Wisdom Circle 2025: Listening to the Land with Gratitude
Sun, Nov 23
|TOLIS Zoom Meeting Room
Listening is the beginning of learning to speak. Speaking with gratitude opens doors.
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
TOLIS Zoom Meeting Room
About the Event
We will meet from 10-12 PT ~ 11-1 MT ~ 12-2 CT ~ 1-3 ET for a 4 part Wisdom Circle, which is the main place we connect as an association with each other quarterly.
Round 1 - Gather and Connect. Introductions and a short meditation connecting us over the internet
Round 2 - Teaching by our Speaker of the Land, Scott Chisholm Lamont:
Listening to the land with Gratitude:
Often we speak of, "speaking to the land", to the spirits of place, to the plants and animals that live there. Do you know if you are speaking in a way they can hear and understand you, or are you just speaking to yourself in familiar patterns and symbols?
Listening is the beginning of learning to speak. Learn how to Listen to all of these wondrous beings with the curiosity of a child, and with the appetite of an infant searching…
Guests
Meet our Leaders
iRev. Sarah Heartsong attends the Council meetings from Erosia in Shelton, Washington, one of our TOLIS Land Sanctuaries. Sarah is an ordained priestess (over 25 years of Sacred Service), the founder of the Tree of Life Interfaith Sanctuary (TOLIS), currently holding the title of Main Sanctuary Servant, and is the Lady of the Land of Erosia. She holds a BA in Religion/Global Studies, and a MA in Communication Studies. She is also a professional artisan with Heartsong Healing Arts’ Rare Earth Designs, which you can find at Heartsong Healing Arts and Rare Earth Designs and on Etsy.
Best contacts are though email at TOLISanctuary@gmail.com or heartsongwoman@gmail.com and available for text/phone at 575-640-8506. Sarah spends most of her days running Rare Earth Designs, making sacred art and tools, writing her books, which some are now out, and developing her Land Sanctuary, 13 acres in Shelton, WA with a Goddess Blessing Tree. (Among other projects)
Purna/Joshua Rex, M.A., M.A.T., is a Mindfulness Coach and Teacher Trainer, working with individuals and organizations to design mindful approaches, routines, and techniques to support people in achieving their academic and professional goals, weaving in Social Emotional Learning through the Arts, Music, and Movement.
Joshua has worked in and around the classroom, working in after-school programs, childcare centers, and behavioral health organizations, providing scaffolded supports for children and adult learners.
Currently Joshua offers guidance and training in creating safe and predictable learning environments that are trauma-informed, and are grounded in restorative justice work.
Joshua Serves as the President of the Board for the TOLIS.