Break free from BLACK WEEK overconsumption and reconnect with what you really need
Pitch your virtual festival tent Nov. 25.-Dec.1. at
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK
the hybrid festival
Get 7 fantastic Nature Connectedness event days virtually and in-person + bonus events for only
40 EURO
- a price guaranteed to beat all the BLACK WEEK offers you've ever been tempted by!
Limited number of Festival passes for physical in-person events
SALES CLOSED - join the waitlist
Or join the Opening reception and Concert on the 25th at 19:00 for FREE
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK is held especially for those of you who see value in having a planet to live on, understand that we don't have a plan(et) B as a backup, perhaps work professionally with nature, or are simply interested in learning more about how you yourself can make a difference to our human and environmental health.
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK runs throughout week 48 – the same week as the worldwide celebration of overconsumption that demonstrably has major consequences for our planet.
The purpose of the NEED FOR NATURE festival is to create a different path to tread than the trend that is the foundation for Black Friday, Black Week and Black November. A celebration of joy, a celebration and a reminder of human as an inseperably connected part of nature. A space held by Nature Connectedness experts, for those of you who feel that indifferent buy-and-throw-away culture and harmful human activities must be a thing of the past - and for you who are curious about how you can step into the Regenerative Era in a pleasurable way that has roots in your authentic evolutionary psychological needs – in your need for nature and for connectedness with something greater than you.
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP v.
Nature Connectedness Researcher & Facilitator
Tanya Uhnger Wünsche
invites you to
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK Festival!
Do you want to secure access to the most important festival week of the year?
SALES CLOSED - join the waitlist
Or join the Opening reception and Concert on the 25th at 19:00 for FREE
Why NEED FOR NATURE WEEK?
We live in a time characterized by uncertainty. Separation is our premise, and with an increasing disconnection from what we came from, has followed an indifference, and an ego-centered pattern of action that now has noticeable consequences on both people and the environment.
We are in a global prosperity crisis - we have great socio-economic inequality in health, and allow ourselves to be pressured by norms coming from outside. Never before have so many lived with mental imbalances, diagnoses, and the inability to ground themselves.
Our planetary home is changing - we are exterminating 150 species daily, depleting natural oil and gas resources, we have waved goodbye to the UN's AGENDA 2030 target of a global temperature increase of max. 1.5 percent. This year we consume more than 2.5 of the earth's resources, we have created a new geological Anthropocene age with our actions, and live with daily news media reports of "imminent danger of collapse".
And the craziest thing is... THAT WE DO IT CONSCIOUSLY. WE KNOW.
Humans are the first species on the planet to be aware of the consequences of their actions, but still continue (!) On BLACK FRIDAY 2023, the world's shoppers spent $9.8 billion on material bargains. In 2024, the amount is estimated to increase to 11 billion dollars - Friday only. In addition, BLACK WEEK, CYBER MONDAY and BLACK NOVEMBER. All this is at the heart of the growing interest in the Nature Connectedness field.
Another way is needed. NOW! This is our big WHY for inviting you to NEED FOR NATURE WEEK.
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK Festival Program
Monday 25. Nov.
Opening reception for CENTER FOR NATURE CONNECTEDNESS – talk and celebration with Nature Connectedness Researcher & Facilitator Tanya Uhnger Wünsche, and intimate concert with The Singing Doctor Freja Eriksen
Place: La Oficina, Suomisvej 4, Frederiksberg C, Denmark On-line participation possible
Tuesday 26. Nov.
Live recording on the Nature Connectedness for President podcast
Wednesday 27. Nov.
Live Research Roundtable Nature Connectedness discussion
Thursday 28. Nov.
App Launch for the Nature Connectedness in Your Pocket App - with access to the 15 day Nature Connectedness Immersion challenge!
Black Friday 29. Nov.
REAL BLACK FRIDAY sensory silent walk in the dark with NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES. Held simultaneously in all of Denmark's 5 National Parks
Saturday 30. Nov.
Virtual Wilderness meet ups with our WILDERNESS TRAVEL guides live from the wildest places on the planet
Sunday 1. Dec.
