Restoring Harmony with Nature is the foundation of all real and long term transformational eco-sustainability.
This is why one of the United Nation’s Resolutions is very aptly entitled: ‘Harmony with Nature’.
My regeneration consultancy work could be summarised as this: I support organisations, leaders, and change makers to restore a living relationship of Peace, Regeneration, and Harmony with Nature.
The climate challenges we face as a local and global community are systemic in scale. The work that is needed today is multi faceted and multi-generational. We will require greater unity and participation from every sector in society to enable us to navigate the challenging times ahead with our values in tact.
I had the great honour and joy over the last couple of years to bring forward a number of peacemaking initiatives into a collaboration I’ve been involved in with Irelands leading cultural sporting organisation – through the GAA’s National Green Clubs Programme.
These initiatives served our organisation to return back into Harmony with Nature, while building on the Green Clubs Programmes many exemplary initiatives that are empowering us to transition to becoming a sporting organisation for climate action and culture regeneration in a way that is aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development goals.
Their success to date is down to the visionary leaders of the GAA’s Green Clubs Programme, their fantastic partnerships, and all in our clubs who have been participating at a local level.
We are living in a time of transition from being societies that just extract from the earths resources, to becoming agents of right relationship and stewardship.
In times of real transition like the one we are currently in, there is a liminal in-between moment.
This is a time for us to reconnect with our essence, and bring reconciliation into our relationship with the earth, and with each other.
Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
In my coaching and consultancy work, I support leaders and change makers to align with life’s evolutionary impulse which increases their possibilities to generate wholistic pathways for systemic sustainability in service to the dignity and well-being of the whole.
My work is done up-stream, addressing the root cause of the crises present in our world which is the inner orientation from which we are being, living, making decisions, and acting.
I consciously choose to work with people who are willing to engage in the critical inner transformational work that is needed for us to intentionally and deliberately move away from “business-as-usual” responses.
The earth needs us to transition away from a human-centred paradigm, to a living awareness of our interbeing with the Earth and with each other as one interdependent community.
As part of this transition, we are invited to remember that we all have real gifts, responsibilities, and a unique role to play in service to life’s living oneness.
No evolutionary shift can happen unless we move away from individualistic and nationalistic values, towards values that support our shared existence.
Through a series of awareness talks, pointers, and practices I work with the essence of individuals to help sow seeds to support the transition.
When these seeds are nurtured by each individual over time they have the potential to serve a shift into a heart centred awareness which offers greater possibilities to allow life’s innate regenerating impulse to work through us.
This creative impulse is always adding something new to life that was not there before.
There is a degree of receptivity, listening, humility, and willingness that is needed by participants engaging in this work.
If we try to lead regeneration or change making initiatives in a will-full heavy handed way, we will significantly limit the possibilities that can emerge.
If we avoid feeling and alchemising the grief that naturally arises when we become more attuned to hearing the cry of the earth in our hearts, our avoidance will only serve to perpetuate responses from a more rational level, which again is very limiting.
This liminal time we live in invites us to take responsibility for what we have co-created up to now, prior to us individually and collectively awakening to our ecological responsibilities.
I engage a framework that emphasises 5 R’s of right relationship which include respect, responsibility, repair, reciprocity, and regeneration.
Eco regeneration is a form of peace work. In the words of the Lakota Elder, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, there can be no peace on Earth unless there is also peace with Earth.
Our human made climate emergency has already created resource pressures that are a silent factor behind the acceleration of many of our worlds conflicts, social crises, and divisions.
When working for regeneration, Earth Rights and Climate Justice go hand in hand. The initial effects of the climate emergency have been principally felt by those who contributed least to the crisis, and whose human rights protections are already insufficient.
This work of eco-regeneration is a long term multi-generational Trust and adventure that offers many opportunities to co-create more harmony and beauty in our world, while building greater resilience in our communities now to prepare for the challenging times ahead.
As we work together for and with nature, many of us are experiencing that we are being innately woven ever more deeply into a palpable sense of our interconnection with each other, and with our relatives in the more than human world.