Survivalist, forager, and longest-lasting female on Alone Australia — speaking on intuitive living and modern womanhood
Corinne Ooms is a survivalist, forager, and the longest-lasting female contestant on Alone Australia — and the first in her season to catch large game. She arrived in Australia from Scotland with little more than a backpack and a guitar, and has since built a life of deliberate self-sufficiency: transforming a crumbling 1860s bushranger's cottage into a thriving home and garden, and building a business centred on sustainable, hyper-local food sourcing through community-led projects like Urban Harvest. Her background is in food science and manufacturing, and she speaks from the intersection of those technical roots and a life genuinely lived close to the land.
Corinne's perspective is distinctive precisely because it is not theoretical. She is not presenting ideas about sustainable living from a distance — she has built those ideas into her daily existence, and navigated motherhood at 40 alongside it. Her talks draw on intuitive living, the balance between connection with nature and modern life, and a rejection of toxic productivity that is rooted in real experience rather than wellness messaging.
For sustainability conferences, wellbeing events, women's programs, and audiences interested in food, nature, and a different way of living, Corinne offers something genuinely rare: a story that is gripping on its own terms — from the wilderness of Alone Australia to suburban foraging and community food systems — told by someone with the technical knowledge to back it up and the lived experience to make it real.
Corinne Ooms is a keynote speaker based in Tasmania who speaks on food & wine, mental health & wellbeing and sustainability & ESG. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
How being alone for 70 days living off the land was one of the healthiest times of my life.
Our tribe and ourselves with the pressures of modern life; cost of living crisis, mental health and technology
We all dream about a simpler life, free from technology, work and social pressures. We are attracted to bush skills such as building a shelter from natural materials, foraging wild foods and lighting friction fires. The reality is, the majority of us do not, and probably never will, live in that world and need these skills. Suburban survival looks at basic hard skills that can be incorporated into the daily life of suburban and city dwellers. These include foraging, growing vegetables with minimal space and community projects.
The struggle modern women face with juggling the pressures and societal expectations around career, motherhood, health and beauty standards. What has happened to our tribe and the effect and challenges of a nuclear family. Raising a family without the “Crone” - The older, wise woman for female guidance.
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