The Irish Tech News Podcast Why Ireland needs to Reawaken, Rewild, and Reconnect, insights with Lucy O'Hagan
Lucy is an ancestral skills teacher, Rites of passage guide & Rewilder. Lucy is the founder of ‘Wild Awake’, an organisation which seeks to rekindle environmental and cultural resilience through the (re)learning of ancestral and traditional skills in nature. As part of this organisation, Lucy also directs the 'Phoenix Forest School', located in Dublin's Phoenix Park, and the 'True Nature Youth Rites of Passage' programme.
Lucy is passionate about supporting people to re-establish connection with themselves, their communities and to nature, of which we are a part. She is particularly interested in rewilding and rekindling the knowledge, skills and ceremonies we once knew so intimately, which cultivate deep belonging to the land.
Lucy holds classes for adults in a variety of places across Ireland. She facilitates week-long immersions in Meath and Donegal, long-term rewilding programmes, hide tanning camps, as well as foraging and ethnobotany workshops across Ireland.
Lucy has recently co-produced 'Airmid's Journal: The Irish journal of foraging, folklore, myths, magic and remedies' which is available to purchase through the Wild Awake website.
Lucy feels most at home wandering barefoot through the woods, following animal trails & nibbling on what food or medicine nature has to offer.