A Return to Grace with Jeanine Canty
A Return to Grace: For the love of all beings
“If we can take a step outside of time, renouncing our ego’s urgency for progress, we have a chance at being danced, being sung into the greater song of things.” – Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
The liminal season of autumn reminds us that renewal begins with letting go, shedding what no longer serves in order to make way for new life.
In our collective reality, many of us notice that our current paradigms are no longer serving the greater web of life and require transformation. In an ecopsychological framework, our fall from grace began when humans stopped participating with all sentient beings within the creative and transpersonal world, due to our over-emphasis on our individualized selves, our abstract minds, and a silencing of nature. Much of the work of our time is to recognize our disconnection and then step back into relationship with nature, including our deeper selves.
Join Jeanine Canty for an enlivening dialogue where we will examine both our fall from grace and how to begin reclaiming wild consciousness.
Friday, November 6th
6:00-7:30 pm
(event begins promptly at 6:00 pm – please arrive a few minutes early to allow for check-in)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S W Temple St, Salt Lake City UT 84101
Live Music: Phillip Enkey
Featured Artist: Grace Wilding
Opening Poet: Roni Jo Draper
Opening Embodiment: Haymitch St. Stephen
Sliding Scale Tickets $5-$15 (below)
1 CEU included for Utah mental health professionals
Refunds (minus fees) available until 7 days prior
Consider pairing with the full-day workshop on Saturday!
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.
About our Musician: Phillip Enkey
Phillip Enkey is an international award-winning singer-songwriter whose music blends heartfelt storytelling with modern pop and acoustic influences. Hailing from the coastal town of Havelock, North Carolina, Phillip’s music is a reflection of his own life experiences. After losing his mother at a young age, he has faced challenges of chronic pain and the complexities of multiple mental health diagnoses. Through it all, music is his outlet. Learn more.
About our Artist: Grace Wilding
Grace makes contemporary sculptures about what the body carries, protects, and reveals. Working with natural and found materials, she creates visceral forms that give physical shape to unspoken experiences. Living with an invisible disability guides her deep focus on the body, and her service dog, Tucker, is her constant partner in the studio and out in the wild. Through her artwork and community healing circles, Wilding creates experiences that help people feel safer, more connected, and more fully alive. Learn more.
About our Poet: Roni Jo Draper
Roni Jo Draper, PhD is an Indigiqueer filmmaker, artist, and educator. Roni is a member of the Yurok tribe, from the village of Weispus at the fork of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. Her experience as a queer Yurok woman has influenced her work as a teacher, scholar, and artist.
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