A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

Join this unique 3-week online course with Danielea Castell to learn ways to partner & co-create with Nature Elders

The Listening Field is an online ceremonial space where groups of Humans and Nature Elders can connect, communicate and co-create in service to the healing and regeneration of Mother Earth and all her inhabitants.

During this course you will discover which Nature Elders are waiting to partner and co-create with you at this time, what specifically you are meant to be or do together and how to do that.

Personal: 20th November 2024, 7pm – 9pm (UK time)

In this session you will be introduced to the guiding principles and reciprocating energies of the Listening Field. As a group you will co-create a Listening Field where you will discover or deepen your personal relationship with a Nature Elder as friend, supporter and life guide.

Community: 27th November 2024, 7pm – 9pm (UK time)

In this session you will hear about recent community case studies involving the Listening Field, and be introduced to the protocol for bringing the wisdom and voices of local Nature Elders into a community issue, dream or development plan. Participants are encouraged to bring a real-life community situation to this session and one will be selected for a group Listening Field consultation.

Project / mission: 4th December 2024, 7pm – 9pm (UK time)

In this last session participants will be introduced to some examples of project and mission partnership with a Nature Elder. This final Listening Field will give participants the opportunity to form a new project partnership with a Nature Elder or deepen an existing one.

Danielea Castell is a nature communicator, consultant, mentor and founder of The Listening Field and the Interbeing Peace Alliance. She has worked for many years with the Nature Elders from the Water, Rock and Tree Nations, and organises and facilitates internationally Listening Fields for individuals, groups and organizations who wish to communicate and build personal relationships with the Nature Elders involved in their lives, missions, activism and businesses.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

We invite you to join us for a deep listening circle, using the format of the talking stick ceremony, expressing ourselves in a safe environment

🌊 Honour Your Waterways This World Rivers Day! 🌊

Sacred Earth Activism is focused on how we can honour our rivers and heal our sacred relationship with water and share different ways you can celebrate these sacred waterways.

One way you can do this, this World Rivers Day, is by joining River Blessings with Kate Dineen.

📅 Sunday, 22nd September
🕑 at 2pm
📍 Near Avebury

Join artists, politicians, and water-lovers for an equinox ceremony at the source of the River Avon, with special guest Dr Andrew Rumsey, Bishop of Ramsbury.

💐Bring waters, flowers, instruments, and open hearts as we gather for meditation, song, and reflection. 🌿

For more info, contact Kate Dineen

This Autumn Equinox, we invite you to come together in a sacred global meeting of the waters. Whether gathering in groups or connecting individually, join us in aligning our hearts with the World Water Festival, sending gratitude and prayers for the wellness of water and all beings. 🌊💙

In this global ceremony of love and peace, we invite you to immerse yourself in the sacred balancing energies of the Equinox—whether you are celebrating autumn in the Northern Hemisphere or spring in the Southern Hemisphere. Together, let’s honour the life-giving presence of water, praying up repairs for our sacred waterways and recognising the reciprocal balance water provides to life on Earth.

At Sacred Earth Activism, we are proud supporters of the World Water Law and part of the World Water Community. We invite you to watch Skeena Rathor's video below, demonstrating a simple ritual you can perform at your local water source at sunset (or sunrise in the Southern Hemisphere) to synchronise with this global action.

📅 Date: 21st September 2024
⏰ Time: Sunset (Northern Hemisphere) | Sunrise (Southern Hemisphere)
📍 Location: Your local water source

For more suggestions and ideas on creating your own ceremony for the repair of waters, please read the document linked below and prepare to synchronise with the global flow. Let's create ripples of healing and gratitude for our sacred waters.

To synchronise the content and energy of the ceremonies, we invite you to read the following document: Click here for more ideas on creating your own ceremony.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

WAKING THE WATERS - SEPTEMBER 18th, 2024

Our September Gathering will be dedicated to honouring our rivers and exploring sacred practices for loving our local waterways. As we will be approaching World Rivers Day and joining many organisations around the world in celebrating the World Water Festival, we will join together for an interactive water ceremony, focusing on love and connection with the waters near and far.

