We are deep nature guides, mentors, therapists, warriors, designers, educators, protectors of Life...
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Scott Davidson is a deep nature guide who cultivates an ecology of belonging through a unique weaving of wildlife tracking, habitat tending and questing in community. He has been deepening connections with people in nature for 17 years and still loves it. As a gifted council and quest guide, he collaborates with the School of Lost Borders, Wilderness Reflections, Wilderness Guides Council, Tracker Academy in South Africa and schools locally. As a wildlife ecologist and tracker, Scott is a leader with the Art of Mentoring and 8 Shields Institute, co-founder of the Tracking & Nature Connection Series and others that bring deep connection and healing for people of all ages in potent service to life. He is certified as Track and Sign Level III with CyberTracker Conservation, and as a Wilderness First Responder for 17 consecutive years. Scott is stoked to live in the wild coastal hills of Marin County, CA, USA. His wise and playful presence and his sound commitment to his work for future generations radiates Aloha into everything he does.
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Dave Talamo, MFT is founder of Wilderness Reflections. He has over 35 years of experience guiding wilderness trips, works as a therapist with youth and adults, and is a certified Wilderness First Responder. A Certified Hakomi Therapist, Dave is a pioneer in the field of ecotherapy and was one of the first quest guides to develop a somatic approach to questing. He is committed to the expression of joy and authenticity through the body and to helping others experience their own embodied selves in an intimate, ecstatic relationship with Nature. Currently, he spends most of his field time apprenticing new guides and training therapists in the ways of bringing Nature into the therapy process.
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Regina Williams is a mentor, educator, wilderness quest guide, and facilitator for groups of all ages. She’s dedicated to the cultivation of healthy relationships among all beings, and particularly to the rise of feminine leadership, so that the masculine, feminine, and all in between can co-create with more balance and ease. Being a woman of heart and passion, she works along side nature to call forth the highest potential and gifts in others. Through her training and work with Weaving Earth, the Regenerative Design Institute and the School of Lost Boarders she has honed her skills in the wilderness quest ceremony, council practice, grief tending, deep nature connection, primitive skills, wild tending and permaculture. She also holds a BS in Environmental Science and Policy from CSU Monterey Bay. She has fasted, trained and assisted with the School of Lost Borders and is a Wilderness First Responder. She’s a lover of backpacking in the mountains and samba dancing to loud and live drums!
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John Brossard has studied tracking intensively for eleven years and is a certified Track & Sign Specialist by CyberTracker International (www.trackercertification.com), He received six years of mentoring from from tracker and culture repair specialist, Jon Young, and years of study with Senior Trackers Casey McFarland, Mark Elbroch and Dave Moskowitz through CyberTracker Evaluations. He has co-led the Tracking & Nature Connection Series with Scott Davidson for six years.
John is a graduate of RDI’s Ecology of Leadership program. He is a leader and teacher as Personnel Manager at Good Earth Natural Foods. John brings a deeply felt, lifelong relationship with nature to what he shares. He is inspired by a holistic view of our place in nature, as well as expanding consciousness of who we truly are in a deeper sense. His desire and approach is to promote a high level of skill in tracking as a path to greater intimacy and connection with nature, so we can become more in touch with the physical and numinous source that it is. More about John |
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Vanessa Eyen, MA, LMFT, is passionate about helping people foster an authentic connection to themselves, others and the natural world. She gives her gifts to the community through founding the Center for Nature Based Therapy where she provides therapy as a licensed marriage and family therapist, guiding wilderness rites of passage programs, teaching personal and social sustainability at Credo High School, and as a joyful and dedicated mother to her son Sage.
Vanessa Eyen is passionate about blending heart centered deep listening and reflection with the healing aspects of being in a natural and outdoor setting. She helps guide people of all ages to a deeper connection to nature and one’s own wisdom within, specializing in Teen, Family and Nature Based Therapy with 15 years experience working in the outdoors and with teens. NatureBasedTherapy.com EarthWaysLLC.com |