Awakening to Your True Nature

with Gary Ferguson & Mary M. Clare
Saturday, November 21st from 1:00 to 5:00 pm
$118, Sol Center Community Member discount applicable

Full Ecology is Mary & Gary’s celebration of the wild and wonderful fact that each of us is truly nature in nature. Through the lens of Full Ecology they facilitate explorations of how we can rebuild our capacity for living from the inside out by tending to the lessons and orientations of the natural world. This capacity and its expression are our True Nature. In our time together we’ll consider each of 8 superpowers of the natural world: Connection, Diversity, Feminine/Masculine balance, Relatives, Efficiency, Resilience, Elderhood, Uncertainty. With this exploration, we’ll come more deeply to understand how these superpowers are in us, too.

To make all of this more real, we’ll add consideration of each of the 4 orientations: Stop, Ask, Act, Inspire. To ground this in our bodies, we’ll take a silent walk to a nearby park opening to the lessons and orientations found there. Throughout, participants will be engaged in small and whole-group exchanges to build meaning together. Much in the way the natural world is ever and always a wondrous symphony of input from all being.

Join us for this powerful day of connection, community, active hope, and wisdom.

Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson have each dedicated more than thirty years to exploring the world’s social and natural ecologies- Clare as a graduate professor of psychology and education, Ferguson as a nature and conservation—science writer.  Their individual work has now come together in Full Ecology, a movement devoted to the idea that we can best serve both the natural and human world by reclaiming our human nature.  Clare is a fellow in the American Psychological Association, and with her PhD in psychological and cultural studies she has published two books.  Ferguson is an award-winning and internationally recognized author of twenty-six books, most recently The Carry Home and The Eight Master Lessons of Nature. When not on the road or in the wilderness, the couple live in Bozeman, Montana.