Podcast appearances and mentions of claire dunn

If climate reports and dystopian vibes are getting you down, this conversation with Meg Berryman might just lift you (gently) from the tiles.Meg is the host of the Regenerative Life podcast, where she holds activating and catalysing conversations about social change, sustainable business, holistic wellbeing, personal development and regeneration, creating ripples of change from the inside out.She's not only a brilliant interviewer, meeting mighty minds like Tyson Yunkaporta and Claire Dunn for the kinds of intellectual-yet-accessible chats that leave listeners awestruck, but a formidable thinker herself. We're stoked to welcome Meg for a wide-ranging convo that covers nervous system care, sitting in the magic dark, tending survival energy and watering the seeds of discontent. We discuss the perils of trying to make a positive impact out there if it's having a negative impact on you and your people. And how to go about satisfying that deep primal yearning to reconnect with self, earth and other beings. Right now, in this time of grief, confusion + frustration, Meg Berryman is pure medicine. Listen in. SHOW NOTESThe inspiration behind the Regenerative Life podcastAn unlearning journey of dropping the postures and dropping into true self.Finding the balance between the unknown + the five year plan. Challenging domesticity with wildnessRegeneration is an embodied experience; but it's not as easy as we've been sold. The things we've sold as making us happy aren't all they're cracked up to be. The agitation and restlessness we're feeling as feedback is not anything wrong with us! The lie of capitalism is that it's your problem, you need to buy something to fix you.The seeds of discontent are also the seeds of regenerationHomeostatic flux: ecosystems are constantly recalibrating according to feedback.How to reconsider + reevaluate what a good life is. We have a deep primal yearning to reconnect with ourselves, the earth, other being. That urge is continually being overidden because on some level, we assume there's something wrong with us. "It's not that I'm allergic to life, I'm allergic to the ways we've organised society and systems that are so removed from those basic primal instincts of being connected and belonging."Wisdom birthed from the bathroom floor. Epic burnout led to total breakdown led to epic recalibration.Is sheer willpower the only way to get shit done?Reframing breakdown as a period of magic dark.We've had a health and wellness paradigm for 20 years that's focussed on DOING things. But that keeps us in survival mode; it's not sustainable or regenerative. We need a whole lot of people to be regulated enough, for long enough, to make life giving decisions and make a dent in these systems.Being in conversation with questions. How do we come back to ourselves, and is that enough?Getting out of hustle culture in business. Everyone is saying, "we can't slow down because x, y, z….” It's the courageous soul chooses to interrogate that. If you're making impact out there, but that work is having a negative effect on your people in here, it's a net zero. It's not regenerative.The best gift you can give other beings is the gift of a settled system. Avoiding the one-two punch of shame and guilt.LINKS YOU'LL LOVEMy Grandmother's Hands -- Resmaa MenakemSupport the showSupport the show

In this episode of the Kate Hamilton Health Podcast, I'm thrilled to sit down with ultra-marathon runner and experienced coach, Claire Dunn.With over 20 years of running expertise under her belt, Claire brings a wealth of knowledge to the table, sharing practical advice for runners of all levels. From beginner-friendly tips to advanced endurance strategies, we dive into everything you need to know about running smarter, staying consistent, and finding joy in the journey.Claire and I talk about the mindset shifts that keep runners motivated, how to overcome common challenges, and why celebrating small wins can make a huge difference. We also explore her unique approach to nutrition for long-distance runners and the importance of tailoring your training to your personal goals.Whether you're just starting out, looking to avoid common pitfalls, or ready to tackle your first ultra, this episode is packed with actionable advice, personal stories, and inspiration to help you take your running to the next level.Episode Highlights[0:00] - Welcome to the podcast![0:12] - Meet Claire Dunn: Running coach, ultra marathoner, and endurance expert.[1:07] - Beginner running tips: How to get started and avoid common mistakes.[2:06] - Managing mindset: Staying motivated and embracing challenges.[5:12] - Overcoming beginner struggles and sticking with it.[10:21] - Why consistency matters more than perfection.[12:08] - Setting realistic goals for growth and progress.[18:33] - Exploring different running styles and finding what works for you.[24:28] - Behind the scenes of Claire's ultra-marathon experiences.[28:07] - Building mental resilience: Hallucinations, fears, and pushing through barriers.[35:21] - Why strength training is essential for every runner.[40:16] - Nutrition tips for long-distance running: Fueling for success.[47:17] - Striking the balance between weight loss and peak performance.[51:47] - Defining health holistically: What does it really mean?Links & Resources: Connect with Claire Dunn on Instagram hereIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with friends who might benefit. For more health and fitness tips, follow me on Instagram and TikTok @katehamiltonhealth.Music b LiQWYD Free download: hypeddit.com/link/xxtopb [http://hypeddit.com/link/xxtopb] Promoted by FreeMusicPromo [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbycji-eySnM3WD8mbxPUSQ] / @freemusicpromo

This episode originally aired on November 4th, 2022. Today's guest is Claire Dunn, here with us to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection. Speaking to us from Melbourne, Australia, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator, and founder of Nature's Apprentice, a platform for education and guidance in rewilding our souls and the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals in ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soul-centric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony, and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of the memoir, My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild – and the recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul exploring how we might embody wild consciousness even while living in the setting of a city. Topics Covered: Rewilding as a new human movement Cultivation of a "Wild Mind" Claire's childhood and background in the environmental movement  How Claire's introduction to primitive earth skills led her more deeply into the human nature relationship  Richard Lou The Last Child in the Woods Vitamin N (Nature)  Tom Brown's Tracker School in New Jersey Australia's first Independent Wilderness Studies Program Claire's one-year self-initiated deep nature immersion The sacred order of survival Bill Plotkin Claire's emergence from her immersion, and sharing the immersion experience with the world Nature's Apprentice Rewilding the Urban Soul - Claire Dunn My Year Without Matches Jon Young's Core Routines of Nature Common threads of people who come to Claire for instruction What is a vision quest?  The urgency of climate change Bringing back the species of the wild human Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone Connect with Claire: Her website, naturesapprentice.com.au/ Claire's Books: Rewilding the Urban Soul My Year Without Matches Follow her on Instagram @_natures_apprentice_ Claire's Facebook

This episode originally aired on November 4th, 2022. Today's guest is Claire Dunn, here with us to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection. Speaking to us from Melbourne, Australia, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator, and founder of Nature's Apprentice, a platform for education and guidance in rewilding our souls and the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals in ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soul-centric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony, and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of the memoir, My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild – and the recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul exploring how we might embody wild consciousness even while living in the setting of a city. Topics Covered: Rewilding as a new human movement Cultivation of a "Wild Mind" Claire's childhood and background in the environmental movement  How Claire's introduction to primitive earth skills led her more deeply into the human nature relationship  Richard Lou The Last Child in the Woods Vitamin N (Nature)  Tom Brown's Tracker School in New Jersey Australia's first Independent Wilderness Studies Program Claire's one-year self-initiated deep nature immersion The sacred order of survival Bill Plotkin Claire's emergence from her immersion, and sharing the immersion experience with the world Nature's Apprentice Rewilding the Urban Soul - Claire Dunn My Year Without Matches Jon Young's Core Routines of Nature Common threads of people who come to Claire for instruction What is a vision quest?  The urgency of climate change Bringing back the species of the wild human Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone Connect with Claire: Her website, naturesapprentice.com.au/ Claire's Books: Rewilding the Urban Soul My Year Without Matches Follow her on Instagram @_natures_apprentice_ Claire's Facebook

What would it be like to rely solely  on yourself, lean into ecological literacy, to really notice the changing patterns of the season & offer yourself the time it genuinely takes to live intimately with the earth . Claire  tells of her pathway to  following a calling to initiation - a need to let her social identity rot away on the forest floor & go into a place of deep introspection. Spurred by a  primal knowledge that we are living in a world with a deficit in:  nature, elders, community, ritual & skills, Claire is rewriting her story & rebuilding the culture around her to become one of eco awakening - it starts with something as basic as an intentional 'wander' or journaling & accepting awkwardness as we relearn the art of village building using pan cultural tools like rhythm, percussion, scent, song, body movement, repetition, nature noticing,Links You'll LoveNatures apprenticeMy year without matchesRewilding the urban soulJoanna Macy - Active hopeSupport the showCasual Support - Buy Me A CoffeeRegular Support - PatreonBuy the Book - Futuresteading - Live Like tomorrow mattersShow NotesSpending a year off grid, alone, connecting to her human identityTo do what I could to be a voice for the voicelessHer psyche turned towards a deep interconnectedness which heals the rift between the human soul & natureThe constant flow of the forest sees an intruding human as a benign presenceRewriting her patterns of productivity, structure, Growing from a solo wolf into a community beingWhy she never felt lonely when in the bushLearning the art of community generated & self designed ceremony which links nature & cultureVision quests - multiple days along in a wild place. A way to mark a transition that's already happening. A strong ceremony with an element of ordeal which humbles us & marks us porous to some of the quieter conversations.Deep adaptation is what we're needing. How can I live well on the land, in community with a thriving culture with wisdom around the journey of adolescence to adulthood. Reclaiming what we've lost, what we've buried but reclaiming culture in a contemporary setting.Hunter gatherers challenge - eating only what you grow, forage or barteredFeasting on community through intention, dedication, time, conflict, conversationsGrief as a community builder Sparking ourselves through rewilding - a full expression of our animus being - creativity, love, vision, vitality, quiet, deep attuned listening, Removing abstractions from our ability to connect to our life support systems - our embeddedness with the web of life“Don't ask what the world needs of us, ask what makes you come alive and go do that because what the world needs most right now is a population of people who are alive”Support the Show.

We talk to Claire Dunn, Chief Executive of the Association of Travel Agents.

