Earth, Our Common Home: A RESTorative Retreat
October 16-18, 2025
The Council for Ecological Discipleship, a ministry of St. Columba’s Inverness invites you to come for RESToration: by healing our wounds, learning from the land, feeding our souls and bodies to build resilience, and hope.
This is a journey towards Regeneration through Lament, Listening, and Learning to Love with The Rev. Payton Hoegh, who is Program Director at The Center for Spirituality in Nature (Spiritualityinnature.org). Retreat presenters also include Fr. Vincent Pizzuto, Vicar St Columba’s Inverness; Professor, University of San Francisco; Author (Vincentpizzuto.org), and Members of the Council for Ecological Discipleship: Penny Washbourn, Sylvia Timbers, Steve Lyman, Ann Hall, Anna Haight.
This interactive retreat is for all who are fearful or in despair about the current state of our climate crisis, our future and the suffering of the Earth and her species.
Embracing Grief as an Expression of Love
As our retreat unfolds, we will journey together through the tender landscape of our heart’s grief, grief for the profound pain and loss in both our human and natural worlds. Drawing on the deep wisdom of the Desert Mystics and Scriptures and contemplative practices, and from the grief work of Joanna Macy, we can acknowledge our pain for what is lost in a place of stillness and peace among the trees and beauty of St. Columba’s.
Tending the Heart of the World
As we acknowledge how the changes, wounds, and needs of our world resonate in our hearts, creation holds wisdom and offers profound invitations for healing and building resilience. Through guided meditation, contemplative wandering to connect with our local ecosystem, ritual, and rich spiritual practice, we will explore the gifts of the wilder world to accompany us in grief, rekindle our imagination, and equip us to join all creation in the restorative work ahead.
Space is limited, and you don’t want to miss this!
Learn more and register now at: https://www.ecologicaldiscipleship.org/retreat