Boyd Varty

Boyd Varty was born to a family of conservationists in the African bush, and grew up surrounded by the people and animals who were part of the family’s dream to “restore Eden.”

As a child, he shared his home with lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants. As a university student he studied psychology and ecology, supplementing his education by learning martial arts in Thailand, hiking through the jungles of the Amazon, and apprenticing himself to a renowned tracker from the Shangaan tribe to deepen his intimate knowledge of the natural world.

Varty is a coach who introduces first world seekers to the art of inner tracking.

Boyd Varty will be using the medium of African storytelling to introduce attendees to the value of Ubuntu. Ubuntu means ‘I am because of you’ – it is the discovery of how people and in fact the whole natural world can help us to deepen our own humanity.

Boyd’s stories of his time with Nelson Mandela, his experiences in the African bush with his friend and tracker Solly Mhlongo as well as other encounters with wildlife will help us to showcase how Ubuntu is an act of embodiment that can enrich each of our lives and change our working environments.