It's all very well to forage weeds and track wombats, weave baskets from willow and walk barefoot cross country... but how do you stay wild in the city? With kids? With a face-sucking phone in your pocket?Claire Dunn is a good person to ask about these things, being a key figure in Australia's rewilding movement and uncommonly balanced advocate for undomestication. If you don't know Claire, she's a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature's Apprentice -- and, as hands down one of my favourite people, it was a joy to wander with Claire around the conversational compass from her personal mythology, wild motherhood to what's up with introverts? to making peace with the concrete jungle.Claire's Books:My Year Without MatchesRewilding the Urban SoulClaire's home on the web:Nature's ApprenticeNBLT ~ Nature Based Leadership TrainingJoanna Macy ~ The Work That ReconnectsJon YoungPaul Hawken ~ Blessed UnrestThe Tourist Test ~ Kamana Wilderness Awareness School

Join us on this deep journey with Rosie Cooper, a grassroots herbalist, herbal facilitator and teacher from Dja Dja Warrung country in Victoria. Rosie is passionate about assisting people to foster deeper relationships with plants, letting the plants themselves guide the process. Rosie runs wilderness rites of passage, nature quests, plant connection courses, herbal first aid workshops and medicine making workshops. She makes and sells her beautiful seasonal medicines and works a lot with wild medicines in her bio region. Hear about Rosie's meandering experience into herbal medicine, beginning with being in USA and being inspired by their grassroots herbal medicine movement, then returning home to Australia and feeling isolated and lonely without having any accessible face to face herbal medicine teachers. Often these experiences can drive people to action, as has been the case with Rosie. She loves to move with the plants in a slow way, facilitating embodies spaces which invoke deeper listening in a non academic way. In this episode we explore the importance of rites of passage for our youth coming into adulthood. About discovering what memory remains in our bones from our ancestors, combined with what is emerging in the here and now. Rosie shares her dreams for the future about herbalism coming back into common sense and seeing more people growing herbs, celebrating diversity and creating more accessibility for herbal medicine. She shares her dreams as an "introduced" person to this land, finding a deep relationship with the "introduced" plants in this land- the plants of her ancestry. Sit back with a nice cup of herbal tea and enjoy this beautiful conversation. Rosie's website:kinbotanica.com.au Instagramwww.instagram.com/kin.botanica/ Join Rosie's mailing list : https://tinyletter.com/kin_botanica Shownotes: Jim McDonald:https://www.herbcraft.org/index.htm John Gallagher/Herb Mentorhttps://learningherbs.com/herbmentor/ Kiva Rose:https://enchantersgreen.com/ Kiva Rose's online magazine 'Plant Healer'https://planthealer.org/ Join us on this :https://planthealer.org/ Rebecca Altman:https://wonderbotanica.com/ Claire Dunn:https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/ Tyson Yunkaporta's book 'Sand Talk':https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk Listen as an audiobook (recommended as Tyson is the narrator):https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Sand-Talk-Audiobook/B09DQ4F7PW Donna Raymond's book 'Maiden':https://www.booktopia.com.au/maiden--donna-raymond/book/9780645096811.html To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website at www.theeldertree.org and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here. You can join our Patreon here and gain a deeper connection to our podcast. Pay a small amount per month to have access to these resources- thanks so much for your support! You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter. Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at:  asktheeldertree@gmail.com The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music here and here.

Welcome back to the Seeking Insights Podcast! In this episodeI'm joined by Claire Dunn who is a health and fitness coach, who helps people with their relationship with food and body, but also has a very keen passion for endurance running, including ultra marathons. This was a fantastic chat with some real gold, where we covered - Setting of endurance based goals - Pitfalls to keep an eye out for during the pursuit of them. - Some mindset insights Claire has gained from her pursuit of those longer distances. If you want to check out some more from Claire then here are some links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachedbyclaireofficial/ Podcast: https://tr.ee/_P1Ph77BoH Get in touch: Email: Stu@S25coaching.co.uk Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stu.graham.s25/ Interested in an opportunity to work with me?  Head to www.s25coaching.co.uk and let's have a chat Want to read my weekly newsletter? https://stugraham.substack.com/ All of your feedback is greatly appreciated so if you are enjoying the podcast, Please leave a review, make sure your subscribed and share with a friend

Today's guest is Claire Dunn, here with us to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection. Speaking to us from Melbourne, Australia, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator, and founder of Nature's Apprentice, a platform for education and guidance in rewilding our souls and the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals in ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soul-centric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony, and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of the memoir, My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild – and the recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul exploring how we might embody wild consciousness even while living in the setting of a city. Topics Covered: Rewilding as a new human movement Cultivation of a "Wild Mind" Claire's childhood and background in the environmental movement  How Claire's introduction to primitive earth skills led her more deeply into the human nature relationship  Richard Lou The Last Child in the Woods Vitamin N (Nature)  Tom Brown's Tracker School in New Jersey Australia's first Independent Wilderness Studies Program Claire's one-year self-initiated deep nature immersion The sacred order of survival Bill Plotkin Claire's emergence from her immersion, and sharing the immersion experience with the world Nature's Apprentice Rewilding the Urban Soul - Claire Dunn My Year Without Matches John Young's Core Routines of Nature Common threads of people who come to Claire for instruction What is a vision quest?  The urgency of climate change Bringing back the species of the wild human Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone Connect with Claire: Her website, naturesapprentice.com.au/ Claire's Books: Rewilding the Urban Soul My Year Without Matches Follow her on Instagram @_natures_apprentice_ Claire's Facebook About Lady Farmer: Our Website @weareladyfarmer on Instagram Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC Leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you! Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com Get 15% off your order of all-natural plant fertilizers from BIOS Nutrients with the code LADYFARMER15. Original music by John Kingsley. The Good Dirt podcast is edited and engineered by Aleksandra van der Westhuizen and produced by Mary Ball. Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well being.

Today's guest is Claire Dunn, here with us to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection. Speaking to us from Melbourne, Australia, Claire is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator, and founder of Nature's Apprentice, a platform for education and guidance in rewilding our souls and the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals in ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soul-centric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony, and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of the memoir, My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild – and the recently released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul exploring how we might embody wild consciousness even while living in the setting of a city. Topics Covered: Rewilding as a new human movement Cultivation of a "Wild Mind" Claire's childhood and background in the environmental movement  How Claire's introduction to primitive earth skills led her more deeply into the human nature relationship  Richard Lou The Last Child in the Woods Vitamin N (Nature)  Tom Brown's Tracker School in New Jersey Australia's first Independent Wilderness Studies Program Claire's one-year self-initiated deep nature immersion The sacred order of survival Bill Plotkin Claire's emergence from her immersion, and sharing the immersion experience with the world Nature's Apprentice Rewilding the Urban Soul - Claire Dunn My Year Without Matches Jon Young's Core Routines of Nature Common threads of people who come to Claire for instruction What is a vision quest?  The urgency of climate change Bringing back the species of the wild human Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone Connect with Claire: Her website, naturesapprentice.com.au/ Claire's Books: Rewilding the Urban Soul My Year Without Matches Follow her on Instagram @_natures_apprentice_ Claire's Facebook About Lady Farmer: Our Website @weareladyfarmer on Instagram Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC Leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you! Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com This episode is Sponsored by True Leaf Market: Use our promo code: TGD10 - for $10 off an order of $50 or more (expires June 15th. Limit to one use per customer) at https://www.trueleafmarket.com/ Original music by John Kingsley. The Good Dirt podcast is edited and engineered by Aleksandra van der Westhuizen and produced by Mary Ball. Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well being.

Claire Dunn, author of the book "At Last Count" tells her life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how it has affected her life leading her into theatre and writing a book. Join us for her lively story. #clairedunn #At LastCount #ocdstories #obtrusivethoughts #invisiblewheelchair #donaldgrothoff #ocd #ocdrecovery

In this week's interview episode with Yamini Naidu, we talk about starting with fire, small talk vs big talk, being a new migrant, the power of good enough, how doubt can be a fierce friend, mentorship, the power of working in peer groups, what makes a good story, the hero & heroine's journey, realistic over blindly positive self-talk, rituals, and doing the work while letting go of expectations. Links & References: Yamini talked about Claire Dunn's book Rewilding the urban soul and the idea of 'sit spots'. Here is a link to Trent Dalton's love stories and his video explaining the creative behind it. The philosophy of Abhyāsa, a Sanskrit word, means taking a seat in the work, practice and regularity. Show up and do the work. It may be unexciting, unsexy advice, but no matter how gifted, quick thinking and spontaneous you are, you will always do better if you are well prepared.Another Sanskrit word, Vairagya means non-attachment to the outcomes. It frees you from the disappointment of your expectations. Alice stumbled on the ancient Ayurvedic practice of Abhayanga - self massage with oil! Yamini mentioned some of her writer's group and their X factor statements yesterday. Here are links to their websites. Kath Walters https://kathwalters.com.au/ Carolyn Tate https://carolyntate.co/ Di Percy https://www.dipercy.com/ Yamini's links are https://yamininaidu.com.au/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamininaidu/ Instagram @yamini.naidu For the book https://xfactor.yamininaidu.com.au/.

20 year old singer-songwriter, Presley Tennant, is a soulful powerhouse vocalist who has been compared to Whitney Houston and Carrie Underwood. She is quickly establishing herself as an American country music singer-songwriter.  Born and raised in Norco, California, also known as Horsetown USA, Presley found her roots back to country music after her incredible experience on season 16 of the “The Voice” where she earned her spot on Team Kelly.  She says, " ‘The Voice' allowed me to truly find who I am as an artist,” since then she began her pursuit in country music.       She has currently working on her debut country album, with her recent releases of “Half That Strong”, "Bite The Bullet", "Always You", "Temporary" and many more unreleased songs. In addition to her recent releases, she has been traveling back and forth from her hometown of Norco, California to Nashville, Tennessee. Working with some of the most sought out producers such as Jeff Huskins, Kent Wells, Chuck Rhodes and Buddy Hyatt.  Presley has music in the works to follow her debut country album.       While she loves writing and recording, another passion for Presley is the stage. She wows everyone in the audience when she starts to sing. She has opened up and shared the stage with some of the most respected country singers in the industry such as Kelly Clarkson, Tim Mcgraw, John Michael Montgomery, Tyler Rich, Claire Dunn, Cody Johnson, and Honey County to name a few.  Stay tuned for Presley's upcoming releases and be on the look out for this up-and-coming COUNTRY SUPERSTAR. ​Presley is a proud ambassador for the S.O.S. Foundation.  The foundation was created to help to reach at-risk youth facing mental adversities such as violence, drug abuse, bullying, and cyber-bullying.  The foundation hopes to reach specific individuals in need of mental health counseling and provide assistance with the goal: SAVE A LIFE.  

