E.33 - Into Your Wilderness Quest with Karen Gordon
Summary
Karen’s journey started in her bedroom window where one day the forest was there and then another day the forest was gone. This left a mark in her. When she was older she decided to study Biology and she focused her work on landscape restoration. This work led her to Monteverde in Costa Rica, a place she fell in love with. However, her big shift was when her son was born and she had a realization that what needed deeper restoration were our human inner landscapes. She jumped in deep into this work.
Now she guides people to be their own inner naturalists using the metaphors of the wise Mother Earth, using an ancient rite of passage ceremony, the wilderness quest, a ceremony that has been practiced by all cultures. We all have ancestors that practiced wilderness quests. We are all indigenous to this Earth and through her, we gain deep wisdom into our life mission and into our medicine. Karen guides us in our Mytho-Poetic-Journey of life.
Karen’s Credentials:
BS Biology
MA Educational Leadership
Postgrad Diploma in Spiritual Direction, emphasis in Ecotherapy
Wilderness Rites of Passage guide & facilitator, trained at School of Lost Borders
Founder of the Center for Sacred Ecology based in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Land steward at Samanea Nature Sanctuary and Farm