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With nature as our guide (and drawing on our own experience in coaching and consulting, international work, non-profit management, writing, local politics, and community) we explore diverse topics like climate change, confidence, listening, health, economics, storytelling, and more.
We look from different perspectives - including science and art; city and rural; individuals and systems - and try to cross pollinate ideas and uncover new ways of thinking. We offer up personal experiences, as well as ideas and experiences from guests, books, and elsewhere, all the while asking what the natural world can teach us.
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Join us as we explore the power of the natural world to inform and inspire us -- in our everyday lives, and in the complex challenges the world is facing.
With nature as our guide (and drawing on our own experience in coaching and consulting, international work, non-profit management, writing, local politics, and community) we explore diverse topics like climate change, confidence, listening, health, economics, storytelling, and more.
We look from different perspectives - including science and art; city and rural; individuals and systems - and try to cross pollinate ideas and uncover new ways of thinking. We offer up personal experiences, as well as ideas and experiences from guests, books, and elsewhere, all the while asking what the natural world can teach us.
Unfurling is hosted by UK-based Catriona Horey and Elizabeth Wainwright. Elizabeth is a writer, a coach and consultant operating locally and globally, and an elected District Councillor. Catriona is a coach – specialising in leadership, life, climate change and nature coaching – and a coaching skills trainer.
Join the Unfurling Facebook group to carry on the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/313645743154222
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* Episode title adapted from “Landmarks” by Robert Macfarlane. See ref. 19 below for quote.
In episode 9, on ‘language’, we touch on:
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References:
~3: “Language”, Cambridge Dictionary: “a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar, or the system of communication used by people in a particular country or type of work”, “a system of communication by speaking, writing, or making signs in a way that can be understood, or any of the different systems of communication used in particular regions”, “in computer programming, a language is a system of writing instructions for computers.”
~5: “Language”, Online Etymology Dictionary: “speech, words, oratory; a tribe, people, nation" from Vulgar Latin linguaticum; "tongue," from Latin lingua, see here.
~6: History of the word ‘poet’
~6: The ’pepeha’ is a Maori way to introduce yourself. Short film here.
~7: Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in “Landmarks”: “Language is fossil poetry…”
~8: “The History of the Countryside” by Oliver Rackham: how ‘landscape is lost’ through the loss of beauty, the loss of freedom, the loss of wildlife and vegetation and the loss of meaning, as shared in “Landmarks”.
~9: Words concerning nature culled in the 2007 “Oxford Junior Dictionary” as shared in “Landmarks”.
~10: “The Lost Words” by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris -- https://www.thelostwords.org/lostwordsbook/
~14: “Speaking Nature’s Language”, The National Trust -- https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/press-release/speaking-natures-language
(Research conducted by Dr Robbie Love, May-June 2019, from British language corpora)
~17: Definition and information about ‘natural resources’ here.
~19: “Landmarks” by Robert Macfarlane: “In both Lewis and Arizona, Language is used not only to navigate but also to charm the land. Words act as compass; place-speech serves literally to en-chant the land - to sing it back into being, and to sing one’s being back into it.”
~20: “'Dreich' is named most popular Scots word by Scottish Book Trust” --
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50476008
~23: Excerpt from “Four Quartets” by T.S.Eliot: “For last year's words belong to last year's language, And next year's words await another voice.”
~25: Excerpt from “There is a Word” by Emily Dickinson: “There is a word, Which bears a sword, can pierce an armed man…”
~25: Nonviolent Communication, see here.
~26: “Can Prairie Dogs Talk?”, The New York Times Magazine -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/magazine/can-prairie-dogs-talk.html
~30: “Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other”, Yale Environment 360, here.
~31: “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix.
~33: “Geoffrey Matthews Obituary”, The Telegraph -- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/9838073/Geoffrey-Matthews.html
~34: Bushmen in Southern Africa -- https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen
~35: “Wild Signs and Star Paths” by Tristen Gooley
~39: “Are We Losing Nature Language?”, The National Trust -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbCCR4kClIc&feature=emb_logo
~40: Audrey Hepburn: “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
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