Including the Voice of Nature:
How to Cocreate with a Living, Intelligent Earth
11th September - 13th September 2026
In-person, Rill Estate, South Devon
What would your leadership look like if you began to make decisions in genuine partnership with the living world? This inspiring weekend introduces the foundational principles of kincentric leadership — a practical, grounded approach to leading and organising that is rooted in kinship with all life.
All over the world, people are re-learning how to listen to and design with the more-than-human world, in both traditional and modern ways. This weekend gives you the tools and experience to begin doing that yourself — whether you lead a team, run a community project, work within an organisation, or are simply seeking a more connected and purposeful way of living.
Key Information
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At the beautiful Rill Estate in our local bioregion of South Devon.
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11th - 13th September
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From £480 - 600 (room dependent)
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This is a weekend course running from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September 2026, hosted in-person.
What This Course Offers
Through nature-based, somatic and embodied practice, systems thinking, art and collective imagination, you'll leave with practical leadership tools you can apply immediately:
How to connect with and draw on the diverse intelligences of the living world around you
First steps towards nature-led governance and design — such as putting nature on your board of trustees, or incorporating more-than-human perspectives into your decision-making
How to use interspecies councils as a consultation and design tool in your organisation or community
The impact of shifting to kin-centred language in your communications and culture
We'll engage in 'land listening' and other subtle forms of direct communication, play with collective imagination techniques, and touch on the ethics and consent that underpin this work.
The weekend draws on revolutionary developments in the science of animal, plant and fungal intelligence — developments that mirror Indigenous wisdom and show us a world that is sentient, alive and constantly communicating. We'll also explore the rights of nature movement and how nature-led governance is increasingly being enshrined in law.
You'll leave with: a practical resource pack, free access to the Kincentric Leadership handbook and benchmarking tool, and an accountability and support network so you can track your progress and stay connected as you begin to embed these practices.
Course Structure
This is a weekend course running from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September 2026, hosted in-person.
Venue: At the beautiful Rill Estate in our local bioregion of South Devon, you will be held by the presence of the River Dart, rolling hills and ancient woodland. You will live in community with others over the course of the week and come together over shared meals and activities that harness joy, relaxation, and connection. Our vegetarian food is freshly and lovingly prepared on site, and we can cater to any dietary requirements needed. To ensure your comfort, we have a range of single and shared rooms available. More information will be shared nearer to the start of the course.
Cost: £ 480 - 600
This weekend is a powerful standalone experience — and it is also the ideal starting point for our five-day programme in November, The Art of Kincentric Leadership. If you're ready to go deeper and fully embed these principles in your organisation or community, we warmly encourage you to join both. Book now to receive a 10% discount code for The Art of Kincentric Leadership.
Facilitators
Kara Moses
Kara is an ancestral skills educator, writer and conservation forester with a passion for wildlife tracking, foraging, trees and multi-species flourishing from a kincentric perspective. Her approach embraces the philosophy that wild living skills aren’t about lone survival or mastering nature but about thriving together in reciprocal relationship with the non-human communities that support us - an invitation to ecological humility and to relationship. She is particularly interested in radical, decolonial approaches to more-than-human relationships, social change and ancestral skills and has developed an approach called Radical Nature Connection, which finds expression in the Radical Ecological Pedagogies curriculum. Kara was responsible for researching and writing the twelve best practice case-studies in the Kincentric Leadership handbook and is a Kincentric Training Partner. She lives in an off-grid co-operative of eight humans and one dog in west Wales, where she runs courses on their rewilded land.
Dr Justine Huxley
Justine co-founded Kincentric Leadership and leads workshops and retreats on aligning leadership and decision-making with Earth-based wisdom. She is a Development Consultant for the Bushman Heritage Museum in South Africa, and Director at a US foundation for regenerative work rooted in Earth as sacred. She was CEO at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London for many years and pioneered programmes at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and peace-making. Justine authored 'Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change', and co-authored 'Cocreating with a Living, Intelligent Earth'. She holds a PhD in psychology, lives by River Lea and is in love with all things river.
Harry Hilser
Harry is a behavioural scientist, conservationist and environmental education consultant, with a deep passion and curiosity for exploring the cognitive, behavioural and psycho-spiritual underpinnings of what makes us human and a part of all. He has spent much of his life in Indonesia, learning about connectedness to nature, indigenous wisdom and the socio-cultural drivers and mediators of the values and practices that create, sustain or challenge societal norms. He is particularly interested in the associations between pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours and pathways to fostering ecocentrism and continues to explore this through his work, particularly through his environmental education consultancy, Lestari. Harry is a graduate of the first kincentric leadership cohort.
The Venue