What would it be like to rely solely  on yourself, lean into ecological literacy, to really notice the changing patterns of the season & offer yourself the time it genuinely takes to live intimately with the earth . Claire  tells of her pathway to  following a calling to initiation - a need to let her social identity rot away on the forest floor & go into a place of deep introspection. Spurred by a  primal knowledge that we are living in a world with a deficit in:  nature, elders, community, ritual & skills, Claire is rewriting her story & rebuilding the culture around her to become one of eco awakening - it starts with something as basic as an intentional 'wander' or journaling & accepting awkwardness as we relearn the art of village building using pan cultural tools like rhythm, percussion, scent, song, body movement, repetition, nature noticing,Show NotesSpending a year off grid, alone, connecting to her human identityTo do what I could to be a voice for the voicelessHer psyche turned towards a deep interconnectedness which heals the rift between the human soul & natureThe constant flow of the forest sees an intruding human as a benign presenceRewriting her patterns of productivity, structure, Growing from a solo wolf into a community beingWhy she never felt lonely when in the bushLearning the art of community generated & self designed ceremony which links nature & cultureVision quests - multiple days along in a wild place. A way to mark a transition that's already happening. A strong ceremony with an element of ordeal which humbles us & marks us porous to some of the quieter conversations.Deep adaptation is what we're needing. How can I live well on the land, in community with a thriving culture with wisdom around the journey of adolescence to adulthood. Reclaiming what we've lost, what we've buried but reclaiming culture in a contemporary setting.Hunter gatherers challenge - eating only what you grow, forage or barteredFeasting on community through intention, dedication, time, conflict, conversationsGrief as a community builder Sparking ourselves through rewilding - a full expression of our animus being - creativity, love, vision, vitality, quiet, deep attuned listening, Removing abstractions from our ability to connect to our life support systems - our embeddedness with the web of life“Don't ask what the world needs of us, ask what makes you come alive and go do that because what the world needs most right now is a population of people who are alive”ReferencesNatures apprenticeMy year without matchesRewilding the urban soulJoanna Macy - Active hopePodcast partners ROCK!Hidden Sea - Wine that saves the seaNutrisoilWwoof AustraliaBuy the Book - Futuresteading - Live Like tomorrow mattersSupport the show Casual Support - Buy Me A CoffeeRegular Support - PatreonSupport the show

On this episode of Roger the Wild Child Show, we are joined by country music singer/songwriters Presley Tennant!PRESLEY TENNANT19 year old singer-songwriter, Presley Tennant, is a soulful powerhouse vocalist who has been compared to Whitney Houston and Carrie Underwood. She is quickly establishing herself as an American country music singer-songwriter.  Born and raised in Norco, California also known as Horsetown USA, Presley found her roots back to country music after her incredible experience on season 16 of the “The Voice” where she earned her spot on Team Kelly.  She says, " ‘The Voice' allowed me to truly find who I am as an artist,” since then she began her pursuit in country music.      She has currently working on her debut country album, with her recent releases of “Half That Strong”, "Bite The Bullet", "Always You", "Temporary" and many more unreleased songs. In addition to her recent releases, she has been traveling back and forth from her home town of Norco, California to Nashville, Tennessee. Working with some of the most sought out producers such as Jeff Huskins, Kent Wells, Chuck Rhodes and Buddy Hyatt.  Presley has music in the works to follow her debut country album.      While she loves writing and recording, another passion for Presley is the stage. She wows every one in the audience when she starts to sing. She has opened up and shared the stage with some of the most respected country singers in the industry such as Kelly Clarkson, Tim Mcgraw, John Michael Montgomery, Tyler Rich, Claire Dunn, Cody Johnson and Honey County to name a few.  Stay tuned for Presley's upcoming releases and be on a look out for this up and coming COUNTRY SUPERSTAR. Presley is a proud ambassador for the S.O.S. Foundation.  The foundation was created to help to reach at-risk youth facing mental adversities such as violence, drug-abuse, bullying and cyber-bullying.  The foundation hopes to reach specific individuals in need of mental health counseling and provide assistance with the goal: SAVE A LIFE.  #StandUpOwnUpSpeakUpBRANDI BEHLENDue to technical difficulties, Brandi has been rescheduled for 5/29/22*******Roger the Wild Child Show is streamed live every Sunday night 8pm ET/ 5pm PT on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The show is rebroadcasted on 20+ different podcast platforms. Each week they talk with up-and-coming artists, legends of country music and other influencers to the Nashville scene. Roger is joined by co-host Darin Scheff aka “The Feed Mill Guy”!  Plus YouTube sensation Frankie MacDonald gives the weather for around the world. Also Nashville recording artist, Elise Harper, brings us Nashville Music News! Oh, and don't miss the craziness from Moonshine Shenanigans!Check out the video/audio podcasts and the rest of our linksLinkTree https://linktr.ee/wildchildradio

Wisconsin-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Corey Wise began his journey as an artist in 2014 playing in college bars and small-town festivals. Wise became known throughout the Midwest for his high energy performances and connection to the crowd. During his time in the Midwest, Corey shared the stage with notable artists such as Chase Bryant, Chris Kroeze, and Claire Dunn.

This one's a treat for you lovers of wild lands, you who are curious about wilderness survival, my dreamers and dreamworkers, and anyone seeking out their path in a world of so many possibilities, and so many needs.I knew that in conversation with Claire Dunn - who lived alone in the bush for a year, spent almost a decade in grassroots environmental activism, has authored two books, and facilitates vision quests, re-wilding, and the Work that Reconnects - there would be so many directions we might go. And that was even before I found out she loves dreamwork.Though our time went by quickly, it was a delight to find such depth and richness in our wander. Click Play to hear us talk about:what Claire loves (there are flying foxes…) and what breaks her heart her path from childhood on a farm, to an eco-awakening as a young adult, becoming an activist, and then devoting herself to re-wildingthe choice to change her focus from "holding actions" (protecting forest and marine ecosystems) to "shift in consciousness" workClaire's time in the bush, practicing the skills of survival, and surrendering to the unknowna recent dream of mine (and being "enlivened by uncertainty")and how healing the rift between ourselves and the more-than-human world brings each of us into deeper contact with ourselves, fostering "a culture of initiated adults" who can bring their own gifts to the world.Claire Dunn is a writer, speaker, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature's Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and belonging is key to regenerating wildness on the planet. For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Claire is the author of memoir My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild. Her soon to be released memoir Rewilding the Urban Soul explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives in Melbourne where she lovingly tends her garden, community and her own wild heart.Connect with Claire, find links to books, and leave a comment at: turningseason.com/episode10

Imagine this: you live in a city or very urban environment, maybe close enough to a major highway that you can hear it, or far away enough from a space you consider a park to make heading there every day seem impossible. You can't imagine really enjoying being outside all the time where you live because it's just so not “nature.” If that sounds familiar or like it could be you, Claire Dunn is just who you need. Author of “Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City,” Claire is an Australia-based rewilding and urban nature expert who joined us to talk about what it takes to find nature wherever you are. Connect with this episode: Find Claire Dunn online Buy Claire's book (affiliate link) Find Claire on Facebook Follow Humans Outside on Instagram Join the Humans Outside Challenge

Conservationist and writer Claire Dunn in 2010 escaped to the bush for twelve months to connect again with nature and find her wild self. She wrote about this experience in My year without Matches. A few years later she returned to the city, to Melbourne, and knew she had to build a bridge between the bush and the city to survive and retain all that she learnt during her year bush. With like minded people she has found a city that offers so much within the suburban streets. In Rewidling the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city she encourages others to not only observe the fauna and flora that surrounds us but to also feel part of that nature.

In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I'm joined by best-selling author and educator, Claire Dunn, who currently resides in Naarm Melbourne in Wurundjeri country. Back in 2014, she released a book, My Year Without Matches sharing a personal story of her year on a wilderness survival program and the profound shift she experienced as she rewilded her existence, her way of thinking, and her body. Now back in the city, the city that has experienced the longest lockdown in all the world throughout this COVID period, Claire opens a new conversation - that of how to rebuild your life, right where you are. There's wilderness everywhere, inside and out.Her new book released in June called Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City is a conversation about this. I hadn't seen Claire for a couple of years, so it's been great to reconnect. I hope you enjoy this conversation.SUBSCRIBE to receive weekly episodes and leave us a lovely review - it makes a difference for the bots finding our podcast :-)  Thank you.___________________LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORLD OF PERMACULTURE WITH MORAG GAMBLEExplore Morag's permaculture films, articles, masterclasses, and other resources on Our Permaculture Life Youtube channel & blog.Find out more about the Permaculture Education Institute and become a permaculture educator. If your main interest is getting a thriving food garden set up,  take a look at this online course: The Incredible Edible Garden. _______________________Download this list of 10 of Morag's favourite books. _______________________We acknowledge the Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we dwell, and pay my respects to their elders past, present, and emerging. Host: Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education InstituteAudio: Rhiannon GambleMusic: Kim Kirkman

Hello beautiful people On today's podcast we have the beautiful Claire Dunn. Claire was a former environmental campaigner for The Wilderness Society. With growing interest in the psychology of the human-nature connection, Claire immersed herself in deep ecology, wilderness survival and nature awareness skills, rewilding, Jungian psychology, yoga, somatic psychotherapy and nature soul encounter practices. Claire offers reconnecting and rewilding workshops and retreats, and personal mentoring sessions. Claire also holds a degree in Media and Communications and has been a freelance journalist since 2001. She is the author of two books, ‘My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild' and ‘Rewilding the Urban Soul'. What I personally love about this conversation is Claire's beautiful presence and energy that she authentically embodies. In 2010, Claire embarked on a year of nature immersion, completing an Independent Wilderness Studies Program and it is in this conversation that she shares deeply about such an immersive and defining experience. Claire upon realising the distance between what she was trying to save through The Wilderness Society and the life she was living, took a leap of courage into nature and found that what she was longing for was also longing for her. Through living in the flow of nature, Claire's old trauma patterns and parts of her pain body began to reveal themselves. Her voice of self-judgement became louder and the internal fight between the ‘doer' and her new self was emerging. Claire shares about the importance of rewilding and the significant difference from rewinding, and one of my personal favourite lessons from this conversation is her concept of freedom and how this, through the absence of fear and resistance, we can experience if we so choose.Please enjoy this really beautiful conversation with the connected Claire Dunn. Connect with MeMindset Coaching | https://www.jennahlouise.com.auInstagram Personal | https://www.instagram.com/jennah_louiseConnect with Claire Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/Natures-Apprentice-634163346731221 Website | https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au

