Connection Matters Podcast

Things we talk about in this episode

• The benefits of meditation for the different stages and ages of your family
• How and when to introduce meditation to kids
• The number one tool to come into the present moment and build mental and emotional wellbeing
• Discover how to respond versus react so you can become more present and engaged with your children
• The five parts to emotional overwhelm and triggers and how to unravel them so your needs get met and you take others off the hook
• How to build a safe emotional container and discover the gift in the centre of your difficult feelings

Links mentioned in this episode

Support us on Patreon- www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

Contact Keli- https://TheOtherSideofAverage.com

Keli's YouTube channel

Keli on Facebook

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/

Email Leona at practise- [email protected]

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

Ray Johnson

Biography

Keli is no stranger to mind, body and spirit awareness. She first started practising transcendent meditation at the age of six, when her mother took her to learn Transcendental Meditation® (TM®), she was re-certified at 25. Keli is a Chopra Center certified Transcendent Meditation (PSM®) instructor, Forgiveness Coach and Breathwork Practitioner.

Keli was recently featured as a guest speaker for The Embodiment Conference where I shared how meditation supports families and relationships to move closer to true fulfilment and happiness. Her commitment to maintaining her practice has allowed her to raise 3 beautiful children with mindfulness, overcome limiting self-concepts, heal her body of disease, accomplish pain-free childbirth and experience unity consciousness, yet Keli will be the first to attest that the practice is the path,fulfilment not the achievements.

Keli’s goal as a transformational coach is to help aware souls learn and master the three most essential tools that help align you with your soul’s purpose — your essential nature and the truest expression of yourself — all whilst healing and transcending past resentments and stories that have kept you stuck and in pain. It is then that you experience the miracles and fulfillment of life in every moment (especially during life’s inevitable obstacles). Keli is passionate about coaching women, youth and families all over the globe to feel confident, empowered and strong in the way they live their lives.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• How such words of clarity and insight come through
• Where the journey to a more spiritual perspective began
• Seeking connection and meaning
• Ingspacka- community- a place of seekers, healing, inspiring journeys, singing together sense of home.
• I’m not weird any more, people who are similar to me
• Finding a place where I was inspired welcome, home, a place personal discovery
• The feeling of coming back to ‘real life’ after feeling being in a connected community- feeling challenged by parents, society, everything
• The journey of coming home to self
• When the Songs started to come
• First song- Shedding skins
• The awakening journey
• Personal practices
• Life as a sensitive person
• Creating ceremony to manifest.- beauty-offerings- listening- gratitude
• The power of physically planting a seed and watering it.
• Trusting that all the forces are working in our favour
• The importance of putting the energy into what we create.
• Giving humility respect joy-
• If it is it in my highest good
• Devotee of the goddess
• Nordic folklore nordic shamanism - connected to the land
• Bringing our gifts to the world is a responsibility

Fia's music tracks in this episode 

Shedding Skins - Made of Stars

Time for Greatness- Waterfall of Wisdom

Pheonix- Waterfall of Wisdom

Links mentioned in this episode

• Support us on Patreon - 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 https://soundcloud.com/visionray
•    THIS IS FIA INTRO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_GoHtN66bM
•    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MqfYdygGLnHjhmXc9yDeH
•    Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/fiasmusicofficial
•    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisfiamusic
•    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisfiamusic/
•    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisisfiamusic?source=h5_m
•    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwes0uIL9yIobUL5Jo6Aew
•    Website: https://fiasmusicofficial.com/
• The spiritual healing centre Fia mentions in the podcast- https://www.angsbacka.com/

Biography

Based in the countryside north of Stockholm, Fia Forsström (known mononymously as Fia) is a folk pop singer/songwriter who with her inspirational lyrics, empowering songs, and catchy melodies quickly enchanted hearts all over world with the release of her solo debut ”Made of Stars” in 2016 which was crowdfunded together with her fans. Building a solid platform through social media and word of mouth, Fia took her place as one of the leading voices on the motivational music scene with ”Legacy of Light” (2017) and ”Waterfall of Wisdom” (2019), both of them recorded and released with the help of her loving listeners.

Fia was born in 1994 in Kista, Sweden. She began playing the oboe and writing songs at the age of 10. During her teenage years she picked up the guitar and piano being part of different ensembles while attending the music program at Westerlundska High School. She released her solo debut ”Made of Stars” in 2016 independently with the support of fans, and in 2017 Fia garnered even more widespread acclaim with the follow up ”Legacy of Light”. At this point Fia was a known name in the personal development community and her star continued to rise with ”Waterfall of Wisdom” released in 2019 which wrapped up the acoustic album trilogy.

