
Education
"Everyone needs a place to retreat; a spot where the world grows quiet enough for the soul to speak."
~Angie Weiland-Crosby
We at Green Terra Sanctuary are called to offer unique workshops and learning programs that allow intimate engagement with the natural world, that stimulate and inform healing the connection between the mind, body, and spirit with the worlds of nature.
Retreat Programs
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Celtic Christianity
We offer programs on Celtic Christianity’s unique ways that Nature can bring us closer to the Divine. (Ask us about resources and practices to help you deepen into this ancient tradition of honoring thresholds, soul friending, blessing each moment, and learning via the heart)
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Wading into the Imaginal Realm
The beauty and quiet of Beaver Island opens up a channel between the celestial and the earthly realms where imaginal awareness arises. (Ask us about resources, opportunities, and practices to wander the woods, sit on the beach, pray with the big rocks, and open your attention to the imaginal realms here at GTS.)
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Wisdom Schools
Week long, in person. There are generally 2 of these weeklong offerings per year. Themes vary each time. Examples include a week launching a year long Celtic practices program, Finding our inner and communal anchor is the chaotic world and Exploring how your unique gifts can be offered to a hungry world. Contact us if you are interested in receiving information on an upcoming Wisdom School opportunity.
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Private Retreats & Sabaticals
Beaver Island is a perfect escape from a crazy world. If you want a private retreat for a week or a 2 month sabbatical, just let us know. We’re happy to work with you to find the right fit.
Discover Ecological Systems
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Discovering Nature's Worlds
Description coming soon.
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Nature & Human Health
We are made and sustained from the Earth. It just makes sense that our health (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) would be intimately tied to our relationship to Nature. If you are interested in the many ways that engaging with Nature can improve your health, let us know. Our property offers beautiful opportunities to walk the forests in what the Japanese have called ‘Forest Bathing’. Plus, we have practices of engaging Nature with art, permaculture, walking meditations, and other practices that we are happy to share with individuals or groups.
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Farming the Forest
Description coming soon.
Community Leadership Programs
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Writing Retreats
For individuals or small groups (less than 10) that want to get away from the hustle and bustle so they can hear their thoughts, Beaver Island has the gift of beauty and quiet to share with you. We offer Wifi, printing, screened in porch with lounge chairs, endless beach rock hunting and infinite skies.
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Dreaming New Worlds Retreats
The forever sky and vast open waters here invites thinking and dreaming across time. If you are searching for a place to dream in the future steps of your organization or community, this is a great place to do it. Whether it is spending time wandering the beach during the day, or searching the Milky Way at night, it is a great place to open to new possibilities and new ways of seeing things.

The land knows you,
even when you are lost.
~Robin Wall Kimmerer