More-Than-Human Inclusion
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Contact meTIDE Education
Over the years, my vision of education has transformed. This transformation begins with seeing other animals as co-teachers.
I work with all ages, facilitating workshops in classrooms, nature-based settings, and communities. My teaching spans formal and informal environments—from universities in Europe to hands-on programs with children.
Currently, I’m co-creating educational programmes for children with Terra Canis Dog Sanctuary at Tamera Peace Research Centre in Portugal, exploring themes of empathy, spiritual ecology, and multispecies cooperation.
What can I help you with?
- Developing educational material (curricula, toolkits, online and in-person courses) for schools, universities, or public organisations on topics related to animals and nature.
- Teaching workshops, events, courses and summer schools.
I have a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) from the Netherlands.
- An introduction to intuitive interspecies communication
- Facilitating multispecies deliberations
- Nature-based learning techniques
- Animal-friendly restoration and rewilding
TIDE Research
My research is shaped by what I have experienced, whether that be from lessons in intuitive interspecies communication, or lessons from animals whom I have met at sanctuaries and in rewilding projects.
Why a practice-based approach?
Whilst I was completing my PhD research on animal and biodiversity governance, I noticed that many of my talented colleagues working on animal issues actually don’t get to spend as much time as they would like with other animals; observing them, conversing with them, co-creating and collaborating with them.
TIDE was founded to bridge academic research with lived experience.
By bringing together scholars, practitioners and our animal community in a collaborative way, I explore questions pertinent questions about what it actually means to live in inclusive interspecies communities, and how to do it in practice.
More-than-human inclusive governance
- Animal/interspecies communication
- Animal ethics, law, rights, and dignity
- Animal cultures
Wildlife welfare, rehabilitation and co-existence
- Human-wildlife conflict, coexistence and interaction (HWCCI)
- Compassionate and convivial conservation
- (Natural) veterinary medicine and animal wellbeing
Education and nature-connectedness
- Ecopedagogy, wild pedagogy
- Ecopsychology
- Storytelling/arts-based techniques
Transformative and regenerative societies
- Multispecies design
- Degrowth
- Compassionate rewilding
Please get in touch if you are interested in collaborating on research.
TIDE Advisory
Do you want to do more for animals and nature? My consultancy services help public and private organisations—including sanctuaries, rewilding projects, and businesses—integrate the more-than-human world into their work.
I don’t claim to have all the answers. Instead, I see this as a collaborative process, where we shape the future together.
- Grant writing and fundraising support
- Writing policy briefs and advocacy documents on animal, biodiversity, and environmental governance
- Media and public relations strategy
- Stakeholder engagement and community facilitation
Human-wildlife co-flourishing
I believe we can go further than just co-existence. That meaningful collaboration with other animals can help us all to flourish.
I work with local residents, farmers, landowners, and public authorities to develop practical approaches to coexistence with wildlife, rooted in compassion and collaboration. This includes:
- Reducing human–wildlife conflict
- Protecting farmed animals and wildlife through non-lethal methods
- Improving habitat connectivity
- Adapting farming practices to support animals and nature
- Preventing accidental wildlife injuries
- Creating spaces for dialogue and community learning
TIDE Life
One of the most important aspects of my work is hands-on. I decided to leave full-time academia to work directly with animals and nature restoration. To put ideas like compassionate rewilding into practice. Why? Because this is where the real change happens. I think it is only through such experiences that we can really understand how interspecies flourishing can be made a reality and what transformative societal change actually looks like.
Other animals are my teachers, alongside many brilliant humans.
My journey has taken me from working with horses and inner-city children in London, to animal sanctuaries and rewilding projects in the Netherlands, UK, South Africa, Kenya, Croatia, and Portugal. Each step has been a lesson in humility, connection, and the power of listening.
- A hands-on team member for your project?
- Someone with practical experience to help plan your next steps in multispecies inclusion?
The long-term vision
I founded the Selvinha TIDE project with Émilie Giraudo and Romain Mandis. In the future, we plan to have a fully fledged research and education centre for interspecies flourishing at the magical Selvinha - which means ‘little jungle’ in Portuguese - in rural Alentejo, Portugal. This will be a compassionate rewilding project in which animals come first. Our aim is to have animals legally represented on the board of our organisation. Compassionate rewilding means considering other animals’ social bonds, cultures, and personal preferences - they are not simply ‘ecosystem engineers’, they are co-residents and fellow citizens. As the project develops, we plan to add facilities for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation and, eventually, a sanctuary for those animals who need a permanent home.