Wild Summer | Your Seasonal Journey
Wild Summer 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.
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 Summer 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.
NEW SEASONAL INVESTMENT: $125
The Wild Summer 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 Summer | Your Seasonal Journey
Wild Summer is a part of the Wild Seasons series, a quarterly virtual offering that reflects the teaching and practices I guide people through at the seasonal Rewilding Retreats that 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 Summer 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 guidance.
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 Summer curriculum, you will be offered both theories and practices so that you can begin to form your own eco-praxis. Theories that are surveyed in the Wild Summer course include Ecotheology, Eco-Feminist Theology, Deep Ecology, Somatic Ecology, and Sacred Nature Connection.
This is a trauma-informed offering.
Module One: Summer As Teacher
Segments include: Rewilding Wheel of the Year; Summer as Season; Summer: Hildegard | Finding Grace in the Garden
Module Two: South as Prayer Mat
Segments include: Sacred Directions; Wisdom Within the South; and Praying with the Earth | Calling in the Directions Garden Blessing Stick
Module Three: Earth as Guide
Segments include: Elemental Remembering; Earth as Guide | Getting to Know Gaia: Rewilding Practice | Earth as Sacrament
Module Four: Garden— Landscapes of the Sacred
Segments include: Landscapes of the Sacred; the Sacred Bioregion of the Garden; Rewilding Practice | Delight & Discipline
Module Five: The Mythological Journey
Segments include: The Post-Heroic Round | The Journey of Exile: The Double Descent | Nourishment in the Underworld: Restorying Your Life | Courting the Wild One Home
Curriculum in detail
- Wild Summer | Summer As Teacher Learning Objectives
- Summer As Teacher | Opening ~ Rewilding Wheel of the Year (16:57)
- Summer As Teacher | Opening ~ Rewilding Wheel of the Year Deepening Reflections
- Summer As Teacher | Summer As Season (28:44)
- Summer As Teacher | Summer As Season Deepening Reflections
- Summer As Teacher | Hildegard: Finding Grace in the Garden (30:48)
- Summer As Teacher | Hildegard: Finding Grace in the Garden Deepening Reflections
- Summer As Teacher | References
- Wild Summer | South as Prayer Mat Learning Objectives
- South as Prayer Mat | Opening ~ Sacred Directions (17:38)
- South as Prayer Mat | Opening ~ Sacred Directions Deepening Reflections
- South as Prayer Mat | Wisdom Within the South (32:36)
- South as Prayer Mat | Wisdom Within the South Deepening Reflections
- South as Prayer Mat | Praying with the Earth (20:55)
- South as Prayer Mat | Praying with the Earth Deepening Reflections
- South as Prayer Mat | References
- Wild Summer | Earth as Guide Learning Objectives
- Earth as Guide | Opening ~ Elemental Remembering (22:07)
- Earth as Guide | Opening ~ Elemental Remembering Deepening Reflections
- Earth as Guide | Getting to Know Gaia (25:36)
- Earth as Guide | Getting to Know Gaia Deepening Reflections
- Earth as Guide | Rewilding Practice: Earth as Sacrament (11:35)
- Earth as Guide | Rewilding Practice: Earth as Sacrament Deepening Reflections
- Earth as Guide | References
- Wild Summer | Landscapes of the Sacred Learning Objectives
- Landscapes of the Sacred | Opening ~ Landscapes of the Sacred (18:59)
- Landscapes of the Sacred | Opening ~ Landscapes of the Sacred Deepening Reflections
- Landscapes of the Sacred | The Sacred Bioregion of the Garden (24:15)
- Landscapes of the Sacred | The Sacred Bioregion of the Garden Deepening Reflections
- Landscapes of the Sacred | Rewilding Practice: Delight & Discipline (28:31)
- Landscapes of the Sacred | Rewilding Practice: Delight & Discipline Deepening Reflections
- Landscapes of the Sacred | References
- Wild Summer | The Mythological Journey Learning Objectives
- The Mythological Journey | The Post-Heroic Round: The Journey of Exile (31:24)
- The Mythological Journey | The Post-Heroic Round: The Journey of Exile Deepening Questions
- The Mythological Journey | The Double Descent: Nourishment in the Underworld (20:33)
- The Mythological Journey | The Double Descent: Nourishment in the Underworld Deepening Reflections
- The Mythological Journey | The Lindworm: Courting the Wild One One Home (40:27)
- The Mythological Journey | The Lindworm: Courting the Wild One One Home Deepening Reflections
- The Mythological Journey | References
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.
