Connection Matters Podcast

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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I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

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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
 

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

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• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
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Things we talk about in this episode

• Everyone has what it takes inside them to become a song sharer
• The realisation that everyone can sing including me
• Singing needs to be for everybody
• Vision for a world in which everybody sings
• What a singing circle is like
• The voice- X factor gives us the idea we are or not a singer
• The power of the effect on children
• Sense of unity thats created by groups
• Word magic in song
• Sue Heart- Baka Beyond- singing alive-complex rhythms
• No Baka person ever said I can’t sing
• Survival skills- singing
• Singing helps in rehab centres- activities in healing- mental health and wellbeing programmes
• Research on the benefits of singing
• Taking parts of songs and putting them together creates something unique.
• Would we survive without singing?
• Mental health crisis-
• Cali White- The burning times- witches - we keep ourself small
• Tamara Jade- Song

Links mentioned in this episode

To find out more about Singing Mamas click

https://www.singingmamaschoir.com/

To get more info on Live Wild Soul Sounds Singing in Nature Retreat click

https://www.livewild.org.uk/live-wild-soul-sounds-singing-retreat/

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

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

Kate Valentine is founder and network director of Singing Mamas CIC

Kate is a registered nurse who has grown and developed the Singing Mamas movement for over a decade, reaching thousands of women. She is gifted in nurturing people, noticing the unique gifts in each woman, teasing them out, allowing people to feel their worth, find their voice and take their place as a leader.

Kates passion for singing and for songs continually deepens as the years roll on.. she feels that she is meerly scratching the surface of the treasures.. if the natural state of voices, songs and singing were woven into the fabric of our human experience.. we would recognise singing truly is for our survival.

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

• Join the Community: Be part of our growing community by signing up for my newsletter here. You'll receive updates on new episodes, resources, and exclusive offers!
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• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
• Find out more about working with me here. 

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• Don't miss out on upcoming workshops, courses, or events! Stay informed by visiting the website here for more details for details.

Things we talk about in this episode

• The Journey from disconnection to nature connection
• Pivotal moments of change and how they show up
• The Art of Mentoring
• Eight Shields Community a culture of nature connection
• Mentoring
• Conscious Eldering- James Stark- living from deep compassion and joy
• Our struggles to be human beings
• Regenerative Design in Nature Awareness RDNA
• Weaving Earth School
• Deep nature connection
• Cultural elements
• Rites of passage, Grief tending, Ancestors, Fire Quests
• How to be in relationship
• Integration
• Sacred Fire
• Jon Young
• Gratitude Ceremony
• Forest Therapy Guide Training
• People who have had a healing connection in nature and want to bring that to others.
• The long Journey of coming home to self
• The pain of living in a disconnected culture when you've had a vision of how things can be different
• Culture can shift in our life time

Links we mention in this episode

Information about all of my events is here

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

To find out more about the yearlong deep nature connection and culture repair program Bringing it Home (based on the 8 shields model) visit here

You can also find out about the lighter touch 8 Shields course Ecological Homecoming here, which focuses on the core routines of deep nature connection that are mapped onto each of the 8 directions, also co-hosted by Sky and Peter.

For more resources on the 8 Shields there is a free video mini series you can sign up for here here, there are carousel images for each direction on instagram, and you can watch free sample videos of Jon Youngs/the 8 Shields Institute 512 project here

The training program Sky talks about its here- https://weavingearth.org/about-us/

https://www.facebook.com/WeavingEarth/community

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

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

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

Sky- Maria Buitenhuis has extensive experience supporting people to deepen their connection to nature, including our own inner nature as part of the larger natural landscape. She is the co-founder of GIFT (Global Institute of Forest Therapy) and the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Aswell as designing and directing the organizations training programs, she has personally trained and mentored 100s of people to follow their passions of becoming forest therapy guides. She is currently the co-host for the Bringing it Home program, a yearlong journey of deep nature connection and culture repair based on the 8 Shields model.

As a nature connection guide, she draws on her trainings as a Work-That-Re-Connects (as founded by Joanna Macy) and an 8-Shields (a pan-cultural model for deep nature connection and cultural repair) facilitator as well as many other influences and her own on-going personal journey of remembering and embodying her most enlivened natural state of being, and continues to actively learn from indigenous cultures and wisdom-keepers,.
As a facilitator, her passion is to offer people the experience of 'coming home', that is remembering that as a human we are embedded in this complex and infinitely diverse web of life on our beautiful planet Earth. She is deeply moved and nourished by supporting and witnessing others having this embodied, innately human, experience of returning home to wholeness.

Within her nature connection work she also has a deep passion for supporting women's journeys of returning to the wisdom of their bodies through teaching fertility awareness/natural family planning and womb wellness.

