The Green Step

Supporting Resilient Communities

Facilitating emotional understanding, dialogue and empowered action

About Us

As we heal, the Earth heals

One step at a time

The Green Step is a network of educators offering workshops, podcasts, meditations and talks that are designed to help our communities become more resilient in the face of the current climate and biodiversity crisis. We aim to create a prosperous and sustainable for all. We are co-creating and hopefully striving for a just transition where no being is left behind. Our current focus is on land use practices, ancestral healing and building a community to support one another. You can join our uplifting online network and live discussions here: The Green Step FB Community

The Green Step team are collaborating to create spaces rooted in storytelling, active listening and ancestral practices to help us find a balanced way of living within the Earths systems. As we heal ourselves and become more calm, clear, grounded and resilient we can take inspired and empowered action to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. When we heal, our communities and the earth heals alongside us.

Check out our current projects and offerings below. It would be an honor to work with and support you in this time of great change.

Our Offerings & Projects

Public Consultation on the Environmental Assessment of the Draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030

June 26, 2021

The Green Step Community The Green Step Community is a not-for-profit group of peoplewho have come together for their love of life on earth. Together we have beeninquiring into the 21st century realities of farming, land use andfood production in Ireland. Over the course of 10 podcasts and 1...

Tales from the Land

April 23, 2021

Tales from the Land Tales from the land a living community research project where we at the Green Step are inquiring into the 21st century realities of food production, framing and living well with the land here in Ireland. In our podcasts and two online events we’ll use the art forms of...

Navigating the Emotions of Climate Chaos Together - EcoGrief & Visioning Workshop

February 8, 2021

If you feel overwhelmed by the climate and biodiversity crisis, you're in the right place! Here's a quick overview of what this healing space can offer you. What is EcoGrief? Ecological grief or EcoGrief is the sense of mourning felt in response to anticipated or experienced ecological loss....

Media Features

Irish Examiner 2022 25 small steps we can all take to a greener 2022

Mic 2022 Environmental Activism Can do Wonders for your Mental Health
Green Campus 2022 Podcast on Self Care is Climate Care
Irish Examiner 2021 Weight of the world: how climate activists handle anxiety and distress

University College Cork 2021 Self Care is Climate Care - Ecogrief Workshop
The Green Step 2021 Green City Proposal for Cork City Development Plan
The Green Step 2021 Public Consultation on the Environmental Assessment of the Draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030
Irish Examiner 2020 Entrepreneurs stepping up to the plate with solutions to social problems.
Echo Live 2020 Cork woman helps people to cope with ‘EcoGrief’
Development Perspectives 2020 SDG Advocate 2020
MTU 2019 My Town, My Plan

Meet the Team

We use this space to co-create and collaborate together. You can too!

Melanie O'Driscoll

Founder & Facilitator

Mel is our project coordinator and a facilitator. She uses her background in Zoology and Buddhism to create spaces and setting that honor people and our planet. Mel uses the gift of ceremony to help people and the earth heal and build resilience in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises.

You can work with Mel 1-1. To learn more visit her website.

John Armstrong

Ecologist & Educator

John is an educator and ecologist. He is a passionate ambassador for our Irish waterways and was a 2020 Youth Ambassador for the Atlantic. He has worked closely with Cork Nature Network and works to reconnect people to the land.