Great Oudoors Festival 2021 Presentation: Building Connections With Nature Through Wilderness Skills

This presentation was given to the main stage audience at the 2021 Great Outdoors Festival in the U.K. With around 80% of the population of the developed world living in urban or suburban environments, connetion with nature is not automatic, or a given. Despite this, many people crave an active connection with the natural world. To this end, there seem to be some "rules" around what is acceptable and what is not, however. The aim of this presentation was to explore some commonly held beliefs and accepted wisdom, and see how these concepts fit together, or don't. In particular, I wanted to explore how a modern person utilising wilderness skills can build strong and active connections with the nature, despite this not sitting as comfortably as it might with some of the modern outdoor credos.


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