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To experience wonder is your birthright - even if not especially in times of challenge and change. For a fleeting moment with rippling effects, wonder is the one surprising human experience that dissolves our biases so we can see the beauty and possibility of ourselves, one another, and our world more clearly. Wonder cracks us open.
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Class description
To experience wonder is your birthright - even if not especially in times of challenge and change. For a fleeting moment with rippling effects, wonder is the one surprising human experience that dissolves our biases so we can see the beauty and possibility of ourselves, one another, and our world more clearly. Wonder cracks us open.
In the Tracking Wonder Immersive, you will foster these experiences so every day you can live more creatively, build your resilience, and deepen your connections. This immersive experience seamlessly interweaves mini-presentations in psychology, outdoor and indoor tracking wonder experiences, the use of the Tracking Wonder Journal, creative writing and personal exploration exercises, small-group and dyad sharing, and whole group appreciations.
Surprises are part of the package.
These tools and practices stem from Jeffrey Davis’s fifteen-plus years of deliberately tracking wonder; interviewing psychologists and other innovators; assimilating his trainings in Yoga and Zen Buddhism; working with entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, and spiritual seekers of all backgrounds; and parenting two astonishing young daughters.
THREE THINGS RETREAT GUESTS WILL WALK AWAY WITH UPON RETREAT COMPLETION:
Live more creatively - Discover how to frame every day as a creative quest that stokes your curiosity and insight. You will trace your unique force of character that has been with you since your best childhood days. You are a wonder.
Build your resilience - Learn how to “fertilize confusion,” doubt, and uncertainty as opportunities for creative, personal, and spiritual growth.
Deepen your connections - Experience with others how to dissolve your unconscious judgments, open up your mind, and practice the art of appreciation.
Attending this summer retreat will renew your creative spirit, while you experience Wild Rice Retreat’s brand new and modern Scandinavian- style lodging nestled in a hundred acre wood, and complete with sauna, walking trails and fresh locally sourced meals.
biography
Jeffrey Davis is author of Tracking Wonder: The Surprising Path to Deep Purpose, Connection, and Fulfillment (forthcoming 2021, Sounds True), the poetry collection Coat Thief (St. Julian’s Press), and The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing (Monkfish Publishing; Penguin Putnam).
As a speaker, teacher, and founder of Tracking Wonder Consultancy, he has traveled widely to share his teachings on creative fulfillment, impactful work, and the beauty of living your own story with integrity.
Through the Tracking Wonder Podcast, Jeffrey interviews creative innovators, scientists, and social psychologists to discover how innovators flourish in times of challenge and change. He also writes for outlets such as Psychology Today online and is on faculty at Insight Timer, the world’s largest meditation app. He was trained in Yoga in Chennai, South India with his teacher Sri TKV Desikachar and was a resident at the Zen Mountain Monastery. His work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Poets & Writers, Best Self Magazine, and elsewhere.
He lives and creates in the Hudson Valley of New York in an 1850 farmhouse with his wife, their two daughters, and their dog and gecko. They teach him every day.
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Supply List
- A notebook and pen
- Walking shoes
- A digital camera
