Hi! Thanks for your interest in Rewild Fridays. Rewild Fridays is an invitation to explore ancient and contemporary survival skills, awareness techniques and village building in a small group. You don’t have to go back very far in time to find ancestors who lived close to the land, in touch with the seasons, the cycle of sun and moon. All of our ancestors knew the plants and animals and how to make the tools they needed to survive. All their needs were met from their immediate environment or village. Despite global domestication our underlying blueprint is still wild. So join us! We are hardwired to connection with nature. It feels great to reconnect with your original design and with each other.

Ready to make time for nature connection in your life?

This is the first round of Rewild Fridays in Bellingen (Gumbaynggirr country). It’s about doing the practice together in our own patch, supporting each other and seeing how much fun we can have. Group size will be small and places limited. I can promise that it will open up a new level of connection with self, others and nature, increase resilience and your capability as a survivalist. We will meet with a culture of allowance and with the deepest respect for diversity.

You will learn new survival skills, feel great, and get a grounding in the core routines of connection. Proven knowledge you can apply to your own life, your family or those you mentor.

Each Friday we will come together around Bellingen and the coast to explore activities together.

The program will run from 9.00am till 1.30pm each Friday.

Dates...note there will be no gathering on the 11th of November.

28/10/2022 - FULL (email me to go on the wait list and sign up below to be notified about the next round)

04/11/2022 - FULL (as above)

18/11/2022 - FULL

25/11/2022 - FULL

How much will it cost?.

This is a pilot program, so I'm keeping it cheap.

10 people. Limited places

$40 drop in session

$140 for the four weeks.

Contact Miles to join ReWild Fridays or get more information.

Ph:0427458045

Rewild Fridays will be facilitated by Miles Holmes, with special guest appearances from some of the highly skilled naturalists and survivalists living in this region.

Testimony:

Miles Holmes combines decades of extensive grounded experience in earth and survival skills with a gentle manner and gorgeous attention to those in his care. Whether it's adults or kids, and no matter their experience level, Miles will facilitate their journey into deeper nature connection in a way that is interesting and fun, but also packed with information and insight. He's solid, safe, compassionate and very knowledgeable. He facilitates a beautiful journey into bush awareness. If you're lucky enough to have the chance to do one of his programmes, take it. Gina Chick: Co-founder, Bluegum Bushcraft, home of Rewild Your Child

From Miles:

Hello! I have been facilitating groups in the outdoors for 25 years. My work in nature connection has been national and international, but this project in Bellingen is all about being local.

As a background, my introduction to survival, awareness and tracking was at the school of the renowned American tracker Tom Brown Jnr. Tom promised me that by learning what he was teaching it would be possible to walk into any museum in the world and copy the tools there. Likewise one of my later teachers Jon Young promised that it was possible to track the patterns of the birds anywhere on the world. This has turned out to be true, and I look forward to sharing these universal skills with you. I returned from Tracker school 25 years ago, and was utterly inspired to learn everything I could about survival and awareness. I haunted museums and trawled through old anthropology books, and soon found myself studying anthropology. So began a 20 year career as a social anthropologist. I have now worked with about 40 different indigenous language groups in nearly every state in Australia. I have co-created many projects and, where appropriate I’ll be sharing some cross-cultural insights. One project I am currently working on is called “reading the country,” co-creating a training framework with Warlpiri people in central Australia to pass on the ancient skill of animal tracking to the young indigenous rangers. This was another project I was particularly proud to be part of https://tracksdance.com.au/milpirri-banners-home-page

One of the strongest lessons I have learned from the desert first nations people is that “knowing your place” is a fundamental survival skills. You might be the best spear maker on earth, but it’s of little use unless you know where the kangaroos are! That’s why Rewild Fridays will focus on core routines of nature connection, practices that fast track a deep connection and familiarity with place and open us to peace and joy. The core routines are informed by another wonderful mentor of mine, Jon Young, who is an international expert in storytelling, tracking and awareness.

In a more mainstream space you can see more of my work at www.naturefix.life This venture is all about bringing the recently researched health benefits of nature into a mainstream health space. For example a big study in the UK by professor Miles Richardson found that increasing nature contentedness gave a well being boost 4 times greater than increasing your socioeconomic status (like getting a pay rise). Naturefix has wellness trails popping up all over the country, including hospitals. At Rewild Fridays we will practice some of the evidence backed, nature mindfulness techniques we are using at NatureFix. Check the out the students response to doing the program on the living lab page.

Miles

P.S. Here is a piece I recorded a few years ago, about what nature connection is and why we need it for planetary health.