If climate reports and dystopian vibes are getting you down, this conversation with Meg Berryman might just lift you (gently) from the tiles.Meg is the host of the Regenerative Life podcast, where she holds activating and catalysing conversations about social change, sustainable business, holistic wellbeing, personal development and regeneration, creating ripples of change from the inside out.She's not only a brilliant interviewer, meeting mighty minds like Tyson Yunkaporta and Claire Dunn for the kinds of intellectual-yet-accessible chats that leave listeners awestruck, but a formidable thinker herself. We're stoked to welcome Meg for a wide-ranging convo that covers nervous system care, sitting in the magic dark, tending survival energy and watering the seeds of discontent. We discuss the perils of trying to make a positive impact out there if it's having a negative impact on you and your people. And how to go about satisfying that deep primal yearning to reconnect with self, earth and other beings. Right now, in this time of grief, confusion + frustration, Meg Berryman is pure medicine. Listen in. SHOW NOTESThe inspiration behind the Regenerative Life podcastAn unlearning journey of dropping the postures and dropping into true self.Finding the balance between the unknown + the five year plan. Challenging domesticity with wildnessRegeneration is an embodied experience; but it's not as easy as we've been sold. The things we've sold as making us happy aren't all they're cracked up to be. The agitation and restlessness we're feeling as feedback is not anything wrong with us! The lie of capitalism is that it's your problem, you need to buy something to fix you.The seeds of discontent are also the seeds of regenerationHomeostatic flux: ecosystems are constantly recalibrating according to feedback.How to reconsider + reevaluate what a good life is. We have a deep primal yearning to reconnect with ourselves, the earth, other being. That urge is continually being overidden because on some level, we assume there's something wrong with us. "It's not that I'm allergic to life, I'm allergic to the ways we've organised society and systems that are so removed from those basic primal instincts of being connected and belonging."Wisdom birthed from the bathroom floor. Epic burnout led to total breakdown led to epic recalibration.Is sheer willpower the only way to get shit done?Reframing breakdown as a period of magic dark.We've had a health and wellness paradigm for 20 years that's focussed on DOING things. But that keeps us in survival mode; it's not sustainable or regenerative. We need a whole lot of people to be regulated enough, for long enough, to make life giving decisions and make a dent in these systems.Being in conversation with questions. How do we come back to ourselves, and is that enough?Getting out of hustle culture in business. Everyone is saying, "we can't slow down because x, y, z….” It's the courageous soul chooses to interrogate that. If you're making impact out there, but that work is having a negative effect on your people in here, it's a net zero. It's not regenerative.The best gift you can give other beings is the gift of a settled system. Avoiding the one-two punch of shame and guilt.LINKS YOU'LL LOVEMy Grandmother's Hands -- Resmaa MenakemSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading)

Andrew Pierce talks to author Rose Prince about why a planned 'snack tax' is so desperately needed, and talks to Claire Dunn of Parent Zone on apps which rake in money from children's accidental purchases. Plus, Liz Jones on THAT photo shoot! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I chat with author, teacher and nature connection guide Claire Dunn about rewilding the urban soul. We talk about slowing down, reconnecting and building a regenerative culture from the inside out.    For more information on Claire including her latest book - https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au   For more information on the Regenerative Ways Spring retreat - www.megberryman.com/events  

Hello! Today we are sharing a conversation between two extraordinary women who have both featured in the pages of our magazine, Claire Dunn and Ella Noah Bancroft. Both are passionate rewilding facilitators, leading their communities into deeper relationship with the natural world, them selves and others. Claire has just released her second book, Rewilding the Urban Soul, which we'll be hearing more about in an episode down the track. Here, she is getting us acquainted with Ella's mission. Ella is a Bundjalong woman based in the Northern Rivers who writes stories and poems, leads workshops, has a podcast, and for several years has been running the Returning, an annual event that provides a place for all women to relearn the way of their past. We love the intersections in Ella's work. As well as rewilding, she is thinking deep and wide about decolonisation, the rise of the feminine, belonging, sexuality and movement. Thanks to The Cape for sponsoring this episode!

Conservationist and writer Claire Dunn in 2010 escaped to the bush for twelve months to connect again with nature and find her wild self. She wrote about this experience in My year without Matches. A few years later she returned to the city, to Melbourne, and knew she had to build a bridge between the bush and the city to survive and retain all that she learnt during her year bush. With like minded people she has found a city that offers so much within the suburban streets. In Rewidling the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city she encourages others to not only observe the fauna and flora that surrounds us but to also feel part of that nature.

In conversation with Jacques, Claire explores her growing desire to discover nature in the middle of what we have come to think about as its opposite: the city.Given that about 3/4 of humanity will soon live in macro-cities, and given that these occupy only 4% of the world's surface, and given that most of the environmental damage humans cause is connected with these facts, we do need to explore and experiment with alternative ways of living in cities.Claire's book Rewilding the Urban Soul is a perfect guide to discovering what it would take to heal our urban living bases and ourselves and to start experimenting. Dunn, Claire (2021) Rewilding the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city Scribe Publishers, Brunswick, London and MinneapolisDunn, Claire (2014) My year of Living without Matches Black Inc. - Nero, Melbourne   

18-year-old singer/songwriter Presley Tennant is a soulful powerhouse vocalist who has been compared to Whitney Houston and Carrie Underwood. She is quickly establishing herself as an American country music singer songwriter. Born and raised in Horse Town USA, Norco, California, Presley found her roots back to country music after her incredible experience on The Voice Season 16 with Team Kelly. She says, "The Voice allowed me to find who I am” and she began her pursuit in country music.” She is currently working on her debut country album, with her first release of “Temporary” which was produced by the amazing Kent Wells at Black Horse Recording Studios in Franklin, TN. In addition to her first release she has been traveling back and forth from her home town to Nashville, TN and Muscle Shoals, AL working with some of the most sought out producers such as Kent Wells, Chuck Rhodes and Buddy Hyatt. While she loves writing and recording, another passion for Presley is the stage where she wows everyone in the audience when she starts to sing. She has opened up and shared the stage with some of the most respected country singers in the industry such as Kelly Clarkson, Tim Mcgraw, John Michael Montgomery, Tyler Rich, Claire Dunn, Cody Johnson and Honey County to name a few. 

Featuring student mental health nurse Claire Dunn and a Queen's mental health nursing lecturer on their roles, the stresses that come with the impact of Covid-19 and how to overcome the pressures of these new adjustments.

Hey! Welcome to Move Wild Podcast, a podcast dedicated to understanding human health from an evolutionary perspective, and integrating the universal principles of human health and wildness into our lives. Each week I interview and discuss with guests on topics and conversations entered around re-wilding, natural movement, nature connection and ancestral living practices. Thanks for joining me on this journey! About today’s show: Today I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation I recorded with Lee Trew. Lee taught bushcraft and 'coyote mentoring' on youth camps, before training as a psychotherapist and counsellor. Lee has been using Jon Young's coyote mentoring approach for over a decade, and began learning and teaching bushcraft as a teenager at the Forest School Camps in the UK. He studied indigenous survival skills at Tom Brown Jr's Tracker School, and Practical Primitive, both in the US, and spent a year living in the bush, finding shelter, water and food on the landscape; putting it into practice. More than that, he found a radically new experience of what it means to be human. Now he brings psychology and bushcraft together for rewilding; helping people of all ages to reawaken their wildness and deepen their connection with the natural world. He was also: - A speaker on rewilding at the Ultimate Health Event in Sydney - Featured in ABC's Life at 9 documentary - An instructor for Claire Dunn during the period she wrote about in her book, My Year Without Matches - The bushcraft and trapping consultant for Australian film, The Hunter.Links: Links to connect with Lee: Bluegum Bushcraft - https://www.bluegumbushcraft.com.au Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wildhearttribe/?ref=page_internal Follow me and get in touch with me on Instagram, @move_wild, to stay up to date and stay inspired to keep connecting to your true nature! For more on what I offer and upcoming events I will be running, head over to my website www.movewildcollective.com. Always feel free to reach out with questions, suggestions for podcasts, feedback, collaborations, ideas etc. I’m always happy to connect :) Alright, thanks for tuning in, I’ll catch ya next episode, and as always, get outside, grow strong and Move Wild!