In 2020, her music was featured in a meditation app developed by the University of California Santa Barbara Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential, bringing her songs to high school students all over the US.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Activating Cultural Emergence
• Eight Shields and Jon Young
• People and Permaculture
• Challenge and Awaken
• Connection Practices
• Move and invigorate
• There is no bin
• Disrupting patterns
• Challenge our conditioning to shift mindset.
• Designing for life from consciousness
• Who is this work for?
• What are the practical applications of it  and outcomes when people start moving to this way of thinking and being?

Links mentioned in this episode

https://loobymacnamara.com

https://applewoodcourses.com/

https://cultural-emergence.com/

Support us by going to  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 https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

I am a permaculture teacher, designer and writer. Permaculture came into my life in 1999 and awakened in me a creative life force. I have found it to be full of inspiration, magic and common sense. Permaculture has allowed me to meander on my own path supported by like-minded people, a sense of purpose and a belief that together we are bringing about positive change in the world.

One of the beauties of permaculture is that we can all use it in unique ways to enhance what we are doing already and to take us in new directions. To guide people in doing this I have written a book People & Permaculture which is the first permaculture book to look at how we can use the principles and design of permaculture in all aspects of life. The book emphasises how focusing on caring and designing for people can lead to greater and more effective planet care and repair.

In 2014 I published my second book 7 Ways to Think Differently. A concise and potent guide to shifting our personal and cultural thinking patterns towards more healthy regenerative ones.

I live in Herefordshire with my partner and two daughters. We have a stunning 20-acre smallholding – Applewood permaculture centre which is an education and demonstration centre. Most of my courses are run here. We have indoor accommodation and teaching spaces, as well as many diverse habitats including orchard, pasture, woodland, lake, gardens. Our home is also home to an abundance of birds including ravens and a parliament of owls that talk across the valley.

Since 2016 I have been working closely with Jon Young (founder of 8 Shields Institue) on the Cultural Emergence Project – finding news ways to facilitate cultural change. I have just released my latest book Cultural Emergence (available from https://cultural-emergence.com/) 

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Remembering our ancestors and the rich tapestry that has gone before us.
• What practices support us when times are hard.
• How do people manage to uphold dignity and connection in times of extreme hardship
• Jordan hall, Jaimie Wheal -Self-organising networks
• Jem Bendel- We are in Climate crisis
• What is resiliency and how do we create it and maintain it in self and in society
• What is generosity of spirit
• Powerlessness, separation and scarcity- Miki Kashtan- Non-Violent Communication
• Gratitude 
• Embracing power, leadership, integrity and opportunity NOW
• To be the right person, in the right place, at the right time
• I am the hollow bone
• Daniel Smatenburger- Rebel Wisdom- The first generation with the capacity for species self extinction
• Rivalry is the problem- we need cooperation, compassion.
• Politics- Same bus different driver- We need a new bus.
• We are facing extinctions
• How do we find our personal sovereignty
• Be more pirate - How to be more pirate
• Accidental God programme

Links mentioned in this episode

Manda's  Website - https://mandascott.co.uk/

Manda's Podcast and Programme - https://accidentalgods.life/

 Deep Adaptation Link- https://jembendell.com/ 

Reference to Jotrdan Hall and Jamie Wheal - https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-right-now-7d9856b562f5

Rebel Wisdom- Excellent Podcast - Daniel Schmachtenberger - https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/12-film-content/sensemaking-series/585-making-sense-of-sensemaking-daniel-schmachtenberger-jamie-wheal-jordan-hall

Song link- FIA- Shedding skins - https://open.spotify.com/track/7KRXr3joGNEmGy5jBM5hlY?si=UAOPwP7yRO604N7vJc0W0g

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

Born and raised in Scotland - and still a Scot at heart - Manda has been, variously, a veterinary surgeon, veterinary anaesthetist, acupuncturist (people and animals), crime writer, columnist, blogger, economist - and author.  In between, she teaches shamanic dreaming, creative writing and concept-based dog training.

Poem Shared in the Intro

A blessing for Leaders- John O'Donohue

May you have the grace and wisdom

To act kindly, learning

To distinguish between what is

Personal and what is not

May you be hospitable to criticism.

May you never put yourself at the centre of things.

May you act not from arrogance but out of service.

May you work on yourself,

Building and refining the ways of the mind.

May you learn to cultivate the art of presence

In order to engage with those who meet you.

When someone fails or disappoints you,

May the graciousness with which you engage

Be their stairway to renewal and refinement.

May you treasure the gifts of the mind

Through reading and creative thinking

So that you continue as a servant of the frontier

Where the new will draw its enrichment of the old,

And you never become a functionary.

