By the end of this episode, you’ll walk away with fresh strategies to bring ease and clarity into even the busiest days.

Plus, don't miss the  Flow with Nature: Daily Guide to Expanding Time and Focus . It's a FREE Nature-Based Time Management Guide to help you start a nature-connection practice that can reshape your days. 

Check out the full write-up, blog post and show notes here.

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To dive deeper into these themes and explore detailed podcast notes inclduing more about Manda's new novel Any Human Power, check out my latest blog post here. 

More about Manda Scott

Manda Scott is an award-winning novelist and host of the acclaimed Accidental Gods podcast. Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards and won the McIlvanney Prize. Her latest novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a Mytho-Political thriller which lays out a Thrutopian road map to a Flourishing future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. With degrees inveterinary medicine and a Masters in Regenerative Economics, Manda’s life is oriented towards creating radical new narratives that will pave the way to the total systemic change our culture and our world needs. Any Human Power is available for sale on Amazon. Readers can connect with Manda Scott on Facebook, Bluesky, Goodreads, Instagram, and LinkedIn. 

To learn more, visit https://mandascott.co.uk/ and https://accidentalgods.life

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In this episode you’ll learn practical tools like journaling prompts, nature-based practices, and rituals for release—all designed to help you navigate and transform inherited patterns with compassion and intention. We also explore ways to tap into the strengths and wisdom of your lineage, turning ancestral connection into a source of healing.

Tune in for an inspiring conversation that invites you to reconnect with your roots and step into your fullest potential. 

And don’t forget to check out our FREE DOWNLOADABLE.pdf that offers further guidance, practices, and journaling exercises. Download it now and begin your journey of transformation!

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• Jon Young’s personal journey into nature connection and cultural mentoring
• The influence of Indigenous communities like the Bushmen of the Kalahari
• The impact and legacy of Jon’s mentor, Tom Brown Jr., and his teachings on peace, love, joy, and purpose.
• The role of sensory integration and emotional regulation in human wellbeing
• Community gatherings as a pathway to building resilience and connection
• The five sacred questions of Cultural Emergence as tools for transformation
• Practical insights and tips for integrating nature connection into everyday life

Tune in to learn more about how to deepen your connection with yourself, your community, and the natural world, and find out how you can bring these transformative practices into your life.

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In this inspiring and enriching conversation Leona and Looby talk about the Model of The Eight Shields and how following the natural patterns of flow from daily and seasonal, to life stages and their corresponding energies, can create the optimum conditions for connection, healing and growth. Using this model powerful fields of connection and emergence can occur. They discuss how entering these environments where encouragement, authenticity, joy and deep connection are designed as part of the foundational premise, can completley reset our nervouse system and enable us to return to everyday life at home resourced with tools and the deeply embodied experience of healthy culture and community. 

They discuss highlights from the PEACE (Peace, Empowerment and Cultural Emergence) programme that they run together as well as the amazing Art of Mentoring training camps that they have been part of and the Nature Culture Connection camp where they will be co-facilitaing in one of the guilds this August. 

Is it possible to actually live the dream? Is it possible to be so in tune with the feelings in your body that you have another way of truly knowing?  They believe so. 

It is difficult not to be swept up into the field of passion and the beauty of the energy of collaboration between Leona and Looby. 

Happy Listening. 

Connect with Leona

Support us on Patreon

Work with Leona - Find Out More- One-to-one life coaching, Life Compass Quest online life desion programme and live in-person events

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Podcast Music by Ray Johnson

Guest Links

Find out more about Looby at Applewood Permaculture Centre here

And about Cultural Emergence here

BOOK ONTO THE PEACE COURSE HERE- 18th-23rd June 2024

BOOK ONTO THE NATURE CULTURE CONNECTION CAMP HERE - 4th-10th August 2024

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Working with Men, We can be vulnerable, i can thrive in relationships,
• Boarding school trauma
• Life in a monastery- Falling apart and putting self back together again
• Mens work- Andy’s man club- it's ok to speak.
• The Work- Folsom Prison-
• Vulnerability is a super power.
• By talking we give permission for others to talk.
• Initiation
• Robert Blye- manhood doesn’t happen by itself.
• Mankind Project- Charity- Rites of Passage- Online and in person. - Bill Couth- Founder
• 70-80 000 men have been initiated.
• A band of Brother’s- 18-24 year olds who’ve been in care or prison
• Journey Man- Rites of Passage.
• Explorer Scouts- depends on the leaders.
• Coyotes Guide- Jon Young.
• Robert Moore- Inititation.- Safe space, ritual elder, challenge or humiliation
• Initiation Cycle/process
• Crisis
• Grief Process
• Reintegration
• Where the wound is is where you will give back to society
• What can we do?
• King, warrior, magician, lover

Connect with Leona

Support us on Patreon

Leona Johnson -One-to-one connection mentoring with Leona plus online or in-person events

Connect with me on Instagram

Live Wild website

Live Wild Instagram

Podcast Music by Ray Johnson

Guest Links

http://www.piers-cross.com

Men’s circle

Videos on You tube- attachment trauma

Podcast An evolving man

Biography

I am a transformational coach specializing in working with men who feel stuck in their relationships. I also help men overcome and heal from trauma, boarding school issues, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and live a happier and more fulfilled life.

