“This course reminds each of us that adventure is a state of mind and that new rich perspectives can be discovered by approaching the familiar with an open, alert and creative mind.
Tyler is one of those rare leaders who is driven by idealism and devotes the best of himself to every enterprise, inspiring others to do the same through his example. His easy-going, unpretentious style invites people to consider possibilities while his humour, playfulness, patience and willingness to be actively involved assures safety in the exploration.
It is thus without reservation that I recommend Tyler’s course to any group seeking a novel and multi-dimensional outdoor learning experience.”
“Tyler provided one of the most informed, wise, and uplifting talks I have ever been to in a natural environment – everyone in the group was in his thrall, and all greatly appreciative of his time and experience.” - Author Sarah Day
Tyler is an outdoor and environmental educator and ancestral skills teacher now based in Turrakana on the lands of the Pydairrerme people in southeastern Lutruwita (Tasmania). Having spent the last 16 years teaching tens of thousands of students all over the world, Tyler’s unique ability to connect with people and bring diverse groups together continues to be the backbone of all his programs. Whether teaching handrill friction fire, or natural navigation, or tracking, or ecology, the skills are always a vehicle for something deeper, a remembering of your place in the community of life and a comfort of being at home in nature.
Tyler has been an educational ranger for National Parks and wildlife services both in NSW and Tasmania for 11 years. An instructor, section director, program director and assistant director of education at Camp summit outdoor Education center in BC, Canada (2009-2015). A facilitator and Mentor for the Centre for ecological learning since 2011 where he developed programs facilitated camps, workshops for youth of the midnorth coast of NSW. As the owner and founder of Reading Nature (previously shifting passages) Tyler has been facilitating workshops and programs since 2013.
Having spent so much of his life working with people, Tyler tends to spend his down time on long solo alpine adventures in remote parts of the world, shaping and surfing Alaias, touring with his music, trail running, surveying forests for giant trees to protect, or building his cabin on the mountain and living close to the land.