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Greetings, Dear Jennifer!
After long walks in bitter cold, through pouring rain, and underneath some gorgeous winter sunsets, I am invigorated for the tasks and challenges that lie ahead.
One of these is my participation again in #The100DayProject which I started this week. This year I am doing some things a bit differently. Read more in today's blog.
If you would like support for your own creative project - over a hundred days, two weeks, thirty days, half a day a month, or whatever time commitment stretches you in a good way - please reach out. We can inspire one another as we hold space together.
Also, TEALarbor stories is offering another three-morning series for World Interfaith Harmony Week which convenes each year during the first seven days of February. This year my focus is on service to nature, service to humans, and service as gratitude via the lens of Spiritual Ecology. I'd love to have you there starting this Monday.
Please click these links to register now for the free online offerings next week and the week after:
* Feb. 5th, 6th, & 7th (Mon. – Wed.) 8:00 – 9:00 AM Spiritual Ecology as Service for World Interfaith Harmony Week – A United Nations Official Observance (Scroll down to read the details.)
* Feb. 13th (Tues.) 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Tuesdays Conversations We'll be talking about compassion this month.
Don't forget to check below for details about other upcoming offerings (like the Spring Retreat on March 16th) as well as updates of recently past events. Click here to see what's coming for the rest of 2024.
May you find inspiration in the wildness outside your door!
Blessings,
Jennifer Wilhoit
Founder, TEALarbor stories
Important Dates
Learn more about all of these here.
Registration for most paid events closes one week prior to start date.
TEALarbor stories' new Spiritual Ecology Training is available with rolling admissions and one-on-one mentorship. Join us now!
Feb. 5th – 7th (Mon. – Wed.) Spiritual Ecology as Service for World Interfaith Harmony Week Free – A United Nations Official Observance
8:00 – 9:00 AM
This interactive online event will offer participants simple ways to incorporate nature-based and creative aspects into their community service work. It is designed to guide participants through the various activities with opportunities for question/answer, sharing, and discussion. Each day we will focus on a specific way to assist our world including: spiritual ecology in service to the more-than-human (natural) world, spiritual ecology in service to human communities, and service as a way of practicing gratitude. This is not a sectarian offering; it is intended to support people of all faiths (or none) in finding and deepening their relationships with others through peaceable, interdisciplinary practices that they create consistent with their specific beliefs. Participants may join once, twice or all three days that this event occurs. We will gather each day - Feb 5, Feb 6, Feb 7 on Zoom from 8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time/United States. Participants are kindly asked to bring any of the following that they have available: paper, writing pens, colored pens or paints, photos of nature, objects from nature (leaves, cones, flowers, shells, rocks, soil, water, etc.). Everyone is welcome. Limited to 100 participants. Register.
Feb. 13th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Conversations via Zoom Free Register.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Join the conversation about such topics as spiritual ecology, creativity, beauty, gratitude, service, and kindness. Prompts, questions, and guided inquiries will follow a brief introduction to the month's topic.
Feb. 13th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom
1:30 – 3:30 PM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict.
Mar. 12th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom
1:30 – 3:30 PM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict.
Mar. 16th (Sat.) Spring Equinox Half-Day Retreat $60. via Zoom Register.
Join me to contemplate the season of spring through poetry, meditation, writing, and visual art.
News
Read more about all of these here (or click the teal fonts below).
Our December Second Tuesdays Conversations focused on gratitude - how, when, why, to whom we express gratitude. And we deepened our collective understanding of gratefulness practices... Read more.
Nov. 9th's Interfaith Symposium on Peacemaking offered by the Conflict Intervention Service of The Bar Association of San Francisco was a phenomenal success. I was invited to guide the morning's "grounding practice" for this wonderful daylong event. Read more.
The Compassionate Spiritual Ecology course that I've created and taught twice over the past year for the Charter for Compassion's Education Institute has just become available on-demand and people are already enrolling! I'm thrilled to be offering this through my upgraded online course platform. It is one of the prerequisites for the new Spiritual Ecology Training mentorship program. Please check it out here. Read testimonials here.
The Spiritual Ecology Training is going strong with new trainees coming on board and others moving deeper into their practice as they approach the final quarter of their training. With rolling admissions and one-on-one mentorship, you can join in anytime...why not now?
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TEALarbor stories' newsletters offer inspiration, encouragement, beauty; inform about the connection between story, the natural world, and all things writerly; and promote professional writing, guiding, and peacemaking services.
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