Nature-Based Mindfulness & Leadership

A 6-week experiential program in Melbourne bridging somatic practice, collective well-being, spiritual ecology 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 contemplative wisdom.

Format: 6 Weekly Live Sessions + Optional Weekend Retreat
Location: Live Online
Intake: Coming soon | Join the waitlist

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

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 can quietly settle in.

Feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of daily life and business as usual. Looking for a deeper way to self-regulate?
Navigating eco-anxiety or burnout and longing for a safe container to transform distress into meaningful engagement and a sense of purpose?
Seeking a community of like-minded leaders, professionals and practitioners dedicated to slower living, intentional presence, and 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

The Nature-based Mindfulness and Leadership program is designed as an experiential, step-by-step pathway guided by The Eco-Leadership Mandala. True 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 hustle culture and re-anchor into the living world. We weave together somatic presence, emotional resilience, contemplative eco-psychology and spiritual ecology, and regenerative action—moving intentionally from internal grounding to collective well-being and leadership, and turning ancient wisdom and presence into active hope.

Guided by the Eco-Leadership 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: TBA
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, somatic eco-arts practices, 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 us.

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: Reframing eco-grief and burnout. Recognising that our pain for the world stems from love and interconnection, and holding sacred space in a supportive circle.

Week 4: Dissolving the Boundary of Self

Focus: Interbeing & Radical Interdependence
What We’ll Explore: Challenging the myth of the isolated self through contemplative practices like Breathing With the Web and Deep Mapping of the elemental world within.

Week 5: Embracing Eco-consciousness and Impermanence

Focus: Natural Cycles & Navigating Life Transitions
What We’ll Explore: Learning from ecosystems about change and renewal. Using nature-mirroring to navigate personal and cultural transitions with greater equanimity.

Week 6: Active Hope & Wise Reciprocity

Focus: Wise Action, Purpose & The Art of Slow Living
What We’ll Explore: Turning insight into living path of action. Clarifying your unique gifts and designing regenerative daily habits for intentional community and ecological care.

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.

The Weekend Retreat Deepening the Roots will give participants a chance to practice together in the nurturing foothills of the Otways.

Silent walking meditations across pastures, 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 mindfulness, eco-therapy, Insight meditation and the Work that reconnects have led her to an emergent, integrated, holistic and deeply soulful 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: TBA

Course Immersion + The Eco Retreat Bundle

Everything included in the 6-Week Course Immersion
Weekend Immersion Pass at The Eco Retreat Boonah (Includes meals & retreat materials)
Investment: TBA

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