Recent Projects

• Designing and facilitating nature-based peacebuilding programs and workshops at the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding, for leaders, educators and youth.
   

• Leading the creation of the Nigeria Peace Web, an open-source, digital repository of peace actors and programs across Nigeria, for Conflict Research Network West Africa.
   
• Delivering live online training on the climate and nature emergency for AimHi Earth.
   
• Designing and facilitating workshops for with a focus on MHPSS for residents of Mavrovouni refugee camp on Lesvos, Greece.
   
• Volunteering for the Red Cross’ Restoring Family Links program at the Humanitarian Hub in Brussels.

Lineage & Training

Above any formal education and training, I am grateful first and foremost to the guides and mentors who provide the inspiration, wisdom and rooting for my life and work:

Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rob Hopkins, Rebecca Solnit, Micah Mortali, Arne Naess, Jane Goodall, Francis Weller, Mary Oliver, Satish Kumar, Stephan Harding,  Rainer Maria Rilke, David Abram, Ben Page, Youssef Mahmoud, as well as my more-than-human kin, Giant Sequoia, Oak, Grey Wolf and the Salish Sea.

Education & Training
 

• BA Modern Languages and Cultures, Spanish, Arabic and Italian | Durham University
• MA International Affairs | Peace and Conflict Studies | Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
• Certified Forest Bathing Guide | Association of Nature & Forest Therapy (ANFT)
• Work That Reconnects Facilitator Program | School of the Great Turning (in progress)
• Environmental Peacebuilding Project Management Training (in progress) | ECCP
• Grief Ritual Leadership Training Online Course (in progress) | Francis Weller
• Restoring Family Links (RFL) Training | Red Cross Belgium
• Survival & Rites of Passage Course | Wisdom of the Earth Wilderness School
• Wilderness First Aid | Canadian Red Cross