Facing Our Biodiversity-Climate Crisis: A Healing Practice of Communion with Life
July 19 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Join Bill Cahalan, an ecopsychologist and dedicated advocate for the natural world, for a special session designed to cultivate a deeper connection with all life. Bill will begin by sharing about the global biodiversity-climate crisis as a major moral crisis of our time. He will then introduce a contemplative practice that can open us to a humble, at times ecstatic sense of kinship with local nature, which can extend to all life and the Cosmos.
Participants will be guided outdoors into slow walking and empathic gazing. We will return for a sharing circle, followed by discussion. This practice can be woven into nurturing our own yards and neighborhood landscapes as wild communities, inspiring us for further action in service to Life.
Bill Cahalan is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati. He has led retreats for opening to the natural world since 1983, and works as an ecopsychologist. QEW (then FCUN) published his booklet Awakening to Earth in 2001. He enjoys wandering in nature, working regeneratively with his home and meeting woods, and is part of the Rights of Nature movement.