Deepening Our Relationship with the Outdoors: Discussion & Meditation Group

Does the natural (other-than-human) world fill you with wonder? Do you feel called into even deeper connection with it?

🌿 This group is an opportunity to learn how to greatly deepen your attention and presence when outdoors. It will also widen the frame for what connection with the outdoors can look like.

🌎 What if the Earth wasn't just an unfeeling object but a network of beings -- a being itself -- that holds us, nourishes us, and senses us too?

What if the dominant worldview is incomplete? How might daily life be different if we learned from cultures who live more closely to the land and deeply respect it as something sacred and alive? What if the loss of this perspective is why modern life can leave us feeling empty and missing something we can't quite name?

🌳 Join me to deepen into connection, both with the world and with like-minded others who share a similar love for it.

✅ Group activities include:

• meditations
• poem readings
• experiential exercises
• sharing & discussion
• journaling

Each month we will focus on a different aspect of our relationship with the outdoors. Below is a list of future group topics:

• Deep Looking and Listening
• Reciprocity and Relationship
• Sensing our Interconnectedness
• Connecting & Meditating with Trees
• Connecting with the Cosmos: Remembering We Are Stardust

Benefits of attending:
✅ Grounding the body & quieting the mind
✅ A break from your busy schedule
✅ Building a 2-way, values-based relationship with the Earth
✅ Connection with like-minded others
✅ Loving nature even MORE than you already do

📍Location: Golden Hill Park

We'll be gathering on a large white/green picnic blanket near the humongous trees!

💚 About Me: I'm an ecotherapist, clinical psychology postdoctoral fellow, and huge nature enthusiast.
Disclaimer: I do NOT offer therapy at Meetup groups, and these groups are not a substitute for therapy. However, my training in ecotherapy and mindfulness practices helps me make these experiences effective, grounding, and accessible.