Meet the Team
Victoria Mew
Founder of Red Squirrel Resources, Victoria Mew found her passion for nature connection and earth living skills at 12 years old and deepened this journey throughout her teens thanks to organisations including Trackways, Coyote Tracks and the Wilderness Awareness School. After extensive vocational training, she founded Cultivating Curiosity which has been running regular groups in Sussex both weekly and monthly since 2012, the year she also completed her Forest School L3. She co-authored Learning With Nature in 2015. Victoria is passionate about helping spread the breadth and depth of nature connection for our health and happiness as individuals, communities and as a whole.
Anna Richardson
Anna Richardson has many years experience as a nature mentor with children and has worked extensively with adults as a foraging and bushcraft instructor and forest school trainer. Her passion and speciality has been facilitating connection to the plants through foraging and journey work. She has experience working in a variety of educational models including: Froebel, Steiner, State and Home-education. Her passion is to share the joy and depth of learning with nature with the hope that this may become available to all children.
Daniel Yabsley
Having grown up on a small holding on the Channel Island of Guernsey, Daniel had always sought out ways to be in, and connect to, nature. This had lead to over 10 years of living in an off-grid treehouse on a biodynamic farm.
During this time he has completed a year round course in nature connection and survival living at Trackways and attended The Art of Mentoring for 3 consecutive years. He co-runs Cultivating Curiosity and has been facilitating weekly and monthly nature connection sessions for children since 2012. He also co-ran and facilitated Seeing Through Nature‘s Eye’s adult nature immersion course.
Daniel is dedicated to, and deeply nourished by, bringing this nature connection work to as many people as possible.
Susan Kelly
Susan Kelly is passionate about movement, games and the outdoors. Susan trained and worked as a state school PE teacher before becoming a games teacher in a Steiner Waldorf school. Susan loves adventure and learning and has undertaken courses with Bothmer Movement International, Tracker School, Trackways and the Helpers Mentoring Society. Susan is a facilitator of adult and teacher movement trainings that include giving insight to what games support different ages and stages of development in children. Susan currently teaches games and nature connection to home school groups and monthly mentoring groups and loves to share her knowledge and expertise with a wider audience.
Jason Eichner
Born in sunny Sussex, Jason Eichner has been passionate about mentoring and education all his life. As one of the founders of Red Squirrel Resources, Jason has worked behind the scenes running the technical side of things, maintaining the website, editing many of the videos, and generally pushing buttons until everything works again.
When he’s not at his desk working on Red Squirrel Resources or out filming the latest video, Jason can be found writing or wandering through forests.
Dan Puplett
Dan is a naturalist, conservationist and nature educator, and has had a passion for the natural world from an early age. He has been involved in a wide range of conservation projects and worked for Trees for Life for over eleven years.
Dan is a certified wildlife tracker and the author of the Field Studies Council’s Guide to British Bird Tracks and Signs chart. He started his business, Dan Puplett Nature Awareness, in 2011 and runs training and workshops in naturalist skills including tracking, bird language and foraging.
A Forest School leader and instructor for the Kamana Naturalist Training Programme, Dan is committed to helping people connect more deeply to the rest of nature.