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Misty Slopes

Leadership for an
Emerging New Story

RESTORING KINDRED RELATIONSHIP WITH A SACRED EARTH

Registration for 2025 Cohort opens March 1, 2025

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We are living between stories...

The old story is no longer effective.  Yet we have not learned 'the new story.'  We are talking only to ourselves.  We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.  We have broken the great conversation. 

Thomas Berry

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The Center for Wild Spirituality is a learning community devoted to listening and responding to the Sacred Wild — that which calls us deeper into the soul of the living world.

 

We follow the call to embody a kin-dom of God for the loving regeneration of beloved community, and to nurture a conversation between and beyond our species.

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A community

of like-hearted souls

committed to reWilding our world.

Call of the Sacred Wild

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In order to midwife the changes our culture and planet desperately need, we must repair the great conversation between humans and the rest of the sacred living world.

The emerging paradigm that calls for equity, regeneration, kindness, and reciprocity —a kin-dom of God — will require a new kind of spiritual leadership. 
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The New Story is Emerging through Us

At pivotal times in history — times of great unraveling that creates space for something new to emerge — people are called into a new way of being human. 

 

In ancient Judeo-Christian stories, as well as those found in most other religious traditions, the call to leadership is always initiated by a call into the wilderness.
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To listen to the wind, the trees, the stars.  To remember who you are and the role you are here to play in the ongoing evolution of life.
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This is one of those pivotal moments in history As ecological, cultural and civic integrity unravels, heart-centered people are being called into a new kind of leadership — one that is deeply connected with both spirituality and nature.   

The collapse we are experiencing is actually the birth of a new story

 

This new story is created through the many stories emerging through us, through people whose hearts are open to the voices of the sacred whispering through the forest and ocean and sky. 

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You may feel it on a deep, unspoken level: a call to weave the threads of your unique gifts and privileges, your particular wounds and experiences, together with the stories and beings of the place you call home.

The reconnection of Spirit and Nature is essential to the profound shift happening in our world.  Your offerings toward the new story may not have a form yet.  That's okay.  Most of what is needed right now does not have a template. 

 

The journey of listening and responding to the particular ways you belong in this pivotal time is a collective one.
 

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It begins
by answering a
wild call.

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Yearlong Programs

A certificate in Eco-Spirituality.

An ordination by the sacred wild.

Join the upcoming Seminary of the Wild Earth cohort in 2025.

For graduates of the Eco-Spirituality Certificate Program

Vocational Certificates: 

Eco-Spiritual Direction and 

Wild Guide Certification

Partners and Friends:

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Wild Spirituality Books

Church of the Wild:
How Nature Invites Us Into the Sacred

Award-winning book by Victoria Loorz exploring what it looks like to restore sacred relationship with Earth, reconnect with the wild roots of the church, and explore our place in an interconnected world.

With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it—and calling it church.

Field Guide to
Church of the Wild

Serves as a companion to the Wild Church Movement. With a wide-ranging collection of stories and practical resources, its pages lead us toward prayer and mountain, ritual and wren, gatherings and forests.

This field guide moves through the main elements of a Wild Church service, each chapter full of ideas, prayers, rituals, and practices for running a Wild Church from over 30 Wild Church leaders.

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