May you know the wisdom of deep listening

The healing of wholesome words,

The encouragement of the appreciative gaze,

The decorum of held dignity,

The springtime edge of the bleak question.

May you have a mind that loves frontiers

So that you can evoke the bright fields

That lie beyond the view of the regular eye.

May you have good friends

To mirror your blind spots.

May leadership be for you

A true adventure of growth.

John O'Donohue

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Things we talk about in this episode

• How practices make a difference
• Breath embodiment, shamanism,
• How have practices changed during lockdown
• Life- No accidents, no blame, be with what is and let the wind blow through you and
• Many Paths to connection and relationship
• Products of our ancestors beliefs and world views
• How we stay in a space of non duality and connection
• The importance of presence and integrity
• Being present with self
• Those who look outside ........., those who look inside awaken
• Accepting all the parts of ourselves
• Forgiving ourselves
• What is breathwork
• Trauma and welcoming home the fragmented parts of ourselves
• Does this thought or action make me feel good, does it contribute to the whole
• We choose - Contraction and fear or openness and love

Links mentioned in this episode

www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

http://stephmagenta.com

www.facebook.com/integrativebreath

or www.instagram.com/integrativebreath

email: [email protected]

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

Steph Magenta is Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher, licensed bodywork therapist and qualified shamanic practitioner. She has a background in research and development in relation to addiction and substance misuse.

Her work has a strong focus on healing trauma using a wide range of somatic modalities, which she uses to guide each person or group she works with, to rediscover a strong sense of wellbeing and purpose in life. Her knowledge of detox and health is supported with over 20 years of running her own juice bars and healing centres.

A mother of three grown up children, Steph is committed to raising healthy human beings who value conscious communication and integral ways of living. She has worked extensively with plant medicines, shamanism and the breath to create lifelong healing for herself and her clients.

Steph’s practice upholds an embodied, grounded, and accessible approach to health and longevity. She has journeyed long and hard through many aspects of sexual and personal expression to return to the true wisdom of the heart.

Steph is an international retreats and events leader, one to one and group work facilitator; currently based in Glastonbury, UK.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• The value of experiencing community and nature connection as a young adult
• USA- Interlocken- centre for experiential education
• Finding connection and healing. From lost teen to purposeful adult.
• Louise Chawla - Research on Significant life experiences
• Positive, meaningful and memorable experiences being a catalyst for change
• The importance of enthusiastic and significant adult mentors
• Collaboration as a driver for connection and community
• Having support/accountability but also autonomy
• The joy of writing childrens stories

Links mentioned in this episode

https://www.webekids.net/

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 https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Danny lives happily in the North of England with his partner and daughter. He spent a lot of his early adulthood living and working at a centre of Experiential Education in the USA where he discovered the power of community living, nature connection and experiential Education. Danny studied Outdoor and Environmental Education at Liverpool University and founded the Outdoor Education Project CommuniTree, directing it up until spring 2020. When Covid hit Danny and his partner Annie started a nature-based wellbeing project called We Be Kids and are currently working on this to bring free nature-based online resources to children and families to help them build connections and boost wellbeing. Danny is also a children's author, storyteller, poet, spoon carver, birdwatcher, ultra-marathon runner and homeschool Dad. 

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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

• Importance of politics in the whole of the idea of nature connection
• The journey from the indoors to the outdoors
• Last child in the woods
• The Collaboration of Outdoor Play Therapists conference
• Animal assisted therapy
• Children who show us the way.risk-averse
• Lessons from nature
• Ways to understand transitions and work through them
• Benefits of Risk
• Sanitisation of childhood - risk averse society
• When children roamed free
• Solitary play is important
• Children as teachers

Links mentioned in this episode

The collaboration of Outdoor Play Therapists https://cooptuk.com/

Email- [email protected] 

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

Ali Chown is a Play Therapist, Supervisor, Trainer and qualified and experienced Specialist Teacher for children and young people with complex BESD.

As a Play Therapist, Ali has worked with children and young people with complex behaviour, emotional and social needs (BESD), those who have experienced early childhood trauma and loss and have attachment difficulties and pupils with autism, language and communication and other complex special needs.

She is an experienced trainer and supervisor and has presented on ‘working in nature’ at the BAPT Annual Conference and Romanian Institute for Play and Drama Therapy and lectured on trauma and learning to teachers from the MYME Mobile Education Project in Myanmar (Burma).

