June 30 - July 6 | Tree Pittsburgh 32 62nd Street, Pittsburgh, PA

Four Fields Summer Retreat

Fieldguides: Adam Lobel, Jessica Locke, David Perrin, Fitzhugh Shaw, Geoff Cox

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About the Retreat

A Many of us are living with persistent strain as authoritarianism rises, climate systems destabilize, and ecological loss accelerates. Futures feel narrowed; fear, grief, exhaustion, and despair move through our bodies. These are not merely personal struggles, but signs that a way of life is coming undone at a massive scale.

This retreat is an invitation to come as you are within this civilizational dis-ease—and to discover forms of support that do not rely on denial, bypassing, or escape.

Held among…. [insert description of Tree Pittsburgh].

The depth of this retreat is offered as a laboratory for opening new forms of life, inviting us to slow down together and sense what becomes possible when familiar coordinates no longer hold. Its nourishment is meant to reorient rather than enclose, opening worlds rather than reinforcing a fearful or defensive spirituality.

At the heart of the gathering are the Four Fields—ecological, psychological, meditative, and mystical—a way of practicing with the living earth, emotional life, natural awareness, and the openness of being as one living terrain from which personal transformation and planetary care arise together. The Four Fields weave spiritual depth with social and ecological awareness, without collapsing one into the other or keeping them safely apart. They invite a form-of-life that can remain open, responsive, and mature amid instability.

We will explore …

❋ Land based + elemental practices

…allowing the living biosphere to steady, challenge, and teach us.

❋ Psychological + Imaginal Inquiry

…lingering with fear, grief, and constraint long enough for new possibilities to emerge, rather than rushing toward resolution.

❋ meditative practices of rest + slowing

…releasing from capitalist speed, urgency, and the attention economy into a more spacious rhythm of being.

❋ mystical practices of unknowing

…loosening our grip on certainty, optimization, and control, and opening into what exceeds prediction and management.

If you are drawn to a spirituality that does not anesthetize you against collapse, and does not confuse care with comfort or hope with denial, this retreat offers a place to arrive, to be supported, and to risk being changed. Join us for this living experiment in the Four Fields.

Four Fields Summer Retreat

This retreat is an invitation to come as you are within this civilizational dis-ease—and to discover forms of support that do not rely on denial, bypassing, or escape.

Held among…. [insert description of Tree Pittsburgh].

We will explore …

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Join us for this living experiment in the Four Fields.