Sacred Earth Retreat – Thomas…Janine

To Love Our Sacred Earth Retreat

Thomas Berry on Guidance, and the Self-Healing of Earth, meets Janine Benyus on Biomimicry

Wednesday, May 15
10 AM – 12 PM (CT)
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The “Love Our Sacred Earth Retreat” series explores teachings within the writings of cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry as they interweave with the wisdom of nature-centered mystics and of nature-inspired scientists. You may register for any or all four sessions.

Each session is two hours long and includes a contemplative break. For those who participate in-person at The Well, you are welcome to stay the rest of the afternoon to process and reflect in a retreat style fashion, for an added cost.

Thomas Berry on Guidance, and the Self-Healing of Earth, meets Janine Benyus on Biomimicry:

“The healing of the Earth Community has two basic dimensions that are intertwined. There is the need for the healing of the Earth as a whole. And there is the need for the healing of the human, considered as a particular species.  In both related endeavors, the context for the healing is the universe as a whole.  The powers of healing, the powers of regeneration, the powers of renewal are rooted in the primordial realities of the universe, the Earth, and the human species.”  Thomas Berry

This is mirrored within the contemporary wisdom of biomimicry as articulated by natural science writer and innovation consultant, Janine Benyus.  Biomimicry looks to the authentic spontaneities within the wild for solutions – solutions that emulate nature’s ways.

“Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that’s already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.” Janine Benyus

Register for other sessions/ series of four

This retreat is In-Person and on Zoom. Retreat Director is on Zoom.

Zoom participants will receive Zoom sign-in information via email
upon registration + a reminder the day before the program.

For those attending the retreat in-person, you may choose to add $40 to stay after the session in retreat fashion, with lunch included and the use of a quiet space in The Well for the afternoon. 

Retreat Director: Maureen Wild, SC

Maureen Wild’s graduate studies focused on Living Cosmology and Sacred Ecology, leading her to create many educational programs and retreats. She served as Director of two spirituality-based ecological learning centers: Genesis Farm, NJ, and the Centre for Earth and Spirit, BC, which she co-founded. Maureen has helped foster the international network Sisters of Earth since 1994, and is among those featured in the book Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology (2007). Blessed with many great teachers, one most enduring influence was Thomas Berry, who challenged all to live a resolute life of Great Work that protects, rather than ruins, Earth.

Maureen is the 2023 recipient of The Well’s Sacred Universe Award.