Tag: Share your gifts

The Purpose of Going Out is Coming Back

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Ryan Van Lenning

I recently returned from three rich days facilitating a wilderness ceremony/rite-of-passage for a young man. But as we say, the purpose of going out is to come back—to return more aligned to community with one’s unique gifts and love as medicine for your people.

Category: UncategorizedTags: ecotherapy, incorporation, river therapy, Share your gifts, threshold, wilderness ceremony

KEEP WALKING, VISIBLE ONE

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Ryan Van Lenning

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We say that the purpose of going out is to come back. We cross the threshold and go on the sacred mountain or desert, not to escape, but to claim who we really are, to embody our wholeness, and to bring back the medicine that the world needs.

Category: UncategorizedTags: ecotherapy, rite of passage, Share your gifts, threshold, wilderness ceremony, wilderness guide

WHAT IS YOUR NICHE IN THE ECOSYSTEM OF HEALING AND JUSTICE?

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Ryan Van Lenning

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This is a question I am living now.

“Where your soul’s gift and your positionality (dynamic social location of power + privilege) meet is your ecological niche for a hungry world.”

This beautiful & dangerous call by Pinar Sinopoulus-Lloyd (@queerquechua) of @queernature has been swimming through the river canyons of my psyche as I feel the complex emoting of a world confronting multiple intersecting crises: ecological, social, and spiritual.

Category: UncategorizedTags: anti-racism, bear, dismantle white supremacy, ecological niche, ecotherapy, new paradigm, rewild, Share your gifts, social justice, soul calling, the great turning, white privilege, wholeness