Inspiring Consciousness for Human Responsibility to The Earth
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Our offerings focus on embodied eco-spirituality, end-of-life, and somatic well-being. Grounded in local W̱SÁNEĆ and Quw’utsun Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and principles of land stewardship, our experienced facilitators host regular weekly and monthly programs (online and in person), contributing to expanding intergenerational and cross-cultural communities of care.
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We Are Looking For A Treasurer!
Treasurer, Centre for Earth and Spirit Society (Volunteer Position) “Inspiring Consciousness for Human Responsibility to The Earth” Since its inception in 2003, the Centre for Earth and Spirit...
A Place to Be Seen
“A place to show up, to be seen and to see others. To listen with my heart and to feel myself heard in the hearts of others.”
Introducing Conservation Burials
With increasing alarm about climate change, many of us are paying attention to lifestyle choices we make that contribute to this growing disaster. How we live makes a difference. So too with our...
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Being Together
Being Together
deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
Living Well Dying Well – A 6 Week Online Program
Living Well Dying Well – A 6 Week Online Program
Living Well, Dying Well is a multi-generational, soulful program exploring the ways we live and die. A 6-week online opportunity to tend end-of-life through supportive, peer-based learning circles, courageous conversations,
Being Together
Being Together
deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
INTENSIVE JOURNAL® Life Context Workshop with Bill Israel
INTENSIVE JOURNAL® Life Context Workshop with Bill Israel
Develop an inner perspective on the movement of your unfolding life process, while learning principles of the Intensive Journal® method. Learn the basic operating principles for using the Intensive Journal®
Being Together
Being Together
deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
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The LIVING WELL, DYING WELL Binders are ready! We ...
The LIVING WELL, DYING WELL Binders are ready! We are still accepting registrations for our six-week offering -- a multi-generational, soulful program exploring the ways we live and die.
Six Wednesday evenings starting February 1st | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (PST)
**A FEW SPOTS LEFT - REGISTER NOW!**
A 6-week online opportunity to tend end-of-life through supportive, peer-based learning circles, courageous conversations, Advanced Care Planning and shared wisdom of all participants. An invitation to grow and strengthen our capacity to live well while mindfully tending end-of-life matters.
Drawing on cross-cultural wisdom, practical resources, embodied experience and collective insights, Living Well, Dying Well is an evolving program for envisioning and experiencing a respectful and eco-responsible approach to end of life. As a participant, you contribute to this growing conversation and become an integral part of re-visioning what it means to meet aging, living and dying with vulnerability, courage, beauty and grace.
Sliding Scale: $295 – $245 (Friends & Family rate: 2 for $450). Scholarships available!
Registration: Through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-well-dying-well-a-6-week-online-program) to receive Zoom link or email Penny <info@centreforearthandspirit.ca>
For more information please visit our website at www.centreforearthandspirit.ca (#clickinbio)
#livingwelldyingwell #AdvancedCarePlanning #celebrant #endoflife #coastsalishterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
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💖🌻🌸 #westcoastspring #calendula #plantmedicine #lekwungenterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
Join Becky Traptow and Sarah Frizelle as they ...
Join Becky Traptow and Sarah Frizelle as they share about their experiential nature-based wanders. They draw on their training with the Map of the Psyche (Soul) work of Bill Plotkin (founder of the Animas Valley Institute), to talk about the therapeutic wanders they facilitate in the forest. A ‘cafe-style’ round-table discussion will follow, where silence, conversation, and inquiry are equally welcome!
Becky Traptow and Sarah Frizelle have been working with the Animas Valley Institute for over 10 years, guiding group programs as well as individuals on their journey of self-discovery, healing, wholeness and a deeper connection with the world around them.
Suggested Contribution: $10.00 – $20.00 (nobody turned away for lack of funds)
REGISTRATION: Through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/484071008417) to receive Zoom link.
Please contact us at <info@centreforearthandspirit.ca> or #clicklinkinbio (and go to 'Calendar') for more information!
Earth & Spirit Café - Monthly Online Gatherings 🍵
Join us with a soothing beverage as we explore ways to tend the Earth and Spirit in these potent times.
