Practices and methods
Practices and methods included in the program
TOPICS OF THE COURSE
Personal transformation
exploring practices for cultivating wholeness, deep nature connection, empathy, and compassion, one’s authenticity, gifts, and life purpose.
Culture repair
transforming the individual to transform our cultures and learning tools and practices to build authentic connections in our communities.
Nature connection
meeting nature as an ally to mirror our deep unconscious selves and discover how to converse with it as a tool for personal revelation and cultural transformation.
Sacred practices
rediscovering the benefits, purpose, and ways of ceremony and ritual.
Authentic movement
introducing dancing and free movement as a tool to connect to the self and manage oneself authentically.
Creativity
using drawing, painting, poetry, storytelling, singing, and chanting as means to express and comprehend complex emotions and thoughts.
Personal practice
space for personal routine practices such as taichi, yoga, breathwork, meditation, etc. to cultivate a grounded and balanced way of being.
Methods and elements in the program
- Creative expression
- The Way of Council
- Practices for decreasing the Ecological Impact
- Models of Natural Human Development (from Ecopsychology)
- Living as a community
- Tending for our relational field
- Befriending the night tine and darkness
- Nature-based methods
- Practicing silence and stillness
- Free authentic movement and dance
- Practices for Cultivating Wholeness
- Solo time in nature