at the Louisville Nature Center

We hope you will join us as we explore:

Nurturing an ecology of compassion for Earth

Nurturing an ecology of compassion for the work of caring for Earth

Celebrating the Earth care work that is already happening

An ecology of compassion makes all of work more effective, more sustainable, more satisfying and more nurturing.

Each person who attends will directly shape the outcome of our conversation.   Accordingly our absence will also shape the outcome, so please join us. Our time together will lead to new learning, deeper understanding and for many, action.

The conversation will be structured so that each person's passion and commitment to contribute are welcomed.

You are encourage to show up

With an open heart, open mind, and open will

Open to possibility, discovery, connection

With a sense of celebration for the work that has been accomplished

Ready to see what is ready to emerge

Everyone is invited! Bring a Friend! No RSVP required.

Through intention and social innovation, Compassionate Louisville creates

and celebrates a community and world becoming more and more compassionate.

The mission of the Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville is to

Thursday, September 10 from 6 - 8:30pm
The Olmsted (3701 Frankfort Avenue).

Tuesday, September 22nd at 7 pm
at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church

The Story of Animas:

There are many stories of Animas, each inspired and limited by its narrator's perspective, purpose, and audience. The particular story that follows is one of my versions, crafted for the purpose of describing, briefly, for a general audience, the origins of the maps, models, and principles by which the Animas guides navigate while guiding the descent to soul. One of the other stories of Animas would highlight the vital contributions of the dozens of imagineers who collectively have made Animas what it is today. That story is a much longer one.

This story begins with my first four-day vision fast, in 1980, at 11,000 feet in a glacier-carved granite gorge in the late summer mountains of northern Colorado, self-guided but with the invaluable support of a handbook written by two of my teachers, Steven Foster and Meredith  Little. There, among untamed lakes, streams, and summits, Mystery asked that I learn to weave cocoons of transformation for my people (from caterpillar adolescence to butterfly adulthood), and a dream suggested the Animas Valley of southwest Colorado as the place to make my home and to begin my real work. So I did. Both. I had recently completed a year of post-doctoral training as a holistic and transpersonal psychotherapist after having abandoned my promising but brief career as a university-based research psychologist studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. Following my time on the mountain, I was a nearly penniless but enraptured wanderer with a vision, youth, and a destiny. (This part of the story is recounted more fully as the prologue to Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche.)

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