Victoria Loorz

Convener & Host

Victoria's passion to reconnect people with the sacred wild guides her work as a Wild Church leader, an Eco-Spiritual Director, founder & director of the Center for Wild Spirituality (aka Seminary of the Wild) and co-founder of the ecumenical Wild Church Network.  Her book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, is an invitation to deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it--and calling it church. She is committed to the collaborative emergence of a new way of being human with a wild spirituality.

Diarmuid O'Murchu,

ReWilding Spirituality Guide

Irish theologian Diarmuid O'Murchu, author of 20+ books including Quantum Theology and the upcoming Ecological Spirituality, is a social psychologist and priest residing now in Dublin. He calls his adult theological perspective a "re-discovery" of the Celtic spirituality he was taught as a child, which stressed a deep connection between God and nature. As O'Murchu began to read Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry, their emphasis on the sacredness of the earth resonated with him and he began to articulate his own theology.  

Seán Ó Gaoithín

ReWilding Earth Guide

Seán is a hedge druid who has had a deep connection with and respect for nature since childhood. He is master gardener at Glenveagh National Forest in Donegal Ireland, with keen interest in growing native trees, bio-dynamics, and foraging medicinal wild plants. He practices Gaia Touch Dialogue with landscape angels and nature spirits and is a follower of the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn. Much of his journey has been focused Cultural Memory Recovery - the search for an authentic indigenous spirituality. He lives on the Irish coast near Falcarragh.

Dr. Craig Chalquist

ReWilding Self Guide

Craig is a professor and prolific author, who writes and teaches at the intersection of psyche, story, and imagination, with one foot in the academy and the other in the world. As a loreologist, Craig provides resources for exploring the limits and possibilities of the personal and collective stories that can reconnect us with the living Earth. Craig has been professor, provost, and dean for several depth psychology higher ed institutes. He sees his work in the world in service to creating and supporting the sustainable, just, and delightful communities of belonging.

Valerie Serrels

ReWilding Rituals

Valerie is co-founder and current director of the Wild Church Network, founder/spiritual leader of Shenandoah Valley Church of the Wild, and an eco-spiritual director. She loves helping people see their own potential to live a soul-centric life, in deep connection with the rest of the living world. From a Celtic cosmology, she creates rituals and ceremonies that expand our capacity to enter into sacred conversation.