The Art of Kincentric Leadership:

Embedding Earth-Centred Tools and Practices in Your Organisation, Community & Way of Life

2nd - 6th November 2026

Immersive Residential - South Devon, UK

“There is a way to be a human being that causes all life to thrive.”  

Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining

What would the world look like if we lived and led in collaboration with the intelligence of our living Earth?  How would that look in your unique context - in your projects, community or daily life?  What would change in your aspirations, decision-making, or community culture?  

Whether you lead an organisation or simply lead yourself through life, Kincentric leadership is a bold, practical answer to these questions. Taking kinship with all life as a foundational principle, it offers a new way to bring more-than-human intelligence into how we sense, relate, learn, design and strategise - a new way of living from within the wider web of life. 

In collaboration with the beautiful land of Devon, we’ll explore embodied practices that cultivate reciprocity, belonging, resilience and aliveness, learning with and from the more-than-human world, creating the conditions that enable all of life to flourish.  This course will inspire you to perceive yourself and the world differently, to come into relationship with life  and to radically re-imagine what it means to be a leader in our times.  

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Key Information

  • At a location in our local bioregion of South Devon (venue tbc).

  • 2nd - 6th November 2026

  • From £525 - 920 (non-residential, single and shared rooms)

  • This is a week-long course running from Monday 2nd to Friday 6th November 2026, hosted in-person in South Devon (Venue tbc).

What This Course Offers

Kincentric Leadership invites us to live and lead from relationship - with people, place, and the more-than-human world. Rooted in the understanding that all life is interconnected, it offers a fresh approach to leadership, governance and change-making that supports the thriving of all life.

Together, we'll explore how identity, power and decision-making shift when we recognise ourselves as part of an animate, intelligent, sacred world. Through experiential practices, imagination, ritual, storytelling, and time in the wild, we'll experiment with new ways of relating to and co-creating with our more-than-human kin.

This work opens a vision of transformation that reaches beyond conventional approaches to sustainability, regeneration, and leadership. Whether you're leading projects, supporting community change, working within organisations, or seeking to deepen your own practice, you'll join a growing community of people exploring what it means to collaborate with Earth in shaping thriving futures.

Designed for sustainability practitioners, community organisers, leaders, changemakers, and anyone seeking to be in deeper relationship with the living world, this immersive programme will help you develop practical ways to bring kincentric principles into your work, community, organisation, or everyday life.

What you'll learn and experience:

  • The 8 core principles and 34 capacities of of kincentric leadership and how to embody them in practice 

  • How revolutionary developments in the science of animal, plant and fungal intelligence and communication are changing what’s possible 

  • 'Interspecies activations': practical, playful approaches to embodying the intelligence of the more-than-human world using nature-based and somatic practice

  • How to read the living landscape and allow it inform or co-create your strategy, communication and leadership

  • Specific methods for relational ecological literacy such as wildlife tracking, and how to bring this into a daily practice of life and leadership

  • Understanding new approaches to more-than-human governance and cocreating an interspecies council for the River Dart

  • Case studies from around the world showing what kincentric leadership looks like in practice, including some focused on nature governance and the rights of nature movement 

  • Gratitude, reverence, and ceremony as ways of building relationships with more-than-human kin and how to bring these into an organisation, community or family in an inclusive way 

  • How to approach using kin-centred language in your organisational or personal communication

  • Collaborate with the more-than-human to co-create multi-species artwork

  • Recorded input from two of our most inspiring indigenous advisors - Lyla June Johnson and Rutendo Lerato Ngara.

Course Structure

This programme is a collective and personal journey into deeper relationship: a breathing rhythm of indoor and outdoor learning, deep discussion and silent morning practice, reflective solo time and group inquiry, engaging theory and embodied experience.

While the programme is grounded in lived experience and practice, it is also supported by a rigorous framework for learning and implementation. It is built around the Kincentric Leadership Toolkit: a comprehensive system organised around eight principles, 34 capacities, 12 case studies, and more than 100 practices. Designed as a 360-degree map for change, it helps you understand what's possible while offering clear, practical pathways for action.

Participants receive complimentary access to the Leaders' Handbook and benchmarking tool, alongside accountability buddies and peer-learning structures that support continued reflection, implementation, so you can stay supported in the months that follow.

Why Join This Course? 

Responses to climate and ecological breakdown need to reach beyond technical solutions and towards deeper shifts in how we understand ourselves and our place within the living world.   At the same time, new scientific discoveries are revealing the remarkable intelligence, communication, and agency of animals, plants, fungi, and ecosystems. Alongside systems thinking, Indigenous wisdom, the Rights of Nature movement, biomimicry, nature-based solutions, and participatory forms of co-creation, these insights are helping to reshape mainstream thinking about what it means to live in harmony with the living world. 

You may be drawn to this course if…

  • ​You’re looking for deeper doorways into conversation with the land and other-than-human intelligences all around you and want to take a step into cocreation

  • You want to strengthen your contribution within the wider web of life.

  • You’re curious about what this way of seeing the world asks of you in practice. 

  • Or you’re already walking this path and want companionship, challenge, and shared exploration.

  • You feel the weight of systems that extract and exploit and want to help shifting towards care, kinship, and reciprocity.

  • You carry a spark of imagination, a sense that other ways of living and organising are possible, and a calling to deepen the action, creativity and vision that make them real.

Venue:

This is a week-long course running from Monday 2nd - Friday 6th November 2026, hosted in-person at a beautiful location 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 and come together over shared meals and activities that harness joy, relaxation, and connection. Community life is at the heart of the Schumacher experience, and everyone plays a small part in caring for it by helping with simple daily tasks such as preparing for meals, washing up and looking after shared spaces. Our vegetarian food is freshly and lovingly prepared on site, and we can cater for many dietary requirements. To ensure your comfort, we have a range of single and shared rooms available.

Fee: £525 - £920 (non-residential, single and shared rooms)

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Anyone interested in kinship with all life as a paradigm shift in regenerative work, and seeking practical ways to embed this in their life, community or organisation. You may be a sustainability practitioner, community organiser, leader, changemaker, or simply seeking to live and work in deeper relationship with the living world.

  • No, we welcome people from all backgrounds. Please let us know if you have any specific needs and we’ll do our very best to ensure you feel fully welcomed and cared for.

    • A free copy of the Kincentric Leadership Handbook as an ebook

    • The Kincentric Leadership benchmarking tool to help make visible the next steps for your organisation, community or personal way of life 

    • Real-world examples of communities, organisations, and projects experimenting with kincentric approaches

    • Access to the wider Kincentric Leadership community platform after the course, which includes many more resources and suggestions.

  • This is a five day immersive in-person course, in community with others. We invite you to participate with presence. There will be some optional reading/listening available beforehand. Participants will also have the option to organise into ‘buddy groups’ to join a follow up zoom call with a peer group of 3-4 people to support accountability for the changes participants decide to implement.

  • All materials will be provided. Feel free to bring anything that may support your comfort. Some sessions will be held outside and weather during the late autumn can be changeable, so please come prepared with suitable outdoor clothing, footwear and water.

What Participants Say…

“The Kincentric Leadership programme was a gift that expanded my sense of aliveness, wonder, and deep entanglement with the more-than-human world. Something intangible shifted within me... I began to slow down, be in embodied presence with every life-form, season, and landscape I journey with, and offer my unwavering attention to the ecologies of care and kinship all around me. Kincentrism is the quotidian, slow work of re-weaving ourselves into the web of life. It is soul-nourishing work that has no end."

- Pooja, Alumni of Kincentric Leadership programme