Dates: 15 -16 Feb, 22-23 March, 10-11 May, 2025

Location: KenKon in Wageningen, Netherlands

Are you curious to explore how to lead or navigate life from an awareness of interconnectedness?

Do you want to learn to nourish and strengthen inner resources to have more resilience and creative power to face the mess we're in and contribute to a life-sustaining society?

Are you seeking a community that holds space to share our humanness, places life at the center of our existence and emphasises including the more-than-human world in what ever we do?

Spiritual Ecology starts with the acknowledgement that the global ecological crisis, which cannot be separated from the social, economic and political crises, is also the defining crisis of the human species. We are being challenged as a species, to ‘grow up or to get out of the way’, according to Thich Nhat Hanh.

The good news is that the universe is a self-aware creative process, and this pure creative potentiality is in us too. It can awaken and free itself from the limiting identities and illusion of separateness we hold as human beings. We are much larger, stronger, deeper and more creative than we’ve grown accustomed to believing.

This paradigm shift requires of us a decolonizing of our mind, a deeper listening from a more humbled place within how to be a human being for all life to thrive. As my beloved Tibetan Buddhist teacher Akong Rinpoche used to say when travelling with his aid organisation through Tibet, “only the impossible is worth doing”.

With the Core-training we offer a practical and transformative journey both personally and collectively. The Spiritual Ecology practices we offer come from indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, systems theory, neuroscience, Kincentric leadership, the Work that Reconnects, nature connection and engaged mindfulness and compassion practices.

By exploring our experiences inside and in relating to the human and more-than-human world we invite different ways of knowing to access the wisdom in the group. We want to create a space where we can relax, where we can embrace our humanness (being a 'compassionate mess') and support one another in our membership of the group and the larger community of life, finding our own unique part to play in contributing to a better world.

The format

The core-training consists of three times 2-days in-person training (weekends) and two online sessions in between of 1,5 hour.

• Module One - Paradigm Shift

How may we feel a sense of interconnectedness with all beings and weave ourselves back into the web of life? What are ways to strengthen our inner resources like awareness, kindness, joy, strength, compassion & wisdom to build our resilience and creative power?

• Module Two – Radical Presence

How can we grow the courage and inner strength not to turn away from the suffering of our kin, both human and more than human? 

• Module Three – Compassionate Warrior

Does our own decision-making and way-finding transform if we know ourselves to be embedded in a web of more than human relationships? how can you play your own unique part in support of all life on Earth?

Practical details
6 days in person + 2 online sessions
In person: 15 -16 Feb, 22-23 March, 10-11 May 2025, from 10.00 – 17.30
Location: KenKon Training Centre, Nieuwe Kanaal 11, Wageningen.
Online sessions via Zoom: 13th of March & 17th of April 2025 from 19.30 – 21.00 CET. 

Facilitators

Annick Nevejan

Assisted by Ania Ektate and Suzy Rebisz

More information see 'about us' - our team

Group size and fee

We invite everyone who is curious about Spiritual Ecology, and how to integrate it's core-practices in daily life. To ensure a comfortable group size, we can accommodate 20 people in total.

Student fee: with kind support, including from Spectrum and Foundation Otherwise, up to 15 spots are available for students at a reduced fee of € 15, -/per day. The total of all 6 training days + online session for students amounts to €90, to be paid in cash at the first weekend if possible. 

Standard fee: €150, -/per day. The total for non-students amounts to €900. After registering, you will receive an invoice.

All fees includes coffee, tea and lunch on each training day. No VAT is charged by the non-profit Spiritual Ecology Foundation. Registration is confirmed when payment is received (possible to pay in instalments).
We will close our registration once all spots are filled. Full = full, so sign-up on time ;)

Please register before the 1st of February 2025

To nurture a safe and immersive process, we ask participants to fully commit to the whole core-training trajectory.

More information and contact

Check our resources page in this website.
If you have any questions about the training please contact Ania Ektate, see registration form for details

Spiritual Ecology Netherlands offers this Core training in collaboration with Spectrum and OtherWise.