Presenter Biography

Martin Shaw is a mythologist, writer and teacher. An international speaker, he is also a visiting lecturer in the Strategic Leadership programme at Templeton College, Oxford. He is author of "A Branch From the Lightning Tree: Wilderness, Myth, and the Life Not Yet Lived," available in 2008. Shaw has been involved with wilderness rites-of-passage for over a decade. He served a five-year apprenticeship as well as living under canvas for four years, studying tribal practice and myth. He is specifically interested in the heritage of the "Seanchai"--Celtic storytellers based on the oral tradition and its relationship to the land.