Gina Chick is an international rewilding facilitator, helping people of all ages learn to be at home in the wild.
Her nature connection programmes weave ancestral hunter-gatherer technologies into modern life, mining strategies that kept Homo Sapiens alive for 350 000 years for lessons to enrich our lives now.
She recently spent 67 days surviving in the subzero Tasmanian wilderness in the middle of winter, completely solo and often barefoot. She wove a waterproof shelter, slept in a hand-sewn possum fur coat and lived on fried worms, lizards, grubs, trout, eel and even a wallaby she jumped on one night while out for a pee. Gina filmed her adventures with a photographer's eye for beauty and inspired 1.5 million people to look at nature differently along the way.
She runs Rewild Your Child camps eight weeks a year, where 200 people come together to create a village in the wilderness, focusing on nature connection. These were Australia's first rewilding family camps and have been running for over a decade. She also runs solo wilderness rite of passage programmes and group survival quests.
The daughter and granddaughter of bestselling authors, Gina's articles have appeared in The Guardian, News.com.au, Mamamia and SBS.com.au. You can find her hugely popular blog, Unmet Friends, on Substack. Her first book is due in 2024.
Gina's presence is electric. She taps into universal chords of human experience, drawing from her experience and adventures worldwide to offer pathways through the wilderness within and without. Her stories of challenge, redemption and inspiration sing with warmth, depth and humour and offer resolution to questions of belonging and connection most humans struggle with. She is a 5Rhythms dance meditation teacher and singer-songwriter and often incorporates somatics and even song into her presentations. An hour with Gina is a journey through a vastly textured landscape, an adventure likely to leave you feeling inspired and connected and ready to embrace the wild in all its forms, possibly even without shoes.
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Resilience in the Wilderness: Survival Lessons from Rewilding
Gina Chick, an international rewilding facilitator, has mastered the art of survival and resilience through profound connections with nature. Drawing inspiration from her transformative 67-day solo survival in the subzero Tasmanian wilderness, Gina offers an enlightening perspective on human tenacity, adaptability, and the age-old wisdom of our ancestors. This presentation sheds light on the strength of the human spirit when faced with adversity and showcases how embracing our inherent wild nature can guide us through life's toughest challenges.Resilience in the Wilderness: Survival Lessons from Rewilding
Key Takeaways:
- Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times: Understand how ancestral hunter-gatherer strategies can cultivate resilience and inform our response to challenges today.
- Lessons from the Tasmanian Wilderness: Gina's survival experiences underscore the importance of adaptability, innovation, and determination in the face of adversity.
- The Power of Deep Connection: Realize how forging deeper connections with nature can bolster mental and emotional resilience.
- Harnessing Internal Strength: Through tales of survival and rewilding, learn practical methods to tap into and amplify your innate strength and resilience.
With Gina's insights, attendees will be equipped with a rejuvenated sense of resilience and survival skills that can be translated into their personal and professional lives.
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How Alone Australia winner Gina Chick 'did not suffer' in the wild | Australian Story
A woman of the wild, a beacon of resilience, a force of nature. Gina Chick's formidable skills and fearlessness captured the attention of the public when she spent 67 days alone in the Tasmanian wilderness and won the SBS series Alone Australia. Now the 53-year-old unlikely TV star shares how connecting with nature helped her through life’s darkest moments, including the devastating loss of her daughter, Blaise. Gina says that connecting with nature helps build the skills to live a more fulfilling life. And her message is striking a chord with the public. She now runs bush retreats for adults and children. Australian Story documents a mini Alone, a retreat where women spend days by themselves in the bush with water and bedding and nothing else but their thoughts.Gina was great to work with. Easy open communication, flexible and reliable. Nothing was too much trouble for her which was very much appreciated. The two events she spoke at for me were ver ... keep reading Moray & Agnew Lawyers
