Claire Dunn joins Tahnee on the podcast today. Claire is an author, journalist, educator and barefoot explorer. Claire is dearly passionate about fostering a deep connection to the earth, the self and community. Claire's work centres around ‘rewilding’ both the inner and outer landscapes. Claire has a keen interest in the
psychology of the human-nature connection and offers retreats and Vision Quest's to help guide people back to their true and wild selves.
Tahnee and Claire discuss:
The journey that led Claire to her rewilding work.
The universality of our human connection to earth.
The concept of "claiming place".
Supported solitude and Claire's year without matches.
Moving out of patriarchal cultural conditioning into an embodied feminine space.
Claire's new book Rewilding The Urban Soul.
The importance of knowing your neighbour in these isolating times.
Self sufficiency vs community sufficiency.
Who is Claire Dunn?
Claire Dunn is passionate about connection - to earth, self, and other. Claire believes that rewilding of our inner world is the key to rewilding our planet. Claire connects through her work as writer, journalist, educator and barefoot explorer. In 2010, Claire immersed herself in the Australia bush for four full seasons as a kind of self-designed initiation. She tells her story of this transformational experience in her book,My Year Without Matches. Claire also worked for many years as a campaigner for The Wilderness Society and as a freelance journalist, writing forThe Age andThe Sydney Morning Herald, while studying postgraduate psychology. Claire is a passionate advocate for “rewilding” our inner and outer landscapes, and she facilitates nature-based reconnection retreats and contemporary wilderness rites of passage. She currently lives in Melbourne where she writes, offers personal mentoring, and lovingly tends her garden.