Taster | Kincentric Leadership

Intelligent, Communicative, Alive
Waking up to the animacy & personhood of the natural world

A one-day workshop that can come to your community

Would you like to:

tap into new scientific discoveries that reveal the network of relationships and constant communication that exist within the natural world?
understand how those discoveries mirror indigenous worldviews?
learn simple practices that will help you tune in to dfferent forms of intelligence and different kinds of conversations going on in the wild?
explore how reimagining humanity's place in the wider community of life might be inextricably bound up with other struggles for equality?
get clear on how thinking and acting more like nature makes us more resilient and efficient?
consider how to internalise these understandings and live them in your life and work?
take action to more consciously support the web of life?

Join us for a rewarding and thought-provoking day absorbing the revolution going on in our scientific understanding of non-human intelligence and connectedness, and exploring the ways in which it reflects ancient wisdom. Come into a new relationship with the wider web of life around us and open to some of its many languages. Be nourished by indigenous understandings of kinship which can deepen our sense of belonging. Take time listening to each other and to the more than than human world. Share kincentric stories and experiences. Engage in simple acts of service for the Earth. Explore how to bring these learnings and experiences into your every day life and practice.

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Science: Learn from scientists such as Monika Gagliano, Barbara Smuts, Suzanne Simard, James Bridle and Merlin Sheldrake about the intelligence and interbeing of nature. Understand how scientists are increasingly uncovering a reality that mirrors that of ancient wisdom.

Indigenous wisdom: Drawing on teaching materials from indigenous leaders such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pat McCabe, Sicelo Mbatha, Enrique Salmon and others. Enter into the world of Earth as a living being, all life as sacred and all beings as kin.

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Nature time: Experience solo time in nature opening to deeper ways of listening to the more than human world. De-centre the ego and consciously reconnect with the wider circle of life. Participate in simple opportunities to care for and serve the land we are part of.

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Justice: Explore the fast-growing movement for the rights of rivers, mountains and all of nature. Understand the relationship between ecocide, colonialism and the oppression of people of colour. Learn about radical new thinking on the political agency of non-humans.

Facilitators

Justine Huxley

Justine is a writer, facilitator, and spiritual ecologist whose core passion is awakening humanity to a deeper experience of kinship with all life. She co-founded Kincentric Leadership with Anna Kovasna and leads workshops, retreats, and trainings on aligning leadership and decision-making with Earth-based wisdom. For over 18 years, Justine served as CEO of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, where she pioneered programmes at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and peace-making. She is the author of Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change, and holds a PhD in psychology. Rooted in a Sufi tradition, she has led meditation and dreamwork groups for more than two decades, while continually orienting her practice towards reweaving our relationship with Earth and responding to the needs of our times.

Anna Kovasna

Anna is a systems thinker, creative convenor, and weaver of resilience and kinship with all life. She cofounded Kincentric Leadership with Justine Huxley and works with communities worldwide to catalyse systems-change and regenerative practice rooted in animist and relational worldviews. With a long history in the ecovillage movement, Anna also serves as Strategic Lead for Community Resilience at the Global Ecovillage Network, is a trustee of Transition Network and Gaia Education, and cofounded the Living Systems Alliance, advancing more-than-human governance and place-based living-systems design. She lives with her more-than-human kin on a homestead in the Pyrenees, and brings a background in social anthropology, a love for the living world, and extensive experience in facilitation and community living.

It has certainly expanded my consciousness on so many levels, and I feel like life won’t be quite the same again

Book a talk or workshop

The content above can be shaped to fit a talk, afternoon or whole day workshop. It works well in-person in an setting with access to the outdoors - such as community garden or eco-project - but it also works well online.
We can adapt to the interests, existing knowledge and budget of your community.
Get in touch for a chat about what's possible!

Bees, ants, and foxes use mathematics in a way that is far more sophisticated than we ever imagined. Slime mold remembers the shortest routes to food without a brain. Moisture-loving fungi make rain. Plankton create clouds when the sun burns too hot. Squid and octopus edit their own brain genes. And wild dogs use sneezing as a collective decision-making process to organize activities.