Gina Chick Travels from Sydney, NSW

Gina's nature connection programmes weave ancestral hunter-gatherer technologies into modern life. She runs Rewild Your Child camps eight weeks a year, where 200 people come together to create a village in the wilderness, focusing on nature connection.

These are Australia's first rewilding family camps and have been running for over a decade. Gina also runs solo wilderness rite of passage programmes and group survival quests.

Gina's presence is electric. She taps into universal chords of human experience, drawing from her experience and adventures worldwide to offer pathways through the wilderness within and without. Her stories of challenges, redemption and inspiration sing with warmth, depth and humour and offer resolution to questions of belonging and connection that most humans struggle with. She is a 5Rhythms dance meditation teacher and singer-songwriter and often incorporates somatics and even songs into her presentations. An hour with Gina is a journey through a vastly textured landscape, an adventure likely to leave you feeling inspired and connected and ready to embrace the wild in all its forms, possibly even without shoes!

Writing is in Gina Chick's genes. Her grandmother, Charmian Clift, was an author, essayist and Australia's first female columnist in the early 60's. Charmian married George Johnstone (My Brother Jack) and they lived together on Hydra with Leonard Cohen and bohemian expats. Charmian's teenage indiscretion, an illegitimate daughter, was given up for adoption. Gina's mum, Suzanne Chick, who, after finally discovering her mother's identity at 48, wrote her own book, Searching For Charmian, which was shortlisted for the NBC Banjo Award.

Gina's articles have been published in The Guardian, news.com.au, Mamamia and SBS online. Her debut memoir will be published in October 2024.