Deepening Our Listening Skills - Session 3: Listening to the Natural World (May 22, 2027)

This is the third of three workshops focusing on sharpening our ability to listen deeply.  To register for all three, please visit: Deepening Our Listening Skills – All 3 Sessions.

We are surrounded by noise both inside of us, and outside of us.  Many things are competing for our attention.  It is easy to just stop listening to ourselves, each other and the more-than-human world around us.  Listening deeply is a way to honor the ways the Divine is reaching out to us.  It is planting seeds for receiving wisdom that is so needed in today’s struggling world.  Deep listening is not just listening with one’s ears, but with one’s whole being.

Session 3:  Listening to the Natural World (May 22, 2027)

We will be guided in ways to listen to nature and through nature.  Building our capacity to be still, notice, and wait.  What might the Divine be communicating to us through the Holy Wild?  When we bring ourselves to the earth again and again, we do it as a gift to the earth.  When we listen to the earth it can remind us that everything we need is here.  We need to remember our belonging to the earth and listen for the old stories that the earth still remembers and is willing to share with us.

Each session will begin with a time of centering using  breathwork, poetry, and music to help us ground and center ourselves.  We will have opportunity to spend time outside in nature, where we will dress for the weather and experience the change is seasons.  We will also have space inside to gather and to journal.

Each session will end with the opportunity to listen and to share what we have heard, noticed, and wondered about the experience.  It is a profound experience to listen deeply and also profound to be listened to in a deep way.  It can help us find words to and validate our own unique experience.