EcoSomatic Leadership® Intensive

We are committed to bringing forth
an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling,
and socially just way of being on this earth.

You have a part to play.

The time is now.

EcoSomatic Leadership provides a forum to deepen our own aliveness as part of the living body of the earth, for the sake of creating a more meaningful planet-centered perspective for taking action as leaders in our communities.

In the midst of existential social, environmental and economic disruptions, our individual and collective offers can benefit the healing and ongoing vitality of the entire life-giving system of which we are a part. There is a call for us as leaders to open and expand our consciousness of the impact of our actions on humans, the living earth and the interrelationship of all of life for generations to come.

EcoSomatic Leadership springs from a dynamic interdependence of three themes:

• Eco – living beings in relationship with each other and the whole,
• Soma – awareness and expression of embodied, present-moment experience, and
• Leadership – taking responsibility for creating and influencing our world

EcoSomatic Leaders explore how feeling the earth expressed through our own bodies generates a dynamic commitment to take a stand for the beauty, majesty and ancient wisdom of the natural world. Our embodiment as earth illuminates our responsibility and supports us in returning to work, family, place and community with leadership commitments that respect our ecological context, including our own somatic experience of aliveness.

EcoSomatic Leadership is an inquiry into:

• How do we build and sustain deep connectedness with ourselves, with each other, and with the living network of the earth?
• How does the natural world orient, shape and restore us?
• What opens in us with the realization of our place in things?
• How do we listen deeply into the internal imperatives that rise up out of our relationship with the earth?
• What actions will we now take to extend our aliveness into the world, and embody a stand for what we most deeply care about?

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Henry Kimsey-House and Doug Silsbee have recorded two podcasts and two conference calls, which you may access here.

• Podcast, EcoSoma conversation:    
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• Podcast, Leadership conversation:  
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• Feb. 21 call on Big Time and the Evolutionary Story:  Download the recorded audio, a PDF transcript, or listen now:

• April 5 call on Incongruity and Ecosomatic Leadership: Download or listen now:

There are currently no public offerings around EcoSomatic Leadership; however, the conversation continues in various venues. Please visit Doug's blog for more, or sign up here to receive regular updates and communications about Ecosomatic Leadership:

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-  Wendell Berry