Eco Leaders

Nature-Based Mindfulness &
Leadership Course Australia

An 8-week immersive mindfulness and regenerative leadership journey exploring personal transformation and real-world impact. Grounded in care for the earth, this journey expands your personal, social, and systemic perspective—empowering you to lead, heal, and act with clarity and a common purpose for the living world.

Format: 8 Weekly Live 90 minute Sessions + Optional Weekend Retreat
Location: Live Online via The Insight Meditation Institute
Dates: March 20th 2027-08th May
Times: 10am-11.30am AEDT
Intake open: Early Bird Special Available!

Return to the Living World.

Modern culture demands non-stop acceleration, leaving our focus scattered, our bodies chronically on edge, and our vital link to the earth frayed. Struggling under the weight of global instability while trying to meet everyday demands isn’t an individual flaw; it’s the natural outcome of a system out of balance. Rather than viewing nature merely as a resource for healing, this program cultivates a deep, reciprocal relationship centered on mutual care and ecological stewardship.

Eco Leaders is an environmental well-being program offering a sacred pause, a space to step away from the noise and re-root in ecological wisdom. Over eight weeks, you will learn to settle your nervous system, cultivate nature-based healing practices for yourself, your community and the earth, and examine the structural drivers of collective harm. Together, we move through eco-anxiety and burnout toward renewed vitality and reciprocity, guiding you to build the courage to share your gifts, design or deepen into a tangible, grassroots initiative for sustainable, nature-based leadership in Australia.

Early Bird Special via Humanitix.

Mindfulness isn’t about escaping the world—it is about arriving fully into our place within it.

Core elements of our somatic mindfulness and leadership framework

Nervous System Restoration: Acquire earth-based somatic tools designed to calm chronic overstimulation and establish steady, lasting resilience.
The Earth as Co-Healer: Shift from seeing nature as a passive setting to engaging the living world as an active participant in our relationship to individual, community and nature restoration.
Root-Cause Clarity: Examine the socio-cultural and economic forces driving systemic exhaustion and harm, empowering you to respond with grounded wisdom instead of habituated reactivity.
Reframing Eco-Grief into Purpose: Channel ecological anxiety and helplessness into grounded action, renewed energy and purpose, reciprocity and practical hope.
Narratives that shape us: Explore the stories that shape our time, make sense of the world you live and how you want to engage in the work of transformation.
Tangible Project Creation: Turn mindfulness, insight meditation and ethics into real-world application by nurturing your gifts and developing or connecting with a local environmental, sustainability or community initiative.
Connected Eco-Community: Share space with a dedicated network of leaders, thinkers, change-makers and artists through a supportive WhatsApp group focused on rsupport, eciprocity, slow living, and care.

Guided by the Eco-Leaders Mandala

Rather than a linear checklist, your journey unfolds across four interconnected quadrants of secular spiritual ecology practice:

Waking Up (Grounding in Mindful Awareness): Re-anchoring in somatic presence, the senses, and the immediate living land.

Transforming Separation (Cultivating the Connected Heart): Meeting eco-anxiety, grief, and burnout with deep compassion, resilience, and emotional honesty.

Interconnectedness (Interbeing & Impermanence): Seeing through the illusion of isolation to experience our deep ecological interdependence with all life.

Wise Action (Regeneration & Reciprocity): Translating insight into active hope, eight interconnected habits to live a wise, kind, and focused life, and regenerative care for community and Earth.

Professional Accreditation & Format

CPD Hours: 12 Points
Format: Live online to help you connect with your own natural environment. Includes live sessions, activities, practices and reflective writing.
Interactive: Includes reflective modules, guided nature meditation, mindfulness for nervous system regulation, embodied nature practice and fully facilitated asynchronous peer discussion forum.

Who This Nature-Based Leadership Journey Is For

Conscious Professionals & Environmental Leaders: Practical tools to unwind systemic stress, cultivate sustainable energy, regenerative relationships with land and community and a nature-based leadership approach.

Allied Health & Helping Professionals: A grounded, eco-somatic framework to prevent burnout and support client care.

Community Seekers, Nature Lovers & Creatives: A warm, intentional community centered on slow living, artfulness, and reciprocity with the earth and community.

