Education

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it”

I’ve been actively involved in the environmental education space for the last 5 years as an activist, educator and ecological designer. My work is centred around core principles of love and compassion for earth and each other. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have worked on some life-changing projects in both the UK and Kenya, ranging from designing farm approaches to environmental education, whole school transitions into ecological ways of being, nature curriculum development, community outreach, all the way through to designing a programme for the East African coast and training up facilitators to work with 10,000 children. It’s been a rollercoaster, and I hope I can offer my skills, energy and experience to yet more wonderful projects in the future!

Offerings

Holistic Consultancy

Would you like to improve or create a thriving environmental education scene in your school, community, farm or other land based project?

From navigating funding and understanding your unique challenges through to creating a bespoke design, implementing a strategy and equipping you with the necessary resources, I can support you to make this vision a reality!

Environmental Educator Training

Want to develop you or your team’s skills in environmental education? Whether you’re looking for work in this field, or already beavering away, get in touch to see if I can help.

Trainings can include:

  • Holistic Curriculum Design
  • Creative Lesson Planning
  • Awe & Wonder – uncovering our innate curiosity
  • Head, heart & hands learning
  • Whole school/organisation approaches to ecological ways of being

My first book!

‘Reconnecting Schools to Nature’ – An Environmental Education ToolBox is my first book, and is an incredibly useful companion for this field of work. From teaching methods to site infrastructure and community building, it’s based on my time working with Kivukoni School in Kenya developing a whole-school shift toward ecological ways of being.

These methodologies have been put to the test through the Kaya Project – reforesting the East African Coast with its accompanying education programme which I was asked to coordinate.

Bespoke Sessions

Want to develop you or your team’s skills in environmental education? Whether you’re looking for work in this field, or already beavering away, get in touch to see if I can help.

Common subjects include:

  • Deep Nature Connection
  • Adventures In and For Nature
  • Regenerative Farming & Soil to Fork
  • Rewilding, Biodiversity & Ecology
  • Holistic Health & Wellbeing
  • Planetary Boundaries, Climate Change & Active Hope
  • Soil, Fungi & The Interconnected Web of Life
  • Systems Thinking & Circular Energy

Gaia’s Classroom – a curriculum for change

Soon to launch is perhaps my most exciting project to-date! A whole school curriculum covering the things we desperately need to be taught in schools:

  • Understanding your local ecosystem
  • How to grow, cook & celebrate healthy food

This curriculum was made in 2023 for Kivukoni School in Kenya, and has now been trialled for a year with great success! I am currently working on adapting this to a UK context, and will be looking to make it available to other organisations shortly.

Book a call

If you’d like to discuss an idea, collaboration or any of my offerings in more detail, get in touch to book a call. I’m happy to help!

Portfolio

Kivukoni School

I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working closely with Kivukoni in Kilifi, Kenya, on everything relating to environmental education. From curriculum design, to the creation of a new eco hub, nature club, and much more. Click here to find out more.

Kaya Connect

This is a large project funded by the Darwin Initiative and run largely by BGCI and LEAF, to restore the East African coastal forest biodiversity hotspot. I was asked to coordinate the education component of the project. I trained up local environmental educators and designed a programme through which the communities and schools in and around the ancient forests have been receiving holistic, empowering and engaging environmental education, so as to protect the longevity of the restoration work and indeed the forests long into the future. Find out more here.

Wilder Warleigh Education

Over the last three years I have been designing and managing the implementation of a holistic learning programme at Warleigh Barton Farm in Devon, UK. Find out more here.

Glastonbury Nut Farm

I’ve recently been working on a project to link up schools to their local regenerative farms in the UK, and helping farmers understand how they can be paid to carry out environmental education in holistic, empowering and engaging ways, while also equipping them with the training and resources to do so.