What and Who are Earth Calling Experiences For?
Earth Calling sessions are deep discernment and healing experiences, either as a one off session or on an ongoing basis. They can be for anyone, but have a particular focus on people who would identify in some way as an activist or changemaker.
By taking a deep dive into the heart of how things are for you at the moment, we’ll discover the resources, guidance and direction you need for what’s ahead. They are ideal if you are recovering from burnout, want to make a significant change, have a transition coming up, or are seeking healing from a painful experience.
It could be that you hope to leave your current work and want to know where to go next, or you’re about to start a transition, such as beginning or ending maternity leave. Perhaps you’re burned out and want to find a different way of working, or you’ve had a painful experience that you’re struggling to move forward from. Maybe you are stuck with a project and are looking for inspiration.
Some of the questions we might explore together might include…
I’m feeling restless, stuck or exhausted, what are my next steps?
Am I really doing what I believe in?
I believe in this so much, why can’t I find a way through with it?
Why doesn’t this work feel like I hoped it would?
Where’s the space for me in all of this I’m doing?
I got burned by a bad experience, how do I move forward?
How can I ready myself for what’s ahead?
Free from our ‘shoulds’ and ‘ought tos’, we’ll give voice to the dormant, untapped or timid parts of yourself that hold answers to questions you might not even know you’re holding about the work you do in the world.
Earth Calling Coaching Sessions are one to one, sacred space for you to delve into your deepest dreams for how you show up in the world.
Creative coaching. Rites of passage. Nature connection. Grief tending. Movement medicine.
And more.
Sessions are usually help online. Based in Sheffield? Find out about my in person work here.
“I can’t even put into words how beautiful this was. These sessions are something radically powerful, the beginning of a true transformative moment for me.”
What Might an Earth Calling Experience Look Like?
Every Earth Calling experience is different because each one is individual to the person experiencing it.
There are a pretty much infinite number of resources we can call on to craft an experience that will meet you as you need to be met, however are some examples of practices we might incorporate…
Presencing.
I am a coach with over 10 years of experience in facilitating human processes that bring us into true presence with ourselves and each other. Out of our experiences of being deeply witnessed, perhaps for the first time in what feels like forever, can come the courage to bring forth what truly wishes to be born within us.
Ritual & Ceremony.
These intuitive and creative expressions, used by humans since the beginning of our existence, free us from our thinking minds, enabling us to access the deepest and wisest parts of ourselves. Rites of passage can be the anchors that many of us have found to be missing as we seek to navigate the challenges presented to us in our journey through life.
Grief Tending.
In grief tending— tending to our grief as we would lovingly tend a garden— we break open rather than trying to hold it all together. We are put back together differently, more expansively. The cracks are still there, but now the light can shine through again. My grief tending training lineage includes Joanna Macy and Malidoma Somé.
Nature Connection.
In Earth Calling sessions we come back home to the land, to our home, our original birthplace. We learn how to reconnect deeply with that which sustains all life; the more-than-human world, one of our greatest allies in all we hope to realise in life.
Energy Medicine.
I am trained in Reiki, which is a Japanese practice to unblock and rebalance energy. We might also delve into dream or waking vision work, explore gentle movement, such as dance, or draw on singing and storytelling to release what might feel stuck within us.
My Training Lineage
I am familiar with both Christian and Buddhist ways of meaning making in the world, having completed a six month spiritual growth and transformation course with the Diocese of Sheffield, and a week long intensive training at Plum Village in embodied Buddhism, specifically in relation to environmental work. I am trained to offer the Japanese energy healing practice, Reiki, which also heavily influences my work alongside ancient spiritual practices such as dreamwork, folklore, myth and legend, and ritual.
My grief tending training lineage includes an apprenticing to grief training with Sophie Banks, who herself trained under Malidoma and Subonfu Somé; spiritual teachers from the Dagara Tribe in Burkina Faso. I am also heavily influenced by Active Hope at the work of eco-philosopher and activist Joanna Macy.
I am trained as a nature connection facilitator with the fabulous Change in Nature, and some of my other trainings include coaching with The Coaching Academy, authentic relating with ART International, charity leadership with NCVO, and Internal Family Systems with the IFS Institute.
Interested? Book a free, half hour discovery call with me to explore how I can support you.
Earth Calling sessions are currently offered on a sliding payment scale. To express your interest in a session or ask any questions, please get in touch using the form below.
I’m Jo Musker-Sherwood (she/her); culture worker, mother and deeply feeling human. Drawing especially on the wisdom of grief tending practices, nature/ body connection, and radical governance practices, for example, I help activists find their most powerful and authentic way of turning up to the work that is there’s to do in the world. Read more.
