Community
groups & one-to-one
I offer spaces to come back in to connection with your internal community through my one-to-one sessions, as well as with each other, through group nature connection sessions. You can find out more about sessions that I've got happening now here.
For organisations and corporates, this has resulted in the co-founding of The Nature Collective C.I.C alongside my personal community and communication consultancy and project work (see Consultancy below). My smaller, personal group work focuses on seasonal and cyclical gatherings and communities such as the Women's Nature Connection Circles or my offerings through The Moon Collective and Slow Down Spaces.
I've also explored ways to connect and build communities online, founding Take a Tree Break during the Covid pandemic, as well as working with my sister, art curator Lucy Chiswell on Cult, a video series exploring art online through the senses.
Communication
broadcasting & facilitation
With over 20 years experience as a broadcaster, supported more recently by my ecotherapy & ecopsychology nature based training and work, I'm an experienced and professional communicator. Ten years working as an Announcer for BBC 1 & 2 alongside my own national network radio shows on BBC Radio Bristol and others, my communication skills are strong, both verbally and written.
I co-founded the live talk and podcast series Talk Wordy To Me as well as the podcast series Passion Pods back in 2012 at a time when they were a medium that was pretty much unheard of! I'm currently in the process of combining the two with a new podcast series to come in the 2025 - watch this space!
As well as television, radio, podcasts and voiceovers, my experience has also included live event facilitation. I've collaborated with numerous organisations including hosting a live Organic Kitchen Pop Up for Whole Food's at their flagship High Street Kensington store as part of the Soil Association’s ‘Organic September’ campaign. Enterprise Nation is another, facilitating a day of panel interviews and live audience discussions supporting their start-up community, hosting a live podcast interview and Q&A too at their Festival of Female Entrepreneurs.
Connection
advice & creation
I've offered Community and Communication advice and creation to a wide and diverse range of organisations and individuals, offering a one-stop-shop supporting on vision, leadership, internal & external communication, branding, human resources & team wellbeing, both in person and digitally. Offering my skills and experience in support of more collaborative leadership to those that are also modelling that in their development, stepping away from the outdated, dominating, power-over model.
I'm an innovative and creative community founder myself as illustrated above through my podcast and current ecotherapy communities and projects.
Working for others, I've led the internal and external re-shape of the Volunteering offering of both Avon Wildlife Trust and accessible watersports charity All-Aboard. I developed and managed the membership for small business network Enterprise Nation and more recently led on the development of an online alumni community for The Natural Academy. I've consulted on and delivered a new communication and community building strategy for a private estate in rural Hampshire. I also now offer similar work as part of my contribution to The Nature Collective C.I.C. offering deeper exploration of team dynamics and navigation through times of transition, alongside our bespoke nature connection programmes.
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