What you will receive:

• 1:1 and group, facilitation and leadership skills rooted in Nature-Informed Leadership
• Rich understanding of biographical patterns that inform your vision
• Land-based community and culture building theories, models, and experience
• Relational practices you can bring into personal and professional relationships
• A learning community to grow within
• Wilderness skills such as shelter, fire, tracking, herbalism, and awareness
• Practice in ecological restoration, permaculture, agroforestry, and natural building 
• A holistic set of skills to fortify your capacity to live you vision in the world

Each intensive has elements from all intensives, providing a holistic approach and spaciousness to integrate all lessons and practices. 

It is a core belief at Great Earth School that to help one bring their gift to the world it is necessary to learn the skills of participating with the natural world through a gestalt of skills that bring the holy into the material world.  For this reason, with every internal skill and practice, there is an associated physical skill. 

What is Nature-Informed Leadership?

Darren Silver, MA

Source & Lead Instructor

Elias Serras

Student Mentor & Instructor

Joe Bob Merritt

Esoteric Teachings

Joe Bob Merritt is an Artkitect, a Psychedelic Cowboy, a Meaning Maker, a SpiritUallMattereAllistic Propagator of Psycheteknical Curriculums and a Developer of Psyborganic Culture in Service of the ReMemesis at Hand. Joe Bob specializes in drawing maps of The Machine which are proven to be useful to those whom have found themselves residing therein and subsequently decided to move towards the exit and enter into the work of consciously contributing to the development of human consciousness in service to the Hol of Life.  More of Joe Bob's work can be found here: http://josephrobertmerritt.com/

Ginny Jordan

Dream Work

Ginny Jordan, MFA is a writer, environmental activist, film producer, and dream therapist. She co-founded Street Business School, a non-profit organization dedicated to end generational poverty by empowering women as entrepreneurs. The project is now in twenty- five countries around the world. She co- produced the award-winning climate change films Chasing Coral and The Human Element.  She also sits on the Board of the Cricket Island Foundation funding youth led social change projects in New York city, Chicago and New Orleans. She recently joined an advisory group for the Biodiversity Narrative Project, a movement building initiative that uses the power of story as an agent of personal and cultural change.

Ginny has a special love for the dream life and has led dream groups for the past thirty years.

Ginny lives on thirty-five acres outside Boulder, Colorado which to her great delight she shares with owls, bobcats, eagles, kingfishers, bull snakes, bears and the occasional mountain lion. Ginny is a mother of three and a grandmother of five.

Dayna Seraye   

Authentic Relating and Transformational Leadership

Dayna Seraye is a teacher and facilitator of personal transformation, guiding individuals and teams to greater awareness, resilience and connection. She is a Senior Course Leader and Director of Leadership and Facilitator Training for ART International where she educates and trains participants in the skills of authentic relating, emergent leadership and group facilitation. She also works with individuals and couples in her Relational Coaching practice to uncover and heal relational blindspots, amplify conscious communication and transform conflict into intimacy and connection. A student and teacher of yoga and integrative healing for over two decades, Dayna has led retreats, trainings and immersions around the world and has taught internationally at renown conferences and festivals. She now offers yoga and meditation online at gaia.com where she synthesizes her passions for self care, evolution and healing into digestible practices for people on the go. Her passion is to co-create regenerative communities and cultures where humans live in right relationship with the earth and interconnectivity with all of life.

     Joshua Paquette    

Herbalism

Joshua holds certification in herbalism from the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism (NAIMH), as well as from the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. He began his formal study of the natural world in 2005 at the University of Maine, Orono where he was introduced to the craft of environmental education. Since then he has had the opportunity to work with some outstanding botanists and herbalists in the field. His time with Howie Brounstein and Steven Yeager at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, Oregon has enlivened his passion for botany, ecology, and wildcrafting ethics. His studies with Paul Bergner at The North American Institute of Medical Herbalism in Boulder, Colorado revealed the powers of vitalism as a therapeutic approach to healing as well as a way of living—namely, that our body's innate intelligence does much of work, one has only to encourage the flames a bit and step out of the way (which is much more challenging than it sounds).

