Workshops with Eric Alan:

One spiritual path contains all others and conflicts with none: nature itself. Within its graceful, tightly woven forms is practical wisdom useful in our daily lives—regardless of where we live and how damaged the natural order may be there. What is this spirituality, and how can we apply it? Through meditation, reading, group discussion, outdoor discovery, creative expression and exploration, laughter and quiet fun, workshop participants learn to look deeply into the nature inside their own lives, and to use it to transform their relationship to the world around them.

Wild Grace workshops include such elements as:

• Breathing into Our Own Nature
• Seeing Everything as Nature
• Flowing: the Wisdom of Water
• Magnifying Vision: Seeing the Whole Inside the Small
• Beyond Work: the Nature of Purpose
• Returning Home
• The Nature of Conflict
• Integrating Faith with the Earth
• The Nature of Money
• Earth Care as Health Care
• Releasing Ownership, Regaining Stewardship
• Family, Community and Natural Alliance
• Finding Stillness in Everything

Workshop facilitator and Oregon resident Eric Alan is author and photographer of the book Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path (White Cloud Press), upon which the workshops are based. The book was hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a useful and needed bridge to the truly natural language we all share and have forgotten how to speak.” The book has spawned a magazine column now published in eight eastern states; and workshops have been held in nature centers, a university, a mountain spiritual retreat, and as part of a religion and philosophy center’s national summer institute. Among many other Wild Grace credits, Alan was chosen as one of four authors for the 2006 Oregon Legacy series, alongside Ursula K. LeGuin. In 2005, he was a featured support speaker for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Martin Luther King III at World Wellness Weekend. His photography has appeared on several other book covers, and he has over 100 published articles to his credit. He is also music director of Jefferson Public Radio, a network of twenty stations in Oregon and California. He’s currently at work on two other books: the novel Liquid Embraces; and the next book of integrated prose and photography, centered on finding peace in the details at our feet. He approaches photography as a meditation as well as an art form and an activist voice for the preservation of the earth.

Workshops can be arranged lasting from two hours to a full weekend. For more information, contact Eric Alan.