Toby Nowlan is an award-winning journalist, explorer and biologist who produces wildlife documentaries with Silverback Films based in Bristol. For the past four years he worked as an assistant producer on BBC1’s A Perfect Planet, a five-part series narrated by Sir David Attenborough. He is currently working on a film for Netflix, the content of which needs to be kept confidential at the moment. However, Toby is prepared to say that it involves travelling around the world to explore natural history and wildlife, and ‘It’s the same sort of family as A Perfect Planet but it has a new direction which is really exciting.’

Continue reading “We Know so Little About Nature” →

]oin me in conversation with  Clara Apollo who describes herself as a life-long curious scholar – she has been searching for answers about life and mortality since experiencing a profound awakening as a child. During her search for her own truth, she has been a ballet dancer, nurse, nanny, singer and performer and costume designer for stage and screen. She is now a Qigong teacher and host of Chi Time TV, where she interviews many prominent spiritual thinkers and teachers.

A note from Sue: Thank you for visiting this page. You may be interested in my Granny Mo children’s books, which help adults to talk with children about death and dying, and my books for adults on death and dying may help as well. You can also listen to a host of fascinating guests on my Embracing Your Mortality podcast and enjoy reading their interviews on my blog.

Conflicts and Comas

Join me in conversation with journalist and author Alan Pearce, who has covered some of the world’s most harrowing conflicts as a BBC war correspondent. He says he often witnessed ‘the worst and the best of humanity all in the same day.’ Due to being constantly exposed to violence and death, he developed post-traumatic stress disorder which has impacted the way he perceives death, dying and mortality. Currently he is researching his next book, WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED EYES: The Beautiful and Disturbing World of Coma Survivors, which explores extraordinary accounts from coma patients.

A note from Sue: Thank you for visiting this page. You may be interested in my Granny Mo children’s books, which help adults to talk with children about death and dying, and my books for adults on death and dying may help as well. You can also listen to a host of fascinating guests on my Embracing Your Mortality podcast and enjoy reading their interviews on my blog.

AMMERDOWN RETREAT CENTRE ZOOM WORKSHOP

ADAPTING TO OUR CHANGING WORLD

Using head and heart to make sense of it

ONE-DAY ZOOM WORKSHOP 10.00 am – 4.00 pm

SATURDAY, ^27TH MARCH, 2021

 LEADER: SUE BRAYNE

TO BOOK A PLACE, please email admin@ammerdown.org or call: 01761 433709

This one-day Ammerdown zoom workshop next Saturday provides a much-needed opportunity to come together so we can explore how the immense changes taking place are profoundly affecting us all on a personal and collective level.

Even though things appear to be challenging, there are positive and creative ways in which we can become much more conscious and wiser around how we react to what’s happening. This helps us to build resilience and hope and to find meaning and purpose as our tenuous future unfolds. It also helps us to focus on what’s really important and to build relationships which are solid and supportive. 

I do hope you can join us. 

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Green Fuse Funerals – Friday 12^th March

Enjoy this jolly chat with Jane Morell and Simon Smith who set up Green Fuse Funerals in Totnes twenty years ago after Jane had a vision of opening a flowers shop with coffins in it. As Simon says, ‘We couldn’t understand why funerals had to be so boring and drab.’ Green Fuse took off immediately and now they have trained over 500 people in different aspects of working with funeral directing. They are also co-authors of We Need to Talk About the Funeral. #greenfusefunerals

A note from Sue: Thank you for visiting this page. You may be interested in my Granny Mo children’s books, which help adults to talk with children about death and dying, and my books for adults on death and dying may help as well. You can also listen to a host of fascinating guests on my Embracing Your Mortality podcast and enjoy reading their interviews on my blog.