One or Two Week Course (Various start dates). The industrialised world is rapidly realising the importance of nature as a provider of essential but limited resources including water, soil, and air. But its value for human wellbeing in the broader sense is only beginning to be fully understood.

Venue: Schumacher College
Mary Aver is a shaman and healer and has trained in many psychotherapeutic approaches, studying Eastern philosophies, teaching meditation and spiritual development. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Cranfield School of Management and a trainer/consultant in personal and professional development.

One or Two Week Course (Various start dates). Nature in all its beauty and complexity has been an integral part of art from the first images and artefacts ever created by humans. Recent years have seen a resurgence of its importance for artists, not just as inspiration but as the actual medium within which they work.

NB – This open evening is on a Tuesday
Venue: Schumacher College
Susan Derges is a photographer who uses the natural world as her darkroom to create images of water flows and the night sky around her Dartmoor home. She has created a major commission for the Eden Project’s new Education Resource Centre in Cornwall and has exhibited her work around the world.

In association with Transition Town Totnes
Venue: Schumacher College
Lynne Hull has pioneered “trans-species” art, creating sculpture installations as wildlife habitat enhancement and eco-atonement for human impact. She has worked in the American West and eight other countries with a variety of wildlife agencies. Currently she is working on Migration Mileposts, linking communities in the Americas who share migratory birds.

Dartington’s international environment college Schumacher is currently working with the UK’s first transition initiative Transition Town Totnes to bring innovative ideas around the very real issues of climate change and life after peak oil into the hands of the community.

The Dartington Hall Trust can now announce its plans to create a new Schumacher Academy/Educational Centre located at the heart of the Dartington estate and ethos.

This summer, Schumacher College is running a series of courses focusing on the interconnections between nature, art, science and activism.

Those who enjoyed watching Earth Pilgrim on BBC2’s Natural World can now have the opportunity to walk on Dartmoor in the company of Satish Kumar on a Schumacher College Course.

Satish Kumar, Director of Programmes at Schumacher College, was a guest this morning on Midweek with Libby Purves. If you missed the show you still have the chance to listen to Satish in conversation via the Midweek website.