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Non-JEMI Event: Renewing Our Spiritual Relationship with Nature, Oct 22-24, Westerville OH
The following event is not sponsored by the John E Mack Institute but may be of interest to our visitors:
Renewing Our Spiritual Relationship with Nature: Rediscovering Our Place in the Universe
October 22-24, 2004
Spring Hollow Lodge at Sharon Woods Metro Park
Westerville, Ohio
Introduction
This non-residential, three day training focuses on a wide variety of spiritual practices from cultures around the world and is both highly experiential and thought provoking. We will collaborate in the discoveries of some of the leading edge thinkers in our human-nature relationship as articulated by earth visionaries such as Father Thomas Berry, Joanna Macy, Steven Foster and Meredith Little, the work of philosopher/storyteller Ken Wilber, and many others. Participants will spend considerable time in the natural world practicing learned skills during the training.
The Content
Indigenous peoplesı stories, myths and legends, as well as modern quantum physics, remind us that we are not separate from the web of life, from the earth and all of its inhabitants and the skies and space around us. Animals ³talk², rivers ³teach², mountains communicate through their silence, and trees, lakes and wind all instruct humans on how to live well in a specific place. Humans, who have the capacity to listen well, know that Soul and Spirit found in all living things bond us with our place and our help form our passion to live as spiritual beings. This is how cultures were originally formed.
Today, given the complexity of a cascade of planetary crisis, including a decrease of resources, climate change, population explosion etc., many feel separated from ³nature² often through a diminishment of perception and faith, as well as by a bombardment of overwhelming stimuli. We have lost our ability to view the world as sacred and to see with ³sacred eyes². A culturally determined ³numbing² of earth consciousness depletes us and leads to great harm for the earth and all creatures.
However, an experiential re-awakening of a spiritual relationship with nature and all life is possible and perhaps essential for our survival as a species. Exploring the terrain of our interconnected state of planetary consciousness and ecological intelligence takes practice as our conditioning runs deep.
Join us in companionship with the forests and sky, creeks and critters of central Ohio, where we will use perception-enhancing practices, meditation, a time of solitude for deep listening, nature walks, contemplative approaches, lectures, group work, ceremony and many other activities to reawaken our essential and genetically encoded affinity with the rest of nature. This weekend is designed to be a powerful and meaningful experience in reconnection with self, community and the natural world.
A Menu of Content Includes:
- Eastern, Western and Indigenous Spiritual Practices with Nature
- Cosmology & the Universe Story
- The Five Core Questions of Ecopsychology
- A Four Seasons and Soulcraft Model of Human Growth and
Development
- The Integral Ecology of Ken Wilber
- Earth Based Ceremonies for Reconnecting & Healing
- Spiritual Activism and Earth Warriorship
Guides
Dominie Cappadonna, Ph.D. has been teaching for the past 27 years in the fields of Transpersonal Psychology, Ecopsychology and Education, and is working on her first book, True Nature: Essence Teachings in Nature. She is committed to engaged spirituality, in all it's forms, with personal devotion to Buddhist practice, Diamond Approach work, and international humanitarian projects with people exploring life transitions and rites of passage. Dominie lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Beal Lowe, Ph.D. is an independent psychologist in Columbus. His primary interests are in ecopsychology - the Earth-human relationship. He is developing insights, practices and rituals which promote the cultural re-invention of the human and the creation of the ecozoic era.
Jed Scott Swift, M.A. is the Director of the Center for Ecopsychology and a core faculty member at Naropa University. He has created several successful educational organizations over the past twenty years including the Colorado Sacred Earth Institute. Jed has been teaching ecopsychology in workshops, trainings and academic settings for more than 12 years. He is also an experienced wilderness guide and has authored a chapter in The Soul Unearthed: Celebrating Wildness & Personal Renewal Through Nature. Jed lives in Columbus with his wife Dianne and daughter Anna Gabriel.
Co-Sponsors
Simply Living, Earthtouch, Niches Retreat Center, Worthington Center for Healing Arts, Central Ohio Enneagram Institute and The Spirituality Network
Registration Information
To Register: Please send full payment and contact information to Jed Swift, 3734 Pleasantbrook Drive, Hilliard, Ohio 43026
Times: Friday & Saturday, 8:30 am to 4 pm and Sunday 9 am to 2 p.m.
Site: Spring Hollow Lodge at Sharon Woods Metro Park in Westerville, Ohio (15 minutes north of downtown Columbus).
Fee: $225.00 (some partial scholarships available)
Information: Call Jed Swift at 614-921-1997 or email at
CEUs: CEUs are available for psychologists, social workers and licensed counselors through one of our sponsors (COEI).
Details: The training is non-residential and is held at Spring Hill Lodge at Sharon Woods Metro Park in Westerville, Ohio on October 22-24. The course schedule, location and recommended lodging and transportation (for those from out of town) will be included in the registration packet sent after receipt of your registration fee. Please register early as these programs fill quickly.
Scholarship Assistance: Some partial scholarship assistance is available. Please request a scholarship application for this program by calling 921-1997
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The event described above is not sponsored by the John E Mack Institute but may be of interest to our visitors.
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