22 Oct 2021

Cohorts on Sabbatical

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Hello, friends and foes near and far! After a huge effort last year to offer six cohorts, both online and in person, our staff is exhausted and our school is broke! We ran into lots of issues trying to show up together to design and implement super high quality programming, run a business as a new team, take care of a lot of people in crisis {including ourselves and each other}, and learn and grow somehow through it all. By … Read More
4 Jun 2020

Nature Connection Skills for Black Lives

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  All kinds of folks (and a rainbow of colors!) are rising up around the world right now to put their livelihoods and lives on the line for justice, healing, and liberation for Black lives, and we as a nature school are SO grateful to be part of this work. We know that by following Black leadership, attending to Black safety, and addressing the rampant injustice and ongoing harm that Black folks experience every day, we are contributing to growing … Read More
3 Jul 2019

Community Grief Ritual – July 2019

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Join us for a dive into the waters of grief and healing at this workshop and ritual crafted to help us access and honor our grief for this amazing, struggling world. We’ll gather at 2:30pm to bring our minds together around the meaning of grief practice and the diverse grief teachings we all carry, and we’ll move into the afternoon and evening with the invitation to acknowledge our grief directly with the Wild and to share whatever feelings emerge in … Read More
22 Sep 2017

Brown Ash: The Courtship

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Brown Ash: my holy grail of basket-making materials. Not that it is or isn’t the best material (as if I’m qualified to opine on that point), but it certainly seemed the most daunting. In compiling my list of plants that I would try to learn about through basket-making, I included ash with the mental caveat that it was okay if it took me a few years to gather all of the necessary knowledge and assistance. I didn’t know that there … Read More

ancestors altar with candles and small memoribilia
7 Feb 2017

Creating Ceremony, Reclaiming Traditions

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Since joining the Wildwood Path as an apprentice, I look forward to each month’s emailed overview as much as I looked forward to opening my Christmas stocking as a child. This month’s invitation beckons: Join us as we build our relationships with the mysterious worlds: the ancestors, the fire, our own grief, and our capacity for transformation. The lengthening nights as we approach winter solstice make me want to stay home from work, cozy up to a fire, read, knit, … Read More