Deepening Kinship & Sharing Wild Wisdom: A Weekend of Ecospiritual Nature Connection
September 18–21, 2025
On Land Retreats, The Natural World
Program Start Date & Time: September 18th | 5:00pm
Program End Date & Time: September 21st | 1:30 pm
Gather in the spirit of the autumnal season to pause from the stress and pace of life with a supportive eco-spiritual community of practice, nourishing and celebrating your connections with ‘nature’ – our oldest kin and teacher – and your own noble wild soul.
Guided by ecopsychology, animism, and nature-based ritual, we will rekindle the joy of reciprocity and kinship between humans and the more-than-human world. This retreat offers spacious time on the land for replenishment, where you’ll be invited to notice the world around and within you using all of your senses. We will practice listening deeply: to the land through spacious solo time, and to our human hearts through sharing experiences in Council. We will engage in diverse contemplative and creative practices, including guided and community-led nature connection exercises that you can take home.
Together, we will sing, play, dream, laugh, and deeply rest. You will leave feeling resourced, soothed, and inspired—ready to bring your wisest, wildest self back into the world.
Why Did Past Participants Love this Retreat?
“As an ecopsychologist and leader in my community, this retreat was invigorating, restful, and connected me to others doing this important work in the world. It’s easy to get burned out and feel isolated in this work, and connecting to the trees and doing the very ecopsychological practices that we are leading gave me a renewed insight into the importance of this work.”
– TerraLinda Pittenger
“Tina and Shea bring reverence, humor, and deep love to the mystery of the human experience. This retreat brought me closer to my inner and outer nature through powerful ecospiritual practice, community, and effective listening. It is an honor and a privilege to maintain contact and connection with these people and practices – I always leave these ceremonies feeling held and much more me.”
– Patrice
“The container that Tina and Shea create and hold for the group is incredibly supportive, which allowed for a deeper unfolding and deepening into our own collective group wisdom. I am feeling nourished and settled as I re-emerge into the world at large to spread the seeds of our time together.”
– JB
“This retreat was a beautiful, centering, and personally healing experience for me…a headwater experience for the next part of my path.” – Lila Edwards
“Spacious and nourishing. A beautiful reconnection with myself, with nature, and with community.”
– Aaron Gabriel Neyer
“The space to reconnect to what is important, with amazing guides. Very healing and revitalizing.”
– Whitney
Retreat Faculty
Shea Armstrong, M.A
Shea is an ecopsychologist, threshold guide, and facilitator dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their favorite selves and the more-than-human world. With a background in endangered species conservation and rich experience in nature-based rituals, Shea weaves somatic awareness, creativity, and playful reverence into her work. She brings warmth, open space, and a gentle presence when […]
Tina Fields, Ph.D
Dr. Fields is Professor Emeritx of Ecopsychology at Naropa, International Ecopsychology Society’s USA representative, and a practicing Druid who lived and taught fully outdoors for nearly five years. She brings extensive experience in eco-spiritual guidance, including wilderness rites-of-passage, Shinrin-yoku, mindfulness, psychedelics, myth, song and contradance, labyrinth walks, and Council practice. Through a combination of reverence […]
