Seminary of the Wild Earth: Year Two
Wild Call Fellowship
Stepping into the Call of the Holy Wild
Continuing the Seminary of the Wild Earth journey
The vows made at the end of the first year of Seminary of the Wild Earth to serve the Wild and the Holy mark a threshold crossing. You have recognized that your voice, your presence, and your gifts are being called into service to reweave humanity back into the sacred web of interconnection. The calling has been heard; now begins the work of bringing it into reality.
Year One was a journey of personal rewilding, a necessary foundation of reconnection and belonging. Year Two is the support system to embody the "living offering" that emerges from that belonging. It is a dedicated space to midwife your unique call into a tangible, vocational form.
Leading from the Wild Edge
A new kind of spiritual leadership is needed. Throughout history, in times of great transition, ordinary people have been called into service by Mystery and the Earth herself. This call begins with a beckoning into the wilderness. The wisdom and courage we need will meet us there. The "knowing" required for this moment is less of the mind and more of a deeper intuitive sense, accessing a greater intelligence at work in both the material and invisible worlds.
The Wild Call Fellowship offers the scaffolding, support, and community of practice needed to integrate the wisdom of the wilderness into your life's work. Rather than a template or fixed path, this is a creative and emergent container. It is a sacred space to listen, imagine, and weave your vocation into form.
This program is available for all graduates of any cohort of Seminary of the Wild/Earth
Year One: Foundation
The path begins with Seminary of the Wild Earth. This foundational year-long journey is designed to deepen your own eco-spirituality and connection to the Place you inhabit.
It is a space of deep inner work within a circle of wider belonging, an invitation to enter into conversation with the land.
Through regular wandering with the land, wild practices and resources, shared ritual, guided council groups, and a cohort of support, you cultivate the nourishing roots required for the vocational work ahead.
Year Two: Vocation
This elective second-year journey is focused on the outward expression of your inner rewilding. The Wild Call Fellowship provides a dedicated scaffolding of support and guidance as you integrate the wisdom of the wilderness into your life's work.
It is a creative and emergent container—a sacred space to midwife your unique calling into a tangible form as a "living offering" to your community
Through a seasonal rhythm of study, peer-led councils, and a supportive fellowship of practitioners, you cultivate the confidence and skill required to lead others into deeper relationship with the Holy Wild.
"Once I was able to see with the eyes of the mystic and rely on my own inner authority to know the undeniable presence of the sacred in the natural world, I began to see a third way. The polarities of nature and spirituality gave way to a new vision that sought to include the riches of my religious tradition but transcend the distortions."
Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild
A Vocation of Radical Reconnection
Vocation: n. Voice - from Vocaré: "to Call"
A "Wild Call" is not a career path in the traditional sense. It is a sacred invitation to listen for how the longings of your soul and the voice of the Holy Wild want to take shape through your specific life. Entering into this second-year journey is a recognition of a persistent stirring—a "knowing" that is less of the mind and more of a deeper intuitive sense.
In this "time between stories," we recognize that the old models of success and leadership are unraveling. You may not be sure what your path looks like yet, but you can feel the holy wild beckoning. This year is a dedicated space to midwife that call into a tangible "living offering" rooted in the understanding that your work, your story, and your place are deeply interconnected.
You are likely already doing work that is aligned with the vision of sacred reconnection. And now you are ready to take the next step in integrating wild spirituality into everything you do. This fellowship equips you to tap into your inner authority, deepen into your mythopoetic story, and make your unique vision a reality.
This is work of radical reconnection. It is a process of listening for the voices of the more-than-human others, and trusting these sacred voices to guide your work with other humans. Whether you are an artist, an architect, a therapist, a chef, or a gardener, this fellowship affirms your calling to lead people into a deeper intimacy with the Earth.
When you say yes to this journey, it is with the understanding that the Wild is the guide. The living world is the teacher, the confidant, and the catalyst. You are not becoming a "guru" or new form of "nature priest," (unless that's what you are called to!) you are rewilding who you already are into the form of eco-spiritual companionship that is unique to you.
At the core, this work is about availing yourself
and others to the guidance of wild mystery.
What this looks like in practice is up to you. The discipline is emerging. The unknowns leave room for creativity. Many wildly creative eco-spiritual integrations have emerged from the wild seminary so far: from gathering people monthly for a wild church experience to women's moon-rhythm sessions to Celtic quarterholiday celebrations, to writing books and articles to working 1:1 with people wanting to rewild their parenting, to walking with people in monthly small groups and blessing sites that have been damaged, to bringing relational eco-spiritual practices into institutional or local community situations. (see the growing Directory for other examples)
Whatever particular form emerges, what is held in common is the sense of acting in service to the wild earth, and of bringing the vision of kinship and belonging into the greater world. By the end of the program, you will feel ready to embody your particular "vocation" to lead others into sacred reconnection in whatever way you are called.