I am also an artist, a poet and a musician.

I went to boarding school from ages 11-18. It was an exceptionally challenging time. I changed my name to Simon and then Ziggy Cross. I lost a friend to suicide, a teacher attempted to sexually abuse me and I tried to take my own life. On the surface I was a success. Underneath I was hurting.

I then trained in International Business at universities in France and London. I worked for several Fortune 500 companies in Paris and London.

In 1997, while in London, I started on an internal journey and started to study meditation and different self-healing paradigms.

In 2000, I suffered burnout through a combination of my father passing, and leaving my long-term relationship. Essentially, I became homeless for a few months. I eventually left London to work in Africa helping volunteers.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• How the mainstream medical establishment is opening to integrative medicine
• 5 Ways to wellbeing- New Economic Foundation
• Phil Hammond-What causes your health issues.
• CLANGERS Connect-Learning-Active-Noticing-Gratitude-Eating well-Resting-Sleeping
• Nature as a way to better health
• Green social prescribing
• Psychedelics- history
• Psychedelic assisted therapy
• Psychedelic well-being retreats

Connect with Leona

Support us on Patreon

Leona Johnson -One-to-one connection mentoring with Leona plus online or in-person events

Connect with me on Instagram

Live Wild website

Live Wild Instagram

Podcast Music by Ray Johnson

Biography and Links

Dr Duncan Still is a doctor, an educator and a group facilitator currently working across multiple sectors. As well as being a GP, he is an Integrative Doctor for both the National Centre for Integrative Medicine (a national body specialising in the delivery of integrative healthcare education and services) - https://ncim.org.uk/   -  and for Penny Brohn UK (a charity which provides holistic support to anyone affected by cancer)  https://www.pennybrohn.org.uk/

He has a particular interest in promoting nature as a way to health and is currently involved in a national project with NHS England and Natural England to help support GPs in bringing nature-based wellness into patients' lives.

He also works with the Psychedelic Health Professionals' (PHP) Network as Academic Director and Retreat Facilitator. He is now mostly involved in their education work, designing/delivering courses for medical students, entry-level courses for members of the public and spearheading PHP's flagship educational offering: the 1-yr Psychedelic Facilitation Education Programme. For more info https://psychedelicnetwork.org.uk/

He is a lover of Nature and Food and tries to bring both together as often as possible through foraging and picnicking!

https://ncim.org.uk/

https://www.pennybrohn.org.uk/

https://psychedelicnetwork.org.uk/

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Things we talk about in this episode

Many different ways to breath

Breath as a way to access pure presence and consciousness.

Many health and wellbeing benefits to breathing

The rise in awareness due to breathwork and technology and lockdown

A way to help us come back to our essence and connect to ourselves as natural beings, one with life.

Out of body experiences.

Creative collaborations of breath and music- drum and bass.

Trauma release.

The reality of living in a disconnected culture that doesn't teach us to feel connected to ourselves and our inner wisdom.

Water emersion and breath.

Weekly breath sessions online.

Connect with Leona

Support us on Patreon

Leona Johnson -One-to-one connection mentoring with Leona plus online or in-person events

Connect with me on Instagram

Live Wild website

Live Wild Instagram

Podcast Music by Ray Johnson

Guest Links

https://www.thesacredbreath.co.uk/about

Biography

Kerry has been connected with rebirthing breathwork since 1993 and is a certified practitioner with two different schools. She now focuses now on embodiment practices such as Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, using a trauma informed approach. Kerry is a trainer with AIR School of Breathwork and Alchemy of Breath, guiding & supporting students through deep personal processes to achieve a qualification in breathwork facilitation. She loves sharing the healing power of the breath with others, by holding retreats, weekly online group sessions, 1:1 sessions, and her deepest love, warm water rebirthing.

Kerry also co-founded and is the festival director of the UK’s first Breathwork Festival which is an annual event started in 2018, celebrating all kinds of breathwork. Kerry’s very grounded nature holds a very safe space for breather(s), holding them in their highest potential and being committed to the unfolding of each person’s own journey which of course is guided perfectly by our breath.

