Team
Sebastiana Black
Sebastiana Black is an ecotherapist, Internal Family Systems therapist and a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. She has been running expressive arts groups since 2010 in the UK and Europe and ecotherapy workshops in East Anglia since 2019.
She is the co-founder and director of Ecotherapy East social enterprise and feels passionate about community development, actively contributing towards regeneration of the natural world and healing our disconnection from nature through our own inner work. She enjoys songs and poetry, running in the wild, tending trees and deepening her Buddhist practice. www.sebastianablack.co.uk
Robert Black
Rob is an integrative counsellor, supervisor, ecotherapist and expressive arts therapist, working in private practice. He worked at Norfolk Mind charity as a trainer of Mental Health First Aid, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Active Hope courses for a decade.
Rob has a keen interest in transpersonal and Jungian therapy and has offered trainings to NHS psychiatry staff. He co-founded Ecotherapy East and enjoys making difference by increasing biodiversity on the land he helps steward.
If not spotting birds in Suffolk, Rob enjoys travelling, vision questing and exploring shamanism.
www.robertblackcounselling.co.uk
Helen Wells
Helen Wells is a multimedia artist who brings together hand drawn animation, video, text and performance to make work about the environment.
Through performance, community involvement and discussion Helen is committed to raising awareness of and fostering dialogue around the complexity of how we take care of the earth.
You can find her work and projects on www.helenwellsmultimediaartist.com
To balance and support her creative life Helen is a volunteer with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, taking part in conservation tasks on Sweetbriar Marsh and being part of a team maintaining the health and welfare of grazing British White cattle. Helen recently joined Ecotherapy East as a director of the CIC and will bring her love of nature, her experience of fundraising and her creative self to support Ecotherapy East in all their ventures.
Nick Jackson
The natural world has been an obsession of mine since childhood, woodlice being an early fascination. I’ve been involved with Church Farm Meadow since the early days: helping to plant the first trees. Since then I’ve enjoyed watching the buds form. I’ve assisted by pulling out weeds and watering drought-stricken saplings.
I’m particularly interested in creating habitat for invertebrates (those woodlice again) and small animals – building log-piles and positioning squares of roofing felt in the undergrowth.
Personal highlights have been observing a glow-worm in the car park and finding a slow worm under a piece of felt, watching a spotted flycatcher catching flies from its perch on a telephone wire in a corner of the meadow, discovering a colony of small heath butterflies, the list goes on…
With a background in book-keeping I’ve ended up with some responsibility for financial management. I am also a recently trained mindfulness teacher. I think mindfulness in nature and ecotherapy are wonderful ways of engaging with the natural world. The more closely we can observe our environment, the better the position we will be in to understand and adapt to the changes that are affecting all our lives.
Andy Narracott
Andy Narracott is a sanitation specialist working in international development. His interest in the sanitation sector started at the age of 16 when his father started a luxury mobile toilet business, and using this knowledge, started a social enterprise bringing aspirational toilets to communities in Ghana.
He’s lived and worked across Central America, Africa and South East Asia. He became a chartered civil engineer working on flood defences in East Anglia and also volunteers as a master composter with Norfolk County Council. He lives with his family in Norwich, and loves growing veg, walking in nature, fermenting, cooking and keeping fit.