Emily Chiswell

Emiily Chiswell is an ecotherapist and Nature Based Facilitator who works closely with the conversations that often feel like they don’t have a home, in particular grief, death and endings of all kinds.

Emily is passionate about extending nature’s invitation to come back in to a whole, authentic relationship and conversation with ourselves; giving the unfelt, the unsaid and the unwitnessed a home. Returning to the full expanse of our wholeness internally, and so in turn with each other and as part of the natural world.

Working predominantly outside at a local flower farm slightly offsite from The Centre, Emily can support you in slowly and gently meeting those parts of yourself that may currently feel particularly uncomfortable, unwelcome perhaps, or even a sense of disconnection from. Instead of trying to fix or push them away, what might it be like to get to know these banished and burdened parts of ourselves, and get curious about understanding a little more about them and why they are here. To have conversations and build community with them. Through working in and with nature, she invites you to come back in to this connection with compassion for the embodied wholeness of your true nature. To offer yourself the opportunity to remember the vitality and uniqueness of all that you are, in relationship to yourself and all of life.

Emily Chiswell is an ecotherapist and Nature Based Facilitator who works closely with the conversations that often feel like they don’t have a home, in particular grief, death and endings of all kinds.

Emily is passionate about extending nature’s invitation to come back in to a whole, authentic relationship and conversation with ourselves; giving the unfelt, the unsaid and the unwitnessed a home. Returning to the full expanse of our wholeness internally, and so in turn with each other and as part of the natural world

Working predominantly outside at a local flower farm slightly offsite from The Centre, Emily can support you in slowly and gently meeting those parts of yourself that may currently feel particularly uncomfortable, unwelcome perhaps, or even a sense of disconnection from. Instead of trying to fix or push them away, what might it be like to get to know these banished and burdened parts of ourselves, and get curious about understanding a little more about them and why they are here. To have conversations and build community with them. Through working in and with nature, she invites you to come back in to this connection with compassion for the embodied wholeness of your true nature. To offer yourself the opportunity to remember the vitality and uniqueness of all that you are, in relationship to yourself and all of life.

She trained for three years in trauma informed Ecopsychology & Ecotherapy with The Natural Academy and remains deeply connected to their teachings and community. This training was infused by Person Centred psychotherapy, Gestalt psychology, Miles Richardson and the University of Derby, Bill Plotkin’s Wild Mind Map, Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Enquiry, Deb Dana & Stephen Porges work on Polyvagal Theory, and Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems.

The spaces that she holds are deeply embodied. Following a Drama degree at Bristol University and a subsequent 20 years working as a broadcaster, her passion for communication now straddles both the language of words and the somatic. Alongside her personal movement practise, other embodied trainings include a foundation year at The Bristol School of Shiatsu, diplomas in Women’s Wellness Yoga and Yoga Nidra with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, and most recently in EcoSomatics with Gemma Mallol and her Elemental Body approach.

Her journey and passion for grief and the unspoken, has led her to the work of Francis Weller as well as grief spaces held by Sophy Banks and training with the Community Death Wisdom School of Emma Collins. Her offerings around grief have also recently opened up to it’s relationship with the boarding school experience, inspired by the work of both Nick Duffell and Joy Schaverien.

Emily’s support for internal community building through her one-to-one work, has strong roots in her experience and heart for building and creating community externally. Alongside her one-to-one work, she works with small private groups, women’s circles and bereavement groups. She is the Co-Founder of a number of organisations; The Nature Collective a C.I.C based in Bristol that offers nature connection for employee wellbeing, The Antidote offering held spaces in nature here in Hampshire, and the website A Home for Death & Dying. She is also a member of The Nature & Health Practitioners Network and is Outdoor First Aid trained.

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