Resources

Resources on Council, Wilderness Rites of Passage, Four Shields:

What is a Wilderness Rite of Passage (by John Davis)
Wilderness Vision Fasting and The Four Shields of Human Nature, by Stephen Foster and Meredith Little, founders of School of Lost Borders
The Practice of Council (From Ojai Foundation, posted on Wilderness Guides Council)
The Four Shields Model

Related Organizations & Networks We Adore:

Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects
EarthWays
School of Lost Borders 
Ariana Candell and The Earthbody Institute
Bill Plotkin & Animas Valley Institute
Joyality: Empowering Conscious Changemakers
Canadian Ecopscyhology Network
Wilderness Guides Council
Craig Chalquist, Emmanence Journal, and WorldRede
Holos Institute
Emergence Magazine
Holos Institute: Holistic Counseling and Ecopsychology Education

Earthy Poets, Authors, Podcasts, and Creatives We Adore:

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Author Of Braiding Sweet Grass
David Abram, Founder of Alliance for Wild Ethics and Author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
For the Wild Podcast 
Michael Meade’s Living Myth Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippet Podcast
David Whyte
Mary Oliver
Kai Siedenburg, Poems of Earth and Spirit
Andy Goldsworthy – Nature Artist
Rainer Maria Rilke
James Hollis
Gary Snyder

Forms:

Wild Nature Heart Program Evaluation

Wild Nature Heart Program Participant Agreement

Wild Nature Heart Medical and Information Form

Wild Nature Heart Backpacking Gear Pack List

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TOGETHER Like the stars that dot our mutual horizons the world we used to inhabit no longer exists though it continues to emit its hard and soft signals into our hard luck-struck I’s and our eyes still admire the known constellations yet we also feel somewhere deep behind the breastbone that we will belong each other anew into patterns with bold new names And that is why we are here Doing this Beingness Together #ryanvanlenning #shelteringrace 📷: Feather citizen of Eureka, ancestral Wiyot Territory —————————————— 🌿Be part of a Season of Deepening with the self-paced WILD NATURE HEART CHALLENGE at anytime from anywhere. Link in bio. #wildnatureheartchallenge DEEP BELONGING Course begins April 16 (Online): Re-Belong yourself to Place and Purpose. 👣 1-on-1 Earth-rooted mentoring/ecotherapy, locally and remotely. Links in Bio. 🐸
CREATIVE SURRENDERING TO UNCERTAINTY Don’t know. That’s all. And that’s ok. This moment is a crisis of form, and like all liminal phases, all betwixt-and-betweens, all thresholds, all unravelings, all descents, it seems to ask in the beginning at least a momentary relinquishing of doing and answers, a momentary giving up of scrambling to get our claws on knowing and certainty. Not a popular message perhaps. But maybe it’s the least we can do to honor what is actually here. Then, and perhaps only then, are new creative paths and possibilities allowed to open up before us. #shelteringrace
WHEN IT BOOMS FROM BELOW It is not an indictment though it feels like one when the noise begins to ebb and those first clear words bubble up from your well sharpened with deep time like a dagger. For eons you stayed busy for lifetimes ignored the vowels of your own voice. But when it booms from below and floats to the surface you know you must change your life. It is tempting to whip the back of your soul for not knowing. But that is not the hand of love. Fine, you didn't know. You couldn’t hear. Fine, you abandoned yourself. You abandoned lots of things. You filled your ears with others' bells, your eyes with ugly things. You fueled your fears with storied spells, your skies with wobbly wings. That was yesterday. Not today. Today you choose. Now it begins—scoop up those sounds and quench your thirst. Walk your bright spring truth home. #ryanvanlenning
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