Event Calendar

Online Courses
The following courses are "on-demand" (register and take the class at your own pace).

Compassionate Spiritual Ecology $150. More info here.
This foundational course provides an overview of spiritual ecology, with practices for compassionate engagement with the more-than-human world. This course is also one of the prerequisites for Spiritual Ecology Training. 

Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love By $65. More info here.
Deepen your innate capacity and expression of tender compassion. 

Writing on the Landscape: The Book Experienced $50. More info here. 
Let the author guide you through her book, Writing on the Landscape: Essays and Practices to Write, Roam, Renew. 

Instructors' Guide to Writing on the Landscape $25. More info here. 
This instructional aid is for professors/facilitators using Writing on the Landscape in their curriculum/group work.

2023 Calendar 

Register for events requiring payment: tealarborstories@gmail.com
Registration for most paid events closes one week prior to start date.
All times listed are in the Pacific Time Zone/United States.  

Oct. 10^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

Oct. 17^th (Tues.) (Second) Tuesdays Lunchtime Conversations Free (register to get access) Please note that the date has changed for this event (and it will be held on the THIRD Tuesday of October). 
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Join the conversation about such topics as spiritual ecology, creativity, beauty, gratitude, service, and kindness. Prompts, questions, and guided inquiries will follow a brief introduction to the month's topic. 

Nov. 5^th - 8^th (Sun. - Wed.) Society for Human Ecology's XXV International Conference, A Spiritual Ecological Vision: Biodiversity in Nature Teaches an Embrace of Justice and Human Diversity Tucson, AZ USA Learn more.
This presentation offers a transformative pathway and supporting practices to guide us through this time of human divisiveness and intolerance, as well as through moments of global devastation due to climate change. Using spiritual ecology as a framework, the presenter will offer concepts and action steps that are rooted in nature’s wisdom. There will be a strong emphasis on conceptual insights gleaned from ecological structures and terminology such as ecotones, species richness, and biodiversity. This presentation will give participants a useful, compassionate, and hopeful way to navigate the human and biological challenges pressing upon us.

Nov. 9^th (Thurs.) Conflict Intervention Service's Interfaith Symposium on Peacemaking, The Bar Association of San Francisco
I've been invited to guide the opening "grounding practice" for this wonderful daylong event. The symposium will be a day for peacemakers to explore connections between spirituality and peacemaking. Peacemakers from the Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths who are working as mediators, scholars, ministers, and healers, will speak about their faith-based approach to peacemaking and engage in interfaith discussions on belonging, connection, forgiveness, and reconciliation. While we have centered specific spiritual traditions, the day of dialogue and connection will have space for diverse voices from multiple traditions.

Nov. 14^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

Nov. 15^th  (Wed.) Gratitude Workshop via Zoom $40. Register: tealarborstories@gmail.com
9:00 – 11:00 AM
Learn, practice, and celebrate how gratefulness can become an extraordinary part of your everyday life. 

Dec. 12^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

2024 Calendar

Jan. 9^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

Feb. 13^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

Mar. 12^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training. 

April (Dates TBD) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology Course  
This four-week online course, developed and taught by Jennifer J. Wilhoit, Ph.D., is hosted by the Compassion Education Institute (of the Charter for Compassion). This course offers students an overview of the body of work comprising the discipline of spiritual ecology. At the core of spiritual ecology are values that point to compassion for others—in the nonhuman world as well as in human communities. Beyond an introduction to the basic tenets and values of spiritual ecology, this course will guide, support, and encourage students to explore some of the myriad practical applications of a compassionate spiritual ecology. Registration info coming in early 2024. 

Apr. 9^th (Tues.) Cultivating Belonging to Transform Conflict via Zoom 
9:00 – 11:00 AM
This ten-month training series that we’ve created and are implementing is being offered through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service. It is focused on building community for service providers within supportive housing who want to learn, grow together, and build their capacity to transform conflict. We will cover topics such as de-escalation and conflict resolution skills, building community and spaces of belonging, proactively addressing conflict, trauma-informed ways of being, as well as self-care and community care practices. There will be strong threads of nature-based and creative modalities for moving through transformation, conflict, and growing a sense of belonging that will be woven throughout the training.