Workshops and Events for environmental alignment and deep soul sustainability.

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What on Earth is going on?

However we are living our lives we cannot fail to notice that the environment around us is struggling as well as our political and social structures. Somehow or another over time we have come to believe that we are separate from nature: that we have, somehow, transcended our earthly biology and made ourselves an exception to ecological rules. This ‘separation myth’ has led us to live beyond our habitat’s ability to sustain us and we must deal with it urgently, if we are to survive its consequences.
‘Deep sustainability’ calls for a level of personal and cultural change that only emerges when we weave human Being directly back into the fabric of the Earth. It’s about a sense of personal identity that is seamlessly integrated into the biosphere. We respond to deep sustainability through our own deep-rooted sense of ourselves as nature, rather than through a sense of responsibility to nature as something separate.
The diverse web of life on whom we depend, of whom we are part, is in crisis. We need a sea-change in lifestyles, values, identity. This is about a change in relationship towards self, other and earth. (Mary Jane Rust)

We invite both men and women to reconnect to their innate wild human nature with outer nature. We believe that the root cause of the current environmental situation has come about due to a deep disconnection of the feminine. This has happened for men and for women over hundreds if not thousands of years. There are some tragic misunderstandings and ignorance in humans regarding the relationship between the masculine and feminine principles that have led to the current situation unfolding. This has resulted in the external imbalances we are seeing now see manifested on Earth. The deepest work every human is being called to do by existence right now is to re-connect with our own nature and to reconnect to nature itself rather than view it as external or seperate to us. We need to find the courage to deeply feel again and from there connect with the love we are and make the changes from that place.

"...Freedom is greater than power. Power is about what you can control and freedom is about what you can unleash ..." Harriot Rubin

YOU TUBE Little grandmothers message from the Earth
 

From Denial to Despair...

'When we stop the endless internal war waged daily on ourselves we will cease to engage in war with others'

When we hear information about the current state of the planet we often feel uncomfortable and painful emotions and for most of us we choose to swallow them down and hope they will go away or hope that what we are hearing isn't true as they would seem to threaten our very life, our safety, our livelihoods, our values and our children's lives. It can seem too difficult or overwhelming to take it in because we end up feeling very afraid, powerless, emotionally overwhelmed and ineffective to do anything about it.
However, our willingness to feel the emotions that arise in us are an important step along the path to transforming the situation as they connect us to life and to our love for what we care about and this brings immense strength to take action from a place love rather than fear. If we can find the courage to feel deeply and move from denial through our despair we will find our love and from this place we become 'Love in action' and there is nothing more powerful than this as a force for change. This is the space that Living Love invites us to explore.
 

“The anguish we feel for what is happening is inevitable and normal and even healthy. Pain is very useful. Because if we are afraid to feel that, we won’t feel where it comes from and where it comes from is love, our love for this world. That’s what is going to pull us through.”  Joanna Macy

 Being present and engaged to crisis can transform ways of seeing. But it is deeply challenging to remain embodied and present in the face of potential chaos, fear and uncertainty. Confusion and suffering are the old ways of coping and structures break down. Birthing of something new is exciting yet painful. Living through a paradigm shift can feel like walking between two worlds and this is the task ahead, to bring these together and balance the masculine and feminine energies.

EarthHeart workshops

Ecopsychology workshops based on

the work of Joanna Macy -

SUSTAINABLE LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
These workshops are suitable for anyone who is feeling concerned about what is happening on an environmental and humanity level at the moment. This workshop is NOT about being told to be more 'environmentally friendly' or being guilt tripped or fear mongered into seeing things in a particular way E.G. you do not have to eat loads of lentils and give up your car to attend!)  It is designed to give you as an individual an opportunity, in a non-judgemental space, a place to explore your own personal feelings to what is happening in the world and find for yourself what is the best way for you to respond, from a place of love, with your personal values intact.
The Earth heart workshops offer an empowerment approach developed by US author/activist  Joanna Macy that hundreds of thousands of people around the world have benefitted from. They offer practices that strengthen our capacity to face disturbing information, engage our passion to act for life and help us find the power of our best response.The follow a four stage spiral guide map for transformation. It does not require you to have any particular beliefs or previous experience in environmental issues. The Earth heart workshops are an experiential journey and there will be no 'lectures' or or philosophical debating.
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One day workshops

