Victoria Loorz, author of Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, will offer opportunities to develop or deepen your spiritual practices of intimacy with nature. Practices of deep listening, wandering, mirroring, full bodied emotion, poetry, dreamwork and conversation with particular places and beings become portals to re-member ourselves back into intimate, sacred relationship with the rest of the living world. Spiritual leaders are desperately needed to accompany those in our communities who are experiencing disconnection, despair, and disillusion related to Earth's groanings. Through this daylong workshop, participants will be encouraged to seek beneath the urgent practical lifestyle adjustments necessary for a new way of relating to the natural world, into an intimacy, a relationship of lover and beloved, a deep belonging to your land, your place as sacred.
About the Facilitator:
Victoria Loorz, MDiv, is a Wild Church Pastor, an Eco-spiritual Director and co-founder of Seminary of the Wild and the ecumenical Wild Church Network. Her book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, is an invitation to deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it--and calling it church. After a dozen years in the climate movement co-founding and co-leading a youth climate organization and twenty years leading “indoor churches,” Victoria feels most alive when collaborating with Mystery and kindred spirits to create opportunities for people to re-member themselves back into intimate, sacred relationship with the rest of the living world. Victoria lives in Bellingham Washington with a family of wild black-tailed deer who have become kin. Her young adult children, Alec and Olivia, are wise, creative, tender souls, dedicated to creating a more inclusive, compassionate, and just world.
Fee: $75