Kerry has recently been voted in as the National Representative for the UK with the International Breathwork Foundation, and is a practitioner member of the Global Professional Breathwork Association. She holds much gratitude for all her teachers along her path, but more so her Auntie Lynn Veitch who has been a breathwork practitioner for nearly 40 years.

Transforming unusual spaces into areas where arts can meet, inform and inspire people of all backgrounds, ages and cultures has been in Kerry’s calling from very early on. This passion for creating spaces for people to connect and inspire continued with work that sees Kerry producing an area of Glastonbury Festival for the last decade.

Kerry has also been fortunate to have experienced & trained in Focusing, EFT & Co-Active Coaching & TRE.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Living at Earth worm- radical routes housing co-op.
• Humans as interdependent beings.
• Radical Routes- National Network of intentional communities.
• The importance of supportive Networks
• Mother Nature Project- International Project- Mother Nature Card Decks and Mother Nature Circles- Personal growth.
• A global need for gathering on circles for connection, healing and growth.
• Mother Nature Journey Course. Women coming together to learn and self-facilitate.
• Mother Nature Podcast.
• Mothers as Natural Leaders.
• Nature Connection at the heart
• Cultural Emergence Courses.
• Global Community and Shared values.
• Being on the land in Applewood - magical space.
• A CEED OF PEACE Personal Empowerment Programme.
• Applewood permaculture project

Links mentioned in this episode

Please support us on patreon here- www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

If you are interested in any of the projects I’m involved in or are interested in one-to-one mentoring with me or joining my online or in-person courses then click the links below for more information.

https://linktr.ee/connection.matters.leona

I love to connect with people on my personal instagram here 

https://www.instagram.com/connection.matters.leona/

Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/

The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson

Emmas links

Courses

Leading Mother Nature Circles FREE Online Course With Emma & Looby starts 18th April 

Mothers as Natural Leaders Course at Applewood with Looby & Emma 16th-17th September 2023

Mothers As Natural Leaders Course 2023 – Applewood Courses

A CEED of PEACE Course with Looby & Leona June 2023- June 2024

A CEED of PEACE Year Long Programme – Applewood Courses

PEACE - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence Course 8th-13th August with Looby & Leona

Peace Course – Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence 2023 – Applewood Courses

ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course with Looby 30th June - 2nd July

Activating Cultural Emergence – ACE 2023 – Applewood Courses

Websites

Applewood Courses – Regenerating lifestyles, landscapes and livelihoods

https://cultural-emergence.com/

Mother Nature Homepage — Mother Nature

https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

Biography
Emma has had a varied career working for organisations supporting and creating community projects working for positive social and environmental change in the UK, including the Permaculture Association, a Women’s Centre and delivering Children and Young People's activities for borough councils. Since 2011 she has been living and working at Earthworm Housing Co-op, Herefordshire UK helping to develop their housing and land to be more environmentally sustainable where she also began her exciting mothering journey. In 2018 she joined Looby Macnamara working for Applewood Permaculture Centre. In her spare time Emma volunteers widely in her village , is on a learning journey of Cultural Emergence and is nourished by gardening, cooking vegan food and nature connection practices All these threads both manifest and feed Emma's continuing passion for creating community resilience to climate change and social inequality and bringing about positive social change

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• What is NVC?
• A consciousness, a mindset, way of being
• Compassion and connection
• Pactical tool- listening, open questions
• Clear and simple structure to help us communicate with curiosity and compassion
• Marshall Rosenburg talked about it as a spiritual practice
• A choice a way I live life
• Ahimsa- sanscrit- non-violence - a=absence of -violence
• NVC a tool of social change
• NVC being used in Bosnia, Palestine, Israel, Prisons, Rwanda.
• National group - nvc trainers for conflict within NVC community
• Restorative justice
• Conflict brings a message, not everyones needs are met, is natural and normal,
• NVC for Connection and change

Links mentioned in this episode

www.sarahludford.co.uk

www.nvc-uk.com

www.cnvc.org

PEACE (peace, empowerment and cultural emergence) Course - https://applewoodcourses.com/uk_courses/peace-retreat-2022/

The Art of Mentoring UK- https://artofmentoring.life/

Please support us on patreon here- www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

Join the connection matters podcast mailing list here.

I love to connect with people on my personal instagram here https://www.instagram.com/connection.matters.leona/

Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/

The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson https://www.soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Sarah is a certified trainer of Nonviolent Communication and works with individuals, families and organisations to increase compassion, understanding and connection.

Sarah was a founder member of the NVC UK Conflict Transformation Weave, and draws on her lived experience of co-creating a restorative system in a large cohousing project in the North of England. Website: www.sarahludford.co.uk
 

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