Are you curious to explore how to lead or navigate life from an awareness of interconnectedness?
Do you want to learn to nourish and strengthen inner resources to have more resilience and creative power to face the mess we’re in and contribute to a life-sustaining society?
Are you seeking a community that holds space to share our humanness, places life at the center of our existence and emphasises including the more-than-human world in what ever we do?
Spiritual Ecology starts with the acknowledgement that the global ecological crisis, which cannot be separated from the social, economic and political crises, is also the defining crisis of the human species. We are being challenged as a species, to ‘grow up or to get out of the way’, according to Thich Nhat Hanh.
The good news is that the universe is a self-aware creative process, and this pure creative potentiality is in us too. It can awaken and free itself from the limiting identities and illusion of separateness we hold as human beings. We are much larger, stronger, deeper and more creative than we’ve grown accustomed to believing.
Why should I join
Because the world needs you — whole, grounded, and awake.
This training is for you if you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed or disconnected — from yourself, from others, from the living world around you. It gives you practical tools to build real inner resilience, not just cope better, but show up differently.
You’ll move from feeling like a worried individual watching a world in crisis, to feeling like part of something larger — with a clearer sense of your own unique role in it.
In short: it’s a rare chance to grow, in community, in a way that’s both deeply personal and genuinely useful for the world.
Practical and transformative journey
With the Core-training we offer a practical and transformative journey both personally and collectively. The Spiritual Ecology practices we offer come from indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, systems theory, neuroscience, Kincentric leadership, the Work that Reconnects, nature connection and engaged mindfulness and compassion practices.
By exploring our experiences inside and in relating to the human and more-than-human world we invite different ways of knowing to access the wisdom in the group. We want to create a brave space where we can both relax and take risk, where we can embrace our humanness (being a ‘compassionate mess’) and support one another in our membership of the group and the larger community of life, finding our own unique part to play in contributing to a better world.
The format
The core-training consists of two weekends and two Sundays in-person training In Wageningen and two online sessions in between of 1,5 hour.
Module One – Paradigm Shift
How may we feel a sense of interconnectedness with all beings and weave ourselves back into the web of life? What are ways to strengthen our inner resources like awareness, kindness, joy, strength, compassion & wisdom to build our resilience and creative power?
Module Two – Radical Presence
How can we grow the courage and inner strength not to turn away from the suffering of our kin, both human and more than human?
Module Three – Compassionate Warrior
Does our own decision-making and way-finding transform if we know ourselves to be embedded in a web of more than human relationships? how can you play your own unique part in support of all life on Earth?
Who Is This For?
This training is particularly relevant for professionals and students working at the edge of change — policymakers, changemakers, activists, educators, healthcare workers, and anyone on the frontline of today’s complex challenges. If your work brings you face to face with the weight of the world on a daily basis, this is a space to resource yourself, find community, and reconnect with what drives you.
But it’s also for anyone who senses that the personal and the planetary are connected — and wants to live and act from that understanding.
What You Will Learn
Practical details
6 days in person + 2 online sessions
In person: 21-22 March, 9 – 10 May, 14 June & 20 September 2026, from 10.00 – 17.30
Location: KenKon Training Centre, Nieuwe Kanaal 11, Wageningen.
Online sessions via Zoom: 21st of April & 2nd of June 2026 from 18.00 – 19.30 CET.
Facilitators
Annick Nevejan
Assisted by Ania Ektate & Deborah de Groot
More information see ‘about us’ – our team
Group size and fee
We invite everyone who is curious about Spiritual Ecology, and how to integrate it’s core-practices in daily life. To ensure a comfortable group size, we can accommodate maximum 20 people in total.
Investment
We have made a sliding scale in fees to make it possible for people to join according to their own financial budget. We had less funding this year than expected and we hope people can contribute with a sliding scale a bit more between the standard and student fee.
The fee includes 6 training days & 2 online sessions, lunches, snacks and tea/coffee:
Standard fee in total: €900 (€150, -/per day)
Reduced fee in total to your own capacity: between €180,- up to 850,-
Student fee in total : € 90,- in total (15, -/per day) with kind support, including from Spectrum and Foundation Otherwise, up to 10 spots are available for students. This fee is only for those who have no other resources and have very limited budget.
Registration is confirmed when payment is received (possible to pay in instalments).
We will close our registration once all spots are filled. Full = full, so sign-up on time 😉
Please register before the 1st of March 2026
To nurture a safe and immersive process, we ask participants to fully commit to the whole core-training trajectory.
More information and contact
If you have any questions about the training please contact Annick on anevejan@xs4all.nl
Spiritual Ecology Netherlands offers this Core training in collaboration with Spectrum (WUR), OtherWise and private donations.
