
BEWILDER
You were made by earth, from earth, for earth
Find out what you are here to be .

Conventional knowledge is death to our souls and it is not really ours...we must become ignorant to what we have been taught and become, instead, bewildered.
Rumi
BELL SELKIE LOVELOCK
Nature-based Human Development Mentor

I have been rooting into Cymru for 28 years, rewilding alongside 40 acres of ex-chemical dairy land in a multi-species co-creation called Ddaear Ydym Ni ! We are Earth !
Courting the edge where the worlds meet, I resecrate (restore to sacredness those who have been desecrated) land, people, rivers, trees , practices of living, language... Resecrating is the part of a new indigeny and I've been weaving together hearth and soul for 27 years, with much practical experience of creating strong physical, emotional and cultural " baskets" in which folks can unravel in order to tend to and heal and / or make sacred the wounding that is within them and around them.
My work with individuals and groups, Bewilder, is inspired by Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute with whom I'm a member of the Animas Guides Guild as a Wild Mind guide and a trainer for the Wild Mind training program. I also co-conspire with Starter Culture , an initiative dedicated to supporting inner-led change in service of outer ecological and social change. I lean into 20 years experience of counselling and life coaching, of home-educating six children, co-founding and living in housing co-operatives and an organic farm co-operative, of bee-keeping and growing food, non-violent direct activism for earth, and the casting of wordspells as a poet/writer.
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ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING
Deepen into your belonging and discover what earth made you to be ...connect to yourself, other people and the other than human world around you... working with a nature as mirror and guide
Sessions either in person or online. Wild Mind guide and trainer with Animas Valley Institute , was an accredited member of BACP and am an accredited NCFE Lifecoach.
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GROUP OFFERINGS
These range from day-long immersions and nature connection circles (in person or online) to collaborations with others such as vision quests and intensive programmes as well as hosting Animas Valley Institute programmes in UK.
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Dreaming the World to Come - online program
Jan 27rd, Feb 3rd, 10th, 17th 2026 6pm-8.30pm GMT
What if we are part of Earth’s dreaming; past, present and future? What if our gift of being human in these times is to offer our personal and collective deep imagination to Earth’s vision? Instead of knowing what will come and making plans and resolutions for the new year, we invite you to risk following your heart into the depths of the questions:
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What is Earth up to in and through these times of crises and collapse?
How might we dream with Earth, the world to come?
What is a dream? There is the dream that visits us at night or in a sacred vision, and the dream that is our imagination expressed through our creativity. And there is the dreaming, the way humans are interwoven with life through space and time, in our own human ancestries and also other-than-human and place ancestries. We could say that Earth is dreaming us; through us and as us. We are part of and within Earth’s dreaming, which includes all creatures, and that our dreams arise directly from the dreaming of Earth. Dreams are like love letters from Life and Earth to our Souls that we might overhear.
As we re-member ourselves as part of Earth’s body and the dreaming we call Life, we awaken to the potential in our dreams. As we begin to remember our own dreams by deepening into the world of the dream and the emotions and aliveness within them, we let them guide us, rather than interpreting them. Bringing a dream from the night world into the day world, we dream into living a soulcentric life. This way of being in the world shifts the consciousness of our waking world into a deeper, more mysterious and soulful way of being. This changes the choices we make and the ways we are in relationship with our web of relationships across all strands- self, other human, wild others and unseen ones. When this happens, we can begin to listen to Earth's dreaming and center the wild voices of our world and our souls; rather than the feeding the consumerist habits of numbing and distraction, we feed Life and the Holy Wild.
We begin in the darker part of the seasonal year, with night dreams and as we circle towards the spring we will look at the ways Earth’s dream can be courted and amplified using nature-based Tarot and other divination practices. We will explore how we remember dreams, seed dreams and let the dream “work us” (rather than working on a dream). We will learn how to listen and understand their messages, both personally and collectively and how might we be guided in these times by the deep time/the dream time. And over the weeks each of us will open to experiencing how each of us uniquely might co-create the dream of this world with Earth.
