Nature as Co-Guide in Spiritual Companioning

In the breathtaking landscape of Ghost Ranch, this intensive is a collaboration between the Seminary of the Wild and Stillpoint, to integrate the wisdom of wilderness into the process of spiritual companioning.  Wilderness is any member of the natural world, the waters that flow from the sky, the crow calling from a nearby tree, the sun that rises every morning.  Her wisdom is offered to us and to our directees every day.  And her grief, the groaning of the creation, impacts all of us, whether we have the words for it or not.

In a culture that has separated us from one another, and from the land and climate and nearly all forms of life that sustains us, the practice of reconnection and re-membering our place in the Whole is urgently important.  At a time when ecological and social collapse is happening all around us, most people are processing grief…