The 8-Week Curriculum Breakdown

This eco leadership and mindfulness development course is structured into four distinct, highly experiential modules designed to cultivate deep insight, emotional resilience, creativity and a life-sustaining purpose and professional practice:

Week 1: Waking Up to the Living World

Focus: Grounding in Mindful Awareness & Gratitude
What We’ll Explore: Shifting from viewing nature as a backdrop to experiencing ourselves as nature. Establishing a personal "Sit Spot" and re-sensitising our awareness to what sustains our lives and work.

Week 2: The Somatic Landscape & Presence

Focus: Somatic Regulation & Body-Earth Connection
What We’ll Explore: Understanding how chronic stress disembodies us. Using sensory engagement and earth-anchored body scans to soothe the nervous system and move out of "hustle mode."

Week 3: Being Open to Compassion and Joy

Focus: Emotional Resilience & Shared Vulnerability
What We’ll Explore: Navigating eco-grief, anxiety and burnout. Recognising that our pain for the world stems from our love and interconnection. Holding space for diverse experiences in a supportive circle and transform energy for motivation.

Week 4: Eco-Consciousness & Impermanence

Focus: Interbeing, Ecosystemic Change & Navigating Transition
What We’ll Explore: Challenge the myth of the isolated self through Breathing With the Web and Deep Time practices. Explore how ecosystems navigate death, decay, and renewal, using nature-mirroring to meet personal and cultural transitions with equanimity and wisdom.

Week 5: Systemic Awareness & Interconnected Support

Focus: Structural Harm, Deconstructing Oppression & Systems of support
What We’ll Explore: Examining how ecological degradation and social inequality stem from the three poisons. Shifting from personal to collective awareness, recognising the stories that shape us and that personal liberation is inseparable from dismantling systemic oppression and cultivating mutual support.

Week 6: Grassroots Regeneration & Local Action

Focus: Community Eco-Resilience, Circular Systems & Transformation
What We’ll Explore: Translating eco-consciousness into localised action. Explore your sacred gifts and the grassroots impact areas your passionate about, including carbon emission reduction, biodiversity, circular economy, resilient local food networks and compassionate social support.

Week 7: Wise Action, Strategy & Project Design

Focus: The Eightfold Path, Regenerative Action & Reciprocity
What We’ll Explore: Translate contemplative insight into practical stewardship grounded in wise action. Design a grassroots project proposal across key impact areas.

Week 8: Regenerative Leadership & Support

Focus: Project Showcase, Peer Collaboration & Stewardship
What We’ll Explore: Present your grassroots project outline in a supportive peer forum to gather constructive feedback and collaboration. Establish a personal integration plan to support yourself and others, avoid burnout, and ongoing connection.

Enrollment & Investment Options

Standard Course Immersion

Full 8-Week Community Course (hours of live group facilitation)
Weekly audio-guided practices & nature home worksheets
Access to the private course community space
Investment: $250 (concession available)

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Deepening the Roots
Optional Weekend Retreat in the Otways at The Eco Retreat, Victoria. Late 2027

Nestled in the quiet countryside at our Boonah Farm, this optional 3-day retreat allows you to step fully into silent land contemplation, community circles, dawn sit spots, and hands-on-the-soil learning and leadership lab.

The Weekend Retreat Deepening the Roots will give participants a chance to practice earth-centered mindfulness together and create supportive relationships for their projects in the nurturing foothills of the Otways.

Silent walking meditations, Council of All Beings deep eco-psychology practice, star meditation, tuning in to the sacred aliveness of the Otway ranges and celebratory community circle.

Note: Priority enrollment and discounted tuition are provided to 8-week immersion participants.

Contact Marion to find out more

About Your Program Leader

Marion Miller (ACAP Graduate, PACFA Registered Counsellor, MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, Ecotherapist)

My down-to-earth approach is informed by these core streams: Coaching Psychology, Mindfulness (MBSR) and more broadly the Insight Meditation tradition, Ecotherapy, The Work That Reconnects and Spiritual Ecology; all flowing into one emergent practice.

Along with coaching, teaching and facilitating, I am a studio artist working from my Glen Iris studio, and am currently developing The Eco Retreat, a nature-based retreat, organic farm, studio and regenerative landcare project on 70 acres in Boonah, Victoria.

Find Out More About Our Nature-based Mindfulness & Leadership Program and Contact Marion Today