Deepening Our Relationship with the Outdoors: Discussion & Meditation Group
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Does the natural (other-than-human) world fill you with wonder? Do you feel called into even deeper connection with the outdoors?
🌿 This group is an opportunity to learn how to deepen your attention and presence when outdoors. It's also a chance to expand your view of how we can experience connection with the natural world.
🌎 What if the Earth wasn't just an unfeeling, mechanistic source of food but a network of beings, a being itself, that cares for us, holds us, lovingly nourishes us, and senses us too?
What if the dominant worldview is incomplete? If we learned from other cultures who live more closely to the land and deeply respect it as something sacred and alive, how would things be different? What if the loss of this perspective is why modern life so often leaves us 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. To give you an idea, here is a list of future group topics:
- Deep Looking and Listening
- Reciprocity and Relationship
- Sensing our Interconnectedness
- Connecting & Meditating with Trees
- Remembering We Are Stardust
Benefits of attending:
✅ Grounding the body & quieting the mind
✅ A break from your busy schedule
✅ Building a 2-way, values-driven 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 humongous 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.