Tending our relationship with the natural world.
What We Are Learning
What began as a seed of an idea is growing. Weekly, we are receiving contributions of earth gratitude from individuals and groups across the globe. As we anticipated, the power of the Gratitude Practice is magnified when used in groups. Educators, facilitators and community members are sharing the insights and leaning that are catalyzed when curiosity and conversation is invited into the collective.
Scroll down, for examples of how together we are exploring what individuals hold sacred within their communities, how it makes them feel and how they tend and nurture their relationships with the natural world.
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The following invocations were created by the One Sacred Earth project using gratitude submission, with permission, from across the globe. On occasion, to create a flow and sense of consistency, words may have been slightly altered, added, or omitted. These are but one version. Please reach out or use our facilitator guide for more information.
College Assignment
Duluth, MN
Every year a local private colleges hosts an annual Peace and Justice Lecture series. Prior to one lecture that focused on Rights of Nature students were invited to share their gratitude and ways in which they tend their relationships with nature. The submissions were aggregated into an invocation and read by the students, to the audience, as images were displayed on the screen. The following is their invocation.
Dinner Gathering
Duluth, MN
Through email, prior to dinner, guests were invited to share an important relationship with the natural world and why it was important. They were invited to keep their contributions confidential. These were curated and prior to dinner, going around in a circle, guests read the anonymized contributions in order. By chance, some read their own contributions. These are the relationships guests shared...
Community College Assignment
Duluth, MN
Professor at local community college assigned the relationship survey to his students asking them submit their responses after a short outdoor walk. Responses were curated into an invocation, read by the class, followed by a facilitated conversation.
Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Earth Week 2020
Global
AIHM invited members and their community to participate in developing a Earth Week Gratitude Invocation. This is what they created
One Sacred Earth Day 2020 (audio file)
Global
The One Sacred Earth Day 2020 Gratitude is an audio file complication of earth gratitude submitted from across the globe to the One Sacred Earth Project. Take a listen! The gratitudes were read by Rosie Loeffler-Kemp, Janet Howard, Naomi Sundog Yaeger-Bischoff, Jamie Harvie, Jesse Dykhuis and Quanita Roberson from locations across the United States.
Psychedelic Research and Training Institute Invocation (2021)
Global
The One Sacred Earth Project partnered with the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute and collected gratitude submissions from their training program alumni. The following invocation was used at various trainings to support PRATI's organizational purpose Reconnecting to the Sacred: Self, Community, Nature and Spirit. Artwork designed by faculty member Christine Pateros RN.
Earth Day 2020 Gratitude
The One Sacred Earth Day 2020 Gratitude is an audio complication of earth gratitudes submitted from across the globe to the One Sacred Earth Project. The gratitudes were read by Rosie Loeffler-Kemp, Janet Howard, Naomi Sundog Yaeger-Bischoff, Jamie Harvie, Jesse Dykhuis and Quanita Roberson from locations across the United States.