Welcome to series 4, episode 13 of the Prompted by Nature podcast. So today is the final episode of the pod before I take a little break for the summer.

Today’s action point: Stop Jackdaw campaign are organising a week of action to push back against the approval of the Jackdaw gas field. All information about the week can be found on their website www.stopcambo.org.

Today, I’m speaking with the incredible Jackee Holder. A well seasoned walker of London streets, parks and green spaces with over 10,000 walking and writing hours under her belt, Jackee is a custodian of trees gathering stories and narratives on paper and through the spoken word to keep memories of our urban woods and forests alive. Jackee is an author, leadership and wellness coach and coach supervisor working in leadership and organisational development.

Jackee is the author of four non-fiction titles including  49 Ways To Write Yourself Well (which you can find in the PbN bookshop on bookshop.org) and Be Your Own Best Life Coach. Her published works includes the illustrated Writing With Fabulous Trees Writing Map and ReWilding The Page: Urban Forest writing maps, portable illustrated guides offer writing and journaling activities tips for connecting with nature and the environment. Jackee is currently a columnist for Psychologies magazine where she pens the Write To Flourish monthly column.

You can find out more about Jackee and her work plus buy her maps and card deck on her website www.jackeeholder.com and on her instagram @jackeeholderinspires

Conversation that would go well with this one are:

1.7 Nana Tomova, The Story Apothecary

1.8 Ian Solomon-Kawall (KMT), Biodiversity, Creativity and Safe Space in Urban Settings

4.5 Cheryl Duerden: Empathetic Forestry

4.11 Annabel Abbs, Walking into Creativity

As always, I’m over on my website www.promptedbynature.co.uk I’m on instagram @prompted.by.nature and twitter @promptedxnature

Happy listening and I’ll speak to you soon. Bye!