Justin Woolford

"Justin runs The Change Co., a Bristol-based consultancy supporting social and environmental change campaigns and communications.

"Clients include WWF, The Global Ocean Commission, Bristol Green Capital, The MAVA Foundation, Transition Montpelier, and The Co-operative. Prior to moving to Bristol in 2011, Justin campaigned with WWF-UK, WWF International and The Co-operative, together with various civil society and private sector partners. During the 1990s, Justin worked on documentaries for the BBC and C4. Alongside his campaigning work, Justin also works as a Nature-based rites of passage guide, and is passionate about being in the mountains or in the ocean, as well as playing guitar! He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Science & Policy as well as Bachelors degrees in Psychology and History." linkin

• Director, Pale Blue Dot Org

"Vision Quest UK will offer Vision Quest / nature-based rites of passage in the UK from 2014. Meanwhile, check out Ancient Healing Ways. Pip Bondy is offering Vision Quests in May and September 2014. For further information about these, please send a message direct to Pip on pippa@ancienthealingways.co.uk" [1] In 2011 he was guided by Pip Bondy. [2]

Blog Posts

In 2012 he wrote: "Justin Woolford of The Change Co., on behalf of The Co-operative, introduces the inaugural meeting of a new group of civil society champions who today launch their vision for community energy in the UK with Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The group has been brought together by The Co-operative, Forum for the Future and Carbon Leapfrog and coincides with The Co-operative's launch of their new Community Energy Challenge."

On May 1, 2013 he wrote: "Not obviously about campaigning this one ... but I’ve just written up a small research project on the nature-based rite of passage ‘vision quest’ and how it acts therapeutically. I used a method called Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) to examine qualitative data from a focus group and an online survey with vision quest guides." Bill Plotkin, with foreword by Thomas Berry (2003), Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, San Francisco: New World Library [3]

In July 2014 he wrote: "For the past six months, I've been leading communications for the Global Ocean Commission, an independent international commission made up of various notable figures including José María Figueres, Trevor Manuel and David Miliband, and focused on high seas governance and ocean health. The Commission reported on June 24th - you can read about that here and listen to David Miliband narrating an animation about their inquiry. For the release of its final report, working with Campaign Strategy and Communications Inc in London and Brand Union in New York, we framed the Commission's proposals as a 'rescue package for the ocean' and its call to action as Mission Ocean." [4] Chris Rose runs Campaign Strategy.