In this episode with Victoria Mew, Forest School Leader and Nature Mentor, we talk about the power of long term connection mentoring and the importance of ones own connection journey in mentoring others. Victoria shares her story of being mentored from the age of 12, throughout her teens and early adulthood, up to today where she now leads others in becoming great mentors themselves. Victoria was instrumental in bringing The Art of Mentoring Camps and the work of the Eight shields to the UK with the beautiful and amazing Maeve Gavin who sadly passed away in 2019. Victoria shares her passion for nature, connection and regenerative culture through all of her work.
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Biography
Victoria has facilitated nature connection worldwide and brings her experience of working with the 8-shields model of regenerative design connecting people to themselves, to nature and to one another since 2006. Having been introduced to wilderness philosophy and survival skills at 12 years old, a passion for nature was ignited. With deep nature connection and mentoring being an ongoing thread throughout her teens, Victoria was lucky enough to do a variety of immersion trainings both in the UK and the USA.
“Through ancient scout experiences as a teenager, I was able to expand into my less dominant senses with extended blindfold drumstalks of over an hour moving towards the sound, feel into the edges of my awareness through stealth movement missions and become aware of how I could connect to source through a variety of practices including sweat lodges, sense meditations and the simple yet profound ‘sit spot’.”
In her early 20s she founded Cultivating Curiosity and developed long term nature connection mentoring programmes for both children and adults in Sussex. A few areas of particular interest are: the power of gratitude; natural fire lighting and conscious fire tending; and the role of questions and stories in pedagogy.