Joshua teaches classes on field botany, wildcrafting ethics, herbalism, myth and story. He is a core faculty member at Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism (CSCH) in Lafayette, Colorado, where he teaches botany, nutrition, herbalism, and natural therapeutics. His other time is spent operating a small carpentry remodeling business called Redstone Woodwork, LLC out Boulder, CO. Some of his thoughts and writings can be found his personal blog: www.makehasteslowly.org

David & Lila Tresemer

Relationship & Vision

David Tresemer, Ph.D. (Harvard, Psychology) is the founder of the StarHouse in Boulder, Colorado, and the developer of the Solar Cross system for the “star poem” qualities of each of the 360 zodiacal degrees. He has been an organic/biodynamic farmer and written The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains with Hand Tools, which has sold a thousand copies every year for forty years. He is the author of articles in psychology, also editor and contributor to The Counselor… As If Soul and Spirit Matter, and the past president of the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology. He has written Star Wisdom & Rudolf Steiner, and says two of his joys are partnering with Lila and taking people on the journey of the double-tetrahedron.

Lila Sophia Tresemer, co-Founder of The StarHouse in Boulder, with David, her life-partner of 30 years. Lila is a group facilitator, certified mediator, author, ceremonialist, and minister. She co-created a ground-breaking program called Women of Vision in Israel/Palestine between 2004-2012 and now leads tours to Washington, D.C. to engage with the archetypes of the Feminine. She produces programs for sacred living and remembrance online and onsite at the StarHouse. Lila is dedicated to building a global community, honoring the Feminine in Sacred Union and balance with the Masculine.. Her current passion is weaving a living network for the Lineage of Sophia for men and women around the world who are seeking to reconnect with Sacred Earth Activism and spiritual practices that matter and transform in these astonishing times.

Kat Mackinnon

Herbalism

Most of Kat's work is as a teacher and a clinician, and she approaches both of those things from a Vitalist perspective. This is a belief that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us, and that this is in fact what are constantly in communication with and in service of.

Kat a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist, as well as a certified Bach essences practitioner through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where she studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition.

She is also a Registered Herbalist through the American Herbalists Guild. She currently works at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in Lafayette, CO in the capacity of Clinical Program Director, as well as primary faculty for the Fundamentals, Advanced, and Botany programs.  In between those things, she holds intensives on wild foods, medicine making and botany, teaches at various other schools, conferences, and apothecaries, in addition to her clinical practice.

Though a transplant from the East Coast, Kat has a passion for bioregional herbalism, so in the past 10 years she has developed particular love for working with herbs of the Colorado Plateau. She began her formal career with plants by studying forestry at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, AZ, and the plants, animals, and incredible harsh beauty of the Southwest have been one of the great loves of her life ever since.

Her other interests include poetry, ancestral skills, gardening, and delighting in the the beauty of the natural world.

     Nico Kladis   

Threshold Guide

Nico is a threshold guide and somatic psychotherapist walking the edges of what it means to be fully human while living and dying well. Nico is immersed in culturally responsive change work for the co-liberation of ourselves, each other and the more than human world. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Port Townsend WA (s'Klallam/ChimakumTerritory)

     Tony Troia   

Regenerative Design

Tony Troia is a gardener, builder, beekeeper and yogi who is propelled by one thing: beauty. He acquired a steep acre of land in Western NC immediately after earning an ENVS degree from Western State University (Colorado). As a child, Tony was restless; often asking, “Why is the world the way that it is?” It took decades to satisfy the question. For 17 year’s Tony has experimented with a plethora of plant species and regenerative design; transforming a clay hillside into a resilient perennial polyculture. Through sensorial learning Tony has deepened his connection to, and understanding of local ecological process (ecology). He’s the co-creator of Red Sun Tea where Camelia sinensis is hand picked and processed into red tea. He starred in three seasons of Nationally Geographic’s “Live Free or Die”.

     Nala Walla    

Grief and Ancestral Healing

From her handbuilt earthen sanctuary at the edge of the woods, Nala has been cultivating the old-tyme “wisewoman" skills for decades.  Weaving Griefwork and Ancestral Healing, Nala moves us beyond the psychological, and into the realm of Ritual.   She specializes in helping people who feel rootless, culturally orphaned, and spiritually homeless reclaim our birthright of belonging to our own ancestors.  Through a deeply somatic and liberatory approach towards deconstructing whiteness, we become more rooted in relationship with who we come from, and the lands we where we live.

Nala is director of "The Well, An Oasis for Animist Ritual," supporting innovative ways of restoring grieving and lamentation culture from around the world. For 25 years, she has been tending the lands and waters of her permaculture homestead, both physically and ritually. Hands in the soil, she is honored to practice a low-tech, ecosomatic lifestyle on an Island beside the Salish Sea, in Washington USA -- the traditional lands of the Chimacum and S’Klallam people.