Touching the Earth: A homestead retreat for young adults

This three-week immersion for young adults (ages 18-24) on a secluded Vermont homestead is an opportunity to cultivate self-awareness and deepen your relationship with others and the living earth. Our small learning community will explore the Buddhist concept of interbeing through the fields of permaculture, ecology, living systems theory, ecopsychology, social justice, and climate studies.

At times we will co-create rituals inspired by the Work That Reconnects, calling on our moral imaginations as we live beside ancestors and future beings.  Daily rhythms will include morning silence, mindfulness practice, physical exercise (work projects, hiking, swimming, yoga), solitude in nature, creative expression (writing, reciting poetry, singing), council practice, and sharing nourishing meals. We will also learn from and be inspired by local farmers, artists, climate activists, and wildlife biologists – people who can share their experience of composing an original life and engaging in meaningful work during this time of transition toward a life-sustaining society.