Led by members of the Team - Jewels Wingfield, Jenni Horsfall and Jen Smith.
A day to journey into the map of the four stage Spiral created by Joanna Macy and be supported in how to navigate our feelings and respond in an empowered way.  DATES AND BOOKING PAGE 

Weekend intensives

'Earth Heart transformation'

Led by Dr Chris Johnstone and Jewels Wingfield
We are very exited to be adding Dr Chris Johnstone to our program and the weekend intensives are a very supportive way to go even deeper into this work. Chris Johnstone says: Facing bad news about the world is emotionally challenging. It can leave us feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, anxious and low. Yet there are also insights, processes and strategies that strengthen our ability to respond.
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Earth Heart Summer camp

Co led by Jewels Wingfield and the community
Devon (Nr Tiverton) 
This is a week long wild outdoors experience set in a stunningly beautiful very secluded wooded valley nestled deep in the heart of the Devon countryside. It offers breathtaking nature and an opportunity to live closely with it while creating an indigenous tribeto help re-connect us with our native homeland and live more intimately with it so we can connect more intimately with our own wild nature. Also to be nourished by our connection with others and feel the heart beat of each of us by softly leaning into each other and then the collective heartbeat of the tribe.

" . . .For some of us we are more drawn to the 'inner' spiritual exploration in our search for wholeness and balance and for others it is more of an 'outer/action based' journey to take care of our environment and do what we can to protect it and live in harmony with it. For the transformation on Earth we each need to be engaged in both aspects, but naturally each of us feels more drawn towards one than the other. This camp seeks to honour and celebrate both aspects and find the ways in which we can harvest the resources of each other to create a truly whole, interconnected world . . ."

How will we do this: During the camp each morning we will gather together as our 'tribe' and take a mini journey through 'the spiral' which is a body of work created by Joanna Macy on deep ecology/eco psychology. This map will support us in finding our way both individually and collectively into allowing the feelings we have about what it happening in the world to have expression (whatever they are, they are welcome) our gratitude for life, a way of seeing things with new eyes that can strengthen the ways we can respond and take empowered heart centred action for a truly sustainable, socially just, heart centred world. Also on offer will be activities and gathering to help us to feel the one global heart beat running through all of us as 'OneLove'.

Time to rest: The rest of the time there could be anything on offer from yoga to herbal medicine, to massage to dancing etc etc. There will also be plenty of time to simply be, play, laugh, dance, make music, open our hearts, be wild, be peaceful, be with each other in truth. There will also be an outdoor hot tub to melt into under a blanket of night stars heated by an underground open fire. A log fire in the evenings in the roundhouse to tell stories or rest in company, plenty of tea drinking or simply lay in the long grass in the lazy days of english summer and rest your soul on the land.

Food and practical: The price of the camp includes all of your food, workshops, facilities and all other necessities for our time together (food is prepared by a very talented cook). Breakfast, lunch and dinner will all be fully vegetarian, and perhaps with a vegan option too if needed). All you have to bring is a tent and a warm sleeping bag and a torch or lantern. There is good public transport links and we encourage lift sharing. You can come alone or with friends, either way you will feel welcomed.

Numbers are strictly limited so early booking is advised. Everyone is welcome no matter where you come from or who you are.
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NATIVE AMERICAN CREED
The Earth is your mother, care for her
Honor all relations
Open your heart and soul to the great Spirit
All life is Sacred, treat all beings with respect
Take what is needed from the Earth and nothing more
Do what needs to be done for the good in others
Give constant thanks to the Great Spirit for each new day
Speak the truth, but only of the good in others
Follow the rhythms in nature, rise and retire with the sun
Enjoy life’s journey but leave no trace.