About Mark Morey
Mark Morey is a creative artist, visionary educator, cultural engineer, and consultant who designs regenerative holistic communities with timeless native principles.
He founded three transformational organizations in the last 13 years: Deep Wilds, Vermont Wilderness School, and the Institute for Natural Learning, sparking a nature and community awareness movement in the Northeast impacting 7,000 adults and children today.
He has facilitated or co-facilitated wilderness survival and spiritual passages for teens and adults since 1997, including over 50 week-long Art of Mentoring passages for adults, and 7 years of Sacred Fire rites of passages for boys.
Mark feels inspired by the hero’s journey model, the oral history of his ancestors and native people around the world. Mark’s passion for environmental healing and consciousness has gained him wide recognition as a leader in earth centered learning.
He currently lives in Putney Vermont where he plays the fiddle, stand up bass, plants garlic in the community garden, gives talks for Putney Transition Town, runs an overnight youth program at the central school and attends the local contra dance. His 10 yr old daughter is the light of his life.
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Hi Mark,
This is Barry Moses, author of the Sulustu blog. I’m very flattered to see you linked to me. Thanks. Have we met? I see you have an interest in wilderness education. I’m sure we have many shared interests.
I look forward to hearing from you and learning more about what you do.
Best regards,
Barry M.
Hi Mark,
It’s Simcha from the Jewish Farm School. We met at the mind of mentoring. Hope all is well and happy holidays.
I wanted to talk with you about potentially coming down here to the Hudson Valley for a workshop. I think we’d have many interested folks.
Please be in touch at your convenience,
Thanks!
Simcha
Hi Mark,
Hope you travels were safe – the journey you have helped spark here is appreciated. Thank you!
Glad you see potential in my work and the greater Crucian community.
We have organized a men’s and women’s cirlce for tonight. My intent is too focus on heart healing and leadership – as all the men in this circle have had years of leadership experience. Any feedback is appreciated.
with respect and love,
Ben
Mark, I attended your presentation in Putney the other night and hope to join you on Sat. I have been trying to move up into New England since 1991 but was unable to due to unexpected “family” complications until i finally just came! I did so because I really felt I’d done all I could in the suburbs to create the illusion on my small property that I wasn’t there! I have always gone “into nature” to regroup. I go with my dogs who provide me with an immediate vehicle “in”. I am never happier and more hopeful than when I am outside…which makes being inside at this computer really hard!
I don’t know where this came from because my core family didn’t know what “grass” was and thought bringing cut flowers into the house was a waste because they died! So here I am, looking for a house that immerses me, right out my door, so that my pups and I can finally, in the last third of our lives, be “unleashed”.
Hi Mark,
Looking forward to the upcoming presentations and workshops that you are facilitating here in Ontario. As a young educator, I am passionate about facilitating nature connection with youth. In fact, this is a topic that I am so interested in that I am pursuing a Master’s degree in education. My hope is to have my research focused on how nature connection influences student’s resiliency and post-highschool life decisions. I am looking forward to learning from your experiences and hoping to connect with you at the event!
Safe travels.
Best,
Katlynn MacDonald
Greetings Mark,
I listen to your abridged talk last night at the University of Toronto. Although brief, I found your words very inspirational and relevant. I run Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program in Canada and our goal is to promote the interconnectedness of all things people, animals and human. We support groups to learn and take action on humanitarian and environmental challenges (www.janegoodall.ca).
We’re in transition and I feel you and the movement you represent must also become a part of this change. The model of Roots & Shoots is Knowledge-Compassion-Action-Reflection. To me what is powerful, especially with younger children is the emphasis on connecting to nature… and culture, community, humanity… taking the time to implement those seeds will naturally lead to compassion and a heart-felt desire to save our planet. I feel that there are way too many organizations that thrust kids into action without the necessary foundation. And this isn’t sustainable…or I should say, regenerative.
On a personal note, what is also resonating is your story about you daughter ‘going someplace she never has’ and the power of nature to provide that as well as all the benefits to development which nature nurtures. I have two girls (five and three) I attempt encompass nature in our lives as much as possible. However we cannot always accomplish that. Using your story as a motivation and a metaphor I will try, either through conversation, stories, questions, etc., to take them on a quest to a place they have never gone on a daily basis – even if it’s in their mind – thanks!
Abner Lico
abner@janegoodall.ca
Thanks Abner, I appreciate your passion. Let me know how I can help you design and implement a regenerative program and local culture.
all the best,
Mark