Wild Autumn | Your Seasonal Rewilding Journey
Wild Autumn is an on-demand self-study rewilding course, which will transform your season into one of profound spiritual renewal and soulful engagement. Join our seasonal cohort and create community with others who long to connect their faith to the calendar of the living and sacred Earth. Your Wild Autumn journey will enchant your worldview, reconnecting you to sacred paradigms of thought and spiritual practice. You will come through this seasonal round deeply emplaced in your bioregion, attuning deeper to the "spirit of the place" as your ear is bent towards the wisdom within your watershed.
Don't wait another season to begin your rewilding journey! This is truly a response to what the world needs most in this great hour of climate collapse and change. Restore and rewild your wonder and worship by responding to this invitational elemental litany.
NEW WILD AUTUMN INVESTMENT: $125.00
Cross the threshold into a season of meaning and mystery today!
Wild Autumn
Choose to move through this upcoming Autumn as an intentional spiritual journey, one that will reconnect you to your self, the Sacred, and this holy and living Earth. Re-enchant your worldview and transform your presence on this planet into a bioregional blessing! I would be honored to accompany you on this seasonal journey of sacred eco-awakening.
Wild Autumn is a part of the Wild Seasons series, an offering aimed at reconnecting the West's psyche of separation into a sacred and animate worldview. Check out the video and link to get a sense of this course!
The Wild Autumn rewilding course is
designed for:
- spiritual seekers who desire sacred nature connection
- spiritual directors/companions seeking sacred eco-awakening praxis
- environmental activists needing to connect to spiritual resiliency
- healers and therapists desiring to develop sacred eco-therapy modalities
- artists wanting to align their practice with the numinous energies of Earth
- theologians reconstructing a creation spirituality paradigm
- practitioners longing to create place-based spiritual rituals and ceremonies
- all humans who are looking to connect to the sacred interconnection of all life
Wild Autumn | Your Sacred Seasonal Journey
Wild Autumn is a part of the Wild Seasons series, a quarterly self-paced virtual rewilding offering that reflects the teaching and practices I guide people through at the seasonal Rewilding Retreats I convene at The Whidbey Institute on Whidbey Island, WA. These retreats have held the intention of supporting others in recovering the wisdom found within the wild. In response to Covid, I was challenged to imagine other ways to offer my teaching and practices.
Now, through a wonderful partnership with a creative production team, I am able to offer you Wild Autumn and the other Wild Seasons courses where you will learn and practice seasonal rhythms and rituals to connect to Sacred Guidance through the natural world to grow an earthen and elemental spiritual practice.
Here you will expand your sense of rootedness and belonging to a place through the practice of the Rewilding Wheel, a sacred wheel circuit, influenced by Celtic spirituality and indigenous wisdom traditions, and designed to cultivate seasonal practices and disciplines that nurture a conscious and inspired relationship with the earth, the elements, and the divine. You will come away with grounded theory and routine, regular, and repeated rhythms and rituals that honor and connect with Earth's seasons and elements as a way to recover your sense of your own Wild Self and the Sacred in the very real soil of your daily existence!
Wild Seasons Bundle Package
Purchase all four Wild Seasons courses and save $260!! You will have perennial access to all four courses and all the downloadable material.
Curriculum
Within the Wild Autumn curriculum, you will be offered both theories and practices so that you can begin to form your own sacred eco-praxis. Theories and worldviews that are surveyed in the Wild Autumn course include Celtic Spirituality, Sacred Phenomenology, Sacred Bioregionalism, Somatic Ecology, Deep Adaptation, Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects and Watershed Theology.
This is a trauma-informed offering.
Module One: Autumn As Teacher
Segments include: Rewilding Wheel of the Year | Autumn as Season | Autumn: The Wisdom Stream of Celtic Spirituality
Module Two: West as Prayer Mat
Segments include: Sacred Directions | Wisdom Within the West | Seeking the Wisdom Muse
Module Three: Water as Guide
Segments include: Elemental Remembering| Water as Guide | Rewilding Practice: Water as Prayerful Presence
Module Four: The Watershed— Landscapes of the Sacred
Segments include: Landscapes of the Sacred | The Sacred Bioregion of the Watershed | Rewilding Practice: Weaving Yourself Back Into Belonging
Module Five: The Mythological Journey
Segments include: The Post-Heroic Round: Arrival and Integration | The Re-Enchantment of the Watershed: The Story of the Well Maiden | The Selkie: Remembering the Skin You are Meant to Be In
Your Guide
Mary DeJong is a spiritual ecologist, ecotheologian, wild soul guide, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of "rewilding" and has instructed other spiritual directors and companions through Spiritual Directors International. Mary facilitates retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the natural world. She has studied and practiced within the Celtic Christian spiritual tradition, her own maternal line heritage, for over twenty years, and is influenced by the lives of Celtic saints, and the lands that guided them.
Mary's theoretical and praxis focus within deep ecology, ecotheology, ecopsychology and specialization in Thomas Berry's Universe Story delves into why place matters, the sacramentality of creation, and how together this informs the development of our ecological self. Mary terms this work “sacred eco-awakening” and sees this as a critical and holy endeavor as it allows us to come to grievous terms of our human history and to posture ourselves once again side-by-side with the whole of creation.
Says Mary: "I help people recover ancient, seasonal wisdom to cultivate psycho-spiritual soul formation and sustenance in our modern lives without fear of losing the wisdom within their religious or spiritual tradition. Wild Autumn is a part of the Wild Seasons course series that aims to guide one through the spiritual wisdom that resides within the cyclical seasons of the year."