The Skills of Wild Leadership
This fellowship equips you with the resources and tools to facilitate radical reconnection. You will develop the capacity to:
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Trust the Wild Voice: Recognize and honor your calling, gifts and knowing, aligning your work with the rhythms and intelligence of the living earth.
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Facilitate Sacred Conversation: Lead relational eco-spiritual practices that invite others to enter into direct, experiential dialogue with the more-than-human world.
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Hold Ritual and Ceremony: Create and facilitate transformative thresholds in collaboration with the land and the seasons.
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Navigate the Heartbreak: Provide safe, sturdy containers for processing climate grief and eco-anxiety within a culture of separation.
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Support Diverse Belonging: Accompany people from across spiritual and cultural backgrounds as they navigate their unique journey to belonging to Earth.
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Bring your Vision to Life: Weaving the threads of your life, longings, and gifts with the particularities of your place and your people, you'll feel ready to step into your own wild and precious call of the holy wild.
The Rhythm of the Year
The year moves through a lived rhythm of listening, experimenting, and embodying. This approach recognizes that life-giving work is not "planned"—it is grown through relationship, iterative learning, and a deep conversation with the land.
Module One:
Naming the Call
You begin by tracing the threads of your own aliveness, grief, and belonging. Through storytelling, wild wandering, and collective procesing, you move beyond "what you do" toward who you are created to be. This is a process of naming the core questions that have been whispering to you, weaving together your unique skills and vision in relationship with your place, your cohort, and your community.
Module Two:
Experimentation
Now you begin to bring your core questions into the world through small, real-world experiments. This is a season of creative trial, a time to test the resonance of your calling in the soil of real places. Whether through a new project, a refined professional practice, or a communal offering, you will explore how your unique gifts meet the longings of your community and watershed. As you experiment, you continue to meet in council for processing, mirroring, and communal affirmation.
Module Three:
Embodying the Vision
This module prepares you for leadership in liminal times, moving from experimentation to intentional form. As your offering begins to take root, the focus shifts to the practical and spiritual architecture required to sustain it. Supported by the wisdom of the circle, you will navigate the complexities of boundaries, visibility, and your relationship with the material world. This is a time to cultivate the resilience and integrity needed to carry your work forward as a lasting presence in a shifting world.
Program Elements:
Guides & Curriculum
Monthly "Seedings" are live online gatherings facilitated by a circle of Wild Guides, including CWS founder Victoria Loorz and guest "wild luminaries"—professors, practitioners, and authors who have dedicated their lives to reconciling nature and spirituality. While the path includes readings from contemporary thought leaders, the curriculum prioritizes non-linear ways of knowing: the embodied, imaginal, creative, and poetic. This is a practice of sacred conversation—with the land, the lineage, and each other.
Mentoring Support
The Fellowship is grounded in relationship: with the land, the Holy, and one another. More than just knowledgeable facilitators, your Guides are a dedicated circle of earth mystics deeply committed to the unfolding of your particular call.
You will receive monthly one-on-one sessions with a Guide to tend the fire of your vocational journey. Through their respectful, generative tracking, these sessions both support your individual path and model the art of soulful spiritual accompaniment.
Feedback Sessions
These sessions are a communal sounding board for your calling. As you move your vision into the world, you will meet regularly to share your emerging offerings—receiving the mirroring, encouragement, and real-time feedback needed to refine your craft.
These are robust conversations of inquiry into a living field of practice. By learning from one another’s experiments and the lessons of the land, you will build a shared compendium of rituals, questions, and invitations.
Practicum
This work is learned by doing, and the fellowship is grounded in practice. You will gain experience bringing your wild vision to life within your own community, as well as in collaborative sessions with your peers.
Throughout the year, you will meet in a small kinship council to practice the art and skills of wild leadership with the gentle support of your circle. This is your dedicated space for real-world application—stepping across the threshold from student to practitioner and applying your unique gifts to the soil of your specific place.
Weaving Your Vision into Reality
Upon completion of the fellowship, you will be equipped with the experience and resources needed to serve your community with deep integrity. Throughout the year, you will tend a project that weaves together your unique gifts, your deeper calling, and the specific needs of the land you inhabit.
This "living offering" becomes a tangible expression of your vocation. You will share the story of this work during the Wild Ordination ceremony as we gather in person, leaving the fellowship ready to confidently step across the threshold and into your calling.
Wild Ordination Ceremony
Wild Ordination is a ritual of radical commitment. It is a vow of fidelity made not to a human institution, but to your own soul and the Sacred Wild herself. Our journey culminates in an optional five-day in-person gathering, a time of wandering, deep ritual, and communal witnessing as you present your "living offering" to the world. Through the ceremony of Wild Ordination, we ritually mark your "sacred yes" to the unique calling you are carrying into a world in transition. (Note: the in-person experience is optional and carries an additional cost. Those who can't make it will still be Wildly Ordained virtually.)
