Claire Dunn
204. Finding a Deep Nature Connection with Claire Dunn of Nature's Apprentice
This episode originally aired on November 4th, 2022.
Today's guest is Claire Dunn, here with us to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection. Speaking to us from Melbourne, Australia, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator, and founder of Nature’s Apprentice, a platform for education and guidance in rewilding our souls and the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals in ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soul-centric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony, and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of the memoir, My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild – and the recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul exploring how we might embody wild consciousness even while living in the setting of a city.
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Topics Covered:
Rewilding as a new human movement
Cultivation of a "Wild Mind"
Claire's childhood and background in the environmental movement
How Claire's introduction to primitive earth skills led her more deeply into the human nature relationship
Richard Lou The Last Child in the Woods
Vitamin N (Nature)
Tom Brown's Tracker School in New Jersey
Australia's first Independent Wilderness Studies Program
Claire's one-year self-initiated deep nature immersion
The sacred order of survival
Bill Plotkin
Claire's emergence from her immersion, and sharing the immersion experience with the world
Nature's Apprentice
Rewilding the Urban Soul - Claire Dunn
My Year Without Matches
Jon Young's Core Routines of Nature
Common threads of people who come to Claire for instruction
What is a vision quest?
The urgency of climate change
Bringing back the species of the wild human
Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Connect with Claire:
Her website, naturesapprentice.com.au/
Claire's Books:
Rewilding the Urban Soul
My Year Without Matches
Follow her on Instagram @_natures_apprentice_
Claire's Facebook
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