Book Release
2025
A radical reorientation around partnership with the natural world.
With Intention, With the Land is a comprehensive guidebook that offers a step-by-step approach to transforming our relationship with the natural world.
Filled with practical insights, real-life stories, and a blend of Indigenous teachings, eco psychology theory and prose, this book helps readers embrace creative, regenerative practices to foster sustainability in both their personal and professional lives.
Through highlighting universal principles we can draw on for deepening our connection with the earth, and detailing the transformative approach of the Triple Spiral Framework – where we ask, listen, and reciprocate with the natural world - readers are invited to confidently step into their role as environmental stewards.
This book is for you if:
You’d like to deepen your sense of belonging and connection with the natural world.
You orient around the intersections of social justice, personal development, eco psychology, decolonization and environmental activism to support the collective with out-of-the-box thinking.
You’re in the wellness field (a.k.a. therapist, coach, social worker, outdoor educator, etc.) seeking to learn practical ways to create safe and ethical spaces for your clients to have meaningful encounters with the natural world.
Dig in
With Intention, With the Land introduces a powerful approach developed by Sarah West, called the Triple Spiral Framework ©, which weaves us into the timeless, archetypal rhythm of how to ask, listen and reciprocate with the natural world. It grounds us in the knowing that we can bring a question, or intention to the land, and partner with the natural world to transform our individual and collective wellbeing and decision making.
Brimming with lyrical, vivid examples of encounters with the natural world, the book shares real-life stories from clients, as well as Sarah’s long-standing relationships with Indigenous Elders who speak about the importance of caring for the earth. By following Sarah’s journey as a woman of Celtic descent to re-indigenize her relationship with the natural world, With Intention, With the Land is an easily accessible guidebook to embody the land-based teachings of our ancestors.
Themes and issues explored With Intention
Embodied methods for remembering our connection with the natural world, and the colonial context for why we “forgot.”
The power and benefits of partnering with the natural world through acts of creativity to access out-of-the-box thinking.
Indigeneity and practical ways for anyone to access our collective birthright to connect with the earth.
Core principles for ethically and authentically relating with the natural world, and straightforward practices for developing a partnership.
How to cultivate safe spaces for working with the natural world and your clients when you’re in the wellness field.
Advance Praise
“Sarah presents an embodied, spiritually-informed, practical and concise route to awaken in professionals, therapists and their clients, teachers, environmental activists and educators that dormant, neglected or suppressed ability to experience the power of our relationship with nature. This work is informed and enriched by Sarah’s personal and professional journey, her connections with the land, her Scottish, Irish and English ancestry, and the Indigenous peoples and their Elders who have generously guided her and who are honoured in this work.
Her work has the ability, I believe, to bridge our community fractures, our lineages and our losses, inner and outer, to the human and more-than-human beings in nature which have suffered under the forces of colonisation. An empowering response to the psychological distress emerging as eco-grief and apocalypse fatigue.”
Beverley A’Court, Faculty, Russian Art Therapy Association; British Association of Art Therapists
“Sarah's commitment to creativity and land based healing inspires me so deeply. I cannot wait to have her beautiful book in my hands.”
Laura Andrew, Faculty & Ecological Art Therapist, KATI
“As someone who has just started reconnecting with the magickal elements of the natural world — both here in the rainforests of British Columbia and enveloped within the féth fíada of southwestern Ireland — I am very much looking forward to Sarah’s book.”
Chris Brauer, Teacher and Author
“In a world filled with distractions and disconnect, this book’s timely exploration into reconnecting with the land and discovering our inner selves has been truly transformative. Through Sarah’s remarkable work, readers are guided on an incredible journey of self-reflection and growth. With the Triple Spiral Framework as the cornerstone for such self-discovery, Sarah illuminates a powerful path to holistic well-being. As a reader, I was constantly engaged by the myriad of vivid examples, stories, and powerful anecdotes that solidify the wisdom shared within these pages. The significance in understanding our connection to the land, ourselves, and the world around us is remarkably presented by Sarah in a manner that is not only accessible but also inspiring.
Sarah’s storytelling and ability to connect with her readers transform this book into a beacon of hope for those searching for a renewed sense of purpose, as well as a deeper connection with the natural world.
If you are seeking an enlightening and transformative experience that will forever shift your perspective, you will love this book and the Triple Spiral Framework. Dive into this thought-provoking exploration, and emerge with a richer, more authentic understanding of self, nature, and our place in the universe.”
Raelene Bergen, CEO, Origin Leadership Consulting Inc.
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