PROGRAMS

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PROGRAMS AND SHORT JOURNEYS

DEEP BELONGING IN THE GREAT TURNING
Wild Nature Heart’s flagship course: A 6-week experience for people hearing the call to cultivate their ecospirituality, compost mis-belongings, deepen their decolonial journey, and practice belonging to place and purpose as we intentionally meet this collective initiation of intersecting ecological/social crises and opportunity. (Next cohort starts April 10, 2026)

WRITE YOUR WILD RIVER: A Poetry and Nature Connection Playshop
This 6-week workshop explores the play/craft of creative writing through an embodied, earth-centered, liberatory lens, and simultaneously, explore our embodied, earthy, multi-faceted selves through the exploration of poetry. (Next one starts Earth Day, Wednesdsay, April 22)

EARTH INTIMACIES: APPRENTICING TO LIFE
Earth Intimacies is a 6-week interactive course dedicated to intentionally re-inhabiting the animate web of life. We will deepen our ecospiritual intimacies by tending sacred relationships with the other-than-human world (including Water, Moon, Lichen, Mycelium, Feathered Friends, Soundscapes, Emergence, and more), practice cultivating belonging and honoring longings, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging in this Great Turning. (Next cohort starts April 9, 2026)

KISS ME A HUCKLEBERRY, TEACH ME THE STORM: AN ECOSPIRITUAL PLAYSHOP
Kiss Me A Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm is a 4-week playshop inviting us into a deeper relationship with the sensual wisdom of the living world. Through sensory exploration, creative earthiness, poetry, and playful encounters with the more-than-human world, we will explore how the living world invites us into deeper intimacy, play, and, yes grief—teaching us through sweetness, storm, and the many ways life touches our senses. (4 Sundays, starting April 12)

WITHIN THE CAVE SOMETHING PULSES (runs most years December-January)
A 6-week journey to slow down, apprentice to the season of darkness, and dive deep into the caverns of our Whole Self in order to discover what emerges in the fruitful darkness. (Next one starts Saturday, December 20, 2025)

🐉NEW: BECOMING BEAUTIFUL BARBARIANS: COMPOSTING THE SPELL OF EMPIRE
A community of practice and inquiry for dismantling patterns and igniting imagination beyond the coordinates we inherited from Modernity. A 3-month seasonal journey dedicated to dismantling (inner and outer) Empire through an earth-rooted, anti-colonial, liberatory lens. Part culture lab, part envisioning regenerative futures, and part inner and outer practice with the toys and tools of council circle, earth intimacies, somatics, poetry, art, action, and ritual.(12 Saturdays – start date September 12, 2026)

PLAYSHOPS

SEASONOCRACY: Playshops for Creative Re-Alignment With the Seasons
Hosted quarterly on the solstices and equinoxes (and sometimes other seasonal markers), these playshops are gatherings that invite us to realign our bodies, imagination, and intention with the intelligence of Earth—moving away Empire time and the urgency of productivity and back toward the rhythms of the seasons. (Next up: Spring – Friday, March 27)

EARTH INTIMACIES: Writing Into the Animate Web
Earth Intimacies is a writing playshop for those who feel the pull to rejoin the animate web of life—not as an idea, but as a lived, messy, breathing practice. We’ll gather to write with the season (external and within), bodies, grief, joy, landscapes, and the more-than-human world, letting words move the way life moves: relationally, surprisingly, and unfinished. (next one March 26)

WRITE AGAINST/BEYOND EMPIRE
This is a evening gathering for people carrying grief, rage, confusion, clarity, and imagination in a time of imperial violence, lies, and psychic exhaustion. Together we’ll write from the body and heart—not to perform despair, aestheticize suffering, or draft polite appeals to power, but to metabolize what is happening and let language become a tool of orientation, refusal, and possibility. (next one April 1)

LOVE AGAINST EMPIRE (Feb. 14)
This two-hour creative/writing playshop is a generative space to write with/in/as Love as refusal, love as vision, Love as something that composts Empire and keeps moving even when Power wants it frozen.

WILD NATURE HEART MINI-COURSE 
A Self-Paced Season of Deepening (Start anytime from anywhere)
A self-paced mini-adventure that guides you through easy-to-implement earth practices, concepts, and poetry that help you drop deeper into your body and your inner and outer wild nature. Engage in various activities that help you reconnect, feel alive, have fun, engage your senses, be inspired, reground, and reconnect to your rhythm and the rhythms of nature. Hosted on Teachable.

DEEPER JOURNEYS/IMMERSIONS

CROSSING THE THRESHOLD: 4-month Wilderness Rite-of-Passage Journey with Creative Arts Ecotherapy (July-October 2026)
Crossing the Threshold is a four-month sacred journey, combining elements of nature connection and creative arts and culminating in a 6-day wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony on the land. Beginning in July, we will gather every two weeks online to connect, deepen our intentions for our next steps aligned with our purpose, experiment with the 4 elements, and attune to our inner and outer wilderness landscapes. The program culminates in a 6-day renewal rite-of-passage ceremony in September along a beautiful forested river in Northern California, where you will have two-nights out solo on the land and 4 days connecting in earth community, allowing yourself to be witnessed in your authentic story. NOTE: This is not a retreat and not a workshop. It is a ceremony stretched across a season, woven through ecotherapy, expressive arts, elemental practice, and a wilderness solo that marks your passage from one chapter of life into another.