Ryan Van Lenning

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My work is to hold space for remembering what has been forgotten and reconnecting with what has been severed—within ourselves, with nature, and with others. I am passionate about facilitating authentic re-connections with nature and our deepest selves to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging and dismantling oppressions. I do this primarily through nature connection/ecotherapy, 1-on-1 inner & outer wilderness guiding, rite-of-passage ceremony, and poetry/writing. I am a certified ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, where I teach the Level 1 Ecotherapy training, and Founder of Wild Nature Heart. My book Re-Membering: Poems of Earth and Soul and High-Cooing Through the Seasons, a collection of haiku was released in September 2018. My work has been published in Earth Island Journal, Deep Times: The Journal of the Work That Reconnects, the book A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul, Terrain Magazine: Northern California's Environmental Magazine, Elephant Journal, various poetry journals, Oakland Local, & Truthout, Huffington Post, The Progressive, Global Exchange's Climate Justice Blog, and Food First. Previous careers include: communication wo

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