Reclaiming Our Nature
Nature-Based Mindfulness & Eco-Leadership
A 6-week experiential program in Melbourne bridging somatic practice, collective well-being, and wise action.
Step out of the rush of modern life and re-anchor into the wisdom of the living earth. An integrative, evidence-informed journey bridging somatic mindfulness, eco-psychology, and contemplative wisdom.
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Format: 6 Weekly Live Sessions + Optional Weekend Retreat
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Location: Live Online
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Intake: Coming this Spring | Join the waitlist
Do you feel the pull to slow down and reconnect?
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.
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Feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of daily life and business as usual. Looking for a deeper way to self-regulate?
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Navigating eco-anxiety or burnout and longing for a safe container to transform distress into meaningful engagement?
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Seeking a community of like-minded leaders, professionals and practitioners dedicated to slower living, intentional presence, and care for the earth and community?
Mindfulness isn’t about escaping the world—it is about arriving fully into our place within it.
The Program Experience
Reclaiming Our Nature 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 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 living practice:
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Waking Up (Grounding in Mindful Awareness): Re-anchoring in somatic presence, the senses, and the immediate living land.
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Transforming Separation (Cultivating the Connected Heart): Meeting eco-anxiety, grief, and burnout with deep compassion, resilience, and emotional honesty.
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Interconnectedness (Interbeing & Impermanence): Seeing through the illusion of isolation to experience our deep ecological interdependence with all life.
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Wise Action (Regeneration & Reciprocity): Translating insight into active hope, sustainable choices, and regenerative care for community and Earth.
The 6-Week Curriculum Breakdown
Week 1: Waking Up to the Living World
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Focus: Grounding in Mindful Awareness & Gratitude
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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
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Focus: Somatic Regulation & Body-Earth Connection
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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
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Focus: Emotional Resilience & Shared Vulnerability
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What We’ll Explore: Reframing eco-grief and burnout. Recognising that our pain for the world stems from love and interconnection, and holding that space in a supportive circle.
Week 4: Dissolving the Boundary of Self
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Focus: Interbeing & Radical Interdependence
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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 Flow and Impermanence
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Focus: Natural Cycles & Navigating Life Transitions
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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
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Focus: Wise Action, Purpose & The Art of Slow Living
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What We’ll Explore: Turning insight into living action. Clarifying your unique gifts and designing a sustainable, regenerative daily practice for ongoing community and ecological care.
Deepening the Roots
Optional Weekend Retreat in the Otways at The Eco Retreat, Victoria
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 logy practice, star meditation, and celebratory community circle.
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Note: Priority enrollment and discounted tuition are provided to 6-week immersion participants.
Who This Journey Is For
Corporate Professionals & Sustainability 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 & Creatives: A warm, intentional community centered on slow living, artfulness, and reciprocity.
About Your Program Leader
Marion Miller (ACAP Graduate, ACA Registered Counselor, MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, Ecotherapist)
Marion integrates coaching psychology and well-being science with nature-based insight, systems thinking, and contemplative practices. She brings over two decades of practice in mindfulness, and creative arts to hold space for deep transformation. Her training and practice in mindfulness, eco-therapy, Insight meditation and the Work that reconnects have led her to an integrated, holistic and deeply soulful approach to group work.
Enrollment & Investment Options
Standard Course Immersion
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Full 6-Week Community Course (hours of live group facilitation)
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Weekly audio-guided practices & nature homework workbooks
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Access to the private course community space
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Investment:
Course Immersion + The Eco Retreat Bundle
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Everything included in the 6-Week Course Immersion
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Weekend Immersion Pass at The Eco Retreat Boonah (Includes meals & retreat materials)
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Investment:
Schedule a Free Call back with Marion Miller
Book in your free introductory call to find out more.
Join Our Waiting List
This program will be launching in Spring. Have questions or want to join the waiting list? Fill out the form below.
Get in touch with Marion to ask any questions about this program