1) Embody impermanence as lived insight
Directly perceive impermanence through nature-based practice and apply this understanding to relate more skillfully to uncertainty, change, and mortality in personal and professional life.
2) Deepen lived experience of interdependence
Recognize dependent arising as an experiential reality within ecological systems and human relationships, fostering a felt sense of belonging and reducing habitual experiences of separation.
3) Reframe selfhood through the lens of non-self
Understand and experience self not as a fixed entity but as a dynamic, relational process, leading to greater psychological flexibility, humility, and freedom from rigid identity structures.
4) Cultivate kinship and ethical reciprocity with the more-than-human world
Develop an ethic of care grounded in lived kinship with nature, translating contemplative insight into reverent, responsive, and ecologically attuned action.
5) Stabilize the Brahma Viharas through nature-based practice
Strengthen loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity as embodied capacities, extending these qualities beyond the human sphere to include all life.
6) Access awareness as an ever-present refuge
Recognize awareness as a continuous field not separate from nature or experience, enabling participants to orient toward presence, freedom, and awakening in everyday life.