For the ceremony, please bring a container with water - preferably from a local water source, if possible (though tap water is absolutely fine too).

Join this four week online course exploring simple practices of embodied relationship to our Earth

Join this four week online course exploring embodied relational presence and practices to bring us deeply in connection with ourselves, each other and with Earth.

Facilitated by Jenny Haycocks who works within Extinction Rebellion and the wider movement of movements, here in the UK locally and nationally. Jenny is offering an embodied and relational approach, to our Earth and beyond, in all of her work and play.

Your physical felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people - in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from the inside' - Gene Gendlin

• Session 1 - Monday May 13th 2024: Touching Earth - An introduction to embodied and relational presence through simple and accessible practices of sensory awareness

• Session 2 - Monday 20th May 2024: An Embodied Realisation of the Shambhala Warrior Prophecy - Training to use the two tools of compassion and insight into the interconnected nature of all things.

• Session 3 - Monday 27th May 2024: Connected Ecologies - In resonant connection with the movement of all life, through the sensing body

• Session 4 - Monday 3rd June 2024: Spanning Worlds - The sensing body as a portal into the source of creation, connection and wholeness. Practical applications for Sacred Earth Activists

Session Outline: Every session will begin with a sensory attunement, followed by an introduction and participation in simple embodiment practices and will finish with opportunities to share emerging insights.

We invite you to join us for a deep listening circle, using the format of the talking stick ceremony, expressing ourselves in a safe environment

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

Join us on a transformative four-week journey as we explore the intersection of ceremony and activism, teaching you how to weave the sacred into the web of change. Drawing from our extensive expertise at Sacred Earth Activism, co-founders Jonathan Weekes and Christa Mackinnon share practical insights, processes and tools for integrating ceremony and ritual within, alongside, and in support of direct action, protest and campaigns.

Whether you're an experienced ceremonialist who's new to activism, or a seasoned activist curious about the art of ritual and ceremony, this course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding and harness their combined potential for powerful transformation.

Course Structure:
Each week, we will gather online for a two hour session to delve into different aspects of ritual and activism, following the cycle of the moon to guide our process:

• Week 1, 8th April: Visioning 🌒 - Explore the power of listening to the land and visioning for guidance, defining your intent and laying the foundation for your ritual in action.

• Week 2, 15th April: Forming 🌓 - Learn techniques for crafting and shaping meaningful ceremonies and rituals that align with your intentions and aims.

• Week 3, 22nd April: Holding 🌕 - Dive into the different aspects of holding ceremonies and rituals, both on the ground and remotely

• Week 4, 29th April: Reflecting 🌗 - Explore the importance of reflection and regenerative practice in the ritual in action cycle, and reflect on your experiences, lessons learned, and insights gained throughout the course.

What to Expect:

• Engaging online sessions led by experienced facilitators

• Interactive exercises and group activities

• Practical tools and techniques for integrating ceremony into activism

• Opportunities for reflection and sharing within a supportive community

Requirements:
Participants should have access to a quiet space where they can fully engage in the practices and activities during the sessions.

Dates: Monday evenings on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th April, 2024
Time: 7pm-9pm (UTC)
Duration: Four weeks

Location: Online (Zoom link will be provided upon registration)

Limited spaces available. Register below to reserve your space.

Recordings of the sessions will be available for registered participants for the duration of the course.

Sacred Earth Activism is joined by John Adams OBE to hear the latest on the legal challenge against the Stonehenge Tunnel, and to find out how we can all support.

John, Director of Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site Ltd and Chairman of the Stonehenge Alliance, spoke with us at our recent Online Summit about the road scheme threatening the sacred landscape of Stonehenge.

Since then, the courts have ruled against their legal challenge, giving the green light to the bulldozers to go into Stonehenge WHS. Stonehenge Alliance are launching an appeal against this decision, and John will join us to update on the latest that is happening.

