About Forrest Communications

I find it helpful to understand to understand the inspiration of things, how things are arrived at, where they came from.

So I'll start the "About section" with this and describe how and where this work comes from.

This work is the reconciliation of two seemingly "separate things" within myself:

A desire for connection to my ancestry but also a confusion about how to do that from lands that aren't my ancestry; combined with the arising of understanding that what I long for from my ancestry is no longer available - perhaps it never was. I don't truly know.

And a confusion of the vapidness of my own culture blended with a desire to not appropriate other’s relationships, traditions and ways of knowing that deep connection - whether it was in Yoga or in Native American Indigenous ways
Trying to understand how to navigate the desire for ways of knowing beyond what the Dominant Worldview offers in the wake of a culture that purposefully sought to destroy that same way of knowing.

Eventually through hours (years) of sitting with and contemplation I realized what I truly wanted was a deep connection with Nature, with Life, with The Mystery of Creation…

And well, when that landed, it changed everything. I didn’t need my ancestry for that - although it would have been a heck of lot easier and less wrought with doubt but also…perhaps in a way it was easier because I had less stories and unhelpful anchors to sort through.

Eventually the echos of a very wise teacher rose up from the muddy waters of my mind and I understood the empowerment of her words as they echoed around me: “teach the legacy not the traditions.”

And so Forrest Communications is born from the dance of confusion & frustration and knowingness & hopefulness.

About Me

Hi! My name is Natt Forrest (I know, great name for someone who loves Nature!).

I am a quiet-type of person who experiences life in a sensory way and who spends a lot of time alone with Nature. Nature time has always been a part of life, helping me navigate my way to peace and I often felt odd about that. I was "lucky" to find my way to Applied EcoPsychology in my very early 20's and found a language for what I was experiencing in my love with Nature, and eventually worked my way through to a doctorate.

From early on I knew something was missing from my life but I couldn’t quite understand what it was. For years I felt adrift and like I didn’t belong, almost like I was mourning something.

Turns out, I was mourning a way of life that fulfilled a deep connection; that was replete with quietness and ritual, relationship and autonomy, belonging and freedom. A way that didn’t suppress direct conversation with Divinity or place woman – or any being – as subservient…with perhaps with just a little bit of magic left in it.

The ability to have conversations with Nature is something I believe that many of our ancestors knew how to do. Just like having a conversation with a friend, one would talk with Nature.

And that’s what I see missing in the writings, learnings and teachings about Nature and place-based learning: The very foundational understanding of how to hear Nature.