Event Calendar

2023 Calendar 

Register for events requiring payment: tealarborstories@gmail.com
Registration for most paid events closes one week prior to start date.
All times listed are in the Pacific Time Zone/United States.  

May 15^th (through Jun. 11^th) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology Course $40. 
This four-week online course, developed and taught by Jennifer J. Wilhoit, Ph.D., is hosted by the Charter for Compassion's Compassion Education Institute. This course offers students an overview of the body of work comprising the discipline of spiritual ecology. At the core of spiritual ecology are values that point to compassion for others—in the nonhuman world as well as in human communities. Beyond an introduction to the basic tenets and values of spiritual ecology, this course will guide, support, and encourage students to explore some of the myriad practical applications of a compassionate spiritual ecology. Register here. 

May 31^st (Wed.) Association for Conflict Resolution's Greater New York 22nd Annual Conference, Pace and Confluence: Exploring the Role of Nature in Peacemaking Online Learn more. 
This workshop addresses the inquiry: how can we meet urgency and crises in conflict resolution with a pace that honors unfolding process, wellness, and greater interconnectedness for our clients and ourselves? By looking to the natural world’s rhythms (paces) and patterns (confluences), we can learn more effective, sustainable responses to conflict. After a brief overview of relevant ecological concepts, we will turn our attention to understanding their value in human contexts – particularly, life transitions, crisis, and seemingly impassable conflict. We will explore how these concepts relate to and are applicable to speed and deliberation in our peacemaking work. This interactive presentation will offer conflict resolution professionals: examples and values of key ecological concepts, a means for translating the language of ecology into useful concepts in conflict resolution, a vision for how we can apply these concepts - pace and confluences in nature - to our conflict resolution practice. Through guided activities, reflection, breakout groups, brief case study samples, and large-group discussion, attendees will have opportunities to see the specific ways in which the natural world’s various paces can invigorate and expand their work. Participants should bring with them to this session: journal, pens, and at least one meaningful nature object.

Jun. 13^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Conversations Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Join the conversation about such topics as spiritual ecology, creativity, beauty, gratitude, service, and kindness. Prompts, questions, and guided inquiries will follow a brief introduction to the month's topic. 

Jul. 22^nd (Sat.) Summer Nature Journaling $80. via Zoom Register: tealarborstories@gmail.com
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Learn how to capture your nature experiences on the page via evocative images, words, creativity. This is especially for people who lack confidence in their artistic skills (though everyone is welcome). Leave with beautifully completed pages in your nature journal. 

Jul. 31^st - Aug. 4^th (Mon. - Fri.) TEALarbor stories Annual Creative Retreat $1100. Register: tealarborstories@gmail.com
Join us if you have been craving restorative retreat time. With nurturing guidance, practical suggestions, and the intimacy of a group with shared interests, move forward with your creative ideas. Whether you’re a writer, artist, dreamer, or beauty-lover, this retreat will hold you as you ease into your fertile edges. No project is too small or too large for this retreat. Alternatively, if you just want to be nourished by the retreat activities (rather than pursuing a specific project), you are very welcome to join us. 

Aug. 8^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Conversations Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Join the conversation about such topics as spiritual ecology, creativity, beauty, gratitude, service, and kindness. Prompts, questions, and guided inquiries will follow a brief introduction to the month's topic.  

Aug. 14^th - 18^th (Mon. - Fri.) 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions, The Interconnection of Rights: Humans and The Environment in Sacred Relationship Chicago, IL USA Learn more. 
My workshop focuses on how humans and the natural environment are bound to one another for survival, with the rights of both interdependent upon the other. We will look at examples such as humans’ right to clean air, water, or food and how the environment also benefits from these rights. Using the lens of Spiritual Ecology, participants will have opportunities to explore together how we can fuse our environmental work with our human rights pursuits as well as our spiritual endeavors toward transformative change within our unique and inspired niches.  The program is designed so that participants are guided through the various activities along with question/answer, sharing, and discussion. This is not a sectarian offering; it is intended to support people of all faiths in finding and deepening their own relationship to self, nature, and others through peaceable, interdisciplinary practices that they create consistent with their specific beliefs. 

Oct. 10^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Conversations Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Join the conversation about such topics as spiritual ecology, creativity, beauty, gratitude, service, and kindness. Prompts, questions, and guided inquiries will follow a brief introduction to the month's topic. 

Nov. 5^th - 8^th (Sun. - Wed.) Society for Human Ecology's XXV International Conference, A Spiritual Ecological Vision: Biodiversity in Nature Teaches an Embrace of Justice and Human Diversity Tucson, AZ USA Learn more.
This presentation offers a transformative pathway and supporting practices to guide us through this time of human divisiveness and intolerance, as well as through moments of global devastation due to climate change. Using spiritual ecology as a framework, the presenter will offer concepts and action steps that are rooted in nature’s wisdom. There will be a strong emphasis on conceptual insights gleaned from ecological structures and terminology such as ecotones, species richness, and biodiversity. This presentation will give participants a useful, compassionate, and hopeful way to navigate the human and biological challenges pressing upon us.

Online Courses

The following three courses are "on-demand" (register and take the class at your own pace).

Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love By $65. More info here.
Deepen your innate capacity and expression of tender compassion.