes such as Dreaming the Land and DADENI. She weaves together folklore, poetry, archaeology and native spiritual tradition to help people reconnect with land, story and the soulful human wild. A published author and poet, she is also about to release Wise Woman: A New Mythology of Older Women (with Sharon Blackie) which celebrates the power, insight and mythic force of mid-life and beyond.

  • Jon Young

    Jon is a renowned tracker, nature-connection mentor and author whose work spans over four decades. Raised in the natural world and mentored by trackers like Tom Brown Jr. and elders from Indigenous cultures, Jon has shaped a path integrating tracking, bird-language and ancestral ways of knowing. He founded the Wilderness Awareness School in 1983 and helped develop what is now the 8 Shields mentoring model - used globally in communities, programmes and schools to restore people’s connection with the land. His books include What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World and Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature.

    • Explore the core barriers to belonging

    • Map your bioregion

    • Root in gratitude

    • Meet the ecological Self

    • Honour syncretic + bi/multicultural identity + belonging

    • Grow an understanding of Deep Ecology + co-create its evolution

    • Deepen your animistic relationship with local waterways

    • Learn about your watershed community

    • Map your inner and outer watersheds

    • Defy water appropriation

    • Explore restoration ecology + become a waterway guardian

    • Expand the ecological Self into the mycelial underworld

    • Dig to find local life-enhancing origin stories

    • Explore healing and psycho-spiritual growth as relational and rhizomatic

    • Comprehend cognition beyond the brain + build a Gaian mentality

    • Create space to express and hold your grief, both locally and globally

    • Explore reverence, love and guardianship through grief rituals

    • Honour sorrow to dissolve numbness

    • Learn grief tending practices to carry onwards

    • Recognise birdsong with animist ears

    • Deconstruct the Anthropocene through sonic remembrance

    • Apprentice with furred, feathered, barked and budded ones

    • Develop your inquiry into your mythopoetic calling

    • Deepen intimacy with the edible and medicinal beings within your bioregion

    • Folkloric foraging

    • Apprentice with a chosen ally

    • Find the songs and stories woven within the stems and roots

    • Find access routes towards local sovereign food systems

    • Deepen your understanding of current food systems

    • Localise your choices and sense of sustenance reclamation

    • Taste regenerative agriculture

    • Redefine systems of wealth and re-orientate towards thriving life

    • Find your bioregion’s more-than-human elders or liminal thresholds

    • Create earth rituals and art

    • Revive eco-bardic, folkloric wisdom

    • Connect with your ancestors + the ancestors of the land you inhabit (inc. syncretic honouring)

    • Map the constellations that will guide you home

    • Feel into the thresholds of cyclical existence

    • Read the sun + moon through ancient eyes

    • Sense coming weathers + seasons

    • Learn more about belonging from migrational beings

    • Tend to or form the hearth with which community gathers

    • Strengthen communication and authentic expression

    • Explore the significance of intergenerational togetherness

    • Develop clarity around core values and healthy structures

    • Synthesise through ritual, art + story

    • Let the land speak through you

    • Converse with trees, rivers, rocks and hollow bones

    • Feel held by the land, receptive to guidance + wisdom

    • Honour your becoming through ceremony

    • Receive guidance into planning your own nature-vigil + integrate the experience in community

    • Inhabit ancient and new songs as compasses and conduits of healing and connection

    • Go forth resourced to create or join communities who practise rooted resilience, reciprocity and regeneration

    • Find purpose and clarity on sense of direction + offerings

    • Deepen community connection and implementable collective action

    • Carry forth the ethos + work with ample opportunities

    • Build diversity, pollinating what is flowering and seeding what is possible

    • Settle into your ecological-niche + mythopoetic calling

course content

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  • "All the things I have learned so far and the way my thinking has already broadened are life changing. I feel a renewed sense of hope as well, knowing that such beautiful communities exist. Joining Deepen Your Roots was one of the best decisions of my life and I truly believe that this kind of wholesome journey is what the world really needs the most right now. This has also given me a new sense of purpose to learn more about deep ecology and right relationships and do similar work in the future. I am very grateful!"

    — River Boltos, 2025 Council

  • "I’m completely in awe of the integrity of Roni and Ben in their leadership of this extraordinary course. I recommend it to anyone who is on their journey of connection to the land, connection to themselves and to community. I am extremely grateful to them both for their precious time and dedication to this beautiful work- it really is “The Work”

    Margot Oakenby, Farmer, 2025 Council

  • "Being able to welcome in the spiral shape of this work into my body has been poignant and vital. The pieces I've been able to uncover and unearth through this different lens of body-land-soul based inquiry is beautiful and never-ending. It's been about time that an offering in the world has been accessible in an earthly, slow-paced, re-returning and remembering way. Thank you Roni, Ben & the 2024 council.”