Live Virtual NEED FOR NATURE Award Ceremony.
The NEED FOR NATURE award goes to people who work with and for the nature-human relationship, and make a special holistic and perspective-expanding effort to invite others into an awareness and a power of action necessary in the Regenerative Era.
Who is inviting you to the NEED FOR NATURE WEEK Festival?
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP is a small group with a great passion for nature, on a global mission to save our planet one natureconnected human being at a time. NEED FOR NATURE GROUP today operates in six subsidiaries with particular expertise in management, health promotion, pedagogy and experience-based tourism, and has founded the not-for-profit movement NEED FOR NATURE MOVEMENT.
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP strives to be an international Act Tank.
Founding CEO Tanya Uhnger Wünsche says the following about the mission of NEED FOR NATURE GROUP:
"After decades in Acedemic Centres of Competence, Boards and Think Tank forums, I have both felt firmly planted in my field, and at the same time constantly behind in relation to where I and we should be. With a life marked by both an academic longing to be able to document and argue for everything, and simultaneously another part of life in a closely connected relationship with the globe's large wilderness areas and fantastic indigenous cultures naturally believing in a more universal connectedness, I have longed for the transition from thought to action. That is why NEED FOR NATURE GROUP was conceived. As an internationally connected Act Tank, we want to inspire and transform to a more natureconnected way of life and build up the necessary skills to act. The time when we merely think has to be over. In a world that has often caused me great sadness and concern for the future, I have gradually landed in an enormously soft place. A place where I feel that separation is an illusion, a place where I feel that we are stronger together - and a place from which the mission to ensure my fellow human-beings an experience of being able to listen to and act on their inner genetically founded need for connectedness to nature, feels less lonely - because there are more and more of us who want to go in the same direction. We would like to help promote this power of connectedness, which is why NEED FOR NATURE WEEK, NEED FOR NATURE MOVEMENT and NEED FOR NATURE GROUP exist and we look forward to sharing this festival with you.”
SALES CLOSED - join the waitlist
Or join the Opening reception and Concert on the 25th at 19:00 for FREE
All this is included in your Festival Pass
- Joint warm-up webinar on the importance of meeting our inner need for connectedness to nature as a joint kick-start to the NEED FOR NATURE WEEK Festival
- Opening reception for the Center for Nature Connectedness with talk and bubbles with Nature Connectedness Researcher & Facilitator Tanya Uhnger Wünsche and intimate concert with The Singing Doctor Freja Eriksen
- Live recording with the audience of the podcast Nature Connectedness for President
- Live Research Roundtable discussion on nature connectedness as a catalyst for the planet's health, well-being and healing
- Launch kick off for the Nature Connectedness in Your Pocket app
- 3-month free subscription to the Nature Connectedness in Your Pocket app, which provides 365 gentle prompts for daily nature-connectedness experiences, as well as a nature-connectedness community of inspiration and accountability, and a 15-day challenge to help you get started on meeting your need for nature, so you can quickly stand against Black Week offers!
- REAL BLACK FRIDAY – a sensual, slow and quiet walk in the dark - simultaneously in all 5 Danish national parks
- Live online hiking in the world's fantastic wilderness areas
- Joint closing webinar on holding on to and listening to our need for connectedness to nature. Reflections, celebration, new vibrations and gratitude
- Access to virtual community of like-minded people who understand your need for nature connection
- Fast track admission and 3 months free in our Inner Circle community
- The vote for the NEED FOR NATURE Prize and access to the virtual Distribution event
- Wild discounts and bonuses that get you even deeper into the Nature Connectedness field
Be part of the solution and not part of the problem Replace BLACK WEEK with NEED FOR NATURE WEEK in November 2024!
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK is for you there:
- Deep down can feel a smoldering need to choose another path
- Will be part of the solution. Now.
- Will be accompanied by like-minded Nature Connectors at the year's most important Festival - and beyond
- Actually, I just wanted to have a planet to live on in the future...