Claire Dunn joins Tahnee on the podcast today. Claire is an author, journalist, educator and barefoot explorer. Claire is dearly passionate about fostering a deep connection to the earth, the self and community. Claire's work centres around ‘rewilding’ both the inner and outer landscapes. Claire has a keen interest in the psychology of the human-nature connection and offers retreats and Vision Quest's to help guide people back to their true and wild selves.  Tahnee and Claire discuss: The journey that led Claire to her rewilding work. The universality of our human connection to earth. The concept of "claiming place". Supported solitude and Claire's year without matches. Moving out of patriarchal cultural conditioning into an embodied feminine space. Claire's new book Rewilding The Urban Soul. The importance of knowing your neighbor in these isolating times. Self sufficiency vs community sufficiency.   Who is Claire Dunn? Claire Dunn is passionate about connection - to earth, self, and other. Claire believes that rewilding of our inner world is the key to rewilding our planet. Claire connects through her work as writer, journalist, educator and barefoot explorer.  In 2010, Claire immersed herself in the Australia bush for four full seasons as a kind of self-designed initiation. She tells her story of this transformational experience in her book, My Year Without Matches. Claire also worked for many years as a campaigner for The Wilderness Society and as a freelance journalist, writing for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, while studying postgraduate psychology. Claire is a passionate advocate for “rewilding” our inner and outer landscapes, and she facilitates nature-based reconnection retreats and contemporary wilderness rites of passage. She currently lives in Melbourne where she writes, offers personal mentoring, and lovingly tends her garden.   Resources: Claire's Website Claire's Facebook Claire's Events and Workshops   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee: (00:00) Hi everybody, and welcome to the SuperFeast Podcast. Today I'm here with Claire Dunn. I'm very excited to have her on the podcast. Claire is one of those amazing people that I got to meet a few years ago in Newcastle. And I've been following along with her journey ever since. And she's just this really beautiful passionate woman who is all about connection to earth and so and to each other in community and her work around rewilding, rewilding ourselves in order to be more connected to our planet, I think is really important and really powerful.   Tahnee: (00:32) So we'll be talking about that kind of thing today. But just to introduce Claire, she works as a writer and a journalist, as well as an educator and a Barefoot Explorer. And in 2010, she spent four full seasons in the Australian bush as this initiation, which she writes about in her book My Year Without Matches. I've passed that book around to so many friends who've all had similar experiences to me with tears and joy and inspiring us to go and hike barefoot through the bush and all that kind of stuff.   Tahnee: (01:03) But yeah, she's also done activism work, campaigning, she studied psychology and she now lives in Melbourne where she teaches rewilding skills to people in the city and outside. She does workshops and also retreats. So, pretty cool. Oh, and also personal mentoring I saw on your site as well Claire, which is really cool.   Claire Dunn: (01:23) Thanks Tahnee for [inaudible 00:01:25] here.   Tahnee: (01:25) Doing all good things. So tell us, is there anything I missed in that intro?   Claire Dunn: (01:31) I think you've covered all-   Tahnee: (01:33) Your entire life story. Yeah. I actually wanted to start there because I met you in Newy and I know you are ... Are from Newcastle? Are you definitely born there?   Claire Dunn: (01:42) On that area. Yeah.   Tahnee: (01:43) Okay. And were you raised there or were you ...?   Claire Dunn: (01:46) Yeah, I was raised on a farm about 45 minutes away.   Tahnee: (01:50) Which town?   Claire Dunn: (01:51) Outside Maitland.   Tahnee: (01:52) Oh, yeah. Nice.   Claire Dunn: (01:55) But yeah born in Newcastle when the hospital was right on the main beach there.   Tahnee: (02:00) I love that hospital.   Claire Dunn: (02:02) In my blood yeah.   Tahnee: (02:03) I can't imagine my ex partner's mum laboured through the storm while giving birth to her daughter and I ... Yeah, I thought that would have been a really powerful experience back in the day. Your whole life work is about this reconnecting to nature. But was that a theme in your childhood, or were you drawn to this a bit later on in your life? Or how did you end up where you are?   Claire Dunn: (02:26) Well, I was unconsciously drawn to it during my childhood, just through sheer luck of growing up on a farm that happened to be bordered by a river, with siblings who wanted to be outside and not much in the way of screens to draw us inside. So I yeah, I had a natural inclination to be climbing trees and exploring along the riverbank and making witches brews of herbs and flowers from the garden and planting my own garden and my parents were both gardeners and horticulturalists. So, we were just outside a lot. Always had animals and feeding animals and caring for pets and it was ...Now I think about it, there was that ample unstructured playtime in nature which is so vital for instilling that sense of nature being a friend an ally, a resource, a teacher, and for really instilling that magical sense of connection.   Claire Dunn: (03:32) But of course it wasn't until my adult years that I started to realise that that foundation, had really informed me and had set the scene for my passion and how my journey's unfolded.   Tahnee: (03:48) So did you end up in Newy university? Is that-   Claire Dunn: (03:52) No, I went to Sydney. Yeah, I started in Sydney, studied journalism and communications.   Tahnee: (03:57) I did that too. Isn't that funny?   Claire Dunn: (03:59) Yeah.   Tahnee: (03:59) Here we are full circle.   Claire Dunn: (04:00) I knew that I was going to have [inaudible 00:04:02] yeah might be like a lof journalist one of the major newspapers but, instead I really got my teeth stuck into environmental activism while I was at uni and that changed the direction of my life away from the career corporate orientation and really towards the ... Initially what was towards social justice and as fierce, what grew to be a fierce protection motivation for these wild places and wild creatures. And, that's when I moved back to Newcastle and started working for the Wilderness Society there and had five years.   Claire Dunn: (04:45) Yeah, living by the beach and working on forest protection and thought that that would be the continuation of my passion, but of course things change.   Tahnee: (04:55) That was always one of my favourite buildings in Newcastle, don't think it's there anymore. Like the building is but not the Wilderness Society. I saw while I was researching this some of your achievements in that role, which were huge, hectares of land protected, and I'm sure, lots of other accomplishments that weren't documented on the internet but, what drew into that, and then what pulled you away? Obviously you weren't there for longer than five years. So, what happened?   Claire Dunn: (05:26) What drew me in was ... It was what people describe as an eco awakening. Where even though I'd grown up immersed in nature, I wasn't really across the political and the global state of the ecological crisis until I went to university and had a close experience with a forest that had been cut down, got involved with a group of activists. And it was really turning my attention towards not so much the beauty of nature which had been my foundation, but really the crisis that we were facing. And it was a eco awakening in terms of both feeling out my deep love of nature, but also the peril that our planet was in.   Claire Dunn: (06:21) It really was a case of I can't just turn my face away anymore. Yeah, that became a passion for pretty much the most part of my 20s. The better part of my 20s was this environmental activism conservation work, but what started to happen was, on one hand there was just simple reality of burning out, expanding too much energy and putting all the youthful, idealistic values into way too much action and not enough stillness and rest. But there was also a deeper thread emerging which was, this growing interest in the human nature connection, and the realisation that the real threat, the underlying threat, the reason for our ecological crisis is, how our culture has become so disconnected from the more the modern human world, disconnected from our life support systems, disconnected from this sense of living in an animate sentient world.   Claire Dunn: (07:35) And I corresponded with a pull towards knowing myself more. I realised that I just hadn't really had the opportunity or had the motivation to peel off layers of the self and see what really lay beneath. So it was this merging of this interest in the human nature connection, and also this momentum towards individuation or greater self knowledge. And they kind of combined into a passion for wilderness survival skills, shamanic practise, nature observation and awareness tracking, which I really launched myself into in my late 20s.   Claire Dunn: (08:22) That propelled me in a whole new direction.   Tahnee: (08:28) This is a personal question, but I personally have found there's often a bit of a crisis of health, like a bit of a crash that comes with those big shifts. Seriously, it's like every time for me. And I know you've studied Jung's work, so when I heard you say individuation, but yeah, I think there's those like Dark Nights of the Soul and then we realise that we're close to what we were wanting to do, but it was maybe the wrong shoe on our foot or something was that a sense for you?   Claire Dunn: (08:57) Yeah, sure. Yeah, very much so in my life. I've been able to identify I guess what I would call moulting's is moulting's which happened multiple times in life.   Tahnee: (09:10) Oh, yeah.   Claire Dunn: (09:12) And they are often catalysed by crisis in some way. Break up, loss of faith in the path, health crisis, whatever. And they catalyse this moulting. But there's also a very particular moulting, that's a much deeper moulting, which only happens once in life. And that really is that shift that initiatory period of life where one moves their centre of gravity from more of an adolescent mindset into an adult. And it has [inaudible 00:09:43] ages within it but, most Westerners actually never go through that. They never go through that initiatory stage. And, I recognised it in hindsight as that pull towards an initiatory experience to myself in my later 20s.   Tahnee: (10:03) Because we don't have those experiences at all. Childhood to adolescence. I'm a mum.   Claire Dunn: (10:11) Right.   Tahnee: (10:12) Yeah [crosstalk 00:10:13] adults are children. Like they're still carrying those, that lack of sovereignty and responsibility I suppose that happens if you aren't initiated.   Claire Dunn: (10:25) Yeah, lack of knowledge of what their true gift is in the world and a way to, and a vehicle to give it, that's essentially what emerges after that initiatory period.   Tahnee: (10:38) And so you started to study these things, and did you spend some time in the States? I remember.   Claire Dunn: (10:45) Yeah. So that was part of my wandering within the cocoon if you like, was going over to study at this place called Tracker School in America, which was a wilderness survival skills school, but it was also very much based in a Shamanic lineage and Native American lineage, and it was full of wild people and wild experiences and craziness and magic and mystery, it really was such an incredible experience to land me into that place of deep listening and is very different way of being in the world, which is really about trained awareness, a deep curiosity, a caretakership, and the literacy in the universality of tracking in nature observation, and also in ceremony and ... Yeah, it was profound couple of summers I spent over there.   Tahnee: (11:53) There's something there for me when you said universality because, I speak to people sometimes and there's this, "Oh, well, it's cultural appropriation." And then we're bringing these traditions here and I don't belong here. But then in speaking to the elders that I've been fortunate to speak to, not to say that they're same, but they're very similar, the overlaps ... And I've studied a lot of the Vedic traditions and again, there are overlaps are there. Obviously the outside structures may look slightly different but is that the sense that you have now having worked with these things for a while, that they're quite universal, or do you still feel that maybe we need to be careful when we're talking about how we work with different cultural?   Claire Dunn: (12:41) Yeah, no, it's a really good question. And a really poignant question for us. And for me. I always feel like it's important to acknowledge the source of anything that I'm bringing, whether it's from a particular lineage, and I've been lucky enough to be handed down the skills like I did with Vision Quest like there's a training that is directly handed down from a lineage. And I always would give acknowledgement and credit of that source. And that's important for all the skills that I learned and the ceremonies that I learned.   Claire Dunn: (13:19) However, very few of them have had a direct lineage. Most of them have been born from direct experience from trial and error, from what one of my teachers calls dirt time, just being out there with the elements on the land. And, there is a universality. Because we're all indigenous to the earth. Every one of us, there's different types of indigeneity and some of that lineage and an ancestry in place. And another layer of indigeneity is as our very basic, irrefutable Earth from the greater mother of earth. And so through that lineage that directly lineage with Earth, there is a universality of belonging, and deep connection and practises of deep listening and fasting out on the land, of singing and telling stories around the fire of literacy with plants and animals, of having a direct connection with the landscape wherever it is, wherever we are.   Claire Dunn: (14:28) So I emphasise that universality, because what we really need right now is for people to be able to unapologetically belong. To really belong wherever they are and to claim that, because that is part of the healing that's needed here.   Tahnee: (14:47) I'm like goose bumping and getting teary. It's so true though, because I think one of the reasons people don't act is because they don't have that connection and they don't feel like this is mine to tend to and take care of and so it becomes another way of ... I think it's a protection mechanism in some ways because, if we accepted and acknowledged it, then we are responsible for it. But ... Yeah.   Claire Dunn: (15:16) The people that are inspiring me at the moment, Martin Shaw, mythologist, he talks about that the era of the generation of the scatterlings, scattered across the earth and not claiming our place, not claiming our belonging.   Tahnee: (15:29) And here we are.   Claire Dunn: (15:30) [inaudible 00:15:30] and it's not necessarily where we're born. It's not necessarily where our heritage is from. It's like, both letting ourselves be claimed by a place and also claiming a place.   Tahnee: (15:41) Yeah, it's really interesting. I'm obviously not from here traditionally. But I'm Celtic, but then I travelled to places like South America where I got ... Like I was like, "I've been here before." And I've had it here in Australia like in the outback, and in certain parts of the Hawkesbury and stuff where I've just been like this is my place. And it's weird because obviously, but it's like, I think if we can start to develop our sensitivity, we can realise that it's all our land. And yes, the traditions are there. And yes, there might be spirits or ... Like you're saying lineage that needs to be acknowledged and brought in, but that's part of our sensitivity and our awakening I suppose that we can become attune to that.   Tahnee: (16:32) And then I had a really great conversation with a friend who does agnihotra which is a fire practise. And she was speaking of the people that taught her and I used to work on this farm when I was 17. It's a funny little coincidence that she had been trained by them and they are out in the Hunter Valley and they were doing this practise and they were having all these weird things happen. And anyway, turns out it was an Aboriginal burial ground and they hadn't checked in that what they were doing and what was happening there was kosher, to use another culture's word.   Tahnee: (17:10) But yes, anyway, they got an elder and they had a chat and they did some chatting to the spirits and everyone worked out that they were all coming from the same place. And it's been fine ever since. And I thought that was such a great example of how these two indigenous traditions can coexist as long as everyone's conscious and in communication and open so.   Claire Dunn: (17:32) Yeah, well, we certainly are not escaping the fact that it's a global melting pot of cultures overlapping and intertwining and to resist that fact is really resisting reality. So how to walk through with deep respect for the indigenous traditions of the land, and also have the wisdom to be able to bring in these other influences that we're privileged to be learning and to be carrying and to bring them together with gentleness and wisdom and insight.   Tahnee: (18:12) And so you're really doing that in Melbourne. I know you're doing a lot of just worked obviously pre COVID. But you were doing workshops and just what helping people in the cities reconnect to what's available to them in terms of their experience of wildness, or can you tell us a bit about what you do?   Claire Dunn: (18:32) Yeah, well, it's ever evolving, but it's certainly on a bigger picture. It's certainly cultivating and exploring this idea of wildness, and at its core, its soul centric nature based human work because, soul is in essence, wild. It's our wildest self. It's that unconditioned core essence of ourself that can really only be touched through deep exploration and one of those pathways is through nature. So, yeah, I offer a range of things and some of it is is really hands on and physical. So I have a program called Rewild Friday's, and every Friday, we gather in different park lands of the inner north in Melbourne.   Claire Dunn: (19:27) And we learn and reclaim these old skills of making fire by rubbing sticks together and the wild edibles and wild medicinals. We make water filters, we weave baskets, learn how to make string and work with fibres, learn tracking and ecological literacy and all the ... hide tanning and all these ancient skills and bringing them into an urban setting, which was edgy and fun, but what it really showed me was, I spent this incredible year in the bush but these people are turning up just for six and a half hours on a Friday, every Friday.   Claire Dunn: (20:07) But the same process of the pull towards deeper initiation, was happening for them, even though it was nested within an urban environment, even though it was this finite amount of time each week, it was enough of an anchor, in that that stripped back raw, direct connection with Earth and self and other, that it started to work on them in a really powerful way. And a lot of them started to need to go deeper into that inquiry and spend time alone in nature and much more wandering and really opening up the sensory body. So it was a great experiment for me to see that it doesn't take a year in the push to really spark that innate desire the human to connect, and to initiate.   Tahnee: (21:03) But there are two things I really wanted to talk to you about with that. Like first of all, how does one end up doing a year without matches? Because that's ... I know, for a lot of people, I gave it to a friend who grew up in Melbourne and is a bit of a city girl, and she was like, "How does someone even end up there?" That it made me laugh, but yeah, and then also the idea of solitude because, I don't know if it's a getting older thing or ... though I find the more sensitive I get I suppose, the more I just don't want to be around people and you're living in Melbourne now. So I'm curious as to how you go from really being quite fierce about your solitude in the matches book, to being now in an urban environment.   Tahnee: (21:49) So, if you could tell us about those two things.   Claire Dunn: (21:51) So how I ended up living without matches for a year and my relationship relationship with solitude? Well, the how, it's quite simply It was like I had one end of the thread that I was following, and I had fiercely following that thread that it took me to America that, took me to different teachers and mentors. And it became clear to me that I really wanted and needed a period of deep immersion in this whole inquiry of shamanic practices and nature connection. And the only programmes I could find were in America. And my friends and teachers at the time, were considering starting a year long program and I just said, "Sign me up, and I'm there. I'm your number one student, and I'm ready."   Claire Dunn: (22:48) I'm ready. And yeah, it was this spontaneous decision to run Australia's first independent wilderness studies program and cobble together another five people, they bought a block of land which backed onto national park on the north coast of New South Wales, and I began to ready myself for this experience. And it was a very, very loose program. It certainly wasn't a school. And it was probably looser than I needed in a way. But, what it did provide me, was a lot of solitude. Because after the first few months of working out the group dynamics, and once my shelter was built, then all I wanted to do was disappear into the woods.   