Saskia von Diest, PhD

Saskia is the founder of Ecofluency, an award-winning organisation that offers education, consulting, research and activism in Nature communication.

In 2012, an animal communication workshop during her PhD sparked my interest in how farmers use intuitive communication with Nature to inform practical management decisions. From 2014 to 2020, she held two postdoctoral fellowships, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and at Coventry University, UK, to investigate intuitive farming as part of a wider new field of subtle agroecology.

Throughout her postdoctoral years, Saskia further developed her own understanding and practice in communicating with trees, animals, landscapes, nature spirits and ancestors. She’s also trained as a Family Constellations facilitator, and in energy field clearings for people, homes and landscapes.

Since officially launching in 2021, Ecofluency has appeared numerous times on various media platforms including TV, and was awarded gold for innovation at the Eco-logic Awards in 2025.

With 18 years of experience in teaching and facilitating, Saskia works internationally with individuals and organisations, online and in-person. She promotes other human voices in the field of Nature communication, and is a founding member of Nature’s Council and a co-founder of the Organisation for Noetic Ecology.

Her passion is creating experiences for humans to reclaim the power of our ancestral skills, joining the conversation with the rest of Nature once again, for personal transformation, planetary well-being and the evolution of our shared consciousness.