4.13 Jackee Holder: Writing with the Trees in an Urban Landscape
Welcome to series 4, episode 13 of the Prompted by Nature podcast. So today is the final episode of the pod before I take a little break for the summer.
Today’s action point: Stop Jackdaw campaign are organising a week of action to push back against the approval of the Jackdaw gas field. All information about the week can be found on their website www.stopcambo.org.
Today, I’m speaking with the incredible Jackee Holder. A well seasoned walker of London streets, parks and green spaces with over 10,000 walking and writing hours under her belt, Jackee is a custodian of trees gathering stories and narratives on paper and through the spoken word to keep memories of our urban woods and forests alive. Jackee is an author, leadership and wellness coach and coach supervisor working in leadership and organisational development.
Jackee is the author of four non-fiction titles including 49 Ways To Write Yourself Well (which you can find in the PbN bookshop on bookshop.org) and Be Your Own Best Life Coach. Her published works includes the illustrated Writing With Fabulous Trees Writing Map and ReWilding The Page: Urban Forest writing maps, portable illustrated guides offer writing and journaling activities tips for connecting with nature and the environment. Jackee is currently a columnist for Psychologies magazine where she pens the Write To Flourish monthly column.
Jackee’s connection to the nature of London
The wisdom of tree and what trees and forests mean to her
How her love of nature influences her work as a coach
Her relationship with Sanctuary
Jackee poses a question from her deck
How the writing maps came about
The beauty of the elder years
What she’s learnt that she wants to pass on
Her hope for the future
You can find out more about Jackee and her work plus buy her maps and card deck on her website www.jackeeholder.com and on her instagram @jackeeholderinspires
Conversation that would go really well with this one are:
1.7 Nana Tomova, The Story Apothecary
1.8 Ian Solomon-Kawall (KMT), Biodiversity, Creativity and Safe Space in Urban Settings
4.5 Cheryl Duerden: Empathetic Forestry
4.11 Annabel Abbs, Walking into Creativity
As always, I’m over on my website www.promptedbynature.co.uk where you can find link to my sub stack newsletter (for which I’m working on something new and lovely!), my bookshop and all podcast episodes plus my writing and all the things. I’m on instagram @prompted.by.nature and twitter @promptedxnature
The writing prompt for this episode will come out almost immediately after the release of this one so do listen into that when you can.
Happy listening and I’ll speak to you soon. Bye!
