Awakening to the Spirits of Place

Travels, Talks and Gatherings--Early 2026

Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon with Rainbow

I want to let my readers know about some of my upcoming events and the themes I will be exploring.

This Saturday, February 7, I am offering a half day workshop in Phoenix, Arizona on Understanding and Awakening the Slumbering Heart Forces of the American Landscape.

In this workshop, I will share methods for deepening the wisdom of the heart by learning how to enter more sensitively into the phenomena of the natural world and come to better understand the unique and luminous landscapes in which we are embedded. This kind of communion with the world around us brings liberation and fulfillment, both to the soul of nature, and to our own souls. One could perhaps even say that a kind of christening of the elemental world is made possible through this work. By drinking deeply from these healing streams of wisdom we grow stronger and more able to meet meet the enormous challenges of the times in which we live.

Many thanks to Joan Treadaway and the Manzanita Branch of the Anthroposophical Society for inviting me to offer this workshop.

From Arizona I travel to Loveland, Colorado for the annual gathering of the Agriculture Section of the School of Spiritual Science in North America from February 11th to the 13th.

At this gathering I will share from my efforts to discern the spiritual beings who inspired and continue to guide the biodynamic farming movement—as well as the movement to create an associative (or healing) form of economic life—so that we can work more consciously with these beings going into the future.

I will also give a short talk, together with Lloyd Nelson, on the spiritual geography of the Rocky Mountain region, and explore, together with Alex Tuchman, the question of how a healthy community vessel can be created for the biodynamic movement at this time. You can learn more about the Agriculture Section event here.

Immediately followimg this gathering there will be be a public Symposium, from February 13th to the 15th, at the same location in Loveland, that I have helped organize called Agriculture, Community, Economics: Reimagining the Future of Farming.

Durig this event, I will be on a panel with Mark and Petra Zinniker to talk about the work we are doing to pioneer a new approach to CSA and community supported farm succession, which I have previously written about on my Substack here.

I will also be moderating a panel consisting of Anna Jones-Crabtree, Ian McSweeney and Mark Voss, on how farmers can address the complex challenges created by the huge cost of land.

You can learn more about this Symposium and register here.

After I return to my home in Viroqua, Wisconsin in late February, I will be interviewed on the podcast of Brook Delorme of the Journal for Apophenic Research. Brook has been sharing some wonderful anthroposophical and alchemical insights on her Substack lately and I look forward to speaking with her and sharing the interview with my readers.

Then I will re-immerse myself in the work of Threefold Driftless to foster a healthy threefold social organism in our small town and surrounding rural community. I am particularly pleased to share that the two Viroqua mayoral candidates have agreed to participate in an event that we will organize for people to get to know them better and to understand their unique visions for the future of our community. You can keep up on this work by subscribing to the Substack of Threefold Driftless here.

Onward dear friends and fellow travelers, I hope our paths cross soon!

Robert