Wild
Intelligence
is an
exciting new
approach to outdoor learning and environmental awareness through
creativity. Through workshops and courses in nature it offers
experiences that raise the value of experiencing wilderness as
a multi-dimensional intelligence with the potential to change
lives, to educate at all levels, to heal and inspire.
Science observes and records
nature's behaviour and makes us wonder at her complexity, her
intricacy and her wholeness; artists
respond to the beauty of her seasons and moods with every kind of
expression; spiritual
traditions revere her and in many traditions, seek her advice and
guidance. At a time of the Great Turning, the environmental
revolution and the critical relationship between human life and
the survival of the planet, we are coming to realize that we and
nature are one, and that whatever we do to her we do to ourselves.
This is the context in which many wonderful new opportunities
arise for us to embrace our heritage and consciously live
creatively and responsibly with our planet, her boundless beauty
and limited resources.
In Wild
Intelligence workshops we can deepen our sensory awareness through developing
new interactive relationships
with nature. We take the pathway of active appreciation,
extending perceptions we already have and finding new ones as
we move beyond conceptual frameworks, words and associations. Sensory
awareness then leads to journeys of creative discovery and
personal growth, opportunities to receive experiences, express the
unexpressed and find new joy in rediscovering who we are through
her.
Courses in creative approaches through clay, collecting, ephemeral
expressions, painting and drawing, movement and words, can then
offer a foundation for embedding the experiences
further.
Courses and workshops take place in wild natural environments,
but
not only in remote wilderness areas. Nature's potency is
everywhere, but venues are chosen where it can best be felt and
worked with. Some are short experiences of two hours, half or full days. Residential
courses will be three or seven days, or as needed. They are suitable for all
ages and abilities.
Wild
Intelligence founder Jonathan Middlemiss is a professional workshop
facilitator and artist. He has led many workshops in different forms of
creativity from clay work and painting to land art and movement, and has
offered them to a wide range of abilities.
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Intelligence ©2009
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