Nature Retreat: Navigating Challenge With Active Hope

Activities throughout the day will include valuable self-care routines, bringing us into fuller presence and deepening our spiritual interconnectedness with the natural world. The ‘Active Hope’ practices will draw on ‘Work that Reconnects’ by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone.

We will gather in loving community for an embodied, experiential day of online and offline nature-connection activities:
First bringing our hearts and minds together and sharing some core practices online, which we will then all take outdoors to our local area for individual practice in an extended midday break. Afterwards returning to our online space to share our experiences and bear witness to each-other’s journeys.

We will use our time in nature to get to the heart of why we act to preserve it, and why we might feel overwhelmed by this at times. This is essential for the sustainability of our involvement in this vital ministry, as well as for our own well-being.

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