Some years ago, I had one of those midlife moments of total unravelling. As they do, several major life events had occurred over the space of a couple of years, resulting in displacement on several levels. I'd coped-not-coped through obsessive focus on work.

 

At that time, an assignment took me to a First Nation Reservation in North America where, early one morning, my extraordinary Citizen Cherokee host gave a piercing critique of my condition through her First Nation worldview. Then, taking me out on a completely wonderful, life-altering forest walk, she demonstrated how holistic self-knowledge and a proper, hands-on relationship with nature were the keys to healthy, happy living, especially at times of crisis. I will always be grateful to her. 

 

Back home, I began to integrate my wider cross-cultural and other learnings on relationships with the natural world, wellbeing and intentional living, into a holistic (and ethical) practice that's workable wherever you live. 

 

Since then, many things about our world have changed. I now focus on the essential issue of restoring what many nature-centred communities call our 'oldest knowledge’ - that is, the knowledge of how to be in mutual relationship with the natural world we co-evolved with - to the everyday lives of people in industrialised societies who have lost touch with it.

 

Eden Rooted is informed by many years of research around the world into reciprocal relationships with nature, but is rooted here, in the everyday urban and rural landscapes of Britain. It brings together careful observation, place-based practice, plant knowledge, ecological understanding, and reflective inquiry.

 

I work with people, organisations and companies who are ready to work differently - listening to nature, and to themselves.

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juno@eden-rooted.co.uk