Leaving Flatland: Enlivening Earth and Soul with Jeanine Canty
Leaving Flatland: Enlivening Earth and Soul
“This awakened heart of compassion is true nature. It is true nature that welcomes and tames our self-centered delusions, returning us to the reality of our deep connectedness to all beings in a living world.” – Gaylon Ferguson, Welcoming Beginner’s Mind
Join us for a day-long workshop with Jeanine Canty where we will move into a widening sense of self, inclusive of nature, creativity, spirit, and soul.
The mid-point of autumn at this crucial time in the story of humanity presents a liminal threshold, a time for reflection on our larger work within a sentient world, and our impermanence in that world.
Weaving together ideas from ecopsychology, depth psychology, and eastern philosophy, we will peer curiously into what no longer serves in our dominant paradigms and envision and enact ways of being that enliven our participatory consciousness with nature and soul.
Participants should be prepared to encounter difficult and joyful emotions, engage in experiential practices including movement, meditation, and imagination, and to be in respectful, compassionate community.
Saturday, November 7th
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Red Butte Garden & Arboretum
300 S Wakara Wy, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
Tuition: $110 (just $88 for Red Butte members!)
6 CEUs for Utah mental health professionals
Workshop Full? Join the waitlist in case of last minute cancellation: hello@madronacollective.org
Don’t miss out on the Friday evening dialogue the night before!
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, although she calls Boulder, Colorado home. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to guest teach at Naropa and Pacifica Graduate Institute. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing our Collective Narcissism and Healing our Planet, along with many publications. Her most recent edited book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (2025). Jeanine is a certified meditation instructor as well as a Wilderness First Responder.
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