Wisdom of Summer 2025
12-week, live, online programme as part of a small group.
This programme is designed to follow on from Dr Karen's Nature Connection & Plant Wisdom digital courses.
This programme will allow you to get a sense of what connecting to nature means to you, and for you to find ways to deepen that connection to enhance your well-being. There is no right or wrong way - every person has an experience unique to them, and to 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 about co-working with what Mother Earth has made available to us - it is a reciprocal relationship, where we respect and learn to respond to what is happening in nature.
This means that every season is different, and every programme I run is different.
This Summer, we will be co-working with the plant medicine of Mugwort, and the bird medicine of Raven, to help us align with the season's energy.
Join me, starting Monday 2nd June.
What's included:
Meditations
Personal Nature Discovery
Plant/Animal Essences
Guided Journeying
Personal & Group Consultations
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 programme, 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 12-week 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 reserve your place now and join me to deepen your connection with nature and your relationship with yourself.
What's involved?
What each 12 week Seasonal Programme offers
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.
Over the 12 weeks, there will be four live webinars, hosted on Zoom, where 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 or 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 depending on what is needed at that time, and can often be very different to what you expected!
Discovery assignments
You will be assigned two Personal Nature Discovery Assignments throughout each Seasonal Wisdom Programme, inviting you to co-work with another ‘being’, to observe and deepen your connection with perhaps a tree, plant, animal, the land, etc.
You will be given guided instruction on how to develop a practice of observation and deepening your sense of perception to really get the best 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.
Towards the end of the six-week assignment there is a chance to come together as a community and share your findings.
Individual Guidance
You will also have two individual consultations to help you develop your connection to nature in a way that suits your circumstances as you continue through this Programme.
These sessions, which will take place over Zoom, 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.
Seasonal Wisdom Mentoring Group
For those that have walked a minimum of a year (or four well-being courses) of nature connection, I am now offering ‘Seasonal Wisdom - Mentoring’, to a group of no more than six people. Within the mentoring group, the understanding and practice developed during your participation on the Seasonal Wisdom programme, will be stretched - your programme will be personal and self-led, with much less direction than offered in the Seasonal Wisdom programme.
Starting the 12 weeks with a 1:1 session with me, together we will weave a program of connection for you to follow and work with. Mentoring check-ins as a small group will take place every two weeks to monitor your progress and a chance for you to ask questions and hear what others have been doing.
Being mentored through the season will allow you to explore deeper aspects of your own psyche as well as develop ever deeper connections with the more-than-human world around you. The wisdom comes from deep within yourself and from the more-than-human world too!
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