Toni | main stage | Blue Earth Summit
Toni Murphy
Founder of Touch Grass | Storyteller | Community organiser | Creative wellbeing practitioner
My job is to help my community and beyond explore belonging, identity, rest and access nature.
Touch Grass CIC, a community-led organisation creating joyful outdoor experiences for queer people of colour through walks, camping trips, retreats, creative workshops and nature-based wellbeing spaces.
Her practice blends facilitation, analogue photography, audio storytelling, meditation and creative nature connection to explore who gets to be seen, held and remembered in the outdoors.
Through Touch Grass, Toni has led projects including Reverie, the UK’s first wellness retreat for queer women, trans and non-binary people of colour; Earth To Us, an exhibition mapping queer ecologies of play through culture, identity and land; and Joyful Ecologies, a community-owned archive of joyful outdoor experiences by queer people of colour.
Previous Speaking Events
BBC Radio 1xtra talks, 2024 / Asexuality & LGBTQI+ safe spaces
KMF, 2024 / Pioneering A New Outdoors - Panel hosted by OUTO
KMF, 2025 / Around The Fire with OUTO, Touch Grass and Passenger, sharing their mission and vision for making the outdoors inclusive and representative for all
OUTO x Smartwool, 2025 / Embracing Diversity in Nature: Creating Spaces for Healing
Blue Earth Summit, 2025 / Can the Outdoor Industry Set the Standard for Business that serves both People and Planet?
Ramblers, 2025 (internal panel for BHM)
Second Nature Research Report, UK Launch, 2026 / Reimagining Access to Nature
Platform Ideas, 2026 / Who is environmentalism for?
London National Park City, 2026 / Reimagining Access to Nature panel / Facilitating a session for 'POC who are already running a group and would like to work through particular challenges or opportunities'
