We utilise direct nature experience to unlock deeper insight into one’s sense of relationship with life and purpose in the world.
In this spirit, we have co-initiated NatureAllied (formerly Masiyembo ) – a collaboration of professional nature guides and outdoor facilitators who are bonded by a commitment to create enriching experiences for their participants, while at the same time serving as custodians of relationship and reciprocity: our actions necessarily both human wellbeing and planetary health.
We currently offer meaningful immersive outdoor experiences in partnership with:
- Wild Nights Out
- NatureAllied Journeys
- Bergplaas Nature Reserve (Spirit of the Wild)
- Ecofluency
- Point of Human Origins
Our NatureAllied experiences aim to:
- Create opportunities for people from diverse cultural backgrounds to find meaning and experience well-being through nature for the benefit of humanity and the environment
- Support a dynamic peer-driven standard and shared ethos for facilitated nature experiences that allows people to remember reawaken, remember and rediscover their relationship with life.
- Enable joint advocacy with unified messaging around our collective need to “remember our roots” in nature.
In practice, we integrate various approaches from various practitioners, with backgrounds and expertise in wilderness guiding, biomimicry, conservation psychology, nature therapy, arts-based facilitation, life coaching and social work.
This cumulative wisdom is used to cultivate ecocentric belonging and (re)connection to place.