Ali is one of the pioneers of play therapy in the outdoors. She has published two books, Play Therapy in the Outdoors (Kingsley, 2014) and The Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors (Routledge, 2017). Ali also has two chapters in the forthcoming International Handbook or Play Therapy to be published this autumn. She is the director of Phoenix Play and the co-founder of COOPT which she now facilitates. Ali lives in Dorset where she loves being outdoors, connected to nature with sea swimming, just ‘being’ on the beach, walking, camping and gardening.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Connection to our lineage and ancestors
• How to live a more intentional life
• Choosing how we want to feel and that energy we want to create rather than being fixed on specific ideas
• The importance of being able to notice and name your needs and longings
• How we can evolve from the paradigm of right and wrong into a culture of curiosity and everyone's needs matter.
• No one changes their mind just because you tell them they are wrong or they should
• Knowing thet there are many others changing the way they think and act brings hope
• The importance of surrounding yourself with good people and positive news
• How good coaching and mentoring can accelerate your personal growth exponentially

Books mentioned in this episode
A guide to the good life- William B Irvine
https://www.williambirvine.com/books

Links mentioned in this episode
https://bethcreedon.co.uk/
Support us on Patreon- 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 https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Beth worked in sustainable food for over a decade before starting and then selling an organic veg box delivery business with her husband.
She has been coaching professionally since 2009 and loves being part of the hugely inspiring conversation around connection, powerful communication and deep gratitude for all that life brings.
She has now created The Self Coach Experience. She teaches freedom seekers how to coach themselves, and enjoy their minds and lives.

Beth has coached hundreds of people over thousands of hours.

She coaches 1:1 and leads a three-month program called Mindcraft.

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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

• How do we create a nature connected culture
• Way of nature UK
• Free to learn- Peter grey
• The Visionaries- an organisation that creates nurturing school communities that support young people into healthy adulthood
• The way of council
• Adrian's old life living in London working towards having a porsh
• Engineering a village where he now lives in Tuscany
• Give up house and modern comforts for a simpler life
• Adventures
• Healthy community activities -Mens Groups, Womens groups, 5rhythms dancing, work sharing, community school
• The beauty of community the gifts of help, support
• The Net metaphor - everyone in community holds the net - when we need it the net can catch us and everyone else can hold it until you are well and able again.
• Need for digital detox
• Alternative primary school
• Mac Mcarthy The children fire
• More together than alone - Mark
• The riches and wealth to be found in the simple life

Books mentioned in this episode

• More Together than Alone- Mark Nepo
• Free To Learn - Peter Grey
• The Children Fire - MacCartney

Links mentioned in this episode

• https://www.evolvewellnesscentre.com
• http://wayofnature.co.uk
• https://thevisionaries.org.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 https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Adrian Kowal – Adrian lives off-grid in southern Tuscany, Italy, where he is growing an intentional community. He is the co-founder of Way of Nature UK and is impassioned by the alchemical reaction of combining deep relaxation processes with Rites of Passage nature connection practices. He has trained and assisted in facilitating programmes with John P. Milton, and has been leading wilderness programmes for 7 years. Adrian is also a co-founder of The Visionaries, an organisation that creates nurturing school communities that support young people into healthy adulthood. Adrian co-founded and runs Evolve, a centre for growth and wellbeing in London, for 10 years and has deep knowledge of both urban and nature-based wellness practices.

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Things we talk about in this episode

• Journey into Nature Connection
• Thomas Schorr-Kon- Trackways
• Wilderness Awareness School
• The Art of Mentoring
• The power of long term mentoring
• The Forest School Associations-  Nature Premium Campaign
• FSC- Forest School Camps
• Red Squirrel Resources

Links mentioned in this episode

www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

https://redsquirrelresources.co.uk

http://www.cultivating-curiosity.co.uk

https://www.naturepremium.org

https://www.trackways.co.uk/home

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

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

Biography

Victoria has facilitated nature connection worldwide and brings her experience of working with the 8-shields model of regenerative design connecting people to themselves, to nature and to one another since 2006. Having been introduced to wilderness philosophy and survival skills at 12 years old, a passion for nature was ignited. With deep nature connection and mentoring being an ongoing thread throughout her teens, Victoria was lucky enough to do a variety of immersion trainings both in the UK and the USA.

“Through ancient scout experiences as a teenager, I was able to expand into my less dominant senses with extended blindfold drumstalks of over an hour moving towards the sound, feel into the edges of my awareness through stealth movement missions and become aware of how I could connect to source through a variety of practices including sweat lodges, sense meditations and the simple yet profound ‘sit spot’.”

In her early 20s she founded Cultivating Curiosity and developed long term nature connection mentoring programmes for both children and adults in Sussex. A few areas of particular interest are: the power of gratitude; natural fire lighting and conscious fire tending; and the role of questions and stories in pedagogy.

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