Practices will include:
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Dream council
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Dream work- telling the dream, movement, expressive arts etc.;
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Seeding dreams to invite conversation with Soul and Mystery;
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Co-dreaming with Earth in these times of collapse;
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Letting ourselves be guided by Earth;
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Shared dreaming with the other participants;
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Working with nature-based Tarot;
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Inviting Earth to write through us;
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Dream deep imagination journeys and more...
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​Wild Mind Foundation program - online
March 10th /14th/ 17th /24th/ 28th/ 31st 2026
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 6 session program is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person.
Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and eventually integrate them into our everyday lives. In this online course, we’ll access these depths and potentials — which we call the four facets of the Self, or the four dimensions of our innate human wholeness — and also the four sets of fragmented or wounded parts or “subpersonalities” that form during childhood.
We will cultivate the four facets of the Self and deepen into our innate wisdom, creativity, vision and emotional aliveness. Rather than attempt to eliminate our protective and wounded parts (which is not possible) or to beat them into submission, we’ll listen compassionately to them and uncover their gifts. This online offering not only invites an opportunity to experience and embody the parts of the Wild Mind map of the human psyche in an accessible and simple way, it also supports you to bring the learnings home into your daily life, in order to practice awareness of your resources, protective strategies and wounded ones as they show up in your relationships.
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Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island Retreat - Cymru /Wales
April 11th -18th 2026 ​
There is an island off the west coast of Cymru that is known as island of tides. On this rock, sea prevails and you are always in the sound, smell and sight of water. It’s called a holy island – the island of 20,000 saints and is a pilgrimage destination. Before christianity it is said that it is the burial place of Myrddin/ Merlin. It’s a place to get whole.
This is a retreat , mostly silent and intended to largely a solo time out of conversation with humans and with other-than-humans. There is no electricity in the house we are staying in and virtually no reception on Enlli so it’s a good place to stop, tech detox and to align yourself as spring energy begins its flow. There is very little to do except be here. Be weathered, be enchanted, be in the cry of sea birds as they return to raise their young on the cliffs, be under the spell of fire that is the heat for Ty Capel, the house we'd stay in.
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You are invited to come and to be as present to this place as you can be – this isn’t just an opportunity for you to take space and time for yourself, but also a time to offer your full attention to a place and to listen in deeply to the conversation of rock, water, seal, chough and wind and willows.​​​
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For more details and to book , please email me.
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Advanced Wild Mind Intensive ~ Spirithorse , Cymru
April 28th - May 4th 2025
Are there patterns, habits and unhelpful protective strategies running in your life that you see are limiting your way of showing up in the world?
This program is for those who have participated in a Wild Mind intensive, and is an opportunity with loving and brave intention, to go deeper with the Map of the Psyche and explore the terrain of your inner wilderness with honesty and authenticity.
Wholing and self-healing work is never done! In fact, the more we deepen into being soulful humans, the more we reveal the places in us where we feel stuck, wounded, or not at full power. This is because the more inner resources we have, the bigger psycho-spiritual risks we are able to take, and therefore the larger the response from protective parts who still so desperately want to keep us safe and small! Those intense emotional reactions (including the numbness/ not feeling of east protectors) are showing you the way to the wholing and healing needed to become more fully authentic and thus able to fully inhabit the place you are, as well as be the one you are becoming.
So, if you are already working with the Wild Mind Map of the Psyche and are drawn to cultivate ever more aliveness in your system with the support of the wild beings of land, sea and sky, please get in touch. If you hunger to be held in human community with accountability and compassion, meet us here at the tender and raw growing-edge of your inner nature. If you sense your authentic belonging in the world is longing for you to engage in practices that will help you welcome home those inner protectors that are holding you back, this is your call.
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MISTLETOE PLANTING
I have been planting mistletoe as a practice of connection for over 20 years. Mistletoe was the plant of peace and fertility for my UK ancestors and I plant it with the intention of bringing both qualities. I offer a 30 seed mistletoe planting service in Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion which can be purchased as Valentine/ Yuletide gifts with a mistletoe themed gift card that is exchanged for a March planting . I also run workshops on how to plant your own mistletoe. Contact me for details.
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