Hello and welcome to episode 12 of Prompted by Nature.  This week you are in for a treat as I’m releasing the conversation I had with the wonderful Dr. Sheree Mack a couple of weeks ago.
Sheree is the Project Coordinator for a Heritage Lottery Funded project where she works with Northumberland National Park Authority, Durham Wildlife Trust and the National Trust, to offer opportunities to BAME communities to spend time outdoors to develop and deepen their relationship with nature.
Sheree’s practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. She engages audiences around black women’s voices and bodies, black feminism, ecology and memory and facilitates national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting women on their journey of remembrance back to their authentic selves. She is currently writing a mixed-genre memoir around a black woman's body with/in Nature.
In this conversation, we discuss:

Her background and time as a teacher in inner city schools
Her desire to support and encourage BAME creatives in the North East and beyond
Her own connection with nature and her passion for sharing this with others
The inspiration behind her Earth Sea Love project and some news about her new podcast supporting this initiative
The importance of BAME visibility and representation in natural spaces and the marketing of nature-based brands as well as the need to motivate a new generation of black women leaders
The financial side of accessibility in nature
Land as holding trauma and associations with enslavement
Nature as a space of oneness
Trauma and grief as a manifestation of our disconnection with nature
Self-care as a revolutionary act
Love as the source of everything and the importance of being in nature in order to re-connect with this
Her first memory of nature
Her hopes for the future and what she would like to pass onto you

Sheree contacted me a couple of months ago and I jumped at the chance of having her on the podcast. We had had the conversation ‘booked in’ about a month before it happened and the week we spoke turned out to be a real tipping point in our history with the death George Floyd happening just a few days before and the Black Lives Matter campaign ramping up with protests and marches across the globe. The conversation then became all the more pertinent and important in discussing the link between social justice and environmental justice.
You can find Sheree at www.earthsealove.com and on Instagram @earthsealove and also Sheree’s personal page www.livingwildstudios.com and on Instagram @shereemackwrites
As always, if you enjoy the interview, please give it a five-star rating and a positive review - it really does help to push these voices out there. And you can find me over on my website www.promptedbynature.co.uk or on my instagram @prompted.by.nature
Remember to stay around until the end when I’ll be giving you a little insight to the meditation and writing prompt that follows this episode.
Enjoy the conversation and I’ll speak to you after!
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