Please let me know through my Contact page if you are interested in a do-yourself booklet (individual or group practice), in scheduling an hour-long guided exercise (in-person or virtual), in learning about retreat options to undertake the process, or in experiencing The Practice as Art.
This is a multi-step process – a practice, or ritual of sorts – to support people suffering eco-anxiety or eco-grief. Its goal is to help people who care continue to care and do so with whole selves and even with joy. For in such work there is no such thing as too late. We cannot give up.
Oof, the state of the world; the suffering of the wild; the denigration of those most beautiful, gentle, and good. And no one wants to hear it… I needed some way, some mechanism that would meet me in that lonely grief, but not only to sit with me there. I needed some process, some ritual I could undertake that would move me back into being whole-hearted in the world, back with equanimity and even joy to continue to advocate for the wild.
This, “A Practice: For the World-Smitten, Grief-Stricken, Who Will Not Give Up” is what emerged. And as with most real things it continues to evolve. A keystone element of it is a little picture that I doodled one day as I was thinking through the steps I needed. Since then, I’ve developed booklets for practice as an individual and for people in groups. I’ve developed “The Practice as Art” for contemplation or engagement. And I’ve conceived a “live” retreat model (in hour-long, day-long, long-weekend-long, and even longer versions) so that people can experience every dimension of the practice in tandem with their own creative inclinations
