Starting July 24th, 2025
Join Jon Young, Sarah Fontaine, and Looby Macnamara for a journey of creative vision empowerment in a generative community field.
There is still plenty of time to join this course! You can access the recording of the first session here and in the program flow section below.
In these challenging times we truly need the sparks of genius living in each of us to take flame and burn brightly!
The intention of this offering is to create a container of connective culture to nest and breath life into each of our unique visions.
No vision is too big or too small! Bring whatever is moving in you, even if you don't know what it is yet.
Program Flow
All sessions are on Thursdays from 10:00am to 12:00pm Pacific Time
(Convert to your time here; recordings will be available to all who register.)
Free Event — July 24th — Creating Cultures of Connection and How it Matters Now
Open to the public and free, we will share proven, accessible, and universal protocols for cultural transformation. Our visions need a place to land, with people who receive them in a good way: Access the recording here.
Session 1 — August 7th — Renewal of Creative Path group session
The Renewal of Creative Path process helps us track our personal journey to understand how we arrived where we are now, and what is calling us forward. This work helps us refine our vision, big or small.
Session 2 — August 21st — Design Web group session
With Design Web, created by Looby Macnamara, we start the journey of implementing and manifesting our vision. The process balances linear needs and practicality while encouraging space for creative emergence.
Session 3 — September 25th — Harvest & Celebration
This final session will be an opportunity to hear from others and share your own vision, design, next steps, or whatever has emerged for you over the previous weeks.
Time & Integration
The power and complexity of vision can be a lot to integrate! We have set the sessions 2 to 4 weeks apart for this reason.
We will encourage participants to use the time between sessions to go deeper with the tools we share in the live sessions, to connect with others in the community forum for reflection and inspiration, and to tend to their personal needs for integration.
We will also be offering additional deepening and integration practices to do on your own between sessions as you feel called.
Unleash your vision...
We are offering a sliding scale for accessibility and greatly appreciate those who create balance by giving more, thank you!
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$150.00
Regular price
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$200.00
Community Helper
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$100.00
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Meet the Facilitators
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.
Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is an author, designer, gardener, song leader, mother, and artist. Looby is author of five books: Design Adventures, People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently, Cultural Emergence, Strands of Infinity. While writing "People & Permaculture," Looby created the Design Web - an organic dynamic design framework which has been used to create thousands of designs around the world on many scales. Her latest book Design Adventures shares the Design Web in depth, inviting people to activate their inner designer and unlock their creativity.
Looby has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and runs courses online and from her home Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK. Looby has been collaborating with Jon Young since 2016 to co-create the Cultural Emergence toolkit.
Sarah Fontaine
Sarah is a Wildlife Tracker, Interspecies Communicator, and Nature Connection Facilitator.
For over 25 years, Sarah has been practicing ways of deepening connection with self and nature through psychoeducation, neuroscience, somatics and energy awareness. Greatly informed by over 20 years as a professional Massage Therapist and Bodyworker, her studies and practice include Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Trauma Integration, Emotional Clearing, Craniosacral Therapy, Chakra-work, Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians and Five Elements 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 Wildlife Tracking courses, pathways for applying neuroscience and energy awareness to nature connection practices, and co-facilitates online programs for deep nature connection at Living Connection 1st.