Leticia Nieto
With Dr. Leticia Nieto
Open Dates
Love as activism, Trust as musculature. Sunday, November 17th 2024 Through appreciative autobiography, we will explore experiences of sturdiness and stamina that have helped us build up the musculature of trust in life. Re-examining ideas of safer space in the context of trauma-informed engagement, we will invite a blueprint of love as activism. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear – against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other. - (Bell Hooks, All about Love, p. 125) We will be working with embodied enactment.…
Monthly Meditation Gathering
With Caverly Morgan
Open Dates
Whidbey Institute
Monthly Meditation Gatherings with Caverly Morgan will focus on direct experiences of who we truly are, integrating practice into our everyday lives, and embodying realization. Caverly combines meditation with a facilitated group discussion that is interactive and personal. Gatherings are designed both for newcomers and those who would like to deepen their practice.
Rewilding Fall Retreat: Recovering the Wisdom Within the Wild
With Mary DeJong
September 21, 2024
You are warmly invited to this in-person day retreat that will companion your connection to a wonder-filled and wild world. Grounded in spiritual ecology and eco-theology, Rewilding Retreats offer a sacred space for reconnecting to a sacramental and animist worldview; guided practices that recover ways of "reading" the land as sacred scripture; and re-membering ourselves to the wider community of creation. We will be deepening into the wisdom that is inherently within the season of Fall and how we can engage the numinosity that is embedded throughout the wheel of the year and the calendar of the Earth. Come join…
Connecting with the Source of Compassion
With Caverly Morgan and Dr. Kristin Neff
December 10 - 15, 2024
The Whidbey Institute
Guided by Caverly Morgan and special guest Dr. Kristin Neff, this five-day experiential retreat is designed to help you access and embody your unlimited, Big Self, where natural wisdom and compassion reside.
