About Us
Our Mission
We gather as a community to honor the Divine Mystery, Earth and all Beings. We do this through intentional listening and conversation with more than human others as well as ourselves. We encourage one another’s spiritual path and attentively nurture our own.
Our community is grounded in the sacred landscape in which it is located. This groundedness guides us to live from a place of deeper compassion, care and gratitude. We understand the enormity of the environmental crisis and its impact on both current and future generations as well as the inordinate burden borne by the marginalized. We challenge members to live lightly on Earth and engage in actions that advocate for Her well-being.
Earth is looking forward to our actions of justice and care that will flow from our variety of deepening spiritual practices.
Creation Spirituality
We Value
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Paying attention to the Sacred in all creation
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All of creation as interconnected and kin
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Heart-centered embodied relationship with the sacred wild
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Sacred conversation and deep listening
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Hospitality and reciprocity
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Openness to transformation
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Creativity and playfulness
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Discernment emerging out of conversation and relationship
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Working as a team
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Respecting and learning from First Nations peoples
Spiritual Direction
“It is by being awake to God in us that we can increasingly see God in the world around us.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
“We have to learn to hear on every level at once if we are really to become whole. The problem is that most of us are deaf in at least one ear.”
― Joan Chittister
Meeting can occur in person or by zoom.
Contact: The Reverend Greg March +61 417 616 256
Contact: Jenny Norman +61 466 976 242
People
Reverend Greg
Co-facilitator
I’m passionate about connecting people with their meaning and purpose, The Holy, and building community.
“Indoor churches” were my focus for 30 odd years through the leadership of parishes, and a variety of senior leadership positions in the Anglican Church Of Australia.
Since 2023 my has shifted to facilitating and holding space through Pastoral Supervision, Spiritual Direction, and spiritual practices in nature.
In 2024 I became the co facilitator of Sanctuary Of The Wild Seven Hills Brisbane, a member of the Centre for Wild Spirituality and the Wild Church Network.
Today, I’m more interested in facilitating spiritual practices which meet people at their point of need. Discernment is a key quality I seek to foster in people so that they can be open to following where the Spirit is leading them.
Greg would like to be known as a Church of the Wild pastor and Eco Spiritual Director. He can still be found inside “church” but his focus is now on the Christ of creation.
Some of his many influences are St. Francis of Assisi, Rene Girard, Telihard DeChardin, Richard Rohr, Matthew Fox, Thomas Berry, Jurgen Moltman, Jean Paul DeCausard, Rumi, Mary Oliver and Noel Davis, just to name a couple.
Jenny Norman
Co-facilitator
I have been drawn to eco-spirituality since 2015 when I began walking in local bushland. I came to experience the bushland as a sacred place that held me through seasons of inner transformation.
Inner transformation orients me to saying “yes” to new life and callings: first through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises (2015), when I felt called to spiritual direction, then through a four-year Spiritual Direction Formation Program (St Francis Colledge, Brisbane), when I felt a growing call to align myself with eco-spirituality.
My formation is in the contemplative tradition. I seek to companion others in discerning the Sacred Presence in everything, through a heart-centred, loving gaze. I particularly like to offer spiritual direction in an outdoor environment, encouraging attentiveness to the Sacred in nature as part of the spiritual direction experience. I enjoy facilitating small group contemplative experiences for people. I practice silent meditation and facilitate a weekly centering prayer group.
My spiritual practice draws on gifts of Ignatian Spirituality: the awareness of Divine Love endlessly contemplating (lovingly gazing upon), and creatively participating in, the evolving of all of creation; imaginative prayer; an experiential (mystical) spirituality; and methods of discernment for making life-giving decisions.
Dream-listening is another gift that has supported me in my journey towards wholeness. Aspects of my wild soul have been revealed in dreams. I am happy to introduce others to this gift, and to companion them as they listen to their own dreams.
Mystics and contemplative teachers inspire me, especially Julian of Norwich, Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Rohr, Matthew Fox, Thomas Merton, Mary Oliver, Meister Eckhart and Thomas Berry.
In February 2024, I followed a sense of calling, and enrolled in the Wild Church Leadership course. The way then opened for me to co-facilitate Sanctuary of the Wild. As I participate in the restoration of sacred conversation between humans and our more-than-human kin, I am a part of a much greater movement of Spirit, and this inspires hope.