Earth Retreats

CIRCLES OF RECONNECTION

Retreats - Meetings - Workshops to embody and explore

Personal Transformation for

Global Transformation & Systems change.

Sustainable Collective Climate Action

Breathe - Reconnect - Regenerate - Restore our Relationships with Ourselves - Others & the Planet

If we wish to reverse the planetary crisis we need to reverse our way of being. To do this we need to stop and look deeply at our habitual and conditioned behaviours.

The climate crisis is essentially a crisis of relationship. We are disconnected with the truest part of ourselves, others and the living system that we are part of- Earth.

We need to collaborate as a planet people to make the big leap of change. It requires of us to shift from the individualistic & competitive way of doing things to a collective and co-operative way of being.

Attending our inner dimension collectively is a key component to making the urgent turnaround our civilisation needs. In these gatherings we look deeply at our inner climate. We pause so to notice the habits that keep us in our loops, that prevent us from making the transitions we urgently need to make. Only by engaging in a radical collaboration of change can we hope for systemic change, and halting the planetary collapse.

In these retreats we pause to take time to reconnect to our true nature and common values. We nourish our love for the world and strengthen our resilience to so to galvanise sustainable climate action.

Alone we can do a little. Together we can do a lot.

Valentine has been facilitating mindfulness based work that reconnects. She is passionate about the intersection of personal healing and planetary systems healing.

The Earth retreat groups are curated by invitation so to ensure diversity of disciplines and expertise in their fields. Embodied mindfulness and compassion are woven into this day of retreat.

We aim to create bridges and collaborations between academia, finance, policy, corporations and climate advocates.

Valentine and her husband Charles Antoine Janssen have been long time supporters of Mind and Life and other organisations which bring the spiritual and contemplative traditions to science, business and climate action.

A retreat to nourish our leadership, resilience and resolve in the face of todays global challenges.

“We have entered the unchartered territory of a global emergency, where ‘business as usual’ cannot continue. We must take the initiative to repair and protect this world, ensuring a safe climate future for all people and all species” DALAI LAMA

“If we continue abusing the Earth this way, there is no doubt that our civilisation will be destroyed. The turnaround takes enlightenment, awakening. The Buddha attained individual awakening. Now we need a collective enlightenment to stop this course of destruction.” THICH NHAT HANH

“The more deeply I search for the roots of environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual…” AL GORE

"Active Hope is not wishful thinking.
Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued
by the Lone Ranger or by some savior.
Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time.
We've come a long way and are here to play our part.
With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,
strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with." JOANNA MACY

Upcoming events

Retreat with Rob Hopkins

24 th September
“Radical Imagination”
Rob explores what we must do to revive and replenish our collective imagination. If we can rekindle that precious creative spark, whole societies and cultures can change rapidly, dramatically and unexpectedly for the better. We learn to unleash our dreams and in so doing start the manifestation of them in our world.
Retreat with Jo Confino

26th November
“personal transformation and systemic change”
Jo Confino, co-host of the Plum Village podcast the way out is in” will facilitate a workshop on insights into our habit energies . Our retreat will bring clarity to what habits and thoughts we need to shift to progress with greater ease and expand our ways of seeing our world.
at La Hulpe
Work that Reconnects

5th December
“personal introspection, deep ecology, systems change”
This is a group based workshop that brings us back into relationship with each other and with the self-healing powers in the web of life, motivating and empowering us to reclaim and restore a true relationship with our lives, our communities, and our planet.
Next workshop 22 Feb at shantihome.be
Satish Kumar

18 March
“Conscious Leadership”
This is a by invitation workshop to secure an intimate number of participants. If you are eager to join - please send an email.
La Hulpe, Brussels.

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