Claire Dunn: (23:36) And to really enter into that cocoon and peel off the layers of self in this very elementally supported way. And that's what I did especially coming into winter, I really went into an intentional hibernation where I didn't see the others every now and then, but rarely shared, not only shared experiences because I wanted to, and did turn my attention quite fully to the more than human world. And spent most of my time after I'd looked after my survival needs like fire and shelter and water and so forth, I just wandered. I wandered the land and as I talk about now, I just have such a feeling in my body of, "Oh how, what an amazing opportunity to be able to get up in the morning and have that freedom to walk until I didn't feel like walking anymore."   Claire Dunn: (24:37) To sit, to watch, to listen, to observe, to befriend, to converse with the more than human world. And I ... Gosh, I miss that so much. But it was a kind of solitude that was only possible because the others were there. If I was really truly alone, it would have been quite a stark reality. So I call it supported solitude. Because it's a very particular kind of solitude which is very sweet. Because it's a choice, it's a day to day choice. It's not something that's impinged on. So, they're the type of experiences that I love to be able to provide for others, this sense I'm alone and I'm choosing to be alone and I know my community's got my back.   Claire Dunn: (25:33) There's gifts in the in the really alone. But they're harsh and I've experienced those as well. But it was such a privilege to have that time that six month period really where I went into my cocoon and I rummaged around and I peeled and we had moulting after moulting and just like the caterpillar turned to mush-   Tahnee: (26:02) Cicada, I keep thinking about?   Claire Dunn: (26:04) Yeah Cicada is another great Australian [crosstalk 00:26:07].   Tahnee: (26:07) ...leaving little bits of you over the forest.   Claire Dunn: (26:10) Yeah. Yeah, turn to mush caterpillars do in cocoons. Having no idea what would be on the other side of that. Yeah, and went into quite a deep introspective period which changed everything.   Tahnee: (26:33) Had you done Vision Quest at that point or?   Claire Dunn: (26:36) I had definitely apprenticed myself to the dark and to time alone in nature. Which wasn't necessary preparation really, it would have been quite a different experience. Because I used to have a raging fear of the dark, like a terrifying, trembling, shaking fear of the dark. Absolutely. The first time that I was asked to go and find somewhere to sit in the dark in the bush alone, even literally 200 metres from everyone. I was terrified. And it also showed up for me the real fear, which was the shadows within myself. You only feel what you don't know. So fear of the dark was a really powerful teacher actually, over the years.   Tahnee: (27:30) Yeah, it's funny there's things that terrify us often hold of that of wisdom for us. Even ... Yeah, if we can get through them. I remember reading it. I think it was at the end of the book, and you talked about Women Who Run with the Wolves and you had this piece about your womanhood and the book's at work unfortunately, because I lent it to someone but I was just thinking about that today because ... Yeah, I think that it's interesting how that really helped you find your strength as a woman in your own solitude.   Tahnee: (28:06) I think so many, I guess women don't have that experience of that opportunity. So could you tell us a little bit about that transformation?   Claire Dunn: (28:14) Yes, I also just lent out my Women Who Run with the Wolves. It's definitely one of my ... Like, it's a Bible really, that's very close to me. Anytime I need to be reminded of why I feel the way I do about my solitude and my wandering time in nature, just read the introduction. It's a very powerful piece of writing. But yeah, it was one of those key influences but not the only one that showed me, and reflected to me that one of the main tasks of that year was, reforming my motivational system and really my whole compass bearing, which had been trained in a patriarchal culture.   Claire Dunn: (29:02) I grew up with brothers and in a family that was very patriarchal, in a culture and a schooling system that was very patriarchal. Which held the traditional masculine values of goal orientation and productivity and momentum and movement and decisiveness and rational linear decision making as the pinnacle of human being [crosstalk 00:29:34].   Tahnee: (29:34) ... the world.   Claire Dunn: (29:37) And I didn't [inaudible 00:29:38] yeah, I wasn't really at all aware of how I'd internalised that. So, I quickly came to realise that my main task that year was to undo that conditioning, and to welcome in the more instinctive, intuitive, deeply feeling, wholehearted fluid, responsive, restful, sensual way of being in the world which can can be equated to the archetypal feminine which was a really really difficult transition.   Tahnee: (30:20) Yeah, because I remember reading you saying you didn't use your hammock for months. I think I read that in an Australian geographic article [crosstalk 00:30:29].   Claire Dunn: (30:28) Yeah, I was really driven. I was really driven even out there, driven to weave the basket right or to-   Tahnee: (30:34) Make a beautiful house? Yeah.   Claire Dunn: (30:34) Make the beautiful house [inaudible 00:30:37] all done at a certain period of time and oh my goodness, I've only got six months left, I better get tracking or whatever it was. And it really took a breaking in way of those old patterns, and a slow building of the faith in this, slower, more receptive, radically receptive way of being and there were certain practises that helped that so, really asking myself every day, "What do I feel like doing?" Not what's on the list or what I want to achieve, but what do I feel like doing? And then listening to that and responding to that.   Claire Dunn: (31:21) So if that was lying in the hammock, then that was lying in the hammock. If that was hiking up the mountain overnight, then that was hiking up the mountain overnight. Like all the parts of me need expression, the adventurer, and the cat curled by the fire. But there had been too much emphasis on the high achieving perfectionist. So I'm definitely a recovering perfectionist.   Tahnee: (31:51) Same. I'm curious how that's translated to Laugh in the City because, I think I've read again somewhere ... Sorry, I didn't take great notes on my research but that you said, you have to keep one foot in or else you can forget really easily into that wildness and, we have this thriving business and I've found myself in the last few years, really leaning back into things that I've chosen to steer myself away from. Because of circumstances that's so easy to get caught back into that to-do list, at the detriment to our sanity. Certainly for me anyway.   Tahnee: (32:32) Yeah, I'm just curious if you have any ... I don't know ... How are you going over there?   Claire Dunn: (32:36) It's a very poignant day that you should ask me because I actually chatted to my old mentor, who was mentoring me through that year actually, Malcolm, his name is. And I was talking to him about exactly this difficulty or struggle between the wonderful work that I do in the world that I love, the workshops, the people I get to meet, the deep stories I get to hear in the one-on-one sessions, the Vision Quest, but that's a full time job. With all these hidden demands on my time which keep me inside way more than I would and he asked me the really striking question, "Do you want to get to the end of your life and say, wow, I really helped a lot of people. Or do you want to get to the end of your life and say, wow, I really lived my ecstasy. I really lived my passion. I really thrived?"   Claire Dunn: (33:40) And I know that the answer is not one or the other. But it is way too easy to just keep saying yes to the doing and the building and the creating. And there needs to be for me, and I imagine for many other people, many more no's for the greater yes. In service of the greater yes. And for me, that might mean for instance, one week a month, completely blocking out any work related activity. Of course work and personal life are very intertwined for me but, giving myself that time to just wander, to sit in my sweat lodge, to do whatever I feel like doing.   Tahnee: (34:32) To check in with your feelings every day. Yeah, it's funny I spoke to a woman called Lara Owen who is based down in Melbourne. Unfortunately we lost the interview, but we spoke about that. She said she had this period of her life where she did that over ... I think it was quite a long time, like several years and she said it was amazing. She did it with her cycle, but so she took basically her luteal phase to her menstrual phase as far off as possible and she said it was so interesting how different her experiences were from month to month. Sometimes she was really excited and wanted to be out of the world and really creative and other times she just was like, no go into a cave, don't want to see anybody and I thought about how it's so ... Like our cycles are so ignored obviously, in this culture and even the seasonal cycles.   Tahnee: (35:22) Like, we mean, it's we're in Byron environments, barely even winter and we've been going to bed at like, 7:30 because it just feels right to sleep. Because it's that more Yin dark, quiet time. And if this was normal times and wasn't a pandemic, I think we'd be struggling to honour that and it's a curiosity to me that we're all happy to live this way. I've just resigned in my role this hopefully go live after that's made public. That visitors ... I'm the general manager of the company and it's like, that's not in service to my role as a mother in this stage of my life, which needs to be more free, some days I need to be more present with my daughter than others.   Tahnee: (36:09) And I don't have that freedom and flexibility right now. But yeah, I think what he says that ... And the ecstasy changes, right? Like for me ecstasy at the moment is being with my daughter, but I know that when she's older, it won't be that. So.   Claire Dunn: (36:24) Yeah. There's a sense that, we've all been sent to our rooms with COVID.   Tahnee: (36:27) So.   Claire Dunn: (36:27) Like feeling what our ecstacy is right now. Like, are we on track? Are we doing what we really want to do? It's like go to your rooms until you've worked out what a passionate life really is for you.   Tahnee: (36:40) Yeah. Definitely. So given that you're down there, I know you're working on another book is that around this idea of how we can be existing in these opposing roles, like the city in the wild?   Claire Dunn: (36:56) Definitely is. Rewilding The Urban Soul is its current working title, and it's due in a couple of months so I'm pretty ... Yep, head down. But it is absolutely that, how can we access this presence of the wild, this wild mind while in urban suburban settings? What adventures can be had? What nurtures and cultivates that sense of the wild, and what connects us and what disconnects us? What are the opportunities and what are the dangers? How can we experience more aliveness and more passion in a wild body, wild mind, wild spirit? So it's hopefully going to offer some possibilities for that and some stories that might serve-   Tahnee: (37:50) Become the new Bible maybe ... For us, ladies out here trying to work it all out. But yeah, because that was something I'm reading your Dumbo for the article about, you had the gathering and really the last bit where you had the key points I guess you said, "Know your neighbours, know your place, get skills, grieve, create, celebrate." I thought that was such a powerful statement because, it's really simple but it's really like ... The way in which ... and I'm not trying to be this person that bashes our modern world because we've all co created it but it seems to be difficult for people in cities especially to know who they live next door to and to connect in that way and I visit my partner's mother in Sydney and if I smile at someone in the elevator, they literally walk away from ... Lean away from me like, "Who are you?"   Tahnee: (38:48) I'm like, "Okay, cool." But yeah. If people are in cities are they getting together? Is it finding communities seeking out people that are doing what you're doing or, what's the solution there, I know you don't-   Claire Dunn: (39:05) I most necessarily think that this COVID time has brought it to our attention, that even though yes, we live in a global village actually, we live in the particular house that we live in. We live with these people. We live in this street, we live in this neighbourhood. And that's who we're going to rely on. And that is who our primary sphere of influence is. So I've met more neighbours in the last two months than I have in the last three years of being in this street. And it's been really wonderful. Because it's through vulnerability, and shared circumstance that we connect.   Claire Dunn: (39:49) We often have fires down here in the backyard and one of the neighbours has started wondering, "Oh." Because he's partner's stuck in England and he's lonely. So it's [inaudible 00:39:58] these relationships are forged but, I think there's a growing awareness that our city lives especially are missing that sense of connected community like sense of village, where multiple people each day, want to hear your story. Like what's your story of the day? How's your day really been? What have you been up to? What's your passion? We need multiple people each day who actually catch that story. And so there yeah, there is all sorts of incredible opportunities to tap into that in the city, especially because we live so close together.   Claire Dunn: (40:41) So, getting together for instance seasonal celebrations, so we're actually linking our community structures in with the natural cycles, because that's when it starts really humming along. When our connection is overlaid with self and Earth and other, so let's get together and celebrate when the Kingfisher returns from its migrational roots. Or when the dandelions start flowering whatever it is. But taking the opportunities to share food together, cook together, share stories together just really simply. Last week I embarked on a challenge with a friend of mine to only eat what we grew or had preserved from grown food or foraged, or bartered from friends who've done similar.   Claire Dunn: (41:36) And it has absolutely nothing to do with self sufficiency. It was all about community sufficiency. And that is what creates these really strong bonds of connection is through necessity, through food sharing, through supporting each other in this close geographical way through being immersed in nature cycles. That's where we really come home. It's such a joy for me personally, it was just such a joy to be out there with this direct connection with my food and my community.   Tahnee: (42:10) Yeah. I certainly have noticed, we're fortunate here because it's a culture of food being local at least to some degree. There's a big strong emphasis on farmers markets and community gardens. But even during the pandemic, suddenly you couldn't get spelt flour, which was partly the drought and partly the pandemic but it was like, wow we are really dependent on this supply chain and we don't even realise it because we go into the bulk store and it's all very good. That it didn't make me think we've got an older friend who is in her 60s and she lives to maybe an hour and a half up in the hills and so she rarely comes down to town and when you're out there with her or you eat eggs from the chickweed from the garden and like, random these like African yam things that she grows and I eat that for every meal because that's what [inaudible 00:43:04].   Tahnee: (43:05) But it made me like living with him [inaudible 00:43:07] for about a year. And I was like, "This variety we have and there's options to eat Thai food today and Mexican food later." And it's great, but it's a massive privilege. And we haven't had a great depression. We haven't had ourselves really drastically removed from our generations at least and, yeah I think if anything this awakening through COVID could be a really powerful one like they sold out of chickens in the Byron regions.   Claire Dunn: (43:42) I pretty much got the chickens I could find in the Melbourne region too.   Tahnee: (43:46) Yeah. This is the thing. And so I know even when you did the year without much as you were still dependent on the supply chain, you had to get stuff from town and things I remember, but I also remember some of the most powerful moments being when you created your own meal. I remember the pippies and the ... Was it the bird that you ate on the beach? But I can imagine. I can only imagine how empowering that was and how deeply transformational I'm sure that was but, we often try and encourage people who aren't maybe that confident with wild foraging or hunting or anything like that to try and just learn some easily identifiable species.   Tahnee: (44:30) So to start to get into that, are there any other ways you found for city dwellers to get that sense of empowerment that you found in actually feeding yourself from the land and being connected in that way?   Claire Dunn: (44:41) Yeah, forging is really such an accessible and powerful, connective activity. It's about being outside, it's identifying plants that are edible or medicinal. It's that direct relationship with them. It's having that confidence that ... You have confidence in his food. You know where it's come from, you've picked it, you're preparing it. And the city's actually awesome for forging. It's better for foraging than being out in the bush, because there's all these micro environments and micro climates and different niches and crossovers between indigenous and non indigenous.   Claire Dunn: (45:25) The amount of food that I collected last week just from street trees or edible weeds in the gardens and ... It's quite incredible. There's seaweeds in the bay and mushrooms just down the road here, edible mushrooms growing. Yeah, it's quite something. So, forging is an awesome doorway into that wild mind for city dwellers. Just be as simple as picking some dandelion leaves from the backyard. And another way is just letting yourself be a bit uncomfortable, like physically uncomfortable sometimes, a bit cold, going out walking in the rain, going out walking after to dark like mixing it up a bit.   Claire Dunn: (46:15) So there's just not this sense of this rush that we get into of, we go inside at night and we do these things but, "Can I actually put myself in positions where I'm a little bit moved and stirred by the weather, by the environment around me? How could I look up and see what I haven't noticed?" Climb a tree, get low, start to-   Tahnee: (46:37) Change perspective.   Claire Dunn: (46:38) Change perspective. Yeah.   Tahnee: (46:40) We cook on the fire a lot because you don't have to clean up, so that's a great option. We're really lazy. But seriously, I'm always like, no dishes. My daughters loves it because they're outside for three hours in the afternoon and it's the best. So I think those are such simple ... Fire is illegal in urban backyards in general aren't they, yeah?   Claire Dunn: (47:04) Actually if you're cooking.   Tahnee: (47:07) Yeah, great. Okay, awesome. Well, I don't want to take up too much of your time on these chilli nuts, but I wanted to let people know where they could find you. So you're on naturesapprentice.com.au, that's your personal website. And also on ... you're on social media, I found a Facebook page.   Claire Dunn: (47:25) Yeah, there's a Facebook page, Nature's Apprentice.   Tahnee: (47:27) Mm-hmm (affirmative).   Claire Dunn: (47:29) That's probably a good way to connect with me. I haven't quite got up to the Instagram.   Tahnee: (47:34) Don't do it to yourself it's just another thing-   Claire Dunn: (47:37) I can't do another medium, but yeah, I'd love to hear from people about their own adventures and interests and appetites in this work.   Tahnee: (47:45) Yeah, I know. We have a lot of people who are really drawn to these transformational rites of passage and things because, we hear from people a lot, just from the experiences we've shared, which have been more ... Mine obviously more from the yogic tradition, and then we've both done some work with plant medicines and that kind of thing. But yeah, I'd really love to Vision Quests. I've done my own, being alone in the bush things, it wasn't very structured. But yeah, just that idea, I think that people could connect to you and be guided, I think would be really powerful. So yeah, and Claire does mentoring and things as well.   Tahnee: (48:25) So if you're resonating with anything you're hearing, get in touch with her. Make sure it's on one of the weeks that she's offline. Just teasing, but anything else, when's the book due to be published?   Claire Dunn: (48:36) [inaudible 00:48:36] at least 12 months.   Tahnee: (48:38) Okay. Yeah. You're still in production stage?   Claire Dunn: (48:41) Production stage. Yes.   Tahnee: (48:43) Okay, great. But people can get My Year Without Matches still. I've seen it in stores locally.   Claire Dunn: (48:48) And online, for sure. Yeah.   Tahnee: (48:50) Anything else you wanted to share with people? Workshops way back on when the world-   Claire Dunn: (48:54) I am running a Vision Quest and also a week long rewilding camp in November, that's assuming we're able to gather outside by November, so they're on my website ready to go and also an online course starting in June.   Tahnee: (49:09) Oh, great.   Claire Dunn: (49:10) We connect just over four Monday nights.   Tahnee: (49:13) Oh, that sounds awesome. Okay, well, we can actually put links to those in the podcast page. Yeah. So that'll go straight to those if anyone wants to find those, especially the online one at this time will be awesome for people.So, yeah. All right. Well, thank you so much for your time Claire.   Claire Dunn: (49:27) Thanks Tahnee, thanks for [crosstalk 00:49:28].   Tahnee: (49:28) I really appreciated talking to you.   Claire Dunn: (49:29) Yeah. Thanks.

