October 4, 2025
3:00-5:00pm
Hartford International University
76 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT
On the feast day of St. Francis, in the heart of the Jewish Days of Awe and the Muslim month of Rabi’ al-Thani, and tipping toward the great Celtic feast of Samhain, humans of all ages, all backgrounds and traditions, are invited into a Wild Sanctuary: a new circle of Earth love and spiritual immersion in the wild.
Join for a time of welcome, centering, and invitations out into the riparian woods along the Park River (or the campus grounds). Through it all, participants will cultivate deepening presence to one another, to the Sacred/Wild, to our own hearts, and to the world in all its beauty, complexity, need, and kinship with us.
Lisa Dahill is Miriam Therese Winter Professor of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality at HIU and director of the Center for Transformative Spirituality. She is a scholar, teacher, and lover of eco-spirituality in diverse forms across religious traditions and in many wild contexts, bioregions, and waterways.
Erik Assadourian is founder and director of the Gaian Way (gaianway.org), an ecospirituality organization working to heal humans' relationship with the living Earth we're part of and utterly depend on. He is also a sustainability researcher and has been studying the sustainability crisis and a variety of solutions for the past 20+ years.
Sponsored by HIU’s Center for Transformative Spirituality and The Gaian Way.
Event will take place rain or shine. In case of rain, we will meet indoors but will still go out for a contemplative wander of around 20 minutes – bring appropriate shoes and clothing for the weather.