- And....Psssst!...We also always have room for you who are not (you think) a "nature person" yourself - and are ready to reconnect you with your inherent need for connection with nature through just the festival activity you want to participate in.
Ready to listen to your
inner need for connection with nature?
SALES CLOSED - join the waitlist
Or join the Opening reception and Concert on the 25th at 19:00 for FREE
We all have a NEED FOR NATURE
Our wish is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate - to spread Nature Connectedness knowledge and experience to as many people as possible - that's why you get your Festival Pass - 7 online events and the opportunity to participate in two delicious physical Nature Connectedness Immersion events (limited capacity) for only 40 EUROS.
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK is value for money - to the core of your real need. And where the scary global statistics say that more than 70% of the material purchases made by 90.6 million people for 9.8 billion dollars on Black Friday in 2023 were deemed useless and ended up straight in the trash (UNUSED!) there is a high probability that after a whole week at the NEED FOR NATURE WEEK hybrid festival you will never (want to) be the same again – you will simply be too smart, too caring and too environmentally conscious to want to look back...
You get a whole festival week packed with awareness and immersion about the world's most important field for only 40 EUROS - Guaranteed cheaper than any other materialistic bargain you've ever fallen for on BLACK FRIDAY!
FAQ on NEED FOR NATURE WEEK
What is NEED FOR NATURE WEEK?
NEED FOR NATURE WEEK is a hybrid festival that combines internationally available virtual events with physical in-person events throughout Denmark, where the festival organizer NEED FOR NATURE GROUP is headquartered.
How much does it cost to participate in NEED FOR NATURE WEEK?
Your Festival Pass is your virtual festival wristband that gives you access to all the week's events. All 7 events plus two bonus events cost you a total of 40 EUROS to participate in.
Are the physical festival events included in my Festival Pass?
Yes, you are free to register for all the week's events once you are inside our virtual festival site - however, only sign up on the guest list for the physical events if you plan to show up (There is a no-show fee of DKK 500 if you do not come or cancel prior to the event, in order to respect each other and ensure that all empty spaces are filled).
Where do I participate in the various events?
For our online events, you will be sent a link to the virtual festival tent where today's event takes place, and you simply log in. The link is personal to you.
For the CENTER FOR NATURE CONNECTEDNESS Opening reception and the intimate concert 25. Nov. you show up at La Oficine, Suomisvej 4, Frederiksberg C, Denmark and get checket on the guest list. A No-Show fee is deducted if you do not use your link.
For the REAL BLACK FRIDAY silent walks 29. Nov. you show up at the sent address in either Thy National Park, Mols Bjerge, Wadden Sea, Skjoldungernes Land, or Kongernes Nordsjælland, and present the sent QR code to your NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES guides, which you received when you secured your experience ticket. The QR code is personal. And a No-Show fee is deducted if you do not use your link or cancel.
What physical experiences await you in NEED FOR NATURE WEEK?
During the NEED FOR NATURE WEEK Festival, you can register for two physical in-person Nature Connectedness Immersion events - both designed to give you a deep, sensory experience of being connected to what is bigger than you:
A celebration and official Opening Party for our CENTER FOR NATURE CONNECTEDNESS 25. Nov. Held in Copenhagen, offering Knowledge, introduction to Nature Connectedness with Nature Connectedness Researcher & Facilitator Tanya Uhnger Wünsche, bubbles, snacks and conversation, and intimate concert with special guest.
A unique and transformative dark silent walk experience with our NATIONAL PARX EXPERIENCES 29. Nov.
The REAL BLACK FRIDAY hike is offered simultaneously in all of Denmark's 5 fantastic National Parks - you can participate in the event in the National Park closest to your place of residence, or take advantage of the opportunity to experience a place you have not yet seen before, confidently guided by skilled Nature Connectedness facilitators.
What language does the festival take place in?
As NEED FOR NATURE WEEK involves international collaboration partners and festival goers, the festival language is primarily English. However, you will also meet our Danish-speaking team in our physical in-person events.
Can't wait for NEED FOR NATURE WEEK either?