Member Spotlight: Kate Avery
This month, we’re excited to introduce Nature’s Blueprint member, Kate Avery
Kate is an integrative somatic practitioner and nature facilitator who works with people at the thresholds of personal and professional transformation.
At its core, Kate’s work is about reconnection – to self, others, and the living world. It bridges inner work with outer expression and impact, supporting people to meet change from the inside out.
Drawing on her own experience of navigating complexity, uncertainty, and change as a leader in global and high-pressure environments, Kate’s approach is deeply rooted in cultivating wisdom from the whole human experience and honouring the interconnected systems in which we live, work, and relate.
Trained in a wide range of cutting-edge coaching and facilitation methods, Kate supports people to awaken and harness the innate intelligence of the breath and body. Working with a combination of somatic practice and breathwork, she helps untangle the barriers to change, release conditioned patterns and stuck narratives, and rewire the nervous system – helping to restore energy and vitality, elevate capacity, and create more embodied pathways toward clarity, confidence, and authentic alignment in life and work.
A passionate advocate for regenerative and systemic change, Kate has a particular interest in working with purpose-driven leaders, founders and entrepreneurs, as well as women navigating the raw and messy terrain of midlife. Through her business The Rewilding Edge, she offers coaching & mentoring, experiential programmes, and immersive retreats.
What inspired you to join Nature’s Blueprint?
I’ve always been deeply curious – about the world, about people, about how everything connects. That curiosity has taken me down many paths, and I’ve developed a very systemic, process-driven view of the world where I’m constantly searching for the patterns and connections between things. I see the interconnectedness everywhere – in nature, in organisations, in how we relate to ourselves and each other.
But following all these different threads can be both exhilarating and overwhelming in equal measure. At times it can feel exhausting – because it’s not possible for one person to know everything, to hold everything. And my perspective on life started to feel isolating. Not because I thought no one else saw the world this way, but because I wasn’t actually in communities where these views were shared. I had nowhere to explore how my understanding of the world – and my place in it – was evolving. No space to sit with the complexity or make sense of what I was seeing and feeling.
As my own work, healing, and growth expanded my capacity and my worldview, I found myself yearning for something I’d spent most of my life without: genuine community and deep connection. After years of conditioned separation and disconnection, I wanted a place to reconnect. I was looking for people who cared as deeply about the planet and humanity as I do. And I’ve come to understand that real healing and meaningful impact don’t happen in isolation – they happen through community, through being in relationship with others who are on a similar path.
When a mutual colleague introduced me to Annie, I knew from our very first conversation that this was where I wanted to be. Here was a community with a shared vision but coming from such diverse and varied backgrounds – all bringing different learning and perspectives to a common purpose. That combination of shared values and diverse wisdom felt like exactly what I’d been searching for.
How do you integrate Nature into your everyday work or life?
I grew up spending a lot of time outdoors. Both my parents loved hiking, so walking with friends and family was just part of life. Both being teachers also meant they had longer school holidays, a lot of which were spent exploring mountains, lakes, and coastlines in the UK and Europe. So I was hiking from a young age – and whilst I can look back now and see how fortunate I was, I can’t say I was always a willing participant. Still, something about it must have settled into my bones, and as I got older the hiking bug caught me properly. It’s a huge part of who I am now!
These days, I spend as much time in nature as I possibly can. I’m fortunate to live on the south coast, which means I have ancient forests, the downs, and the sea all within easy reach. With two dogs, being outdoors isn’t optional – it’s part of the rhythm of daily life.
In terms of my work, nature is woven into the fabric of my business, not just in how I work, but my whole brand and ethos is designed and has evolved organically around it. The name The Rewilding Edge carries deep meaning for me. My own journey has been one of remembering and reconnecting to parts of myself that I had disconnected from, masked, shut-down, and hidden. Rewilding represents the path back to our authentic nature and innate wisdom, much like an ecosystem returning to its natural, self-regulating state. It’s about returning to something essential, natural and wild that lives beneath the conditioning and expectations that we have learnt through life.
And then there are the edges. In the natural world, an edge is where two ecosystems meet – where forest meets grassland, or water meets land. These transitional spaces – ecotones – are highly biodiverse, extremely fertile, and often fragile. We humans have edges too: liminal places of change and transformation where something is ending and something new is taking form. Sometimes our edges are clear – changing jobs, starting a business, a major life decision. Other times, they’re harder to define – more of a felt sense that something is shifting within us, or a knowing that something needs to change, even if the new shape isn’t yet clear. They can feel raw and unfamiliar, but they’re also spaces rich with possibility – wild, generative, and alive. And much like a natural ecotone, we often carry the characteristics, rhythms, and ways of being from both the old that we are releasing and the new that we are becoming. What ultimately grows here depends on how we meet our edges.