    — Marina Delamar, Educator + Death Doula, 2024 Council

  • “Deepen Your Roots has personally and profoundly enriched my perspective on life and being human. I truly wish this name to be heard. It is an opportunity to connect with place. Your place may be your homeland, your bioregion, your ancestry, or maybe your grief, your trauma, your not-belonging… This course brings all of this under scrutiny, inviting you to consider, explore, and divine meaning. It encourages courageous connection, physical journeying and the possibility of community with others on the same journey - a worldwide murmuration of earthly beings. [DYR] is also a call to action, a plea - almost a demand - for the good of our precious, interconnected Earth: “Deepen your roots! For goodness sake!” as if an impatient Oak tree is giving advice to its flighty, agitated human student.”

    Tom Otter, Nomad Wales, 2025 Council

  • “I am so enjoying being a part of this year's programme. The range of ecological and mythopoetic topics that feel urgent in the world today is vast, and being able to explore so many of them with depth, nuance, and collective weaving within a group of like-minded people is incredibly powerful. Wholeheartedly recommended.”

    — Louisa Stewart, 2025 Council

  • “If you've ever felt that there is more to the world that surrounds you but you don't know how to access its secrets then this is the course for you. A place to deepen your relationship, love and reverence with the land that surrounds you and the beings that dwell in it. Lovingly held by Roni and Ben and with facinating guest speakers this is a truly special course that will return your investment for the rest of your life.”

    — Samantha Mennell, Founder of the Yorkshire Rewilding Network, 2024 Council

  • "The beautifully made pdfs and audios have been so wonderful to immerse in. This slow journey has been such a beautiful balm for my soul. I have moved countries twice with a short stint in my birth country (India) in between and this deep ecological journey has certainly helped me feel more rooted in my new country while also honouring and loving every place I have ever called home."

    — Ishwari Thopte, Regenerative Leadership, 2024 Council

  • "Deepen Your Roots is the space underneath it all. The longing, the grasping, it is for this. If you have tried to find your people and instead found superficial spirituality, don't despair, just dig deeper. Go down to the roots and you will find your way much clearer. Find yourself, find the others. You are not alone."

    — Lori Stevens, Crafter, 2024 Council

  • “In this program, I am slowly finding my feet again. There is an invitation to plant yourself in the soil, feel the waters that run deep, find your more than human relations and be curious as you root, one little rooting thread at a time. I love the counsel calls and listening to the audio files while on long rambling walks. Listening to other people's stories on the calls really touches me, and awakens a depth of being in resonance I love, especially as I haven't yet found that in my new home town. Each guest has awoken a thread in me that contributes to my life's integration.”

    — Siri Arti, UK Mental Health Yoga Therapist
    + Adolescent Wellness Guide, 2024 Council

  • "It is difficult to find the right words to truly express how valuable and nourishing this course has been for me. Throughout the year I felt so profoundly supported by the work and the people I came to know, I felt constantly inspired by the experiences and sharings of the group. I felt encouraged and seen, a very important part of belonging. Through the many prompts in this work, I ended up seeking out fascinating and expanding opportunities I would not have gone looking for if not for the work. I dug my roots deeper into the plant world, reminding me of my passion and desire to walk the plant path with more intention. I am so grateful and feel that much more ready to keep these parts of me alive, to keep seeking belonging, to keep engaging with the earth and to keep hope alive in a world that can feel like so much to hold. This course will definitely change your life and perspective if you give it the chance. Ben and Roni will both care for you and encourage you in their tender and vulnerable ways. One of the other members of the group mentioned how this work should be a part of school curriculums and as an educator I fully agree."

    Cara Reynolds, Educator, 2025 Council

  • "Ben & Veronica have co-created a magical course that has guided me through the depths of being and belonging. I have long yearned for a deeper connection with the earth and the land I live on, but I felt overwhelmed and unsure of where to start. The course has been beautifully structured yet allows for such intuitive flow to begin this journey. The abundance of resources, activities, guest speakers, and more have offered numerous ways to dive into the work and set the foundation for practices that you can explore for a lifetime. I'm very grateful for the course and I also send many thanks to Ben & Veronica for the space they hold and support that is offered."

