Earth Insight Leaders

Nature-Based Mindfulness &
Eco Leadership Course February 2027

A 6-Week Online Nature-based Mindfulness & Leadership Program: Weaving Spiritual Ecology, Somatic Practice, Community Well-Being, and Wise Action.

Step out of the rush of modern life and re-anchor into the wisdom and sacredness of the living earth. Reclaim eco-consciousness and a grounded, purposeful life and leadership. An integrative, evidence-informed journey bridging somatic mindfulness, eco-psychology, spiritual ecology and the contemplative wisdom of Eco-Dharma for social and environmental leadership.

Format: 6 Weekly Live 90 minute Sessions + Optional Weekend Retreat
Location: Live Online via The Insight Meditation Institute
Intake open: November 2026| Join the waitlist

Do you feel the pull to slow down and connect to something deeper and expansive?

We live in a culture of constant acceleration—where our attention is fragmented, our nervous systems are overstimulated, and a sense of disconnection from ourselves and the earth is settling in.

Feeling overwhelmed by keeping up with the pressure of modern life and business as usual while there is a meta-crisis unfolding around the globe?
Navigating eco-anxiety overwhelm and burn out and looking for more natural ways to co-regulate, connect and belong?
Want to understand how to transform your emotions and energy into meaningful engagement and a sense of purpose and engagement?
Seeking a community of like-minded leaders, professionals and practitioners dedicated to spiritual practice and intentional care for the living earth, more-than-human-kin and community?

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

The Program Experience

This training program is designed as an experiential, step-by-step pathway guided by The Eco-Dharma Mandala. Effective leadership and well-being do not happen in isolation. Rather than treating mindfulness as an escape from modern life, this journey offers a held container to step out of the hustle culture and engage with the living world and each other. We weave together somatic presence and emotional resilience with eco-psychology, spiritual ecology, and regenerative action, moving intentionally from internal grounding to collective well-being and stewardship, and turning ancient Dharma wisdom and mindful presence into hope and collective, compassionate action.

Guided by the Eco-Dharma Mandala

Rather than a linear checklist, your journey unfolds across four interconnected quadrants of 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.

The 6-Week Curriculum Breakdown

This course is structured into four distinct, highly experiential modules designed to cultivate deep insight, emotional resilience, 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: Staying 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: Wise Action, Strategy & Project Design

Focus: The Eightfold Path, Regenerative Action & Advocacy
What We’ll Explore: Translate contemplative insight into practical stewardship grounded in wise action. Design a grassroots project proposal across key impact areas, including carbon reduction, circular economy principles, backyard or public biodiversity/green spaces, and inclusive social support.

Week 6: Collaborative Leadership & Resourcing

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 stay resourced, avoid burnout, and ongoing Eco-Dharma sangha.

Deepening the Roots
Optional Weekend Retreat in the Otways at The Eco Retreat, Victoria in 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 6-week immersion participants.

Contact Marion to find out more

Who This Journey Is For

Professionals & Environmental Leaders: Practical tools to unwind systemic stress and cultivate sustainable energy.

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.

Marion Miller Mindfulness Coaching Melbourne

About Your Program Leader

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

Marion integrates coaching psychology and well-being science with nature-based mindfulness and insight meditation, systems thinking, spiritual ecology and contemplative practices. She brings over two decades of practice in mindfulness and creative arts to hold space for deep transformation. Her on-going training and practice in Dharma, dpeth psychology and the Work that reconnects have led her to an emergent, integrated, holistic and creative approach to group work and leadership development.

Enrollment & Investment Options

Standard Course Immersion

Full 6-Week Community Course (hours of live group facilitation)
Weekly audio-guided practices & nature homework workbooks
Access to the private course community space
Investment: $250

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

Nature-Based Mindfulness & Eco Leadership Course February 2027