Mentoring for Gifts: Activating the Attributes of Deep Nature Connection

An Online Course October - December

With Jon Young and Claire Dunn

We all know the feeling of being out in nature totally absorbed in our experience and suddenly we’re flushed with a feeling of immense joy and happiness, of electricity and vitality in the body and mind. You’re feeling true aliveness - awake to the world and to yourself. In this state your own innate gifts naturally surface via inspiration, vision and personal confidence - the gifts of being truly you.

So how might we start to embed this state in our lives as more of a trait? A more sustained experience of being in the world? And what relationship does this experience have to surfacing ours and others’ gifts in the world?

Nature and the gifts embedded in our own true nature are intrinsically interlinked. This nine week series aims to develop our capacity to help bring forth both our own and others’ gifts in the world through exploring and practicing the routines of deep nature connection, and learning to mentor each other for the strongest connective outcomes.

About the Attributes of Connection

By understanding our relationships with the animals, plants, weather and wind, and various aspects of the natural environment around us, we actually repattern our brain and nervous system to activate what we call the attributes of connection. Working in this way, we begin to dependably unleash happiness, vitality, the ability to listen deeply, increase empathy, helpfulness, true aliveness and gratitude for life, compassion, forgiveness and the quiet mind. Find out how to integrate these attributes into your everyday experience in order to aid yourself in becoming a solid, nature-connected leader with the ability to bring these practices to others.

About Mentoring for Gifts

Surfacing of personal gifts is a deeply neurobiological process. We use the word gift here to talk about our inborn potential; our essence. It’s not an aptitude or a vocation or a skill even. When we are in full connection with each other and ourselves and nature, and we’re experiencing the attributes of connection, we are actually in our gift. It’s when we’re more ourselves than ever. You can think of mentoring (either yourself or others) as a way of drawing these gifts out by helping to draw out the attributes of connection. If you do this regularly enough, your nervous system will shift its baseline and you’ll start existing in the YOUness flow state more and more.

Structure

Nine week course with weekly classes on Tuesdays 12pm -1.45pm AEDT from Oct 5 - Dec 7. Note there is no class on Nov 30.

What to Expect

Calls will be a mix of presentations from Jon and Claire as well as break-out rooms to share stories and experiences. Calls will be recorded. Each week we will send out a video to explain and elaborate on the practice we are focusing on.

Factor in some hours each week to work with the practices between sessions.

Cost

$270 (conc)

$315 (low wage)

$360 (average wage)

This event is sold out. Email info@naturesapprentice.com.au to join the waiting list.

Facilitators bios

Jon Young

For over 40 years, Jon Young has been a leader in the field of nature-based education, implementing vital advancements in the understanding and benefits of effective nature connection modeling. Jon is a deep nature connection mentor, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, consultant, inspiring public speaker and storyteller.

Jon Young has appeared as an expert in numerous documentaries concerning nature and ecology and travels to teach widely throughout North America, Europe, Australia and southern Africa. He has authored and co-authored several seminal works on deep nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007).

Read more about Jon >> www.jonyoung.online

Claire Dunn

Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and belonging is key to regenerating wildness on the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of memoir My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild. Her recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives in Melbourne where she lovingly tends her garden, community and her own wild heart. www.naturesapprentice.com.au