Purpose Guides Institute

Craig wrote Amphibious Soul after years of feeling exhausted and empty. He knew this wasn't our natural state. So he returned to the Cape and began diving into the kelp forest every single day, and slowly found his way back.

What he discovered is that we can all do this, wherever we live. Craig learned to track from San trackers in the Kalahari, then became the first person to track animals underwater in a kelp forest.

But his definition of tracking goes far beyond that. For Craig, a track is any clue left by any creature or plant, sand or rock. And his advice is simple: just start small. Seek out marks on plants, trees, rocks, or walls, wherever you are.

This is one of the things I'm most curious to explore with Craig on Saturday 30 May in a FREE online conversation. What does it actually look like to reclaim our wildness when we live far from the ocean and the kelp forest?

Finding the Wild Within
Saturday May 30th
9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 6pm CET
Online on zoom
Free. Open to all. Link in bio.

Don't miss this!

On May 30th, I'll be in conversation with Craig Foster about wildness, true belonging, and what becomes possible, individually, for our species, and for the world, when we remember we are nature? This is a rare opportunity to sit with one of the most compelling voices on wildness, belonging, and our relationship within the web of life.

Free. Open to all.
Saturday 30 May
9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET
Online via Zoom
Register: https://www.purposeguides.org/my-octopus-teacher

Registrations are now open for our flagship Purpose Discovery Program. Uncover your deepest calling, your unique way of loving this world. It's probably the most important thing you can do in these times.

Next step? Book a discovery call. https://www.purposeguides.org/discovery-call-1

These words from Craig Foster cut right to the heart of it. We have forgotten that we are nature. And so much of the mess we find ourselves in stems from this simple forgetting.

Craig has spent 30 years in daily, intimate relationship with the ocean. His book Amphibious Soul asks this question: how do we reclaim a soul-deepening wildness when daily life insists on taming us?

On Saturday 30 May, at 9am PT/ 6pm CET I'll be in conversation with Craig about exactly that. I'm particularly curious about how we find our way back to the wild within us, especially those of us living in cities, far from wild places.

Join the conversation. It's free and online. We'd love to see you there.
Book our spot: https://www.purposeguides.org/my-octopus-teacher

The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.

True eco-awakening is when we have a bodily experience of ourselves as nature, not separate or distinct from it, but absolutely intertwined. This Earth is our primary place of belonging. Our loyalty will forever shift: from human-bound to Earth-bound.

Craig Foster's book Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World, explores how wildness can be found wherever we are, whether we live on the coast or in the city. It's a question I've been sitting with for a long time. How do we return to our natural state of wildness?

And what becomes possible, individually, for our species, and for the world, when we remember we are nature?

On May 30th, I'll be in conversation with Craig about exactly that. This is a rare opportunity to sit with one of the most compelling voices on wildness, belonging, and our relationship within the web of life.

Free. Open to all.
Saturday 30 May
9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET
Online via Zoom
Register: https://www.purposeguides.org/my-octopus-teacher

Rewilding is not a task. It's a way of coming home, again and again.

A remembering that we are not separate from the wild world. We are the wild world, dreaming itself into being through human form. May we walk each day as native souls of Earth, rooted, undomesticated, alive, in service to the Mystery that lives at the heart of it all.