At Earth & Spirit Café we offer monthly drop-in gatherings (every fourth Thursday of the month). Each month we host a guest speaker exploring knowledge that honours our dance of relationship with Earth and Spirit. A diversity of topics includes: reciprocal land use, respect for Indigenous ways of knowing, tending death with consciousness, and inspirational change-makers.
We invite you to bring your questions and queries! Hosted by experienced facilitators, holding heart-based space — Renate Ringer & Alice L. Meyers.
Please feel free to invite a friend! 💖
#foresttherapy #naturetherapy #shinrinyoku #animasvalleyinstitute #earthandspiritvirtual
With gratitude to Life Cycle Celebrant ...
With gratitude to Life Cycle Celebrant @pennyallport
for empowering families to access their innate skills in the grief process!
Penny shared her wisdom in an intimate one-off evening of our flagship LIVING WELL, DYING WELL program last Wednesday January 18th✨
We at the Centre for Earth & Spirit are so grateful for Penny's skilled facilitation in educating families on how to co-create beautiful end-of-life ceremonies for their loved ones, and taking back death practices through a village-centred approach!
Thank you to @PennyAllport, @nasrringr, Kim Holl @storiestoldonfilm_, @drrobinjhood, Bill Israel and the many others who have contributed to bringing this beautifully enriching end-of-life care program to life!
#livingwelldyingwell #endoflife #endoflifecare #lifecyclecelebrant #coastsalishterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
"We don't even think of it as a ...
"We don't even think of it as a gift...it was land that was taken unjustly to begin with" ~ Marion Margaret Cumming (nee Adams), 1936-2022
With gratitude to you Marion, for all the love, care, and land you shared...💖
For more on Marion & Bruce Cumming and their inspiring practices of Indigenous LAND BACK, please read this beautiful article by Dr. Maleea Acker (University of Victoria) in Focus magazine:
https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/focus-magazine-septoct-2018/marion-cummings-indomitable-spirit-r2/
#landback #lekwungenterritory #songheesnation #oakbay #indigenoussolidarity #decolonization #focusonvictoria #uvic #universityofvictoria #earthandspiritvirtual
#KELȽOLEMEĆEN #orca #orcawhale #rock ...
#KELȽOLEMEĆEN #orca #orcawhale #rock #earthandspiritvirtual
Honouring SENĆOŦEN Language Revitalizers:
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Honouring SENĆOŦEN Language Revitalizers:
SX̱EDŦELISIYE (Renee J. Sampson) explains, “With language immersion, the students are also immersed in the W̱SÁNEĆ worldview because the culture and language are inseparable. The children are then grounded in their ways of being, in their culture. They have a solid identity. EWES ṮEQ TŦE SONUSE – in this way we don’t let the fire go out.”
To read more about SX̱EDŦELISIYE (@sxedtelisiye) and her community's amazing Indigenous Language Revitalization and eco-cultural reclamation work, visit the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council's website: https://wsanec.com/community-profile-sx%CC%B1edtelisiye-renee-j-sampson/
#w̱sáneć #SENĆOŦEN #decadeofindigenouslanguages #w̱sánećleadershipcouncil #W̱MÍYEŦEN #placeofdeer #marylake #greatervictoriagreenbeltsociety #earthandspiritvirtual
Acknowledgement
With Deep Respect, We Honour And Acknowledge That…
As board members of the Centre for Earth and Spirit, we live, learn and create together on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ, lək̓ʷəŋən (Esquimalt and Songhees Nations), Quw’utsun territories, and the Blackfoot Confederacy (Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta). Together, we recognize Canada’s dark history and the long shadow of colonialism that continues to impact the lives of Indigenous People every day. Through our personal work, offerings and collaborations we aspire to embody and act in ways that honour Indigenous peoples’ long-standing relationships with land, to be honest and willing to meet the presence of intergenerational trauma and impacts of colonialism in all people, and to humbly accept our responsibility as settlers in this process of relationship repair. With accountability and respect, we endeavour to walk with all of creation in meeting the sorrows and grief of the past here in the present, where our future lives.