Bring your learnings, your longings, your grief, and your stories to a woman’s circle for all ages. We will fan that sacred fire that Mother Earth continues to birth from within us.
What are the gifts, challenges, and opportunities of the Elder stage of life? What does it mean to make the passage into authentic elderhood? How is my life’s journey calling me into a deeper, more soulful relationship with Earth and the community of life? How might I best serve my people and the world in my elderhood?
If you are asking questions like these, join us for this 1-day ElderSoul Retreat! In this full-day “Circle of Trust” experience, we co-create a trustworthy circle in which we – as elders and adults on the threshold of elderhood – can share our longings and questions, and listen deeply. We’ll practice listening beyond human conversation to the dream of Earth, to draw inspiration and insight from the living world, as well as from our own personal, communal and ancestral wisdom.
This is an original nature-based retreat drawing upon the work of Parker J Palmer and the Circle of Trust® approach with the work of Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute. Nothing rugged or physically demanding will be expected of you, but for those who enjoy wilderness, replete with meadows, pine-forest, and a stream – all these await your active presence. Our day will include sharing in large and small groups, as well as time for silence and solitude while immersed in wild nature. A hearty and healthy lunch is included!
Cost: We offer this full-day experience for a sliding scale fee of $140 - $95
(If you have the means to pay at the upper end, your generosity helps make it possible to offer discounted prices for those who need it.)
OPTION: STAY OVERNIGHT for extended personal, silent retreat:
Weds Oct 12 and/or Thurs Oct 13 ($75/night)
*** Interested in the SoulFire retreat? Register at the EcoDharma website here
Carol Kortsch
Carol was born in Africa, educated in Canada, and then worked internationally building community in different forms. After 25 years in psychotherapy and group practice at Stonehaven Commons in Radnor, PA., she now offers nature-based retreats in Colorado as a Courage & Renewal group facilitator, trained by Parker J. Palmer. She is now blending the Earth-based practices of Animas Valley Institute (Bill Plotkin) and other local organizations in a visionary program called ElderSoul. As a life adventurer and Earth listener, she recognizes our essential and critical human need to stop, slow down, and listen to our lives and all our relations speak
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Gene Dilworth
Gene is dedicated to the project of rewilding the human spirit as an essential dimension of being fully alive in these times. Facilitating deep inquiry into the mystery of one’s true nature through meaningful engagement with the more-than-human world, he supports individuals to discover, re-member and live from their soul-rooted sense of belonging to the world. Gene is founder of Wild Heart Center for Nature & Psyche and is a lead guide at Animas Valley Institute
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