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This enrichment workshop presents the writings of people who invite us to engage the earthiness of the Creation and the earthiness of our wild souls. Our sacred readings will draw from the ecological works of wild earth lovers such as Thoreau, Muir, Lopez, Carson, Kimmerer, Oliver, and others.
We will utilize the practice of Lectio Divina to help us to widen the imaginal and deepen our contemplation of the incarnational presence of the Divine as enfleshed, enfeathered, and ensouled around and within us. Join with others for this unique opportunity to “listen” to the wise and holy voice of the Divine speak to our souls in the difficult time of climate disruption.
“When an individual has been swept up into the world of symbolic mysteries, nothing comes of it; nothing can come of it, unless it has been associated with the earth, unless it has occurred when that individual was in the body.... Only if you first return to your body, to your earth, can individuation take place; only then does the thing become true.” — -C. G. JUNG
Enrichment program will be via zoom on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT. Suggested Fee is $35 with an alternative offering of $10. -
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More About Rev. Mark Chaffin
Rev. Mark Chaffin is an outdoors and extreme weather enthusiast. Growing up in South Windsor, CT, he attended two kinds of churches. With his family, he worshipped in the sanctuary of his local congregation and would then spend long hours in the sacred precincts of the woods, wetlands, and fields near his home.
Mark holds a M.Div. from Andover Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He has completed a certificate in spiritual companioning with the Haden Institute where he trained in the Jungian, mystical Christian tradition of spiritual direction and dream work. He makes the focus of his practice working with those who find their experience of the Holy in the realm of the Creation and want to enrich their lives with eco-spiritual practices. To enhance his background in this area he is currently enrolled in the certificate course, “Rewilding the Pastor’s Soul” with the Seminary of the Wild.
By day, Mark is the interfaith chaplain at Baptist Health Nursing and Rehab. Ctr. in Scotia, NY. On weekends, in addition to wanderings about local arboretums, conservation lands, and Adirondack hiking trails, he is the interim minister of First Baptist Church of Hudson Falls, NY. He is also an affiliated member of Church of the Woods, an outdoor worshiping community in Canterbury, NH.
