becoming who?
Becoming Crew is born from the Spaceship Earth.
We are an action learning collective - a crew of facilitators, un/learning designers, change strategists, storytellers, artists, imagineers, nature and wilderness guides deeply committed to the ongoing practice of knowing the world and our place within it differently and helping others to do the same.
We are guided by a renewed understanding that all life is relational, entangled and interdependent.
Many of the crises we are facing as a species are rooted in issues of perception, connection and relationship and the learning and support options for relational inquiry are extremely limited.
Our intention is to serve this gap, offering co-designed, peer-supported, guided action learning experiences with experienced guides and diverse leading-edge guest teachers.
We offer this work because we believe that we cannot break through the stuckness of these times and weave new regenerative cultures by drawing on the same dominant ways of knowing, thinking and being that led us to the metacrisis.
There are many other intelligences and ways of knowing available to us outside of the dominant reductionist, rational, separate, binary logic of modernity.
Learning to access intelligence in the heart and body, from land and the more than human world for example.
It is through un/learning and experimenting with accessing a rich diversity of intelligences, ways of knowing, relating and being that we develop the capacities and resilience to regenerate the world around us.
Becoming active participants in co-creating the emerging future.
Re-membering, re-storing and re-pairing relationships between our fellow humans and the wider more-than-human Earth community.
We grow these capacities through centering our relationship with the living Earth, and putting life at the centre.
And through exploring and practicing in action learning communities - in crews.
We call this practice-driven change.
We work through a hybrid approach on-line and on-land.
We support individuals and teams.
Check out our offerings or get in touch if you want to explore something bespoke.
The context we work from
The converging crises we are facing, from climate and ecological breakdown, extreme inequality, social and racial injustice, political divisiveness to unfettered extractive capitalism are all symptoms of a shared root cause:
Economic designs, ways of organising ourselves and being in relationship with this Earth that are based on outdated and harmful ways of relating to the world, a deeply ingrained narrative and logic – that we are separate from nature and separate from each other.
There are few answers where we used to find them, a lack of wisdom from our governing institutions and corporatised media, no meaningful participation in decision-making that impacts us all and scant responsibility for future life in our societal narratives.
Collectively, we find ourselves living in increasingly mysterious times.
Many of us are feeling a call to step more fully into service, to let go of old, tired, destructive stories, beliefs and ways of being that no longer serve us.
Transformation is being called for, but what if in order to transform our decaying systems we must also transform ourselves?
“The future depends much less on the images we project ahead than
on our capacity to repair relations and build relationships differently in the present
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Dive deeper into the Becoming Crew story

Evolve yourself, in community, in service of life on earth.
Earth-centricity views humans as part of nature, not apart from nature, as entangled with all life in the Earth community and therefore centres interdependence, relationality, circularity, care, justice, kinship, reciprocity and the interconnectedness between humans and more-than-human nature as foundational principles for ways of living, working, organising, creating and decision-making.
Essential practices we weave throughout this work
Connection
Practicing new and ancient ways of connection - activating other intelligences and ways of knowing - through ritual, rites of passage, deep listening and exploring relationality:
With heart, body and soul
With each other
With Earth, nature - our more-than-human family
Creativity
Developing our unique creative intelligence
Through creative and artistic inquiry
Growing ecological imagination capacities.
Expressing our creativity in service of life.
Service
Honouring the wider community of life, human and more than human with our gifts
Supporting each other and serving community in many forms
Listening, tending, holding, sharing, co-creating, re-pairing, re-storing
Moving from individual to collective - crew.
We commit to showing up, to ongoing individual practice, to cultivate the courage and resilience to journey through discomfort, un/learning and not knowing.
We harness the power of our most alive questions.
We avoid jumping straight to solutions and fixing.
We champion action inquiry, experimentation and reflection as powerful fertiliser for navigating mysterious times.
We believe in the potential of inter-generational learning spaces
Our invitation to you
Becoming Crew is an invitation to evolve yourself together, in community.
Where we un/learn to re-member, imagine, practice and experiment with more regenerative ways of being with ourselves, with our fellow humans and with nature - our more-than-human family.
Becoming Crew is about cultivating our individual and collective capacities to navigate deeply uncertain times, to be comfortable with not knowing, to become active participants in co-creating emerging futures, and grow life-sustaining communities and cultures.
Growing our collective awareness, humility, courage, imagination, openness, curiosity, resilience, love and care for all life.
Becoming Crew requires commitment not just to thinking about the shifts that need to happen but more importantly to feeling, embodying and practicing new ways of knowing, seeing and relating.
Radical reconnection to regenerate the world around us.
Stepping into service, in service of life.
Becoming Crew on Spaceship Earth.

Basecamp Crew
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Dan Burgess
Catalyst, Imagineer, Regenerator, Guide, Sacred Activist - Composting spoiled maps
Over 30 years I’ve gained deep experiential knowledge and cultivated practices harnessing connection, creativity, community and collaboration for action and resilience on complex climate, ecological and social challenges.
I navigate from the heart, with curiosity, experimentation and imagination.
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Evva Semenowicz
Guide, Facilitator, Space Holder, and Creative Collaborator, exploring more beautiful ways of being.
My work is an expression of my journey of becoming crew; weaving pathways of belonging, remembering our own naturalness and developing practices for stepping into service to all life on earth.
I hold spaces infused with embodiment, deep intuition and a bit of weirdness.
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Mark Sears
Nature inspired facilitator, wild guide and soulful activist.
I work with individuals and organisations of all kinds, weaving deep ecology and storytelling with participatory design, movement building and emergent strategy to support the inner work required to navigate these mysterious times.
The spaces I hold are gently playful, deeply soulful and grounded in a reverence for the wonder of the wild world.
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Mark De'lisser
Poet, Youth Mentor, Space holder, Guide and creative.
I work with organisations supporting young people who have experienced significant challenges and giving voice to young people experiencing racism. MY work includes play therapy, mentoring, yoga programmes and creative writing workshops to support vulnerable children and young people.
I hope my poetry can inspire stories of change, societally and personally, and that my words can help to nurture the seeds of reverence that are planted in all our hearts.
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Seemah-Nahome Burgess
Operations & Finance
I work across operations and finance with experience in helping to scale up charities and social impact projects for renowned social and environmental activists.
Working with The Spaceship Earth, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, Jo Cox Foundation, Black2Nature, Code Club, and Project Everyone.