The Power of Mentoring with Victoria Mew

Connection Matters Podcast

Things we talk about in this episode

• Journey into Nature Connection
• Thomas Schorr-Kon- Trackways
• Wilderness Awareness School
• The Art of Mentoring
• The power of long term mentoring
• The Forest School Associations- Nature Premium Campaign
• FSC- Forest School Camps
• Red Squirrel Resources

Links mentioned in this episode

www.patreon.com/connectionmatterspodcast

https://redsquirrelresources.co.uk

http://www.cultivating-curiosity.co.uk

https://www.naturepremium.org

https://www.trackways.co.uk/home

Our website is www.livewild.org.uk/connectionmatterspodcast

Connect with us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/livewilduk/

My personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/leona.connection.matters/

The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson https://soundcloud.com/visionray

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.