Winter Wisdom in Practice
Small group online coaching programme
Each customised programme is designed to give you a sense of what connecting to nature means to you, and to deepen that connection to enhance your well-being. There is no right or wrong way - your experience is unique to you and the season and happenings in nature. I am here to guide and support you to find your way.
My approach to Nature Connection is much more than learning about nature. It is learning with nature, co-working with what Mother Earth shares with us. - it is a respectful relationship where we explore and learn to respond to what is happening in nature.
This means that, because every season is different, every programme is different, and this is your opportunity to develop your own unique nature connection practice, to support your well-being.
It is learning to observe, to listen, to become curious, to engage in reciprocity and, ultimately, to understand that we are not separate observers of nature — we are participants within it.
Winter Wisdom: 2 months programme
Begins Tuesday 1st December 2026, Limited places, £225 for full course Book your place here
As the year turns towards winter, the land begins to change its rhythm; trees let go, seeds lie quietly beneath the soil, and many creatures become less visible. What might look like stillness is, in fact, a season of deep activity, preparation and renewal.
This winter, Winter Wisdom in Practice invites us over December and January to slow down enough to notice.
Through plant and animal wisdom, meditation, curiosity and direct experience, we will explore what winter might offer us - not simply as a season to endure, but as a teacher.
Accept this gentle invitation to slow down, deepen your relationship with the more-than- human world, and discover what becomes visible when we learn to rest alongside the land.
Throughout December, we will spend time in relationship with Holly, exploring the wisdom of this enduring evergreen and what it might teach us about resilience, protection and remaining rooted through the darker months.
Throughout January, we turn our attention to Robin - a familiar winter companion whose presence can invite us to look differently at belonging, territory, song and our relationship with place.
Alongside this, a six-week curiosity assignment will invite you to spend time observing the resting land.
Not analysing it. Not trying to improve it. Simply noticing...........
What happens when we allow ourselves to sit alongside winter rather than resist it? What does the land reveal when we become quiet enough to listen?
Plant Wisdom of Holly
Animal Wisdom of Robin
Curiosity assignment: The resting land
Meditation and reflection
Weaving science with animistic understanding
How the Programme works
My Seasonal Wisdom programme, like all my courses, is designed to help you understand and experience nature connection and give you insight into how co-working with nature's energies and cycles can benefit you.
During live webinars, hosted on Zoom, I will guide you on how to develop your connections with the plant and animal or bird we are co-working with.
You will be sent my own Plant and Animal essences by post, for you to take daily over a certain period, and which can deepen your connection to your own needs and the world around you.
I recommend you use a journal to note how you feel as you take these essences – the effects may be subtle or dramatic, but often very different to what you expected!
Curiosity and autecology
Autecology is the study of a species' life history, behaviour and adaptation. In my nature connection programmes I invite you to be curious and explore all aspects of the plant and animal that we are co-working with, to deepen your connection with this particular form of life that exists alongside you on this Earth.
You will be given guided instruction on how to develop a practice of observation and deepen your sense of perception to really feel a sense of communication with this other ‘being’.
Throughout the Seasonal Wisdom programme we encourage you to share photos and findings on the community WhatsApp group - a closed group, sharing only amongst fellow students.
Coaching
In online coaching sessions you will have the opportunity to get guidance and feedback on how to develop your connection to nature in a way that suits your circumstances as you continue through this Programme. These take place over Zoom and are an opportunity for you to raise any questions you may have, to express what you are experiencing, or to ask for guidance on any aspect of the programme.
The full schedule, including dates and times for all Zoom sessions, will be provided at the Seasonal Wisdom Introductory meeting.
During the programme there is always the option to ask for more 1:1 guidance from either Dr Karen or coach Steph (additional charge applies).
Meditations
Curiosity Assignments
Plant/Animal Essences
Guided Journeying
Live Coaching Calls
My Way of Life
My name is Dr Karen Stead‑Dexter
I live in Somerset, UK, and connecting with nature is an integral part of my life and well-being.
When you join my Seasonal Wisdom in Practice programmes, you join me and a small group of like-minded people to learn and develop living in synchronicity with nature's cycles.
I will introduce you to, and guide you in, my personal practices developed over 30 years and drawn from teachings I have been honoured to receive from my teachers. This way of life, in tune with Nature and her cycles, is vital to my health and happiness. They are the best form of 'self-care' I can give myself.
I invite you to give yourself the same care and attention too.
I adapt each programme to the unique energies and teachings of the season, co-working with the plant and animal (or bird) who calls to me at that time.
Groups are kept small (max. 15 people) to allow everyone time to ask questions so if the opportunity to deepen your connection with nature and your relationship with yourself is calling to you, I invite you to join us.
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