Questing: hearing the call for ceremony and celebration, release and renewal
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life…?" ~Mary Oliver
Circles of Wild Belonging ~ Community peace practices with wildness
Circles of Wild Belonging ~ Methow Valley, WA
Friday, May 10th, 7:00-9:30 pm and Saturday, May 11th, 1:00-6:00 pm
Life is an exquisite web of interdependence, cooperation and change. We are never alone in it. And yet sometimes people feel alone on the path or somehow separate from this bigger story of life. Walking one’s life path as an individual can be in conscious reciprocity with nature and an expanded sense of community when we dare to share our truth in safe spaces and be held by them, especially when we include the wild landscape in our experience of community.
The wild ones are listening. Let’s listen back.
Friday, May 10th, 7:00-9:30 pm and Saturday, May 11th, 1:00-6:00 pm
Life is an exquisite web of interdependence, cooperation and change. We are never alone in it. And yet sometimes people feel alone on the path or somehow separate from this bigger story of life. Walking one’s life path as an individual can be in conscious reciprocity with nature and an expanded sense of community when we dare to share our truth in safe spaces and be held by them, especially when we include the wild landscape in our experience of community.
The wild ones are listening. Let’s listen back.
Council 1 Training
Council 1 Training ~ Nevada City, CA
Council is a compelling communication method that cultivates empathic listening and heartfelt dialogue. This training offers an introduction to and grounding in the forms and intentions of the practice, exploring the lineage of Council and indigenous and ceremonial roots.
Practiced around the world in homes, communities, organizations and educational settings (including more than 60 public and private CA schools, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East and other places), council helps to nurture the deep, authentic connections often neglected in our ever-faster, multi-tasking culture.
Join us to immerse yourself and explore the foundational practice of Council and its application to your life, work and community.
To register: Contact Kate Bunney at katbun12@gmail.com
Council is a compelling communication method that cultivates empathic listening and heartfelt dialogue. This training offers an introduction to and grounding in the forms and intentions of the practice, exploring the lineage of Council and indigenous and ceremonial roots.
Practiced around the world in homes, communities, organizations and educational settings (including more than 60 public and private CA schools, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East and other places), council helps to nurture the deep, authentic connections often neglected in our ever-faster, multi-tasking culture.
Join us to immerse yourself and explore the foundational practice of Council and its application to your life, work and community.
To register: Contact Kate Bunney at katbun12@gmail.com
Youth Quest
Wilderness Reflections Youth Quest - from Marin County to Inyo Mtns, CA
Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 4, 2019
"I came away from the trip with so much … I became less afraid of life." -RS, 16
"In all honesty, there wasn’t one aspect of the trip I didn’t enjoy. What you guys are doing is pure gold. I wouldn’t change a thing." -AT, 17
"My son moved to a new level of maturity through this experience – more confidence, willingness to be authentic, and greater respect for himself and others." -JB, Youth Quest Parent
Are You Ready ... ?
To Build Your Self-Confidence
To Understand Yourself More Deeply
To Know What is Truly Important to You
To Seek Vision and Direction for your Life
To Mark your Passage into Adulthood
The wilderness solo experience is an age-old rite of passage. You will join the ranks of countless others who have gone before you as you step into yourself as an adult in the mirror of the natural world and human community. In these times of unprecedented environmental and social transformation, when we unplug and take time to reflect and slow down enough to find our natural rhythm, new and lasting possibilities for our lives emerge. Join with other young adults in this coming of age opportunity to gain a renewed sense of who you are and your place in this world.
http://www.wildernessreflections.com/wilderness-quest-rites-of-passage/youth-quest/
Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 4, 2019
"I came away from the trip with so much … I became less afraid of life." -RS, 16
"In all honesty, there wasn’t one aspect of the trip I didn’t enjoy. What you guys are doing is pure gold. I wouldn’t change a thing." -AT, 17
"My son moved to a new level of maturity through this experience – more confidence, willingness to be authentic, and greater respect for himself and others." -JB, Youth Quest Parent
Are You Ready ... ?