    — Shaleesa Mize, Mother, US Design Entrepreneur, 2024 Council

  • "The Deepen your Roots program is deeply transformative and healing. You have the freedom to move in your own pace, yet the interconnectedness of this web and the energy of the words of the course still work through in your life. Small omens you would have missed before suddenly appear, and you later realise that it was part of the invitations of the course. Be ready to be transformed in a deeply nourishing and supportive group of likeminded souls."

    — Miriam de Graaff, Netherlands, 2024 Council

  • "Ben and Roni have held such generous and generative space for such a wise cohort of rooted ones, reverent ones, and rememberers. I've been constantly in awe of the wisdom that's gathered here--in lineage and resources, guests, and participants alike. We all have roots. This course is dedicated to deepening them, and interlacing them with the roots of other beings--including the other-than-human ones who are calling us in so many ways and from so many directions to remember that we belong. This slow weaving is the work that's needed now."

    — CdV Saizan, Conservation + Kinward Podcast host, 2024 Council

  • “Feels like there must have been 1000s of blessings from many lifetimes that led to being able to participate in this course. I’m trying to hold back the tears of joy while reading the [chapters] in a cafe.”

    — Chanell Daniels, Tech, 2024 Council

  • “Deepen Your Roots is a transformative experience. Individually, you can delve as deeply as you can bear, knowing that you are supported by a like minded tribe. There is no judgement here, just a welcoming space to unfold from the over-culture and mould into the earth and listen to her wisdom.”

    — Penny Smith, retired, 2024 Council

  • “This course has reverberated into my physical life, leading me to community gardens, creating circles, spiritual ecology and a deeper awareness of where I live. I’ve found solace and guidance in the resources, community and guests that’s guided me into relationship with the more than human world, and as a consequence, into relationship with humans in the same fields as my explorations. Though this is online, it provides a global perspective with people from all over the world in community together, sharing stories of their own practices in becoming indigenous to place. This course has facilitated my connectedness to place because I went looking for this in my reality. This is an invitation to relate, remember, and initiate belonging.”

    — Hayley Frances, Poetry Therapist, 2025 Council

  • “This course has wholeheartedly enriched my year, but the best part is that the seeds planted will continue to grow and nourish me many times over in my life. Gratitude doesn't begin to explain.”

    — Niamh Murray, Founder of Enviromentality, 2025 Council

  • “Deepen your roots does not work on the obvious, the visible level. Like its name, way more work is done below, within, unconsciously, when working through the beautifully created course material for each moon. And letting it guide you through each cycle with curiosity and open eyes within your current place - and without overthinking the “getting it done.”

    — Leon Bucher, Regenerative Land Manager, 2024 Council

you’ll receive

  • 13 inspiring ‘roundhouse’ council calls

  • 11 special guest workshops

  • 13 printable PDF + immersive audio course chapters (for life)

  • Community of support inc. additional sharing circles + ample community workshops and sessions from the cohort

  • Guidance for your research

  • Practical skills (facilitation + leadership frameworks + practices, foraging, crafting)

  • A thriving shared research forum

  • Signposts to an array of supportive resources

  • An in-depth exploration of yourself, your bioregion and your calling

  • Support with emergent projects

  • Opportunities to be seen and heard (podcast, journal etc); earn your investment back + carry forth the work (see FAQs)

  • A strong sense of resource + inspiration to bring forth your unique medicine + vision

  • A tried and tested map toward belonging

core elements

  • The Work That Reconnects

    We will move through a year-long slow spiral of Joanna Macy's transformative framework designed to help you + your community heal from eco + social crises, empowering renewed embodied action.

  • Bioregionalism + Localisation

    An ecological + cultural philosophy that sees inhabiting (and tending to) the natural characteristics + blurred-edged boundaries of the specific geographic area you root into as a life-enhancing pathway.

  • Embodiment

    This programme (re)entangles inner and outer landscapes, inspiring deep re-inhabition of place through an embodied apprenticeship with the land-community around you (and within you).

  • Animism

    Weaving ancestral, earth-centric practices and perspectives is vital in our re-membering of an animate, expressive world, re-attuning our human senses to the more-than-human terrain.

  • The Ecological Self

    The Ecological Self is the view of self from within a biocentric society. It is an expanded view of Self that moves in concentric circles, eventually encompassing all life as part of oneSelf.