Welcome back to the Zoom Room for our Dumbo Feather Conversation with Claire Dunn! Claire is a re-wilding facilitator, mentor, writer and much-loved Dumbo Feather contributor. In 2010, she spent a year living in the bush without matches, which profoundly shaped the course of her life and her relationship with the more than human world. We chatted with Claire about her re-wilding practices and how they are supporting her at this time.

In this special episode for International Women's Day, Helen talks to 3 guests about the topic of female entrepreneurship. With Sarah King and Claire Dunn (founders of We Are Radikl) she discusses the systemic barriers that can hold women back from starting and scaling businesses and how they are supporting women to break them down. She then talks to Natalie Campbell, a serial entrepreneur about the confidence that has enabled her to succeed, what she has learned through her journey and what her advice is to other female founders.To find out more about Sarah and Claire's work head to www.weareradikl.co.ukTo follow Natalie, head to @nataliedcampbell (Instagram). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After reading her book 'My Year Without Matches' it was a privilege to have Claire Dunn as a guest on the podcast and have the opportunity to really dig deep into her learnings and experience. We delve into her 12 months spent in the Australian Wilderness but also into her views on what we can learn from Mother Nature. Claire shares her wealth of knowledge with us in addition to many, many interesting stories and observations from her travels.Click this link to visit the show notes page on hikeordie.com and get access to all the information and references we discuss in this episode.