To Build Your Self-Confidence
To Understand Yourself More Deeply
To Know What is Truly Important to You
To Seek Vision and Direction for your Life
To Mark your Passage into Adulthood
The wilderness solo experience is an age-old rite of passage. You will join the ranks of countless others who have gone before you as you step into yourself as an adult in the mirror of the natural world and human community. In these times of unprecedented environmental and social transformation, when we unplug and take time to reflect and slow down enough to find our natural rhythm, new and lasting possibilities for our lives emerge. Join with other young adults in this coming of age opportunity to gain a renewed sense of who you are and your place in this world.
http://www.wildernessreflections.com/wilderness-quest-rites-of-passage/youth-quest/
Watershed Walks
Watershed Walks is inspired by the Walking Water pilgrimage that walks with the water stories from the headwaters of the Owen's River down to Los Angeles.
Watershed Walks is a series of guided walking meditations along the paths of your local wild waters. With each walk we ask, "How might we live in reciprocity with the waters in our watershed?" "What can we do to respect and protect these waters, today or on any day?" We walk slowly and quietly, and we listen. We occasionally stop to touch the water, sit with it. We break silence with a witness council to share our own stories, curiosities or insights from the walk.
Every Watershed Walk is followed by a community potluck. Some are followed by Watershed Tracks, a wildlife tracking session to connect with and celebrate the life of the watershed. All ages welcome. Please join us for any or all.
Watershed Walks: San Geronimo Creek
Watershed Walks: Sonoma Valley
Watershed Walks: Petaluma River
Watershed Walks is a series of guided walking meditations along the paths of your local wild waters. With each walk we ask, "How might we live in reciprocity with the waters in our watershed?" "What can we do to respect and protect these waters, today or on any day?" We walk slowly and quietly, and we listen. We occasionally stop to touch the water, sit with it. We break silence with a witness council to share our own stories, curiosities or insights from the walk.
Every Watershed Walk is followed by a community potluck. Some are followed by Watershed Tracks, a wildlife tracking session to connect with and celebrate the life of the watershed. All ages welcome. Please join us for any or all.
Watershed Walks: San Geronimo Creek
Watershed Walks: Sonoma Valley
Watershed Walks: Petaluma River
Nature of Council with School of Lost Borders
Nature of Council in the Owens Valley and Big Pine, CA
Council is an ancient way and modern practice whose roots are deep within the natural world, spanning diverse cultures and spiritual traditions. Here we remember and learn to listen to the whole: the people, the place and all living things. This practice elicits an experience of deep community, recognizing that each voice has value, every person has a gift, a story to share, a piece of the puzzle.
The eight-day arc of this training gives us time to explore the circles of our days and the seasons of our heart. We will use the universal map of the Four Directions as our compass to guide our way through the wilderness within and without. We will be asked to cross threshold after threshold into the wholeness of our lives. The questions you are living and the experiences you bring with you will shape our time together, as will the shadows following you here. Here on the flanks of the Eastern Sierras, weather and wildlife will influence our movement.
http://SchoolofLostBorders.org/
Council is an ancient way and modern practice whose roots are deep within the natural world, spanning diverse cultures and spiritual traditions. Here we remember and learn to listen to the whole: the people, the place and all living things. This practice elicits an experience of deep community, recognizing that each voice has value, every person has a gift, a story to share, a piece of the puzzle.
The eight-day arc of this training gives us time to explore the circles of our days and the seasons of our heart. We will use the universal map of the Four Directions as our compass to guide our way through the wilderness within and without. We will be asked to cross threshold after threshold into the wholeness of our lives. The questions you are living and the experiences you bring with you will shape our time together, as will the shadows following you here. Here on the flanks of the Eastern Sierras, weather and wildlife will influence our movement.
http://SchoolofLostBorders.org/
Youth Circles ~ Circling up and being real with teens in Marin and Sonoma Counties, CA
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is out light, not our darkness
That most frightens us." ~Marianne Williamson
Flirting 101 ~ 2 hour sessions, 4-week series
Staying True in Changing Times ~ 2 hour sessions, ideally around fire and water
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is out light, not our darkness
That most frightens us." ~Marianne Williamson
Flirting 101 ~ 2 hour sessions, 4-week series
Staying True in Changing Times ~ 2 hour sessions, ideally around fire and water
Incorporation Councils, New Moon Community Fires, Day Quests and Renewal Walks
Incorporation Councils, New Moon Community Fires, Day Quests and Renewal Walks close to home every month
During each New Moon, to release, learn and renew our lives on the darkest night of each month, we offer a medicine walk, community potluck, fire and council in community. Please contact us directly for more details.
During each New Moon, to release, learn and renew our lives on the darkest night of each month, we offer a medicine walk, community potluck, fire and council in community. Please contact us directly for more details.