Summer Retreat 2021 In-Person!
August 13-15, 2021
We will gather in-person at Ronora Lodge and Retreat Center, Watervliet Michigan. We'll stay in Trilogy Lodge, a dorm-style lodge that sleeps up to 25.
Nourishing workshops, wildflower walks and worship circles make this weekend "back to the land" on the 400+ acres of woodland and lake within the spirit-filled place called Ronora. A few workshops, plus time to explore, relax, drum, sing and commune with nature and each other.
To attend the in-person retreat, registrants must be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
Registration details coming soon, along with cost.
Fall 2021 Retreat with Selena Fox
We'll gather in person at DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin for a weekend with Rev. Selena Fox!
Rev. Selena Fox is Senior Minister of Circle Sanctuary, a church headquartered on a Nature preserve near Barneveld, Wisconsin serving Nature Spirituality practitioners worldwide since 1974. Selena's writings and photographs on Nature, Celebrating the Seasons, Women’s Spirituality, Goddess Studies, Paganism, Life Passages, Ecopsychology and Wellness have been widely published, in print and on-line. Selena hosts two weekly podcasts, Nature Mystic and Nature Spirituality. Over the years, Selena has been a speaker at UUA conferences, including General Assembly, and a guest minister at a variety of Unitarian Universalist churches and retreats across the USA. She is among the contributors to Pagan and Earth-centered Voices in Unitarian Universalism.
Selena has a MS in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and does spiritual psychotherapy and holistic counseling by zoom and phone with clients across the USA and beyond. For more than fifty years, she has been an activist for gender and racial equality, religious freedom, interfaith collaboration, and environmental preservation. She is director of Circle Cemetery, one of the first Green cemeteries in North America. Her interfaith endeavors include work with Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, Charter for Compassion, and Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Spring 2021 Online Retreat
Our Spring Retreat was virtual this year.
Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 10:30 AM – 6 PM Eastern time
Our keynote speaker was Nan Lundeen.
Nan’s spiritual roots run directly into Mother Earth, and her writing life has focused on honoring, celebrating, and advocating for Earth, our home. Gretchen Ohmann, Co-convener, Continental Unitarian Universalist Women and Religion, describes Nan’s book of ecopoetry, Gaia’s Cry: “Nan’s collection speaks of all the glorious aspects of Mother Earth and her inhabitants, the heartbreak at her destruction, and hope—elusive hope—in the courage of individuals, and the magic of seeds.” Nan’s ecopoems and essays are published on the sabbats at Patheos.com and her poetry and fiction in literary journals.
She welcomes opportunities to nurture nature writing, such as creating a student-written newsletter at Brookview Montessori School in Benton Harbor, MI, which her grandson attends, and where lower elementary students report on their environment and how to be better stewards of Earth.
During her 30 years as an award-winning newspaper reporter, she informed the public about environmental issues at every opportunity.