Equinox Talk: Claire Skye (Dunn) on Rewilding the Soul

Claire Skye (Dunn) is a writer, speaker, mother, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding, the return of nature-based rites-of-passage and initiatory practices, and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and sense of belonging is key to regenerating a compassionate and life-affirming culture. 

For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Her work is deeply embedded in an understanding of a spirituality that includes underworld descent.

Claire is the author of memoirs My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild, and Rewilding the Urban Soul which explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives beside the Birrarung on the outskirts of Melbourne where she lovingly tends her family, her garden, her community, and her own wild heart.

This Equinox Talk will be a conversation between Claire, and Jane Ormonde. Jane is a writer and a spiritual seeker who has a special interest in spirituality of the land. She has a counselling and a spiritual companioning practice. She completed a Masters in Spirituality in 2018 with a particular focus on the question of how to connect with the land, and what it means to practise spirituality as newcomers to this land. 

Their conversation with be followed by a time for questions and discussion.