Sky loves to get elemental! What makes her feel most vital is communing with the Earth in various ways, such as wild-crafting with her hands, tracking animals, wild swimming and sitting quietly and listening out on the land. She really enjoyed getting her Level 2 Track & Sign cybertracker evaluation with the San people in Namibia. She also loves to dance, to sing and catch songs, and reading and writing poetry.

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

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• Read the Blog for all the actionable tips, journal prompts and a deeper read of my thoughts and perspectives on connected self-leadership.
• Follow Me: Stay inspired and connected on social media:  Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn , Pintrest
• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
• Find out more about working with me here. 

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Links mentioned in this episode

Helpers Mentoring Society Links

https://www.helpersmentoringsociety.net/

https://www.instagram.com/helpersmentoring/

https://www.facebook.com/helpersmentor

https://helpersmentoringsociety.mykajabi.com/bisonproject

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

My personal instagram is  https://www.instagram.com/connection.matters.leona/

Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

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

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

Biography

Salvatore has 30 years of mentoring and delivery of nature-based therapies and wellness practices. He has expert knowledge and experience in both ancient indigenous and modern therapies. His focus is on techniques which increase well-being for individuals, families, and communities. He has created a codified therapeutic method drawn from experiences and knowledge. Salvatore has designed and taught over sixteen courses based on this methodology and has presented these courses and seminars in 12 countries, to over 27 different cultures.Salvatore Gencarelle is the founder and current director of Helpers Mentoring Society, an international organization dedicated to supporting the revitalization of humanity’s relationship with hope and purpose, so that all life thrives. 

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

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Things we talk about in this episode

• The Womens mysteries
• Jane Hardwick Collins- Moon Song
• Birth as a portal- rites of passage 
• How we as women manifest things
• Blood mysteries
• Welcome at the thresholds.
• Women In Power- Predator within
• Wild Power
• Cycles of life
• Working with the current
• Honouring and recognising the potency to take time to process, dream, vision.
• Working with the energies
• Mothers and Daughters Initiations
• Wounded past
• Samsara tanner- Doula-grandmother
• The beauty of initiation
• Moon Lodge
• Menopause the mother of all reckonings
• Its anti-carcinogenic to have a hot flush! Di we know this is an essential process?
• Min mya- under the quandong tree- aboriginal wisdom
• Autumn women, harvest queen
• The red school- learning to work with the menstrualone cycle
• Take one's own being as a place of study

Links mentioned in this episode

• https://www.findingself.co.uk/
• https://janehardwickecollings.com/
• https://www.redschool.net/about
• https://www.consciousbirthing.co.uk/users/samsara-tanner
• Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast
• Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/
• My personal instagram is  https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/
• The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

I am the mother of three lovely and very energetic children. I’m grateful to be living in a loving and supportive community where I find nourishment for my dreams and vision.

I am passionate about nourishing our connection to inner wisdom and natural energy. I have more than seventeen years experience as an acupuncturist which you can read about here - www.acupuncturesussex.co.uk.

This website is to share with you my path working with practices that serve the renewal of connection to life, inspired by my training with teachers from diverse contemporary and indigenous traditions. I am truly grateful for my years of study with Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese medicine and movement practices as a pathway to a lifelong interest in healing and an exploration into what that really means.

The first thread that took me from working exclusively with acupuncture and bodywork and beginning to explore honouring rites of passage and recognising the value of attending to our cycles was working with birth as a doula.  This was a real doorway for me and a personal initiation into finding out more about my vision in life. 

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

• Join the Community: Be part of our growing community by signing up for my newsletter here. You'll receive updates on new episodes, resources, and exclusive offers!
• Read the Blog for all the actionable tips, journal prompts and a deeper read of my thoughts and perspectives on connected self-leadership.
• Follow Me: Stay inspired and connected on social media:  Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn , Pintrest
• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
• Find out more about working with me here. 

Upcoming Events:

• Don't miss out on upcoming workshops, courses, or events! Stay informed by visiting the website here for more details for details.

Things we talk about in this episode

• Why are there certain groups who are not connected?
• Jon's story about family and connection observations
• Research project-
• Tom Brown jar- Apache teacher
• San Bushmen of the Kalihari- oldest Culture on the planet- the cradle of connected culture
• Common Elements of connection
• Gratitude Customs
• Connection Practices
• Creation of The Art of Mentoring
• Connection is a different pathway to cognitive development/learning
• 64 Cultural Elements of connection
• Ingwe- Master /Elder Acomba- Bushmen
• Jen Wolfe
• Embodied experiences
• Looby's way into People and Permaculture
• Is there enough of us?
• One person can do so much
• Small actions big outcomes
• Activating hope
• Cultural Emergence Effective Design (CEED)

