Purpose Guides Institute · Portals to Purpose
Finding the Wild Within
A Conversation with Craig Foster
How can we reclaim a soul-deepening wildness
when daily life insists on taming us?
My Octopus Teacher — Academy Award 2021
We’ve forgotten our interconnectedness with the living world, and with each other. We’ve forgotten that our rightful place of belonging is right here, in the sacred, ecological web of life. And that forgetting is costing us, as individuals and as a species.
Craig Foster knows this intimately. After years of burnout, he returned to his birthplace at the Cape of Good Hope and began diving in the Great African Seaforest every day. That daily immersion was healing. And it also reshaped his understanding of what it means to be human.
Craig is a leading natural history filmmaker, co-founder of Sea Change Project, and Academy Award winner for My Octopus Teacher. His book Amphibious Soul is what Jane Goodall calls “an important book that will transform how we think about being human, and inspire hope.”
His message is simple and urgent: no matter who you are or where you live, you can recognise and reconnect to the wildness already within you and all around you.
Craig Foster is one of the most compelling guides back to our own wild nature.
"The ocean taught me that I am not separate from nature — I am nature, briefly remembering itself."— Craig Foster · My Octopus Teacher
A Personal Invitation & A Taste of Craig’s Depth
After Rachael’s personal invitation, this clip introduces you to the poetic depth of Craig as he explores how the wild world is a mirror — reflecting back to us something essential about who we are, and who we might become.
Purpose Guides Institute · Portals to Purpose
A rare opportunity to sit with one of the world’s most compelling guides into wildness. Craig almost never does public conversations. There will be space for your questions — please bring your curiosities.
Date & Time
May 30, 2026
9:00 – 10:30 am PT / 6:00 – 7:30 pm CET
Live online conversation
Admission
Free
Donation warmly welcomed to support the Sea Change Project and future events
What Comes Next · Portals to Purpose
‘Tracking Soul’
Living a life on purpose.
Saturday 6 June · 9:00 – 10:30 am PT / 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET / 6:00 – 7:30 pm CET · Online
“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.”
— Mary Oliver
The practice of tracking, as shared with us by Craig Foster of My Octopus Teacher, teaches us that we can only perceive what we pay attention to. And when we pay attention in an intimate way, we tap into unseen worlds — worlds that remind us life is far more vast, precious and mysterious than we’re often led to believe.
Craig is a man who has lived in response to a soul’s calling, opening himself to a life of intimate connection with the sacred web of life. In Amphibious Soul, he asks: “At what moment did you trade in your own wild inheritance for the promises of safety and comfort?”
What we pay attention to is, in the end, what we give our lives to. And what we give our lives to is the future world we create. One week on from our time with Craig, join Rachael Duffy for a conversation about turning our attention toward Soul and the calling it carries — and what becomes possible, for us and for the more-than-human world, when we choose a soul-aligned life.
For those who feel called to go deeper, Rachael will also open a door into the Purpose Discovery Program — a three-month journey into discovering and living your own calling.
Join Both Conversations
One registration covers both events — Finding the Wild Within with Craig Foster (May 30) and Tracking Soul with Rachael Duffy (June 6). Get the recordings and the Zoom link for Tracking Soul.
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