Saskia von Diest
Saskia von Diest is the founder of Ecofluency, as well as educator, consultant, and activist in the field of Nature communication.
An animal communication workshop during her PhD in Plant Pathology (2012) sparked her interest in how farmers use this to inform practical management decisions. From 2014-2020, she held two postdoctoral fellowships, between Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and at Coventry University, UK, investigating intuitive farming as part of a wider new field of subtle agroecology.
Throughout her postdoctoral years, she further developed her own skills in communicating with trees, animals, land, nature spirits and ancestors. She’s trained as a Family Constellations facilitator, and in the Way of the Warrior Healer for psychic surgery.
In 2021, she created Ecofluency, to offer education, consulting, and paths of activism in Nature communication, and promotes other human voices in this field. She is also a director of the Organisation for Noetic Ecology, and a founding member of Nature’s Council.
Ecofluency has featured multiple times on TV, as well as in dozens of media features including podcasts, magazines, plenary presentations, festival talks and university lectures, and is the Gold winner in innovation for the 2025 Eco-logic Awards.
With 16 years of experience in teaching and facilitating through various forms and in many countries, Saskia’s passion now is creating opportunities for others to have their own experience of dialogue with non-human Nature. Through online and in-person programmes, her aim is to support individuals and organisations in reclaiming these ancestral skills, for personal and planetary transformation.