Remembering
Our Interconnected Nature
Online Program
“Have you ever fallen in love with some aspect of nature, or the Earth, as you have been healing?”
Remembering Our Interconnected Nature is a hybrid online interactive and experiential opportunity to be with community in exploring ways we experience separation to open into deep ways of knowing an embodied sense of interconnection.
Due to the constructive/deconstructive nature of our modern times, we typically experience ourselves as individual, separate from the whole. We are often also experiencing deep wounds/traumas that perpetuate this separation. In these times, it is essential that we look and understand how this way of viewing and living life is limiting, even harmful to our well-being and survival.
Bringing forth a somatic understanding that we are Earth made human is a valuable way to remember our dynamic web of interconnection with life as well as to cultivate resilience, belonging, and flourishing.
The program is guided by these questions:
What are ways we experience separation?
What are ways to develop, deeply understand and embody interconnection?
Why is interconnection a vital dimension to understanding how we can heal the pain and suffering of one another and the Earth?
Together we delve into the systemic ways we have experienced separation individually and collectively through unhealed trauma and explore the dynamic interdependence of humans and Earth, framed within a larger conversation about worldviews, inner transformation, well-being and reparative ecological engagement.
Itinerary
4 Week Program
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. CST, with daily practice
Returning late summer 2025
Details
Program fee: TBA. Financial support available. Please email us at info@mbei.org with requests.
Program will take place via Zoom link sent via registration email.
All proceeds go to support the work we do at the Mind Body Ecology Institute.
Along our journey, we build community, learn nature-based mindfulness and somatic meditation techniques, engage in vibrant discussion, and enjoy nature-centered practices as insightful, fun solo activities between sessions.
This program is perfect for those looking to enrich their understanding of interdependence, express their feelings about what is happening to the environment, and reconnect with humanity and Earth.
A wonderful way to spend a late summer month in an accessible online platform as we prepare for the fall!
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These materials are not mandatory, but we suggest you familiarize yourself with them.
Supplementary Material
Guy Armstrong, “You Don’t Exist. But You Actually Do. Wait, What?” 10% Happier Podcast, 270.
Rochelle Calvert, Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma.
Yuria Celidwen, “Indigenous Wisdom,” Mind and Life Institute Podcast, Oct. 21, 2022.
Yuria Celidwen, Why We Need Indigenous Wisdom, Mind and Life Insights.
Yuria Celidwen and Dacher Keltner, “Kin Relationality and Ecological Belonging: A cultural psychology of Indigenous transcendence,” Frontiers in Psychology 14 (2023).
Yuria Celidwen, Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Well-being, forthcoming 2024
Dekila Chungyalpa, “Mother Wisdom: Learning to Embody Interdependence,” Mind and Life Insights.
Shaun Gallagher, “Dislocating the Self.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet.
bell hooks, belonging: a culture of place.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future.
Rhonda Magee, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness.
Aterah Z. Nusrat, Christine Vatovek, Brenda M. Loew, Janet R. Kahn, “What Are We Thinking? A Call for Integrative Health Care to Consciously Serve Planetary Health,” Journal of Integrative and Planetary Medicine (2023).
Aterah Z. Nusrat, Iman Majd, Peter M. Wayne, “Integrative Medicine Is a Good Prescription for Patients and Planet,“ Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 25 (2019).
Naima Penniman, “Mama Nature told me,” naimainfinity video.
john powell, “Othering and Belonging,” Mind and Life Podcast, June 10, 2020.
T. N. Ray, Scott A. Franz, Nicole L. Jarrett, Scott M. Pickett, “Nature Enhanced Meditation: Effects on Mindfulness, Connectedness to Nature, and Pro-Environmental Behavior,” Environment and Behavior 53 (2021), 864–890.
Sebene Selassie, You Belong: A Call for Connection
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Belonging: From Fear to Freedom on the True Path of Community.
Shawn Wilson, Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (2008).
C. Wolwode, N. Schäpke, O. Bine, S. Vecianaz, I. Kunze, O. Parodi, P. Schweizer-Ries, C. Wamsler, “Inner Transformation to Sustainability as a Deep Leverage Point: Fostering New Avenues for Change through Dialogue and Reflection,” Sustainability Science 16 (2021), 841–858.
