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Greetings, Dear Jennifer!
New Year Blessings to you for 2025!
I hope the winter holy days held you in warm company and beautiful light.
I'll have some exciting announcements in next month's newsletter about new offerings for this year. So please keep an eye out.
Please join us this month for:
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Jan. 6th (Mon.) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology: A Virtual Gathering via Zoom Free (register to get access) 7:00 – 8:30 AM Pacific / 9:00 - 10:30 AM Central
Come gather with us for ninety nourishing minutes every first Monday of the month for an exploration of Compassionate Spiritual Ecology. Together we will engage the many ways of embodying Spiritual Ecology values, practices, and rituals to enhance our everyday connections with the sacred in the Earthy wild within and outside of us. Please bring a journal, pens, and a sacred-to-you item to each gathering. This event repeats each month, so mark your calendars now for Feb. 3rd.
And, please join our international community next month for three days:
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Feb. 4th – 6th (Tues. – Thurs.) Love, Serve, Abide: Spiritual Ecology as Lifestyle for World Interfaith Harmony Week via Zoom Free – A United Nations Official Observance (register to get access) 8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific
Scroll down for details about these and other upcoming events.
May your open-heartedness lead you back to gratefulness over and over again ...
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!
Jan. 6th (Mon.) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology: A Virtual Gathering via Zoom Free (register to get access)
7:00 – 8:30 AM Pacific / 9:00 - 10:30 AM Central Hosted by Jennifer Wilhoit (TEALarbor stories Spiritual Ecology Training Founder/Mentor) and Brooke Gilley (Naturalist, Spiritual Ecology Training Graduate, Forest Bathing Guide)
Come gather with us for ninety nourishing minutes every first Monday of the month for an exploration of Compassionate Spiritual Ecology. Together we will engage the many ways of embodying Spiritual Ecology values, practices, and rituals to enhance our everyday connections with the sacred in the Earthy wild within and outside of us. Please bring a journal, pens, and a sacred-to-you item to each gathering.
Feb. 3rd (Mon.) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology: A Virtual Gathering via Zoom Free (register to get access) 7:00 – 8:30 AM Pacific / 9:00 - 10:30 AM Central Hosted by Jennifer Wilhoit (TEALarbor stories Spiritual Ecology Training Founder/Mentor) and Brooke Gilley (Naturalist, Spiritual Ecology Training Graduate, Forest Bathing Guide)
Come gather with us for ninety nourishing minutes every first Monday of the month for an exploration of Compassionate Spiritual Ecology. Together we will engage the many ways of embodying Spiritual Ecology values, practices, and rituals to enhance our everyday connections with the sacred in the Earthy wild within and outside of us. Please bring a journal, pens, and a sacred-to-you item to each gathering.
Feb. 4th – 6th (Tues. – Thurs.) Love, Serve, Abide: Spiritual Ecology as Lifestyle for World Interfaith Harmony Week via Zoom Free – A United Nations Official Observance (register to get access) 8:00 – 9:00 AM
This experiential online event will offer participants simple ways to incorporate nature-based and creative aspects into their daily life. 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 as love for the more-than-human and human world, spiritual ecology as service to the world, and spiritual ecology as a way of abiding in the world. 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 4th, Feb 5th, Feb 6th on Zoom from 8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time/United States. Participants are requested to bring: paper, colored writing pens, photos of nature, objects from nature (leaves, cones, flowers, shells, rocks, soil, water, etc.). Everyone is welcome. Limited to 100 participants. Register in advance for this meeting.
News
Read more about all of these here (or click the teal fonts below).
The Spiritual Ecology Training has rolling admissions and one-on-one mentorship. You can join in anytime. There's no better time than a new year to get started.
We had our final Second Tuesdays Conversation on Dec. 10th. Read more.
I offered Grounding Ourselves in Nature - A Meditative Experience in partnership with the Charter for Compassion on Nov. 12th. This ninety-minute global gathering offered gentle, nature-inspired experiences to help us touch in with our innate capacity for compassion and gratitude, particularly in changeable and uncertain times. Read more.
On Nov. 4th we held our second Compassionate Spiritual Ecology virtual gathering and welcomed some new faces as well as returning ones. Read more.
I'm happy to share that my photo Autumn Blessings was published (Oct. 2024) on the EarthSky site.
On Oct. 13th I gave a pulpit talk, Stewardship of Creation: What Nature Teaches Us, during the morning worship service at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church. Read more.
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