The HEALING power of micro adventures with Tinuke Oyediran

So I was a professional roller skater for 10 years and I absolutely love that.

That was lots of lots of travel as well.

So I think every time I went away for work, I'd like add an extra couple of days on and then go hiking like in that time wherever I was in the world.

So I did a lot of travel and a lot of like understanding different landscapes from that.

Yeah, I got three Guinness World Records in roller skating.

My lockdown situation, that was great.

Something to do, isn't

it? Did that world prepare you for this kind of work in any way?

I think...

Apart from balance.

To

be honest, yeah, apart

from balance.

I think definitely, like... like I started as a dancer roller skater and it's like I always have a very strong um work ethic in anything that I do and like I have a bit of an obsession to do well at something so with the roller skating it's like I am gonna do and it's very like you practice it you practice it you practice it you do it and you're like boom next kind of thing so I have got that kind of like obsession to master something um which I think has come into it when I'm doing like lots of these like quite extreme outdoor activities it's definitely resilience persistence

wow i feel like the things you've done roller skating hiking climbing mount kilimanjaro kind of crazy um what's next and do you when you're doing your adventure therapy are you going to be doing these massive adventures too or is it going to be smaller ways to connect

i think um Like you said, I've sort of like found adventure therapy as something that I'm moving into next in general.

And just to be able to like share all of this knowledge that I've gained and all of these like insights into like how amazing it all is.

So I'm definitely wanting to share it more and just educate people more on the benefits of spending time with nature.

I don't know.

I find the like psychology of like spending time in nature, like mad, like satisfying and really interesting.

So I want to share more about that because once you kind of like open Pandora's box, you're a little bit like, how did I not know this before? And it's also helping people have more empathy for nature and building a relationship with it because like, I feel like it's quite hard for people to have empathy for something that you don't have any connection with.

So about looking after the planet and about, you know, building a personal relationship and nature connection so that you feel like you have a responsibility to look after it or even care about it in the first place.

So I want to try and do more of that next.

Big adventures is a big yes.

And small adventures are also a big yes.