October 17th through December 8th, 2024

Live Online with Jon Young, Sarah Fontaine, and Guest Speakers


Now with 2 time slots available to join!

See details below in the 'Dates' section...


(Enrollment open until Saturday October 19th at 11:59pm PT)

What happens when we bring the beauty, peace, and flow of the natural world into our interactions and relationships with other people?


In this 7 week journey, we will work directly with Nature, as a partner and role model, toward embodying Cultural Elements of Connection...

• 10 Foundation Stones of Connective Culture


The 10 Foundation Stones of Connective Culture are guiding lights for supporting connection in our relationships. 


They are a set of guidelines, based on universal principles of cultural elements from connective cultures, distilled from decades of Jon's research and conversations with many people worldwide. They create a flexible structure to facilitate connection, and when practiced with intention and awareness, a powerful container for the emergence of unity.


These will be the framework for this journey toward Embodying Unity, with each live online session focusing on one or two of the 10 Stones. 


Learn more about the 10 Stones here.



• Partnering with Nature

Connective Culture starts with the individual, through personal and interpersonal awareness, and practice... our habits and nervous system need time and real experience to change!!

Connecting with Nature builds resilience, the felt sense of safety, connection, peace, and natural curiosity in the external landscape.

By consistently practicing cultural elements with Nature, we can begin to bring an embodied experience of connection into our families, communities, and all of our relationships.

Each session of Embodying Unity with Nature will offer unique practices for connecting with Nature from a the cultural perspective of the 10 Stones, and an opportunity to share your experiences in the live sessions and an online forum.

• Practicing with People

Each session will of course also offer insights and ways of practicing the 10 Stones with people. 

The principles of the 10 Stones can be applied to all levels and areas of relationship and social interactions including loved ones, family, potlucks, celebrations, work relationships, business meetings, gatherings of any kind, tending larger scale communities, or meeting strangers at the grocery store :)

The Invitation...

Connective Culture starts with the individual, through personal and interpersonal awareness, and practice... our habits and nervous system need time and real experience to change!!

Throughout this 7 week journey we will invite participants to focus on  the 'Stone' or 'Stones' of the week, practicing in both nature and with people to the degree that you feel called. 

We will encourage you to journal, and you will have the opportunity to share your experience during the session and in an online forum just for people in Embodying Unity with Nature.

In fact, each session will be an opportunity to get started practicing! We are trying something new: during each session we will actually do the Nature Practice together, then return to share our experiences with each other. Those who can't make it live will have prompt access to the recording, and will get the benefit of hearing the shares from other participants.

Dates — Updated Access!

We are now offering 2 session times so more people can join us live...

Thursdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm Pacific Time

Sundays 9:00am to 11:00am Pacific Time

(Convert to your time zone here)


You are welcome to join either or both times!! Each week, the Thursday and Sunday sessions will cover the same content and practices, so you won't need to join both. Recordings for both sessions will be available to all who register.


The live sessions are 2 hours to allow time for individual nature practice during the live sessions, away from the computer! If you can't make it live, we highly encourage doing the practice we offer as you watch along.


Session 1 — October 17th & October 20th — Stone #1. Welcoming and #2. Wiping of the Road Dust

Session 2 — October 24th & October 27th — Stone #2. Story of the Day and #3. Gratitude

Session 3 — October 31st & November 3rd — Stone #4. Unconditional Listening and #5. Culture of Allowance 

Session 4 — November 7th & November 10th — Stone #6. Surfacing the Gifts of Others

Session 5  — November 14th & November 17th — Stone #7. Peace-tending & Relational Modeling and #8. Facilitation as a Cultural Element

Session 6 — November 21st & November 24th — Stone #9. Compassionate Curiosity and Stone #10. Closing Reflections & Separating our Minds

*Holiday Break* 

Session 7 — December 5th & December 8th — Wrapping the Bundle

Get started now!

Upon registration you will have access to 7 of the 512 Project videos...

The 512 Project is a set of 64 videos featuring Jon Young speaking about Cultural Elements of Deep Connection


(Click on this box to learn more!)


To enhance your experience of Embodying Unity with Nature, we are including videos from this collection that correlate with 10 Stones, including Jon's inspiring talks on Gratitude, Unconditional Listening, Finding People's Gifts, and more!

Discover the peace of being in unity with the natural world, and learn how to embody this experience to support connection and unity with other people...

Embody Unity with Nature

We are offering a sliding scale for accessibility, and greatly appreciate those who create the balance by contributing more, thank you ~

What do we mean by Unity with Nature?

Get the Recording of our Free Event from October 3rd to Learn More!

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Jon Young

Jon Young is a deep nature-people-self connection researcher, mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, author, workshop leader, consultant and storyteller. Jon has been mentored in deep nature connection by his own grandmothers, Tom Brown, Jr. and a host of elders and experts. As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 40 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on mentoring, human intelligence, spirituality, well-being and development has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide. Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007). Jon has appeared in numerous documentaries including The Animal Communicator (2012). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work, which has inspired positive developments in the field, and fostered the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level.

Sarah Fontaine

Sarah is a Energywork Practitioner, Wildlife Tracker, and Interspecies Communicator. For over 25 years, Sarah has been practicing various healing modalities including Chakra-work, Craniosacral Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians and Five Elements, Emotional Clearing, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic Trauma Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory. She has studied wildlife tracking through Shikari Tracker Mentoring with Jon Young and Josh Lane, Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School, and Cybertracker Conservation. She is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and studied Interspecies Communication with Anna Breytenbach and Wynter Worsthorne. She currently offers Earth-based energywork sessions and Wildlife Tracking courses, and lives near the Pacific Ocean in the sandhill mountains North of Santa Cruz, CA with her partner Jon.