Finding Our Footing - Spring 2025
- 2 sessions
- Sliding Scale
- Embodied Learning for Unprecedented Times by two amazing teachers
Grief and Gratitude for Earth Day: Embodied Journaling
Thursday, April 24, 6:30 - 8:30pm
At Lake Trail Community School
Francis Weller says, “The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them”. This quote describes how many of us may feel about the Earth and celebrating Earth Day in 2025.
In this 2 hour workshop, we will use embodiment practices, journalling, sharing, and song to make space for us to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in another this Earth Day.
Facilitated by Celia Laval at Lake Trail Community School.
The Work that Reconnects and The Five Vows
Thursday, May 29 6:30-8:30
At Lake Trail Community School
Learn more about the historical development of the Work that Reconnects - Joanna Macy's merging of group process, general systems theory, and eco-spirituality. Hear how experiences, learning, and global connections came together as this venerated activist leader and Buddhist teacher developed her ground-breaking, inspiring process. Discover the Five Vows of this practice and how they encompass the attitudes and behaviors needed to sustain the Great Turning. You
can learn about these vows, take the vows publicly if you would like, and create a prayer bead strand to help integrate them into your daily life.
The Five Vows are:
- - To commit myself daily to the healing of our world and the welfare of all beings
- - To live on Earth more lightly and non-violently in the food, products, and energy I consume
- - To draw courage and guidance from the living Earth, the ancestors, the future beings, and the more-than-humans
- - To support others in their work for the world and to ask for help when I need it
- - To pursue a daily spiritual practice that clarifies the mind, strengthens the heart, and supports me in observing these vows
If possible, please bring 5 special beads to represent:
- - healing
- - the Earth
- - ancestors, future beings, members of other species
- - connection, spiral or circle
- - spiritual strength and clarity
Donations of beads is also welcomed. We will have some options for those unable to bring their own.
Facilitated by Kazimea Sokil.
For more info see website: https://findingourfooting.wixsite.com/home/upcoming-workshops
or email finding.our.footing@shaw.ca