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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