Dan Burgess
I draw on 25 years of experience in creative industries, participatory leadership, and place-based learning to design processes that foster deep connection, agency, and collective renewal.
I am known for my work in cultivating regenerative mindsets and practices that align human activity with the rhythms and needs of the living world.
I am the founder and host of Spaceship Earth, a podcast, consultancy and learning platform exploring how we might live with greater imagination and responsibility as crew members of a planet in crisis.
At heart, I’m a bridge-builder—linking the inner and outer, the personal and systemic, the practical and the poetic in service of a thriving future.
Learning experiences which have shaped my practice:
MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge/Hult - 2009-2011
‘Call of the Wild’ under the teaching of Chris Salisbury at Wildwise/Schumacher College - 2013
‘We Will Dance With Mountains’ guided by Bayo Akomolafe - 2015
Guest Faculty ‘Co-Creating the Emerging Future’ at Schumacher College - 2015-2020
Part of the practice team at The Bio-Leadership Project
Peer-learning host training with Huddlecraft - 2020.
Participant in pilot of Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet with Plum Village
Kincentric Leadership - 18 month co-learning journey in an experimental field that places direct collaboration with the more than human world at the heart of all interventions, strategy, culture and ways of working.
Entering the Healing Ground - 2025
Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware hosted by the Centre for Climate Psychology with Francis Weller
Meta-Relational AI - University of Victoria - Enrolled
You’ll find me in Bath, with my family. Often in the woods and the waves.
I am autistic, ADHD, Type 1 Diabetic.
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