Create Reflect Connect
Nature-Based Wellbeing programs
Connect - Create - Reflect
Bush Talk offers immersive nature-based wellbeing programs designed to help individuals connect with nature, with others, and with themselves.
Our sessions create a safe and supportive space for personal growth, encouraging participants to build healthy relationships and a sense of belonging.
Through shared experiences in nature, we foster community, resilience, and self-discovery, empowering individuals to explore who they are and the world around them.
Enhancing Whole-Person Development
Connection to self
Guided experiences and teaching create the opportunity for participants to increase self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management. Deepening understanding of how emotions and behaviour are entwined.
Connection to others
Explicitly teaching interpersonal skills enables participants to develop relationship skills that help create strong connections to others and enable them to thrive in their social communities.
Connection to Nature
Learning and using bush skills provides participants an opportunity to develop their knowledge and confidence working with and alongside nature and deepen their love and respect of the natural world.
"I love this Bek! I could spend the
rest of my life doing this!"
We offer a unique pathway to support personal development
Bush skills focuses on the use of knowledge and skill with minimal reliance on equipment. Participants will gain experience and appreciation for:
- Fire craft and fire safety
- Simple natural navigation
- Making cordage
- Weaving
- Safe knife handling
- Spoon and needle carving
- Rock carving and decorating
- Outdoor cooking
- Natural craft
- Observation
Here is some feedback provided by a principal who saw the benefit of learning these skills in nature on her students wellbeing...
"One key takeaway is that intentionally connecting children with nature creates powerful opportunities to nurture their wellbeing. The Bush Talk program provides a calm, grounded environment where students feel safe to reflect, express emotions and build meaningful connections with others. This deliberate focus on wellbeing, combined with the natural setting, supports children to develop emotional awareness, resilience and a strong sense of belonging—benefits that extend well beyond the program and into everyday learning and relationships."
Melissa Longford - Principal of The Village School
How we spend our time
Team Building Exercises
Through group exercises, fostering curiosity and self-reflective practices, participants gain understanding of how they operate in a group. This understanding challenges them to increase their social competence while being flexible in finding creative ways to solve problems.
Foraging and using natural resources
Learning about and working with natural resources increases our awareness, enjoyment and appreciation of nature, changing the way we see the world around us.
Circle time
Coming together and sharing as a group creats a great oportunity for deeper conection. Participants are supported in developing their own skills in listening, articulating thoughts and feelings and building respect for each other.
Bush craft
Learning bush craft challenges participants to gain new skills and physical capabilities. This provides opportunities for broadening problem solving skills, developing resilience self-reliance and responsible decision making.
Flexible Learning Programs
All programs are designed to be flexible, so together we can design the best fit for your kinder, school, group or family.
Bush Kinder
- Introducing circle time and the skills of sharing and listening.
- Nature-based activities to increase physical cababilities.
- Explicitly teaching group work skills and setting up team challenges.
- Scavanger hunts to increase curiosity and exploration of nature.
- Introduction to mindfulness practice.
- Build awareness of our first nations people and respecting country.
- Lots of play!
$150 for one hour session
Individual Sessions
- Enhance personal growth and well-being through customized nature-based experiences.
- A gentle opportunity for focused work on social and emotional skills.
- Increase capabilities for setting and achieving personal goals.
- Fostering self-discovery through open dialogue and one-on-one discussion.
- Develop a deeper connection with yourself through personal exploration.
$60 per hour. Min 2 hours
school Well-being programs
- Circle time.
- Explicit teaching and discussion of character strength, intrapersonal or interpersonal skills each week.
- High focus on team-building activities.
- Small and larger group challenges with guidence on increasing helpful social skills.
- Increase appreciation and respect for first-nations practices and people.
- Experience a transformative journey of self-discovery and increased connection to peers through group discussions.
Please contact for more information on how we can tailor a program your school needs.
Family sessions
- Guided nature-based family time that supports healthier ways of being.
- Learning bush skills together provides oportunities to learn from each other and develop greater awareness of each individuals challenges and strengths.
- Tailored support to enhance families personal growth and wellbeing.
$70 per hour. min 2 hours
"It was just what our souls needed."
Rebekah Mitchell
Creating strong relationships and learning about how to cultivate healthier communication has been a strong theme throughout my professional and personal life. My experience as a mentor, counsellor and in education support, has strengthened my belief that helping individuals form strong, healthy relationships directly improves overall happiness and wellbeing.
Deepening my connection to nature and learning bush craft has been personaly meaningful and has lead to an increase in confidence, peace and and connection to the land I live on. This inspired me to begin looking at ways I could combine teaching communication practices with bush skills and natural learning.
In 2021, I began facilitating Bush Talk sessions in primary schools with a goal to explicitly teach the skills of how to have more meaningful relationships. I have delighted in watching participants growth in physical capability, confidence, respect and love in the outdoors and time and time again, observing participants choose to increase constructive and thoughtful behaviour and interactions brings me great joy.
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