Join Sacred Earth Activism for this Deep Time Ritual from The Work That Reconnects, to give us the chance to connect with our descendants and explore about the times we are in.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

We invite you to join us for a deep listening circle, using the format of the talking stick ceremony, expressing ourselves in a safe environment

Join Sacred Earth Activism for this Deep Time Ritual from The Work That Reconnects, to give us the chance to connect with our descendants and explore about the times we are in.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

Demonstration against Stonehenge Road Scheme -12th December

⚖️As Stonehenge Alliance explains, "the High Court hearing is our chance to stop the earth movers from moving in and permanently disfiguring the Stonehenge landscape. It is critical that we make the most of the High Court hearing to draw people's attention to the £2.5bn damage planned to the World Heritage Site by the UK Government for reasons that simply do not add up."

✊🏻Sacred Earth Activism will be joining Stonehenge Alliance and others outside the Royal Courts of Justice for this demonstration.

📍On the pavement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London WC2A 2LL
🕛12:45 for about 30-45 minutes

Come and join us there - bring your placard, your message for Stonehenge.

Standing for Stonehenge, Save Stonehenge, Defend Sacred Lands, Stop The Tunnel

On the eve of the hearing at the high courts, we gather to focus our prayers for the protection of the sacred landscape of Stonehenge

Join us as we offer living prayers out to the multiverse of water. Facilitating a Despacho offering to address all three worlds, where this ancient element is in trouble. Whether it is stagnant within us, disarray in the UK, or absorbing war and trauma energies globally.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

We invite you to join us for a deep listening circle, using the format of the talking stick ceremony, expressing ourselves in a safe environment

We invite you to join us at Extinction Rebellion’s Unite to Survive event on the day of the Full Moon (Saturday 28 October) in the Royal Spa City of Bath. We will be undertaking a range of sacred actions to honour these sacred lands and in particular the element of water. So please bring water from your own local sources to use in Ceremony if you can.

Here is the schedule below:

10am - We join Dirty Waters’ outreach action, the Water Goddess and Water Bearers from XR Forest of Dean by the River Avon, next to the Orange Grove. We will gather water from the River and give it our thanks and blessings so that all waters may run clear and free.

The Sacred Procession with the Water Goddess will arrive at:

11am where the Full Moon Unite to Survive Water Ceremony will take place at Abbey Square (approx. 30 minutes).

The Sacred Procession with Water Goddess will arrive at:

12pm at the Water Shrine at the Circus area
Marchers are requested to pass by the Shrine silently while giving blessings to, and receiving them from, the many underground springs and rivers located below. They will be embodied and represented by the Water Goddess.

2.30pm – Sacred Earth Activism will present a talk called 'Remembering our Sacred Lands' at Victoria Park.

Overview The days sacred actions aim to merge our intentions, visions, blessings and prayers with your local water and water from the River Avon, as it is added to a ‘Living Well’. This will be offered to the ancient, underground waters of Bath, before it joins the River Avon, the sea and other waters around the world. Any remaining Well water may be collected after the ceremony to be offered to, and energise, your own local water sources.

See Unite to Survive' public pack
https://docs.google.com/.../1mQUh8tkJ24_S-iZnCCfpbUxW.../
Please note it is useful to download what3words app for precise locations.

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

We invite you to take part in our interactive peace ceremony in support of all our sisters and brothers in Israel and Palestine

Register here

The Council of All Beings asks us to embody a non-human (plant, animal, moon, river, mountain … anything in the natural world) as much as possible, to change perspective, to feel their pain, anger, fears, and concerns etc., and to voice them (“to hear within ourselves the sounds of the Earth crying” [Thich Nhat Hanh]), but also see their strengths and gifts.

The aim is to help us move away from an anthropocentric and exploitative worldview, and to heal ourselves and find again our sense of connection with the natural world; to remember the larger lifestory; to show empathy and compassion for all life and thus to join in the defence of Earth and of future generations.

The Council of All Beings is part of the bigger framework of The Work That Reconnects, founded by Joann Macy.

Register here

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions

A monthly space for Sacred Earth Activists to connect, vision, network, collaborate and help to co-create and grow our sacred actions