Growing with the Seasons: Supporting Personal and Collective Growth and Healing through Engagement with Nature, Ritual, Expressive Arts, and Community
Many of us are working toward personal growth and healing, seeking ways to contribute to positive change for our communities, society, and the Earth. Often, this is done in isolation, in nature's solitude, or a private session with a therapist, coach, or other healer. However, the experience of sharing support, understanding, and accountability in a communal setting can be equally if not more powerful.
Facilitator Laura Alexander is offering this monthly gathering to support a group of 6-9 adults in the development of nature- and art-based practices around growth and healing at the personal level, and through building community within the group. Designed as a 3-part program that cycles with each season, participants will be supported in first turning inward, then to each other, and finally outward, as we practice combining our powerful energies and imaginations to co-create and promote healing and justice for ourselves, our communities, and in the world at large.
Fall Cycle Meetings will be held at the following dates and times. Group participants are asked to commit to attending all 3 sessions (dates for the Winter cycle will be released at a later time):
Wednesday, September 20th, 6pm-8:30pm (at a park in NE Portland)
Wednesday, October 18th, 6pm-8:30pm (location TBD based on group)
Saturday, November 18th, 8:30am-12pm (location TBD based on group)
This program will be offered free of charge, and participants are asked to make a personally significant donation to an organization promoting social justice and/or environmental causes.
** For more information or to register, please contact Laura Alexander at lalexanderlcsw@gmail.com **
About the Facilitator: Laura Alexander (she/they) is passionate about growing her personal, professional, and spiritual relationship with Nature - and supporting others with the same. In her day job, she works with teens and families as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute’s Life-Art Process Teacher Training Program, as well as Cascadia Quest’s 4 Seasons of Leadership Program. Laura identifies as a white, hetero-passing, currently able-bodied, cisgendered woman. She seeks to center justice, respect, and healing in her role as a facilitator and fellow student of Nature, Life, and Spirit.