Laying the foundation
About Eliya.
I am a nature-based community facilitator with over 10 years experience working at the intersection of people and place. My practice seeks to re-connect communities with their natural surroundings, nurturing symbiotic & rippling webs of care and curiosity.
With a deep reverence for the science and art magic of nature, and creative approaches for engaging the arts, play and experiential meaning-making with groups to respond to each other and the natural environment, my work urges climate action grounded in collective holistic wellbeing, and in so doing harnesses hope to move us towards a more just and joyful future.
Photo by Jonathan Stokes
Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Credentials
About Seed Scholars.
The Seed Scholars solution to Richard Louve's described "nature deficit disorder" is not new, and looks to the long traditions from ancestral ways of knowing to re-form a multi-branched approach to the deep and impactful work of nature reconnection, reaching young people & their networks in a range of spaces.
Nurturing Creative Problem Solvers & Empathy Builders
This work supports the development of creative problem solving, expression, teamwork, empathy development, and confidence-building skills. Seed Scholars' all-weather outdoor sessions, which attend to the head, heart and hands, include:
Familiarising with place with an ecologists' lens
Nature-oriented games, songs, and storytelling to promote sensory awareness and community building
Nurturing food from seed to table - cultivating an edible garden
Encouraging biodiversity throughout the seasons
Using tools, knots, clay, & natural materials for creative nature crafting
Fire-making & fire-tending
Wild foraging & cooking
Climate awareness & action
