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Spiritual Ecology
The Spring 2021 Rising Earth Immersion cohort joined in and walked for miles through rural NC neighborhoods knocking on doors and spreading awareness about the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate Extension. We were participating in the 100-mile, Indigenous-led Water Walk, resisting the MVP Southgate’s threat to precious water bodies and sacred Indigenous sites across ancestral Saura, Tutelo, Monacan, Occaneechi and Saponi lands in Virginia and North Carolina.
Register now: An immersive nature-based retreat. October 16-19, 2020. Jefferson National Forest, Montgomery County, VA.
In this post, you will find a sample of programming for the Rising Earth Immersion. First you’ll get a sense of the core curriculum, followed by guest programming, which varies session to session. Many of these examples are drawn from 2020, a year that brought a lot of curricular articulation and response to the cultural events of our times.
We would like to offer our thoughts on why we believe that the Rising Earth Immersion plays a valuable role in the movements for collective liberation. We hope that these reflections help you discern whether this program might be a good fit for you.
Meet Cortina Jenelle, Rising Earth Core Facilitator.
Meet Topher Stephens, Rising Earth Core Facilitator.
Meet Kasey Kinsella, Rising Earth Core Facilitator.
I write to you as a white mother feeling heartbreak, anger, and despair about recent acts of racialized violence, especially deepening in my knowing that this kind of violence has been woven into the fabric of our society since the beginning.
I also write to you as the Executive Director of The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, where we are grappling with how best to stand on behalf of this organization against police brutality, systemic racism, inequity, and white supremacy.
Sabbatical, Retreat, Remote Workplace, Gardening Opportunity, or Simple Living Adventure!
How can we respond to the mysterious pull of what wants to come to life in us and through us?
Lessons linger years after Standing Rock…
