Finding the Fertile Ground

Opening to the “natural world” within and around us as one

Come discover what shifts and transforms when we deepen our relationship with the natural world

Event Details

Date: Saturday, October 29th, 2016

Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM

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Notes: Participants should expect to spend the day outside in the mountains and be prepared for some moderate hiking (4-5 miles), experiential exercises, “solo time” in nature, and reflective time with another and the group.

What if opening to our innate belonging and oneness with the natural world is fertile ground, capable of carrying us into a flourishing future? The ‘edge effect,’ from the science of ecology, refers to the richness of interaction that occurs at the boundaries of ecosystems . What if we explored ourselves as ecosystems?

In this day-long workshop we will:

Step across the “edge of forest as object” and practice direct encounters with presence and somatic awareness

Explore what it might mean to think and act as if we were a whole, balanced ecosystem and could listen and act from a deep primal relational intelligence

Learn practices that help us connect with instinctual wisdom mirrored to us in the “more than human” world

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People

Patty Nagle

Patty Nagle, director of programs, collaborates with Aaron Stern to guide the design, facilitation, and operation of Academy programs to ensure their alignment with the ...

Cheryl Slover-Linett

Cheryl founded Lead Feather in 2008 and has facilitated 25+ multi-day wilderness journeys since then, from the Diné reservation to the north woods of Michigan. Driven by a desire to share her passion for the natural world with others, she helps connect people to nature…and ultimately to themselves. Also a long-time researcher and arts consultant, Cheryl blends leadership with self-discovery.

Larry Glover

Larry Glover has worked professionally in the outdoors for over 37 years, as a wilderness guide since 1982, and has facilitated over 6,000 guided client days, often in remote settings. Larry also has an intertwined 40 years in the human potential arena and has worked internationally as an experiential learning coach in the realms of leadership, creativity and high performance teams. The Wild Resiliency Institute represents a convergence of these careers and was founded to support people in celebrating their love of nature as a conscious path into wholehearted living and wellbeing.