The Wild Within: Community, Ritual & Nature Connection

What We’re About: The New Year often brings a mix of feelings and the pressure to "start over." In this time of transition, we offer a safe space to acknowledge themes of the past year, helping you move forward with clarity and intention.

This 2-hour event is for you to come as you are. There is no need to perform or "fix" anything; it is a space for honest reflection and community support within nature.

The Experience

• Arrive & Ground: Settle into your senses and the physical environment.
• Community Introduction: A facilitated circle to share your intentions for the New Year
• Composting Ritual: Write down habits or emotions we are ready to release on seed paper, composting them into something new.
• Mindful Nature Walk: Gentle walk focused on sensory observation
• Closing: Final group share and reflection

Meet Your Facilitators

• Amy Lajiness, LCSW: A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 10 years of experience helping people reconnect with their "inner nature" in clinical and natural settings.
• Jesse Kimball: A facilitator with 2 years of experience leading support groups for grieving families, specializing in communal healing and deep reflection.

The Details

• Date & Time: Saturday, January 24th, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Location: Just West of Morley Field Bocce Ball Courts in Balboa Park (San Diego). Look for us under the trees at the corner of Upas St and Jacaranda Dr.
• Cost: Sliding Scale ($20 / $40 / $60) We offer a tiered pricing model to ensure this space remains accessible while valuing the time and expertise of our facilitators. Please choose the tier that best reflects your current financial situation:
• $20 (Supported): For those with limited income or experiencing financial hardship.
• $40 (Community): For those who are financially stable and can afford occasional luxuries. This price sustains our work and covers our costs.
• $60 (Pay-it-Forward): For those with relative financial ease. This contribution helps subsidize spots for others in the community.
• How to pay: Please Venmo @Jesse-R-Kimball or bring cash to the event.
• Bring: Chair or blanket for seating, water, sun protection, and walking shoes.

Safety & Participation Note:
Please be aware that by attending this event, you are agreeing to certain risks. Some of these include, but are not limited to, trip and fall hazards, weather, insects, poison oak, and plants and pollen to which you may be allergic. Additionally, weather and temperature-related conditions such as dehydration and heat exhaustion are a risk.

While your event leaders have carefully selected the site and planned for accommodations to mitigate risk, they cannot control conditions nor your actions. Additionally, they cannot assure your complete privacy nor confidentiality during the event. In accepting the invitation for an outdoor event, you assume the risk of perhaps seeing or being seen by other people during your event.

In order to assure your own safety, you promise not to come to the event intoxicated or otherwise under the influence of alcohol, drugs, medications or other mind-­altering substances. If at any time, you feel concerned for your own safety, you should alert the event leaders immediately. Do not engage in any activity that you perceive to be unsafe or potentially unsafe.

While leader Amy Lajiness is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she is not operating in that capacity during this workshop. This is a community offering, not therapy.

By registering, you acknowledge that you fully understand and accept potential risks. You agree to hold the event leaders free of any claims, demands, or suits for damages from any injury or complications whatsoever, that may result from your participation.