This is the ethos that flows through everything I do. In 2024 I trained as a nature-based facilitator and Cards for Life practitioner and have been continuing my studies in circle and rites of passage traditions – learning to create spaces for exploration and transformation in wild places (inside and out). Nature isn’t just a setting for the work I do – it’s a teacher, a co-facilitator, and a mirror for the inner landscapes and relationships we’re navigating.
What specific projects or initiatives are you currently working on that you are excited about?
2026 is shaping up to be a really exciting year. I am currently in the depths and flow of co-creating three retreats with some incredible women, each bringing together the core pillars of my work: breath, body, nature, and community.
One is on the beautiful island of Gozo – “Remember Who You Are” – an immersive experience I’m co-creating with two wonderful women: a soul coach, musician, and serial entrepreneur, and a yoga teacher. Together we’re bringing yoga, breathwork, movement, embodiment, and nature connection into a space where women can explore self-discovery, release, and renewal – letting go of old narratives, meeting their edges with courage, and reclaiming something wild and untamed within themselves.
Another is a UK-based retreat for midlife women – “At the Regenerative Edge”. I’m co-creating this with a friend who is also an amazing coach and bio leadership fellow. It’s still in early design stages, but it will centre on women connecting in circle and reconnecting to self, others, and the natural world through the core principles of The Rewilding Edge.
I’m also working on a retreat in Tenerife with a friend and colleague who’s a functional medicine doctor. This will be a longer immersion combining neurofeedback, functional medicine, breathwork, and nature connection – bringing together science and somatic practice in a really powerful way.
And last – but absolutely not least – I’m particularly excited about designing the first Nature’s Blueprint event on the south coast with my sister. It will be a full day built around the core principles of reconnect, respond, and reimagine – with inspiring talks, workshops, and the chance for passionate people to come together in community through shared purpose.
Can you share a memorable experience you’ve had in Nature that significantly influenced your career or personal life?
There are too many to count, but one that really stands out was a silent disco outdoors in the mountains of Chamonix in winter. If you think silent disco, I don’t suppose it really brings nature to mind. But picture this: we were all wrapped up in winter gear, given headsets, and then given an hour or so to dance. I wasn’t really expecting to have one of the most profound experiences of my life.
But it happened. One moment I was dancing and the next I was transfixed. I was so deeply connected to the music – standing in a small clearing, surrounded by towering snow-capped mountains. I remember the song that was playing: Xavier Rudd’s “Follow the Sun.” The words felt really poignant:
Follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
When this day is done
Breathe, breathe in the air
Set your intentions
Dream with care
Tomorrow’s a new day for everyone
A brand new moon and brand new sun
As I stood there, absorbed in the music and looking around me, all of my senses alive, the full moon started to rise from behind the mountain. It’s hard to describe it, but I have never felt such joy, exhilaration, and calm all at once. In that moment, I felt for the first time what it truly meant to be fully at one with the world. It was an experience I’ll never forget. I can still bring it back when I close my eyes.
And not only was it an incredible experience but it also planted a seed for how I could bring my passions for somatics, breathwork, movement, music, and nature together. It led me to develop a new offering: SomaSessions – a silent disco-style immersive event, an embodied journey into sound and music. I launched SomaSessions at The Brighton Wellness Festival in October. I may not have been able to provide the snowy mountain backdrop, but we were right on the beach and the magic was still there.
From your perspective, what is the most challenging aspect of your work? How do you overcome it?
Working alone has been one of the biggest challenges. Old patterns of hyper-independence and perfectionism have a way of creeping back in, leading to overwhelm and exhaustion. With insatiable curiosity and about 101 ideas competing for attention, I can get scattered and lost down rabbit holes without the accountability that comes from working with others. I really miss working in a team, having colleagues around me – the energy, the collaboration, being in it together. It’s why I set my intention for 2025 as community, collaboration, and co-creation. This year I’ve been actively seeking out spaces and communities – like Nature’s Blueprint – that share my values and vision, where I can meet like-minded people and remember I’m not doing this alone. It’s made a huge difference to my confidence and my energy levels.
Are there any specific skills or expertise you’re looking for that other Nature’s Blueprint members may be able to help with?
Nothing specific at the moment. I really appreciate everything the community and the individuals within it offer – from the check-ins to the buzz points. I’m excited to see how it evolves, and I’m sure there will be increasing opportunities for bringing our ideas and passions together.
We believe that humans have an extraordinary capacity to problem solve & innovate. What gives you HOPE?
It’s easy to look at what’s happening in the world and feel sad, angry, disheartened, even lost. But I’ve learned to actively seek out the good news – the stories of what people are doing at the community level that serve the natural world, our planet, and humanity.
Through my training, and in communities like Nature’s Blueprint, I’ve found so much collective hope and positivity. When we come together – when passionate, committed people gather momentum around what matters – it genuinely feels like a tide can turn.
That’s what gives me hope. Not grand gestures or sweeping solutions, but the accumulation of small, consistent actions. People doing the work, showing up day after day, creating change in their own corners of the world. Together, that’s powerful.
