The Art of Kincentric Leadership:

Embedding Earth-Centred Tools and Practices in Your Organisation or Community

2nd - 6th November 2026

Immersive Residential - South Devon, UK

What would the world look like if we decisively stepped away from human supremacy and began to lead in genuine collaboration with the intelligence of the living Earth? What would that look like in your own life, projects, community or organisation — in how you make decisions, communicate, build culture, and exercise leadership?

Kincentric leadership is a bold, practical answer to these questions. Rooted in kinship with all life as a foundational principle, it offers a comprehensive framework for bringing more-than-human intelligence into the real work of leading and organising — into your strategy, operations, communications and culture, and into your own personal way of being and doing.

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Key Information

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

  • 2nd - 6th November 2026

  • From £800 - 920 (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

What if leadership began not with human needs alone, but by understanding our place within the wider web of life?

Kincentric Leadership invites us to 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, decision-making, and organisation shift when we recognise ourselves as part of an animate, intelligent living world. Through experiential practices, imagination, ritual, storytelling, and time in nature, 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 practise:

  • The core principles of kincentric leadership — belonging and place, animacy and intelligence, diversity and co-creation, justice and equity, interdependence, and kinship — and how to embody and apply them as a leader

  • Revolutionary developments in the science of animal, plant and fungal intelligence and communication, and what they mean for how we organise

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

  • New approaches to including the voices of more-than-human kin in your decision-making, design and governance — from informal practice to formal structural change

  • Nature-led governance, the rights of nature movement, and case studies from around the world showing what kincentric leadership looks like in practice

  • How to honour the sacred safely within a secular organisation

  • The practical impact of kin-centred language in your internal and external communications

Throughout the programme, we weave together practical tools and frameworks, experiential learning in nature, storytelling, collective meaning-making, and nature-based contemplative practice. You'll leave with renewed inspiration, meaningful connections, and a clear pathway for bringing kincentric leadership into practice.

If you joined our Including the Voice of Nature weekend, this programme offers a deeper next step and a comprehensive toolkit for transformation. If you're new to this work, you'll be warmly welcomed and may wish to explore the weekend recording and resource pack as preparatory reading.

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? 

As we navigate overlapping social, ecological, and cultural crises, many people are recognising that the dominant ways of relating to Earth remain shaped by an extractive worldview. Increasingly, there is a sense that responses to climate and ecological breakdown need to reach beyond technical solutions and towards deeper shifts in how we understand ourselves, our relationships, 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 growing interest in 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.

This course offers an inspiring doorway into this emerging field, combining fresh ideas with practical ways of bringing them into everyday life. Moving beyond abstract philosophy, participants develop tangible tools, embodied capacities, and supportive community connections that bring greater resilience, reciprocity, imagination, and aliveness in the way we live, work, lead, and create change together.

Venue:

This is a week-long course running from Monday 2nd - Friday 6th September 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. 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.

Fee: £800 - £920 (single and shared rooms)

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Book Including the Voice of Nature weekend course to receive a 10% discount on 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.

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.

  • 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