Year-Long Nature Based Leadership Training 2026

Name: Year-Long Nature Based Leadership Training 2026
Start: 2026-02-13T03:00:00+11:00
Location: CERES Environment Park

Schedule

Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

CERES Environment Park | Brunswick, VI

Are you someone who longs to connect deeply with nature and learn real skills of resilience and belonging to place?
Do you want to understand more about your unique gifts and how you can be of service to others and the world at this time of great change?
This immersive, nature-based leadership program is the first of its kind in Australia. Building from many years’ experience delivering community learning that is grounded in the natural world, CERES and Nature’s Apprentice are coming together to offer a 10-month program that will create the kind of earth-based leadership and resilience we and our communities will need in the coming decades.
If you’ve felt called to connect more deeply with your passions, to nature, and be supported by a like-minded community then this course is for you. It offers transformational learning through engaging the whole person: the head, the heart and the hands.
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Overview
This course recognises and builds on contributions from ecology, indigenous wisdom, environmental studies, eco-psychology, spiritual traditions, and place-based education, synthesizing and applying them to our local context.
Nature-based leadership draws on these and other disciplines to nurture leadership in all aspects of society, with the aim that people in all relationships—with themselves, others and the Earth itself—contribute to a healthy, peaceful and regenerative present and future.
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Program Design
The course takes a hybrid approach to curriculum, including nature-based experiential activities in the outdoors, classroom discussions, online readings and commentary, and personalised projects.
Beginning and ending with nature immersion retreats outside Melbourne, as well as a mid-way winter residential, the program will cover six core modules that seek to explore both the philosophy and practice of nature-based leadership.
1. Tending the Wild
2. Deep Nature Connection
3. Village Building
4. The Wider Story
5. Leadership, Authenticity and Purpose
6. Spirituality & Sacred Activism
Each module will involve a set of recommended texts and readings, experiential processes and exploration of a broader context that embeds it into work for the world. The modules will be woven together into the retreats, and studied in more detail during the twice monthly workshops and webinars.
Participants will be invited to reflect on their learnings in each module through an online platform, and during a monthly peer-to-peer mentoring call. In the second half of the program, participants are invited to model and integrate the skills of nature-based leadership through creating a small project within their community.
As part of the final retreat, you will have the opportunity to enact a 24-hour Vision Quest to deepen and clarify your gifts and purpose going forth.
Find out More: https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/events/nblt-2026
Applications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwRHlQoOxt34R4aWrnHh0T6wPvf3G6Kw9aCQtfI61RZ7pqAA/viewform