Wild Nature Heart Seasonal Challenge
A Season of Deepening
The goal of Wild Nature Heart Challenge is simple: to cultivate a deeper sense of belonging to wild nature and to ourselves.
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The Wild Nature Heart Team
Your Instructor
My name is Ryan Van Lenning, Founder of Wild Nature Heart, and I am an earth-lover with a deep desire to be of service in the work of re-connection and re-membering during this Great Turning/Great Composting. I started Wild Nature Heart to support people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging.
I am an inner/outer wilderness guide and poet (author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul) and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. I am certified as an Ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, at which I teach the Level 1 and 3 Ecotherapy courses. I am trained as a rite-of-passage/wilderness vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders, through which I assist wilderness ceremonies, and am a Certified Wilderness First Responder through Foster Calm. Prior to moving to California 13 years ago, I taught Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics at Sinclair College in Ohio. I live among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot, Yurok, and Sinkyone land. Email: [email protected]
Course Curriculum
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StartRe-Membering
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StartCultivating Your Ecological Self
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StartWild Water: Getting to Know Your Watershed
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StartBelonging to Place: Ancestral People of the Land
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StartPRACTICE: Getting to know your neighbors: Wild flora and fauna
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StartPOEM: My Name is Belonging
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StartPOEM: The First Nearby Faraway
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StartWhy the Wild?