Guardians Worldwide
Ancestral Futures
Memory
Sacred Ecology
Indigenous spirituality
Storytelling
STARTS MARCH 5, 2025
Every Wednesday 19:30 GMT
Live via Zoom and Mighty Networks
+ optional hands-on tree planting sessions
at our Tree Rescue Hub in London
What is guardianship?
There are many ways of understanding guardianship. For us, it has all to do with responsibility. Guardianship is a land governance practice that goes beyond the narrow Western division between private and pubic. Land is best protected when everyone: private and public-- indigenous and non-indigenous-- come together to take collective responsibility for the care and regeneration of the planet we all share.
September 10- Oct 22, 2026
Live on Tuesdays and Thursdays 19:00 GMT | 20:00 CET | 14:00 EST
All sessions are 90 minutes long | Online, via Zoom
Sessions are recorded so you can view them at your own pace.
Ancestors is a transformational course that explores the need to reconnect with collective pasts in order to ground the present and build a safer future for people and planet.
Participants will engage in acts that honour ancestors through collective memory, sacred territory and intergenerational transmission, paying close attention to the voices of those who came before us, the foremothers and forefathers that can guide the way to the future.
"A transformational experience like no other"
Ana, New York, USA
"We love Guardians"
Nikki, Cambridge, UK
"Guardians makes my week. I wake up at 3am every Wednesday to watch it live."
Maria, Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa
"I can't wait to soak up again all the wisdom and knowledge of this course."
Magdalena, Warsaw, Poland
“Guardiões é ótimo! Cada encontro é uma nova riqueza.”
Mariana, Maranhao, Brazil
"Thank you so much for all the work you are doing. I cannot express the expanse of my gratitude."
Krista, Philadelphia
"Escribo para agradecer a todo el equipo de trabajo que hay detrás de cada encuentro y por las maravillosas reuniones"
Javiera, Temuco (Chile)
"Je suis tellement enthousiaste à propos de ce cours. C’est trop cool"
Rosie, Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
"What an incredible group of humans"
Ashleigh, Devon UK
Guardians Education
What our participants say from all over the world!
Week 1
Thursday September 10, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
THE COLOURS OF THE CAVE
Opening session
with Nic Salazar Sutil, hosted by Mercy Ette
Week 4
Thursday October 1, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
BORI SPIRITUALITY AND THE MAGUZAWA OF HAUSALAND
with Kamilu Hassan Hamza, hosted by Mercy
Week 2
Thursday September 17, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
TORORET: SPIRITUALITY FROM MAU FOREST
with Leonard Mindore, hosted by Mercy
Week 5
Tuesday October 6, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
Participant led session: collective memory session + healing
Thursday October 8, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
WHAT IS THE ANCESTRAL FUTURE? with Maria Rovisco and Wakay Fulni-o
Week 7
Thursday October 22, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
THE WINTERING: STORYTELLING WORKSHOP with Nic
Week 3
Thursday September 24, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
FUTAKACHEYEM: MAPUCHE PEOPLE AND ANCESTRAL LAND ACTIVISM
with Alex and Natali Meliñir, hosted by Nic
Week 6
Tuesday October 13, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CETWeek
Participant led session: ancestorship and creative practice
Thursday October 15, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET
How to be a good inheritor of the earth in a culture of anti-ancestors? with Lee Walther, hosted by Nic
Early bird
Includes access to all 6 sessions and Mighty Networks platform75 pounds / 85 euro
Available until June 30
Founder and director of Guardians Worldwide. Chilean environmentalist, campaigner and writer. He is the author of Matter: transmission (Bloomsbury 2018) and the novel Invernada (Oblicuas, 2026)
Nicolas Salazar Sutil
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Mercy is a Nigerian journalist, media and conflict scholar, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Newcastle, and Chair of the Board of Guardians Worldwide.
Mercy Ette
Leonard is an Indigenous Ogiek land defender and conservationist, Director of Programme for the Heritage of Ogieks and Mother Earth and director of Guardians Kenya.
Leonard Mindore
Wakay is an Indigenous climate psychotherapist from Pernambuco, Brazil, member of the council of Reserva Ecologica Indigena Fulkaxó.
Wakay Fulni-ô
Kamilu Hassan Hamza is an oral historian of the Maguzawa Indigenous people of Northeastern Nigeria. He is the Director of Guardians Africa and Director of Al-Fitra Academy in Kano.
Kamilu Hassan Hamza
Nataly is a Mapuche-Pewenche intercultural health practitioner and hearth keeper from Quinquén Valley in Southern Chile.
Nataly Meliñir
Alex Meliñir
Maria is a Portuguese and Briitish sociologist, currently Professor in Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, and member of the board of Guardians UK and Guardians Worldwide.
Maria Rovisco
Alex is a Mapuche-Pewenche Indigenous leader, member of the historic Meliñir or Three Foxes family, guardians of Quinquén Valley and pioneers in the land rights movement and protection of araucaria pine in Chile.
Lee is a ranger and ecologist, member of the board of Guardians UK
Lee Walther
There are 3 ways to join us.
You can choose Early Bird, Full Package and Storyteller Plus, where you will receive a story on ancestors and climate published by Oblicuas (Barcelona, 2026), written by Nic Salazar Sutil
Early Bird
Available only until June 30.
Course registration
Access to all sessions
Access to Mighty Networks platform
$150
Full Package
Course registration
Access to all sessions
Course readings and links
Access to Mighty Networks platform
Storyteller
Plus
Course registration
Access to all sessions
Course readings and links
Access to Mighty Networks platform
Copy of novel Invernada by Nic Blanco
Limited to 50 copies
$175
$200
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Storyteller Plus
Storyteller Plus members receive a digital copy of Invernada / The Wintering, published by Ediciones Oblicuas (Barcelona, 2026), which will be the subject of the final workshop.
The package includes: original text in Spanish by
Nic Blanco (pen name of Nic Salazar Sutil), a partial English translation and summary.
In 1213, during a forty-year winter in Castile, three noble brothers uncover family secrets while seeking justice for their father's death. Their rivalry for the same woman draws them into a war that will shape their family and descendents.
Based on a true story recorded by Lope García de Salazar, The Wintering recounts the origins of the medieval “War of the Bands.” Nic Blanco blends fiction with ancestor writing, testimony and oral memory in a tale where climate allegory lends the story a striking contemporary resonance.
The Wintering
7 Courses | 2,500 participants | 55 countries
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Guardians Worldwide is an international non-profit organisation.
Guardians UK CIO is a Registered Charity (Charity Commission Number 1214169)
Associaçao Guardians Worldwide is a Registered non-profit in Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)
GWW Africa Ltd is a registered PLC in Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)
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