With Special Guests Merlin Sheldrake, Erin Robinsong and David Abram.

Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address our
global challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth.

What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological frame for seeing our world, our selves, and our human challenges?
Deepen your connection with self, the earth, and its living systems. Re-source and reconnect with your wild roots while spending time with the forests, the ocean and the gardens. Most activities will take place outdoors in the beautiful, raw landscapes of Cortes Island.

Through informative presentations, dialogue, and experiential play, explore what it means to be human in this time and on this planet. Acknowledging the perilous evolutionary moment we are living, and its impact on all living systems including our individual human psycho-spiritual selves, we will remember and recover pre-colonial worldviews that place homo sapiens alongside the natural world.

Build a deeper reservoir of understanding and skills about wildness, ecological systems, and an appropriate interface with human communities. Through informative presentations, dialogue, metalogue, adventures in nature and hands-on workshops, we will open our eyes to the magic of life’s processes, and connect this to our social and community processes.

Special Guests

Guest Speakers include Erin Robinsong and David Abram.

Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. Her debut collection of poetry, Rag Cosmology, won the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and she is the author of Liquidity (House House Press, 2020) and Wet Dream (Brick Books, 2022).

For more information about Erin, click here.

David Abram, PhD is a cultural ecologist and geophilosopher who teaches widely on several continents. He is the multiple award-winning author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, David’s work has helped catalyze the emergence of several new disciplines, including the burgeoning field of ecopsychology.

For more information about David, click here.

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available at least 2 weeks in advance of the program. View sample schedule here.