Links mentioned in this episode

https://cultural-emergence.com/

https://www.jonyoung.online/

https://loobymacnamara.com/

https://applewoodcourses.com/

https://artofmentoring.life/

http://8shields.org/

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

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

My personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/

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

Ray Johnson

Biography

Jon Young
Jon Young is the founder of the 8 Shields Institute. He is an acknowledged expert on mentoring especially with respect to deep nature connection and culture. Jon was mentored himself by numerous Native Elders from traditional cultures of Europe, Africa and North America. He is also an inspirational storyteller who has been invited all over the planet to share his vision of a truly regenerative and peaceful world. Jon is author of What the Robin Knows, and co-author of Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature. .
www.8Shields.org

Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is a pioneer of permaculture and co-founder of Cultural Emergence.
She is an author, facilitator, designer, gardener, mother. She has written 4 books; Cultural Emergence, People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity.
Looby has been deeply immersed in the permaculture movement since she came across it in 1999. She has been a trustee and chair of the Permaculture Association and is a senior diploma tutor. She has been teaching since 2002 and has run many courses including a dozen teacher trainings.
In 2016 Looby set up the Applewood Permaculture Centre with her family, where they run courses and grow food.
Looby is also part of the Mother Nature project - to support mothers in their process of personal transformation.

Jon and Looby

Jon and Looby have been collaborating since 2016. They have been working together to emerge new tools and wisdom with the Cultural Emergence toolkit. Looby also mentored the 8 Shields Institute in design. Jon and Looby have taught many courses together including Cultural Emergence Leadership Training, an online Cultural Emergence Design course and both the Activating Cultural Emergence (ACE) and Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence (PEACE) courses.

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

• Join the Community: Be part of our growing community by signing up for my newsletter here. You'll receive updates on new episodes, resources, and exclusive offers!
• Read the Blog for all the actionable tips, journal prompts and a deeper read of my thoughts and perspectives on connected self-leadership.
• Follow Me: Stay inspired and connected on social media:  Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn , Pintrest
• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
• Find out more about working with me here. 

Upcoming Events:

• Don't miss out on upcoming workshops, courses, or events! Stay informed by visiting the website here for more details for details.

Things we talk about in this episode

• How we are educated out of connection with the other than human world.
• The way language separates us
• Connective language
• Connective practices to deepen our relationships
• Relationships need to be tended
• Why we would want to open the channels of connection to plants and other beings
• Multi dimensional world
• St Johns Wort and traditional knowledge

Links mentioned in this episode

• http://klaudia.co.uk/
• www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast
• Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast
• Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/
• My personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/
• The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson

Biography
Klaudia grew up at the edge of a village in the south of the Netherlands, considering the fields her playground. An urge to garden led to creating several small gardens around the house.

Doing a degree in Environmental Science after moving to the UK and having two daughters, brought things together and she realised she couldn’t think of anything better to do than work for the environment she loved and has continued to do ever since.

In addition to the degree, she did many trainings in the fields of business, permaculture, education & teaching, facilitation, management, sustainability skills and personal development.

She gathered many skills through training and practical experience: gardening, preserving, foraging, basketry, living willow structures, strawbale and cob building, bushcraft, herbal medicine and more.

Once she started on the permaculture path, she got hooked and also started teaching and consulting on permaculture. This led to a particular social permaculture interest.

In recent years she’s been involved with Extinction Rebellion, mostly focussing on regenerative cultures and deepening her curiosity for ceremony, herbal medicine and plant connection.

Thank You for Listening!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into this episode of Connection Matters Podcast. This is my passion and where I share my hope for a better world. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast on your preferred platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and spread the message of connection, healing and growth!

Stay Connected:

• Join the Community: Be part of our growing community by signing up for my newsletter here. You'll receive updates on new episodes, resources, and exclusive offers!
• Read the Blog for all the actionable tips, journal prompts and a deeper read of my thoughts and perspectives on connected self-leadership.
• Follow Me: Stay inspired and connected on social media:  Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn , Pintrest
• Connect with Me: Have thoughts or questions about the episode? I'd love to hear from you! Reach out at [email protected]. I always respond.
• Find out more about working with me here. 

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• Don't miss out on upcoming workshops, courses, or events! Stay informed by visiting the website here for more details for details.

Links mentioned in this episode

• https://www.globalsocialleaders.com/
• www.future-foundations.co.uk
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Biography

Future Foundations’ mission is to inspire young people to achieve their full potential and become leaders in their lives and within society. Our vision is a society where all organisations are led by socially conscious people, with every young person making the transition into adulthood with the foundations they need for their future.

Amy is a proactive person motivated by the desire to empower people to be able to develop the capacity and control over the direction of their lives. This lead to her studying for a Masters in Social Anthropology and the impact of different influences on how we construct meaning in our lives. Amy works to build the capacity of young people and communities here in the UK and overseas.

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