Three-part event hosted by Local Earth Collective + co-led by Naturalist Cedar Mathers-Winn
Join Animal Communicator Kristen Houser and Naturalist Cedar Mathers-Winn for a fun exploration into our relationship with wolves and and the greater animal family.
Cedar studies communication between animals as an ecologist and naturalist. He did his Master’s work on animal communication under Dr. Erick Greene, a contemporary pioneer in the field. Cedar has studied songbird communication and behavior in tropical northwestern Australia and western Montana.
Together Cedar and Kristen will lead us through an exploration and discussion covering a broad scope of ideas and perspectives around animal communication ranging from the mystical to the practical. Whether you are fully immersed in the language of energy and more subtle forms of communication, or your lens of understanding comes from a purely scientific perspective, this workshop is designed to explore both ends of the spectrum and everything in between. All that it requires is an open mind and a desire to explore new possibilities of connection between species.
The Mystical: Kristen will lead us into an exploration of wolf, their medicine, and our intertwined mythologies. In a space of remembered connection and activation, widening our relationships with predators in general and how they inform/reveal our unique roles as human stewards. An opportunity to jump into what can often feel like the paradoxical mud when it comes to the purpose of predators. Real-time dialoguing (telepathically) with the wolves and their predator peers about how to scratch at the surface and exhume what lies beneath, all the while restoring more of our interspecies kinship and learning how we can best be helpful to each other.
The Practical: Through examples, exercises, journaling, and discussion, Cedar will guide participants in interpreting and getting familiar with the signals that animals use to communicate with each other, with us, and with other species on the landscape. Though we may rarely notice, wild animals are trying to communicate with us constantly. The knowledge he presents can lead to a powerful sense of connection, understanding, and empathy for your local deer, squirrel, or crow.
Workshop Structure: Each 2-hour session will be introduced by either Cedar or Kristen or both and will begin with sharing ideas that guide participants into the realm of either spiritual/philosophical forms of communication, or scientific observation. This initial “lecture” will then be open for discussion. Suggested reading materials will be provided for further exploration between sessions as well as prompts and guidance on how to enter into dialog with animals either from close observation and nature journaling or through inner promptings that evoke a more subtle form of communication. These promptings may present in your dreams or meditations, or even a greater knowing that presents itself spontaneously through a look from your own dog or an encounter in the wild. This will be a judgment-free space where we can explore these ideas from a place of curiosity and mutual respect.
When: Wednesday evenings, September 14, 21, and 28, 6-8 pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Where: Online via zoom.
Learn more and book HERE
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