Meet our Team
Natalia D’Onofrio Bianchini
Company Founder, Managing Director & Support Facilitator
Natalia feels her strongest calling has been to raise children, with her offspring spanning sixteen years between them.
The family live together on the land at Wildlings HQ, in Oxfordshire, in the house that they built. Natalia’s children are the fifth generation of the family to live there.
Natalia has worked extensively with women over the years, as a Doula, Homebirth Assistant to an Independent Midwife, and as an Active Birth & Yoga Teacher. She has also run her own Dog Daycare company and loves creating entrepreneurial endeavours within our communities to enable connection and wellness.
Most recently she has completed various courses including:
A Youth Worker’s Tool Kit / Sam Young / January 2022
Communication Skills Seminar Programme / January - June 2021
Child Communication Workshop / Rosamund Frost / June 2020
Consent Based Education / Sophie Christophy / 2020
Natalia’s youngest two children attend Wildlings.
Georgia Rose Stewart
Camp Coordinator / Facilitator
Multidisciplinary Artist, Performance Researcher and Creative Facilitator.
In 2020, Georgia graduated from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance with a First Class Honours degree in European Theatre Arts (Training the Contemporary Performer). During her studies, she engaged with a diverse range of performance styles, creative practices and types of investigative research.
In Spring 2019, she moved to Poland for two months and completed an Erasmus Intensive Traineeship with The European Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice.
Her love of learning is energised by an affinity for investigating how experiences shape our comprehension of lived existence. She is especially interested in Phenomenology, processes of embodiment and the effects of holistic transformation.
To inspire awareness of the individual’s connection to the natural world, and their relational agency as a conscious being, Georgia aspires to support others in developing their own methods of imaginative discovery and creative exploration.
Most recently she has undertaken trainings in:
A Youth Worker’s Tool Kit / Sam Young / January 2022
Child Communication Workshop / Rosie Frost / July 2021
Samantha Young
Emotional Support Facilitator / 1:1 mentor
Sam is a gem of a human and children just gravitate towards her!
She has worked at Wildlings since 2021 and brings such grounding and fun and kindness to the space. She has worked with children for over 20 years and you can see why.
At Wildlings, she specialises in emotional support for children with higher needs, but really we all want a piece of her and she is available to all at our Child Days.
Sam oversees anyone with special educational needs and disabilities, on whatever level.
Full bio coming soon!
All of our Facilitators hold Enhanced DBS checks.
Our core Team attend regular Supervision sessions and continuing professional development courses, to support their work with children.
Wildlings is fully ensured to protect every person in their educational/nature immersion.
More of our Facilitators
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Luca D'Onofrio
Support Facilitator / 1:1 Mentor / Tutor
Luca has direct experience working with young people since 2019 when he was a team leader for foreign students visiting Oxford.
He graduated from the University of Sussex in 2021 with a First Class Honours in Psychology.
He has tutoring experience in languages and academic studies. He runs tutor groups at Wildlings online and in person since 2022. In addition he teaches at a tutorial college in Oxford.
Most recently he has undertaken trainings in:
A Youth Worker’s Tool Kit / Sam Young / January 2022
Child Communication Workshop / Rosie Frost / July 2021
Talking Circles / The Visionaries / 2021
Developing Role Models: Peer- Led Mentoring in Schools / University of Sussex / 2019
Luca is taking a year out to travel and deepen his training in Muy Thai in Thailand.
We will be excited to see what amazing stories of adventures he will share with us upon his return!
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Zoë Zahava
Artist and Creative Workshops
Zoe brings us fantastic workshops that are full of incredible ideas, integrating into games and stories, culture, history and fantasy.
She brings quality and depth of activity to all ages, with her warm and personable style.
After several years working in events, Zoë trained as a Secondary Art and Design teacher with the University of Brighton. She worked in mainstream Secondary Schools in East and West Sussex, teaching art and photography before setting up ZO + CO in 2021.
Her main mission lies in facilitating workshops that make participants feel good about the creative process, whilst learning new processes and skills. She has an evolving interest in Process Art - the idea that artistic endeavours can focus on the creative journey, rather than always the finished project - and also the ways in which art and nature intersect.
She is an advocate of the therapeutic benefits of art when facilitated in the right environment, and is passionate about facilitating experiences which keep children curious and excited about art.
Instagram: @zo.and.co.art
Website: www.zoandco.art
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Justine Gens
Master Forager & Herbalist
Justine makes foraging approachable, for people of all ages, skills and interests. Her laugh sings out across woodland and she offers a light touch style of sharing information, which draws into practical skills and experiences for attendees almost immediately.
Driven by a sense of community, Justine practices the art of foraging and herbalism with gratitude. She teaches how to identify, harvest and embrace wild plants with a sustainable approach.
As a trained herbalist, she helps you understand the impact of plants on your physical and mental health, but also their role within the local biodiversity. Ecology, as we know, is a priority.
She teaches wildcrafting & wild cooking workshops all over Oxfordshire and beyond.
To create her herbal medicines, she uses locally foraged plants, wildcrafting methods and distillation.
Justine hopes to inspire people to respect the ground by getting to know it better.
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Kyle Evans
Games & Sports workshops
Kyle was home educated and as such has a great perspective on the natural learning potential of young people.
Kyle has the capacity to hold a group of teenagers really solidly while allowing much freedom and fun to be had in a self directed way.
A favourite game of ours at Wildlings HQ is ‘Capture the Flag’ which, when played in the woods becomes and massive feat of strategy, grit and determination. With a massive amount of fun and laughter thrown in!
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Ted Glendinning
Axe throwing, music and sound exploration
Multi-talented Ted brings us something new each time they visit!
Watch this space for more amazing workshops coming up…
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Ebony Gherorgie
Multi-talented Ebony is a mother, a forager, a wild crafter, a martial artist, a geologist, a photographer and editor… the list goes on!
She has brought many interesting subjects to the young people of Wildlings to date and we cannot wait for more!
Look out for her up-coming book, soon to be published.
