“I highly recommend the work of Dennis Kiley and EcoPsychology Initiative! I took a training recently on climate stress and eco-grief, and it was exceptional.” -Pegi Eyers
“Dennis, thanks for an informative, inspiring class. Your facilitation style creates a warm, supportive platform for authentic sharing. Your gifts are honored and appreciated.” -Patty Gomez-Gillard
The timing and need for this is vital right now. Around and within us is the call to wake up. Innate in each of us, is the call to actualize and blossom into our fullest self just like the plants and trees around us. Furthermore, in light of what is happening in the world around us, there is increasing urgency that we wake up as a society. The health of the planet continues to suffer, there is increasing alarm and concern what is happening politically, socially and economically. It is time to heal and grow individually and collectively. Nature-Inspired Spiritually is designed to exactly address these needs.
This course guides you towards a place of deeper connection, presence and open-heartedness. These are the very things needed to be spiritually awake in the world today, where there is increasing disconnection and disturbance.
Like a tree, our spiritual lives call us to root down, emerge and blossom. With our bodies, minds, hearts and spirits – with all our fellow kin on this planet. Navigating light and shadow are always part of this process. Never more so than now, in our tumultuous times. Spiritual life and practice calls on us to actively engage our internal and external environments from a place of connection and conviction, peacefulness and presence, strength and service. Nature-Inspired-Spirituality offers nourishment and support for this journey.
All our curriculum is found at the intersection of nature and psychology. The content integrates the timeless wisdom of the Earth with current resilience research, theory and practices.
In each of the four modules, you will receive informative lectures, accompanying notes, reflections, practice exercises, and additional resources.
Each module will include recorded live, interactive webinars from which you can learn from and connect with fellow course participants. This is an optional, but highly popular part of EPI programming.
The focus of this training is providing practical and meaningful information that is easy to apply across diverse circumstances. This training is therefore suitable for anyone who wants practices to live by daily, reflections and lessons when you’ve lost your way, and principles that simultaneously guide healing and growth.
The training begins in late Winter and will last about eight weeks. Each module will last approximately two weeks; at the start of each module you will receive a pre-recorded and downloadable lecture based on the content for that section. These recordings will be approximately an hour. Additionally, you will also receive lecture notes, reading resources and optional practices and reflections. Because this class is self-paced, you can engage with this material when you have time and interest.
Before the class starts, all registrants will be asked to complete a poll of dates and times they can attend live webinars (provided they are interested). Based on the times that work for the largest number of people, we will schedule our biweekly, live webinars. These will be optional, and also recorded and shared for those who can’t attend. These webinars will last between an hour and a half and two hours.
We are offering this program for $60 and an early registration offer–through the end of February–for a discounted price of $49.
Additionally, there is scholarship available for those who need it. Please email us for more information.