Earth Calling is one to one, sacred space for you to delve into your deepest dreams for how you show up in the world.
“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.”
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.
What and Who are Earth Calling Experiences For?
Earth Calling sessions are deep discernment and healing experiences. 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 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 want to make a signficant change, have a transition coming up, or are seeking healing from a painful experience, for example.
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?
How do the Experiences Work?
Part of the experience is in the discerning together what it is you actually need at this moment in time. We’ll meet several times to understand together where you are, where you have been, and where you want to travel to. We’ll then co-design an experience that can support you through this moment.
Often, this act of really taking time to listen to what you need is in itself a transformative experience.
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…
Deep Listening.
It is extraordinary how powerful it can be to simply have ourselves witnessed by a compassionate other. We all need spaces where we can come as we are. Some Earth Calling sessions may specifically include a coaching element also where we will unlock, through questions and deep listening, your truest answers to what you are working through.
Ritual & Ceremony.
Alter building and working with symbols of each of the four elements (earth, wind, fire and water) are two ways in which we might incorporate ritual and ceremony into your experience. These intuitive and creative expressions, used by humans since the beginning of our existance, free us from our thinking minds and enable us to access the deepest and wisest parts of ourselves.
Grief Tending.
In grief tending we allow ourselves to break open, rather than trying to hold it all together. We let go and are put back together differently; the cracks are still there, but now the light can shine through again. My grief training lineage includes two teachers; the late Joanna Macy and the gifts she brought to us through The Work That Reconnects, and Malidoma Somé who brought West African grief tending wisdom to colonising countries to help us better deal with our pain.
Nature Connection.
Nature can be one of our greatest allies on our journey through life if we know how to listen. This wonderful card deck by Tending to Endings is one example of how we might work with the wisdom of nature; each card contains a different ‘ending’ to be found in nature, and what we might learn from that as we navigate other endings in our lives. Other nature connection practices include sit spots, facilitated ‘conversations’ with nature, and learning to read nature omens when they cross our path
Energy Medicine.
This is where the sessions can get a little ‘woo’! If you feel called to integrate energy medicine into your experience we might adventure together in Reiki, for example, which is a Japanese practice to channel, unblock and balance energy. As part of this work we might also delve into your unconsious through dream or waking vision work. Or, more conventionally but no less powerfully, we might explore how gentle movement, such as dance, might unlock and heal what needs to flow within you.
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.