Upcoming Events

A Retreat to Cultivate Right Relationship with Food Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH; Kathy Pollard, MS; Rev. Rebecca Dolch micaelacookkarlsen@gmail.com Healing the Hungry Heart is a 3-day, 3-night healing experience of physical, emotional, and spiritual detoxification to nourish your spirit and move towards right relationship with food. This retreat will incorporate periods of silence, group processing, meditation, and community-building cooking instruction! - Remove blame and shame around eating but learning about the modern food environment, addictive eating, and why it can…

An 8-day residential skills training in the contemplative approach to end-of-life care for professionals and trained volunteers Ann Allegre, Kirsten de Leo, Youske Eto, Pam Russell authenticpresence@spcare.org This training offers the unique opportunity for immersion in the principles and practices of contemplative-based care and the art of being present for seriously ill and dying people. The training is led by an international team of health and social care professionals and spiritual care educators. Students will explore the deeper dimensions of…

The world's most experienced forest therapy guide trainers invite you join a growing global movement and an activist community that is making a difference by rebuilding. A Forest Therapy Guide facilitates safe gentle walks, providing instructions—referred to as “invitations”—for sensory opening activities along the way. These walks follow a standard sequence. Each walk begins with establishing embodied contact with the present moment and place. Next come a series of connective invitations, often improvised in the moment and adapted to the…