A 5-month intensive to nourish the inner ground from which meaningful action can grow.

with Mark Coleman, Kirsten Rudestam, and Yong Oh

This 5-month journey weaves mindfulness, compassion, and nature-based practice with the real challenges of our time—grief, burnout, and the overwhelm of intersecting crises. Through contemplative practice and community support, you’ll develop the inner steadiness needed for long-term engagement.

Rather than offering inner work merely as a way to self-soothe or endure business-as-usual activism, we explore contemplative and nature-oriented practice as a form of subversive orientation—one that restores a sense of enoughness, belonging, and wholeness, and thereby reshapes our relationship to progress, productivity, and control.

Here, we cultivate a spiritual infrastructure that can hold our ecological activism. We will explore how belonging to the Earth and to each other becomes the ground for sustained, creative action.

This is a path that honors pausing as much as doing, refraining as much as responding, and stillness as a necessary companion to movement.

In a culture shaped by modernity’s insistence on constant action and acceleration, practices of presence, simplicity, trust, and mutuality are deeply subversive—opening space for new paradigms of engagement that are spiritually rooted and not yet fully imaginable.