WHOLELAND


WHOLELAND 07980 601830 01395 568349 chris@wholeland.org.uk	encouraging trends in sustainability


what is wholeland?

Wholeland is the trading name of Chris Holland. Wholeland has the intention behind all it does to bring people, young and old, into a more meaningful, loving and respectful relationship with the earth, plants and animals from which the majority of our resources come from, in the hope that this will help humans want to live in a way that is more in balance with our life support system, the earth. There are many strands to the web Wholeland weaves, please have a look through this website to get more of an idea of what services Wholeland offers. For some feedback from various clients please click here
"The land doesn't belong to any individual: it belongs to the dead, the living, and those not yet born. You have the land only for a short time, to use it and to leave it. The land belongs to all of us." Ole Simel, Maasai, Kenya

who is chris holland?


Chris Holland, director of Wholeland, has been teaching, instructing and mentoring in and out of schools for almost ten years. He is finding ways of educating youngsters in bushcraft and nature awareness through the national curriculum in schools. He leads 'expotitions' along the River Otter and onto Dartmoor. He works with Wildwise Environmental Education, was the Earthwise Education Ranger at Otterton Mill during 2002.

Having been inspired by great nature educators such as Joseph Cornell, Tom Brown Jr, Jon Young and Tom Schorr-Kon of Trackways in Sussex, Chris draws on extensive worldwide travelling and natural living experience and has developed a lively style of teaching that uses drama and games, stories and practical activities to share a wide range of concepts, skills, attitudes and behavioral qualities.

Chris has enjoyed playing the didgeridoo since his first meeting with one in a shop in Bath during 1992. He had been teaching in schools in Surrey for over two years before moving to Devon in 2000. He has performed and played with many musicians, from Paul Robertson of the Medici String Quartet to Hawkwind, from an Aboriginal dance troop in Coffs Harbour to Baka Beyond in Cheltenham. He was a founding member of the festival band Jabberwocky and has made a solo album called Fundijeri. He appeared on the main stage at Sidmouth Folk Festival in 2002

Chris has an honours degree in environmental science. He is a trained first-aider, a Forest School Leader, and has studied self-heal herbalism with the Selfheal School of Medicinal Herbalism. He has also taught dance, yoga and p.e. at a Small School in Bath. He is father to two lovely girls and can often be seen browsing in and around Otterton.

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