Dr. Saskia von Diest teaches and facilitates nature communication. She holds a PhD in plant pathology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and has deep experience communicating with plants and animals. In 2025 her organization, Ecofluency, won a Gold Award for Innovation from the EcoLogic Awards. Learn more about Ecofluency at www.ecofluency.org  

Hear us discuss:

• How we can open our hearts to deeply interacting with all life on Earth and gracefully support other people who are considering these methods yet drawing back in fear.
• Nature communication as a critical skill for future resilience and harmonious relationships.
• How nature communication offers a sense of belonging and relationship in a time of epidemic loneliness.
• Current researchers bringing nature communication into scientific research.
• Why “This world does not need the absence of humans: it needs our full human presence.”
• What it means for us to be a keystone species that is beneficial and even crucial on Earth.

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