  • Deep Ecology

    A philosophy (or environmentalism) that sees organisms + relationships in nature as dependently co-arising, where all life should flourish beyond the anthropocene.

for a deeper psychedelic integration…

This programme also acts as a colossal psychedelic integration that embodies the common biophilic expansion and transmission granted by entheogenic encounters.  The content and councils will help you ground these experiences into embodiment, action and long-lasting healing and connection.  We recognise the pathway psychedelics provide to this work and will honour your process if you wish to combine this course in such a way.

This does not end after 13-moons. In fact, you will have the opportunity to spiral through another year as a community leader. As a participant, you work towards lifetime status as a bioregional guardian; a keeper of the wisdom, knowledge and forgotten secrets of the land on which you live.

Throughout the programme, you will have the opportunity to explore and develop offerings to nourish your ecological-niche. What is it that your land-community longs for? What seeds will you plant in this life, for the many generations (human and non-human) to come?

a multi-generational calling

SAVE YOUR SPOT

hosted by Roni + Ben

Nestled in the healing arts and regenerative community farm life, Roni weaves her love for embodiment, land, animals, plants, ceremony + song into explorations of connection, healing and growth.  She founded Rooted Healing in 2021 as an emergence from a radical unlearning journey immersed in Indigenous healing traditions.  Roni’s MSc in Transpersonal Psychology focused on ecofeminism, consciousness beyond the brain, root causes of cultural amnesia, interspecies communication and a thesis in the role of ceremony + ritual in contemporary psilocybin use.  Her earlier background in professional theatre continues to guide her work, where she carries reverence for the power of story, music, expression, catharsis + play.  She is delving into holistic land management skills, ancestral crafts and localised life-ways. Listen to Roni + Ben discuss the course + bioregional life-ways on the Rooted Healing podcast.

Ben is a facilitator, gardener + gatherer living in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia), North Wales, offering the creation of wild-culture gardens + the pollination of foraging for food, medicine + connection to place. He holds a PGDip in Sustainable Food + Natural Resources + a BA in Philosophy, Religion and Spanish. His group work stems from 'The Work That Reconnects' and contemporary Rites of Passage (vision quest), where he undertook two trainings in the art of facilitation for transformation. He now facilitates programmes in Deep Ecology/Bioregionalism, foraging, wild-cultured gardening and initiation ceremonies all guided by a deep-rooted, nature-based philosophy. He also loves to bake bread, hike + read books. Listen to Roni + Ben discuss their work and vision with previous rooting participant CdV on the Kinward podcast.

when, where, how…

  • The programme runs from Imbolc (1st February) 2026 - mid January 2027.

    Modules are released on the new moon. Our councils will follow roughly 3 days later (always on a weekday). Special guest sessions tend to be 1-2 weeks later.

    Council calls are held in the morning (9-10:30am) and evening (6-7:30pm) to cater for broader timezones + daily rhythms (these are UK times).

    Guest sessions are at similar timings - morning or evening depending on our guest’s needs, and may be 1.5 to 2 hours long.

  • Over the year, there will be 26+ live calls, all 90 minutes in length. We strongly encourage you to rest into the live component to feel connected with the community and in rhythm with the unfolding invitations.

    With every moon cycle there will be at least two core invitations into an activity within your own time, alongside reading, research and forum participation. It is up to you how deep you will go with this work and research so this course is adaptable to where you are at.

    We would encourage you to allow 6-12 hours each moon cycle for the calls, reading/listening and activities. Equally, you could end up spending much more time if Awen - the spirit of inspiration - is flowing through you!

    This journey is cultivating the fertile grounds for big change and leadership. Our council calls are but a small fragment of what is to unfold. Your active participation will require embodied research. So when it comes to making the decision about whether or not to sign up, consider your ability to commit to this journey and remain intact with our group. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out.

  • We ask you to value this life-changing programme at £1,200 for the whole year.

    Payment plans are available + must complete by February 2025.

    Bursaries are available through an application process.

    You will have the opportunity to earn back your investment (+ more, see FAQs).

FAQs

  • We align the modules with moons, rather than months, as a part of our returning to the most innate rhythms of the ecological Self. We hope that you can look to the sky to orientate yourself in the cycles of the programme.

  • All live sessions are recorded, edited (upon request) and uploaded for replay and remain in the course portal.

    We invite you to rest into the live component of the programme as much as you can as this is where a deeper alchemy of collective enquiry occurs.

    Some pieces will be edited out of replays, depending on the structure and intimacy of the live call. Any participent who shares in the live call and wishes for their share to be removed from the replay can easily request so.

