What to Expect

The schedule is listed below. This event will prompt us to create, collaborate, educate, activate, meditate, recreate, debate and celebrate!

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Sessions include: 

- Collectivist Business Strategies: investing in others as the means of financial security

- Strengths Based Psychology: how to uplift community through empowering people to use their      unique gifts 

- Honoring our Indigenous Ancestors

- Intro to Permaculture 

- Planting for the Future: introduction to working with soil and water

- Beginner Seed Saving: reclaiming our food sovereignty

- Guided Meditations and Forest Walks

... along with plenty of time for spontaneous connection, play and reflection...

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Calling Practitioners of Sacred Activism / Change-Makers / Community Conduits 

Sacred Activism is a form of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual passion with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants. Whether you consider yourself an “influencer” or not, we all have the remarkable ability to effect change and act as conduits for ideas that reach far beyond our personal sphere. This is a chance to find the others, collaborate with, learn from, and support one another. Participate and celebrate in practices of localization. Discover what is happening in our communities, and how we can weave together threads to form the fabric of interbeing.

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Morphic Resonance

A term coined by the biologist Rupert Sheldrake. “It holds as a basic property of nature that forms and patterns are contagious: that once something happens somewhere, it induces the same thing to happen elsewhere… Here we have the chance to expand the realm of matter to include the properties of spirit, rather than to appeal to something extra-material in order to bestow intelligence on a dead material world. “ 

 

About the Book, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible:

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View The Book (a paperback copy of the book will be mailed directly to participants upon registration. The book is also available to be read for FREE online.)

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"In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness—called interbeing—we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world.

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Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture’s guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. He brings to conscious awareness a deep wisdom we all innately know: until we get our selves in order, any action we take—no matter how good our intentions—will ultimately be wrongheaded and wronghearted. Above all, Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

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With chapters covering separation, interbeing, despair, hope, pain, pleasure, consciousness, and many more, the book invites us to let the old Story of Separation fall away so that we can stand firmly in a Story of Interbeing."

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*above quotations are resourced from the pages of ​https://charleseisenstein.org

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Gathering in the Time of COVID19 and Virtual Participation

The Mountain and our event organizers understand that not everyone will be ready to gather for this in-person retreat, as it is being offered at a time when we are all in our own process of reemergence. Portions of this week's events will be available for online participation via Zoom. Please stay tuned for more details about virtual participation.

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For those who are ready to gather spaciously, we encourage your support through registering now and saving the dates. The Mountain is currently composing our plan hosting retreats that minimize virus spread and that provide every person on our campus an environment that feels safe. We welcome your voice regarding what protocols you would want to see in place. Please feel free to contact Rachel.Kinback@TheMountainRLC.org with your suggestions.  

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