Nature’s Blueprint Bristol:
Regenerative Event!
Are you deeply committed to protecting and restoring the planet but feeling exhausted and in need of a recharge? Or perhaps you’re eager to play your part but unsure where to start? Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed or curious, Nature’s Blueprint Bristol is here to support and inspire you.
Come and spend the day with us at Grow Wilder in Bristol, a haven for humans and other nature, on Thursday 6th March 2025 9.30am to 4.15pm, and become a lifetime member of our supportive and inspirational Nature’s Blueprint community.
Who Is This For?
Leaders, Coaches, Educators, and Conscious Citizens:
- Leaders in Communities and Organisations: Seeking a creative thinking space to reimagine pathways forward.
- Professionals in Climate, Social Justice, and Environment: Create new connections and find inspiration to be more impactful in your role.
- Coaches and Consultants in Sustainability: Experience a unique model to support your clients.
- Teachers and Educators: Inspire learners and others to make a difference.
- Conscious Citizens: Find innovative ways to contribute solutions to our current challenges.
What will it give you?
Move From Exhaustion to Empowerment
Feeling exhausted, isolated, or overwhelmed?
Transition to feeling:
- Energised, Refreshed, and Empowered: Shift from feeling burdened to supported.
- Connected and Inspired: Feel ready to take the first step toward impactful change.
- Empowered and Ready to Act: No matter how small you feel, your role is crucial in tackling big problems.
Why This Matters
We are at a critical tipping point for our species and the planet. As Joanna Macy says, “It’s never too late to do as much as we can.” This is your time to take action, to be the ancestor you want to be. Reconnect with nature, reimagine the possibilities, and respond with renewed energy as part of a community of change-makers.
What to expect
Using a range of creative coaching tools the day will offer you a space for fresh thinking and deep reflection. We will walk, talk & share delicious food together from Restore and draw on the wisdom of the group in order to inspire our capacity to:
Reconnect
Experience a deeply rejuvenating connection with nature, yourself, and like-minded people in central Bristol. Discover how natural systems provide us with a blueprint for a better way forward.
Reimagine
An opportunity to feel refreshed, inspired, and ready to reimagine what’s possible for yourself and the world.
Respond
Prepare your next steps with the support of a network of changemakers. Whether you’re starting fresh or seeking more clarity in your journey, Nature’s Blueprint helps you move forward with confidence.
Schedule for the day
9:30 am Arrival, tea/ coffee, informal chat.
10am Introduction, principles underlying Nature’s Blueprint, getting to know
each other and how we’ll work together for the day.
10:45 am Break
11 am Walk, & gentle movement: exploring the magic of nature’s ‘biome’
exploring the themes of diversity, hidden resources, heritage, and
nourishment. Through the story of soil, our food and our unique gut
microbiome, you’ll be reconnecting with your inner AND outer
ecosystem.
12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Creative thinking session.
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Systems workshop: exploring where we are within our own systems, &
playing with what changes might influence that and what that might be
like for us.
3:45 pm What next, joining Nature’s Blueprint community, close of day.
4:15 pm End.
Join Us!
Be part of a living system of changemakers and experience the Nature’s Blueprint model. Included with your event ticket is lifetime membership of the thriving Nature’s Blueprint community, with access to regular free and discounted, supportive and inspirational events, meet ups, information and resource-sharing.
Testimonial
At the Nature’s Blueprint Regenerative Event we were inspired and empowered to take action, to respond to the climate challenges we face. We were given gifts of thoughts and insight, friendship and wonder; which the monthly pulse point sessions act to reconfirm. As I get to know the Nature’s Blueprint members more, I can sense the subtle threads that connect us and our natural surroundings. I am shown how a small shift can have great impacts. That the thoughts I have are echoed by others, and my laughter or tears are met by those who understand. I can be fully myself in this group, and this allows me to explore how I – how we all – can make climate-positive changes as our response. Together.
– Helena Jackson, Waste Prevention manager for East London Waste Authority.
Meet the Team who will be facilitating Nature’s Blueprint Bristol
Cara Wheatley-McGrain
Nature’s Blueprint Coach
Cara is the founder of the Mindful Gut, and Hay House author of ‘Calm Your Gut’. As an eco-somatic coach Cara uses multiple modalities to enable a renewed relationship to gut health.
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Cara works in educational, corporate and charitable settings, to share insights and restore compassionate connections to our inner eco-system (aka gut microbiome) and outer ecosystems. Cara is food grower, mindfulness facilitator and campervan enthusiast with a passion for curating transformational experiences in nature.
Lucy Williamson
Nutritionist, Food and Farming specialist
Previously a vet in the UK and Canada, Lucy is now an award-winning nutritionist with a MSc in nutrition from King’s College London.
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With over 30 years of experience in health, food and farming, she’s part of a passionate community of health professionals and food producers, learning from natural eco-systems, to make better health a reality. Founder of The Gut Project, Lucy communicates on the power of real food and its provenance to restore health and wellbeing via our microbiome. Ambassador for The Real Food Campaign and Love British Food, Lucy lives on the edge of the Chiltern Hills with her RAF husband, two teenagers and Ruarie the border terrier.
Christina Gillett
Nature’s Blueprint Coach
As a Transformational Coach and Physical Intelligence practitioner, Christina helps people to make a positive impact in the world without sacrificing their wellbeing or burning out.
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Drawing on her frankly obsessive passion for all the psychologies and biologies, and a background in making co-creation and community engagement actually engaging, Christina is motivated by helping humans to tap into their creativity, resilience, joy and clear-headedness, and the ripple effect that this unleashes in the world. She loves reconnecting with the natural environment that we evolved to thrive in and is an extremely entry-level-but-ambitious forager.
Prices
- Full corporate funded ticket: £225
- Full self-funded or charitable organisation ticket: £150
- Half price self funded ticket for those on low income*: £75
3 Fully funded tickets are available on application. Please contact us to have a conversation about being considered for one of these tickets. We are particularly keen to invite applications from young people who are not in a position to fund this themselves.
*low income status in this instance is self assessed and on a trust basis. If you consider yourself to be on a low income then that’s enough for us.
Together we are stronger. "Our BIG ambition is to create a network of change agents that have the resources to activate change within other individuals, communities, organisations and ultimately society as a whole. Let's GO!!"- Annie Lee, Founder
