Nick has a professional background in addictions work, criminal justice, and corporate and organisational development. Writer, organic farmer, and lover of the outdoors, he is a longstanding guide and companion to men and women going through periods of significant personal transformation who are seeking a path of genuine reconnection, to Self and Soul through the wisdom of the natural world.
His life’s work, whether on the farm, in 1-2-1 practice or when holding group retreats, is rooted in his relationship with the land, its rhythms, seasons, and cycles.
His work is dedicated to teaching, supporting, and promoting the principles, values and behaviours that uphold this way of understanding and being in the world with the view that these perspectives have much to teach us today about how to live in a respectful, creative, and fully participative way at a time of global transformation.
a different drum 
Thanks for the poems.
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Hello Nick, Lisa Gordon (Courage and Renewal) has introduced me to your website and work.
I’m a Courage and Renewal facilitator in training living on the Lancashire Moors. I’ve spent many years running hard, in the wrong direction. Hopefully now I am walking slowly, in the right one.
I’d love to talk to you about the work I am trying to develop which encourages those ‘runners’ to discover or re-discover the art of reflection, which I believe is sadly lacking in our way of life.
Haste
In their haste to reach the next exciting event in life
The next lottery draw
The next night out
The next concert
The next holiday
The next promotion
The next house
The next car
The next love.
They forgot………
That life is made of slow and steady heartbeats.
Between each heartbeat there is time to……
Share a smile
Receive a kiss
Sip fine wine
Feel the sun
Snap a wishbone
Smell cut grass
Tickle your child
Laugh out loud
Or softly sigh.
And so they raced
And so they died,
Without ever having lived.
Live every moment………
In the moment.
It’s where the momentous things happen.
Wendy Bowers 24.8.17
On the Gorple loop above Worsthorne.
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Hi Wendy, good to hear from you and happy to talk. You can reach me at nick@adifferentdrum.biz and we can figure oout a date and time. Thanks also for the poem! Warmest, Nick
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