Navigate your world with purpose, power and passion
I create positive change by reconnecting you with the natural world, freeing the magic, aliveness and deep sense of belonging that you were born with - your birthright!
I offer deeply transformative experiences - coaching, immersive nature programs and Vision Quest.
Hi I’m Lawrence
Nature Connection Coaching is an expression of who I am, the healing and transformational journey that I am on, my vision and love for the living world.
A few years ago it felt like the doorway to another world opened…
During a period of massive change and uncertainty, I was introduced to nature connection practices, ancestral skills and the idea of communicating with my soul and internal rightness. I realized the answers and connection I was seeking could not be found in the human world alone.
Literally a world of possibility opened up in front of me (or I should say around me), and I started to realize I have been surrounded by the thing that I was seeking all my life.Deeper connection to nature and the living world gave me a sense of belonging and inclusion that I’ve never felt - or if I had only fleetingly.
It was like through all my searching and personal work, I was continually finding new parts of myself but had nothing central to connect it to, if that makes any sense. As my connection to the living world grew, I began to experience having a foundation, having my feet on the ground.
I realized there’s a deep connection between my internal landscape and my connection to the outside landscape. I now feel the living world around me, the earth under my feet, the air moving in and out of my lungs. I hear the birds and I understand some of what they say.
I have finally realized at an intrinsic and cellular level I am part of something and that something is part of me. This has changed the way I perceive myself, the way I feel and perceive the living world, and my relationship to all that I am.
I feel that my focus is more now about being in service, opening doors so that others may find their way to experience more of who they truly are.
This is my motivation behind Nature Connection Coaching
Call off the search, you’re already home!
It’s not about finding something you don't have. I believe it’s about adjusting your awareness to realize you already have more than you can possibly imagine.
Sometimes I think we can be a little bit like the thirsty fish, swimming around in water looking for a drink.
If we slow down and adjust our perspective just a few degrees, you might realize the world you seek is all around you😊
“ First you must teach the them to love the earth, only then can you teach them to love themselves”
Uncle Tom Kelly, Gumbayngirr Elder
A little more of my earlier story..
As I have got a little older, the idea of being in service and giving something back to this amazing world that we are part of fills me with joy.
I have four daughters in their twenties, three came at once, yes triplets!
I care deeply about the legacy that I leave my children, part of that is being an available, loving and authentic father that they know they can call on.
The second part is taking responsibility for the world I will leave behind, hearing Mother Earth's call and taking my place in affecting cultural change.
My skill set is having a foot in both worlds, from here I can open the door, offering a deeper relationship between you and the earth.
Nature has always been a place of connection for me and home for many many adventures. In childhood it was exciting times with friends on bikes and as far from parents as possible.
In my teenage years it was a sanctuary that gave me a chance to escape from South London and go rock climbing or canoeing and camping with the Scouts.
In my twenties nature was my escape. I left England, came to Australia and spent 10 years in the bush or at sea for months at a time.
By 45, I was married, a father of four and had a mortgage (three things I said would never happen!).
I was a skydiving🪂 instructor and raising my family. It was an amazing and often challenging time…
I had so much and it felt like there was still something missing, weird huh 🤔
My friend took me to a Mankind Project Men's initiation weekend. I was introduced to ceremony, Earth connection, accountability, spirit, spiritual concepts, a brotherhood of authentic men, and so much more!
This changed how I saw myself, how I relate in my relationships, inside myself and in the world.
I’m still involved in this amazing project. From here I spent 9 years deeply involved in mens work and many other personal growth modalities, going on programs and retreats regularly. This lead to the epiphany and starting Nature Connection Coaching
Training and Experience
Nature, Soul and Recovery Coach - International Coaching Registry
Nature Connection Instructor and Mentor - Trained by Nature Philosophy
Vision Quest Protector and program facilitator - Stalking Wolf Lineage (see below)
Trained Facilitator - Mankind Project.org
Ho’opono’pono - Hawaiian philosophy - Consciously returning to balance
Polyvagal Theory - Befriending our autonomic nervous system
Shadow Work - Exploring the things we hide, repress and deny
Skydiving - Chief Instructor / Examiner
I skydived for 26 years, 5624 jumps
SCUBA diving - Instructor Trainer
Diving for 35 yrs, over 2000 dives
Coxswain - Dive Boat Captain
Stalking Wolf Lineage
I have spent the last three years training in the Stalking Wolf Lineage.
A tradition of earth based wisdom, practices, philosophy and ceremonies that has been passed down, with full permission, in North America from a Southern Lipan Apache called Stalking Wolf.
Stalking Wolf’s Vision included preserving the common truths that ran through many cultures in North and South America. He sought beliefs, spiritual practices and ceremonies that worked for all people regardless of their race or skin colour.
As a result, all that has been passed down from this lineage through his apprentice Tom Brown Jnr (see below) has been stripped bare of cultural rituals and symbolism, leaving only the core elements and pure essence - the “simplicity of the spiritual truths”.
These skills and spiritual practices have the power to bridge the gap between modern culture and ancient wisdom. Helping you to sidestep the physical mind and awaken your Wild Awareness.
This brings balance to our modern mindset and way of life, creating a basis of belonging and respect for the living world. A feeling of wholeness and connection which spreads out into our families and communities. These concepts are the bedrock of what I teach.
About Grandfather “Stalking Wolf”
Stalking Wolf was raised free from the reservations in the mountains of northern Mexico. Born in the 1870's during a time of great warfare and violence, he was part of a band of Lipan Apache that never surrendered. He was taught the traditional ways of his people and became a shaman and a scout.
When he was twenty a vision sent him away from his people, and for the next sixty-three years he wandered, seeking teachers and learning the old ways of many native peoples and others who lived close to the earth. Stalking Wolf traveled the length and breadth of the Americas, following the Creator’s call.
He never held a job, drove a car, paid taxes, or participated in modern society. When he was eighty-three years old, he encountered a small boy gathering fossils in a stream bed. He recognized that boy as the person with whom he would spend his final years, and to whom he would teach all that he knew. That boy was Tom Brown, Jr. Tom became the recipient of not only all that Stalking Wolf had learned during his travels, but the distillation of hundreds of years of Apache culture as well.
From - https://www.trackerschool.com/about/about-grandfather
Tom Brown Jr started Tracker School to offer these teachings