From American Idol to the film Providence, and multiple charity performances, country artist, Jada Vance, is always spreading her good-time, spunky attitude and contagious smile. The small-town Tennessee native has worked with some of classic country's best, including Linda Davis. She has brought her energetic performances to the stage, opening for Daryle Singletary, Travis Tritt, Little Texas, Claire Dunn and Radio Romance. When she is not writing songs or teaching young children at Cheerleading Camps. She is a strong believer in encouraging kids the importance in education and being kind to one another. Jada can be found dedicating her time as an advocate for childhood cancer, veterans interests and MRSA awareness. Jada is currently doing radio tours promoting her single, “Rear View Revival." to country radio. Her six song EP is a testament to the rawness of Jadas life. "You can face hurt and disappointment, but it is important to remember you don't have to stay there. This uplifting EP is available on itunes and all musical platforms. A lyric video will available late October 2018. Her latest music video, "Hick N' Roll," debuted nationally on Heartland TV.

Claire Dunn says her work as an environmental campaigner left her burnt out and disillusioned about humans relationship with the natural world. So she quit her job, left her partner of 5 years and her house by the ocean, extracting herself from modern life to live in the Australian bush. While Claire learnt many skills to live off the land, built a shelter with her bare hands, navigated encounters with the wild creatures of the forest, I think what touched me most was Claire’s internal journey. Claire says she was addicted to achieving, doing, striving and proving her worth and it was the forest that brought her back into the flow of her feminine. Claire eventually realised she was not there to just learn skills or to slow down – although that was part of it – but she was there to learn how to be a woman again. Claire’s book “My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in search of the Wild”, is her memoir of this year-long forest retreat.   RESOURCES MENTIONED + My Year Without Matches: escaping the city in search of the wild, Claire Dunn   CONNECT WITH CLAIRE + Website: naturesapprentice.com.au + Facebook: /natures-apprentice   OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS PODCAST + Listen on Apple Podcasts+ Listen on Spotify + Listen on Stitcher Radio + Subscribe by email to get untangling stories delivered straight to your inbox   CONTRIBUTE TO THE CREATION OF UNTANGLED If my show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it is with humble gratitude that I ask for your support through a small financial contribution. Each Untangled episode takes me about three days in total to produce. There is also a monthly outlay for hosting and software expenses. I am a one-woman show and I do and pay for everything myself. From as little as $1 a month, your support will help to cover the costs associated with producing and hosting the show. To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

An interest in health and fitness may begin with a desire to look good on the outside, but most of us stick with sport because of the internal benefits—the sense of aliveness and vitality, the feeling of strength and connection to our bodies and the world around us. Training gives us a few hours away from our busy lives, and if we’re lucky, it allows us to be fully present. Now imagine turning those few hours of escape into a few days, a few weeks, or even a year! What would it be like to leave the modern world and spend time in the wild, developing a deep connection with yourself and the earth? Claire Dunn was living a typical fast-paced, urban lifestyle. Working as a lobbyist and environmental activist in a high-pressure, highly political environment, she longed for the opportunity to get closer to the wilderness she was fighting for and explore the human-nature connection. Starting in 2010, Claire spent a year in the wild, and that experience became the subject of her subsequent memoir, My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild. A trained Vision Quest guide, Claire offers rewilding workshops and retreats as well as personal mentoring for people seeking a greater sense of connection. She is a regular contributor to publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Huffington Post, and The Newcastle Herald. Today Claire shares the inspiration for her year in the wilderness, explaining her preparation and the structure of the experience. She walks us through a typical day in the bush, sharing the skills she practiced, what diet and exercise looked like, and her core practice of wandering. Claire discusses her struggle to readjust to the modern world and her commitment to helping others find connection to themselves, others and the earth. Listen in for Claire’s insight on being versus doing, and learn to pursue rewilding in your own backyard. Topics Covered [1:02] How Claire’s upbringing influenced her interest in rewilding Grew up on farm by river, three brothers Comfortable with body, the earth  [2:37] The impetus for Claire’s year in the bush Working as environmental activist, conservationist Burned out on high pressure of political game Transformational course inspired deep nature connection [5:15] How Claire prepared for her year of living wild Turned attention to practices of tracking, wilderness survival skills Created independent wilderness studies program in New South Wales Spent two summers at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School [6:44] The structure of Clair’s year in the bush ‘Choose your own adventure’ Build shelter with found materials Follow sacred order of survival (water, shelter, fire, food) Perfect hand drill fire technique [9:28] Claire’s instinct to be alone Attention to elements, plants, animals and unseen Unraveling old way of being, learned fluid wandering [12:49] Claire’s lessons in being vs. doing ‘Trying negates the effort’ Making fire blindfolded taught surrender [14:14] A typical day in the bush with Claire Tried not to have routine Wake up with birds, go to sit spot Explore, journal and read Work on project (i.e.: tanning hide) [16:45] The skills Claire honed in the wild Hide tanning, basket weaving, rope making Fires, water, bush food and medicinals Bird language, naturalist awareness Expanded sense of vision, fox walking Dynamic listening meditation [18:28] Claire’s core practice of wandering Follow curiosity, no clear goal [20:20] How Claire pursued fitness during her year in the bush Bush gym, jogging loop and yoga Making fire = intense burst of cardio [22:16] How Claire felt after the experience Ready to see friends, family Hit wall of grief with loss of connection to self, others and land [24:22] Claire’s bush diet Varied quite a lot, restock in town once a month Rice, oats, quinoa and lentils Produce that would keep Lost weight, needed more fat/protein [27:04] The medicinals Claire utilized in the wild Bloodwood tree sap for cuts Blackened fern for bites, stings [27:31] How fit and healthy Claire felt during the experience Lost too much weight, depleted some nutrients Gained strength, felt incredibly alive [28:34] Why Claire is back in the modern world Heart of social activist, contribute to change Satisfying to tell story, explore skills in urban setting [30:07] Claire’s insight around rewilding in an urban context Connect deeply where you are Find a sit spot, immerse in wildness Forage for edible weeds Expand sense of vision, open senses [34:54] Claire’s definition of health and fitness Internal sense of aliveness, vitality Sense of purpose, contentment Body strong and flexible Learn More About Claire Nature’s Apprentice My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild by Claire Dunn Claire on Facebook Claire on Twitter Resources Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School

Currently one of the busiest drummers in the Seattle music scene, this week's guest kicked his career off as a freelance musician after graduating from the Berklee school of music in 2009. Three years later, he moved out to Nashville where he played with acts such as Claire Dunn, Josh Wilson, and Austin Janckes (from The Voice), who is currently finding success with his latest single "Same Beer Different Day". Now, back in Seattle, he plays in 5 bands. From blues-rock and country, to pop and gospel, this man does it all. Say hello to the extremely talented, Chris Carlson.

Claire Dunn is a former environmental campaigner who had a transformative year living in the bush without technology, or even matches, practicing nature awareness and rewilding skills. She wrote about her experiences in My Year Without Matches. She now facilitates nature based reconnection retreats and wilderness rites of passage. Find out more at Nature's Apprentice.

Let me start with one big ask. If you are a parent, please really listen to this episode, as it includes many important factors for raising our children. My insightful, beautiful, and profoundly articulate guest today, Claire Dunn, is a student of nature. Claire is the author of the book “MY YEAR WITHOUT MATCHES – Escaping the city in search of the wild”, where she spent a year off grid in a wilderness survival camp. In this episode, Claire and I discuss her experience in living in the wilderness for a year, the mysterious pull that we feel, and the sacred order of survival. But where my heart lies in this conversation is when we start discussing rewilding, where we need to rediscover our wildness, and the beautiful and very import notion of bringing up nature connected kids. Claire is a deep thinker, but not simply in the back corners of her mind, but deep into her soul. I personally took so much away from this conversation and I know you will too. I hope you enjoy x www.liveimmediately.com

We talk about the future, and different scenarios for how we might just survive it in some style, with Philippa Chandler from the Victorian Ecoinnovation Lab (VEIL) and their project Scenarios 2040 project. Later, Kate talks about My Year Without Matches by Claire Dunn.

On this week's show, we feature a conversation with guest, Claire Dunn. She is the author of "My Year Without Matches," which she wrote after spending a year living simply in an Australian forest. She tells us about the experience and how it has affected her. Plus, you'll hear wise words from an indigenous Kalahari leader and also from George Monbiot who talks about rewilding our world. Links for this episode:Book: My Year Without MatchesClaire Dunn's HomepageAbout Claire DunnRight Livelihood Award: 2005 - FPK / Roy SesanaRight Livelihood Award: Speech -SesanaFrom the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot - YouTube Purakai.com - Shop for Organic Clothing from PuraKai - Use coupon code "latest in paleo" for free shipping!