  • Each module chapter is offered in both written form and audio form so you can choose which works best for you. The forum and resources may seem a lot to work through but you can really rest into the live components of the programme and decipher which invitations are accessible for you. And you are always welcome to take the programme at your own pace.

  • Yes. You will belong in this circle. Over the years, people of many ages and backgrounds have shared in this programme - from a home-schooled 17-year-old with startling wisdom, through to elders in their eighties. What binds the group is a shared willingness to listen deeply, honour difference, and walk together in learning.

    It also feels important to name what’s true. Roni and Ben, who hold this programme, are both white, cis-gendered, and carry the privileges that come with that. We are aware of the history of the healing arts and ecological spaces often being predominantly white and shaped by certain cultural lenses. We don’t claim to have solved this, but we do keep learning, unlearning and seeking accountability.

    So far, people who have joined us have included trans and queer folk, people of Romany Gypsy, Palestinian, Iranian and other POC heritage, and others who often find themselves at the edges of these kinds of spaces - alongside many white folk who also bring their own rich and varied stories. We share this not to tick boxes, but to say that we actively welcome people from all walks of life, and that our circle has been deeply enriched by this diversity.

    We do our best to:

    • hold the space with respect and humility

    • welcome and protect gender diversity

    • remain open to feedback when we get things wrong

    • name dynamics of privilege and power where they show up

    • invite a culture of care where difference is honoured and no one has to leave parts of themselves at the door

    You don’t need to be a certain kind of person, hold certain beliefs, or look a certain way to take part. What matters most is curiosity, care, and a willingness to step into community.

  • Many have asked this as many are nomads, refugees and temporary immigrants who have yet to find "home-home". The materials support rooted, uprooted or half-rooted folk, albeit, there will likely be some resistance in some of the invitations if you do not feel committed to a place, which also lays fertile grounds for enquiry, reflection, composting and growth.

    We have come to know belonging as a state rather than a destination. The programme will help you dig deep, regardless of your current sense of rootedness.

  • All course purchases are final. Since session recordings will be provided to each participant, cancellation requests will not be eligible for refunds. We appreciate your understanding and commitment to the transformative journey this programme provides.

  • The programme has been designed to get you outside and we offer a guide to make the most of the course and materials (keeping things analogue as possible etc). The live calls and forum participation involve screen time, yes, but at every step of the way we have considered ways to stay connected, tactile, embodied and inspired, so you will notice an evident increase in deep intimacy with the land you inhabit.

  • You will gain many new ideas, frameworks and practices for your own facilitation and leadership in the regenerative, therapeutic movements.

    The most tangible opportunity we can provide is that if you evidently partake in the programme, you will be invited back for another year to hold small supportive cohort sharing circles in exchange for full 2027 course access. Many people have celebrated the opportunity to slow-study for another year. You can also become an ambassador and have the opportunity to earn your investment back (and more) by sharing the course with your community through a "cross-pollination" profit share.

    Through a celebration of your research, we may also invite you to write an article for our journal, to speak on the podcast and to be featured in the bioregional map and movement we are weaving into existence.

    You will be able to carry forth the work, with ample inspiration of facilitation frameworks and practices.

    We will actively support and uplift your voice and offerings through our various platforms and through the network you create with your cohort.

    Many ideas and offerings are likely to arise from the soils of the programme, which will be nurtured as your "mythopoetic calling" or "ecological niche". We have seen participants connect their village, start their own eco/social projects, inspiring columns, gatherings, authoring books... You may also feel inspired to birth creative movements or activism, or to transform your life in a harmony of rest + service.

    The calls with the special guests are usually small and intimate, seeding broader connections.

    The ripples from this work + rest together are immeasurable, but we are certain of their potency. Here lies the opportunity to live your life more fully, to dig deep and feel majestically interconnected within the web of life.

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“I’m much more interested in ensoilment than ensoulment. I want to have actual roots. I want my spirituality to have fur, pheromones, funk. I want it to live in a specific place. And I want it to teach me intimately how to be dynamically present and useful to my ecosystem. And I want to tell people that healing isn’t about completion. And it isn’t about lightness. It’s about the mixing bowl where nothing is exiled, everything is included. In order to grow a garden, you need manure. You need compost. In order to heal the soil, you don’t clean it, you add to it.”

— Sophie Strand, 2024 + 2025 Special Guest

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Ancient woodland, wildflower meadows and endangered species are sponsored with the future forest company every time you join us at a gathering or on a course.

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

DEEPEN YOUR ROOTS