Claire Skye (Dunn) gave the Equinox Talk Rewilding the Soul on 31 March 2025 at the Centre for a Compassionate Society in Clifton Hill. Claire was in conversation with Jane Ormonde; the talk was hosted by Vadim Ragozin, with a music performance by Lara Thompson.

Claire is a writer, speaker, mother, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding, the return of nature-based rites-of-passage and initiatory practices, and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and sense of belonging is key to regenerating a compassionate and life-affirming culture. 

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For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. Her work is deeply embedded in an understanding of a spirituality that includes underworld descent.

Claire is the author of memoirs My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild, and Rewilding the Urban Soul which explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives beside the Birrarung on the outskirts of Melbourne where she lovingly tends her family, her garden, her community, and her own wild heart.