Colleen Mollica
Colleen Mollica M.A.A.T. is a level 1 Kripalu Certified Mindful Outdoor Guide, Interfaith Campus Minister, Teacher, and Recreation Therapist with over 25 years of experience facilitating outdoor leisure and educational activities. Colleen is passionate about protecting the more than human world and nurturing the human spirit. Colleen is open to the wisdom of the earth’s spiritual traditions and believes that creation allows us to experience agape or unconditional love. Time in nature awakens us to our purpose, establishes our sense of well-being, and nourishes our transcendent spirit.
After teaching social and environmental justice, rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, to middle and high school students and working as an interfaith campus minister at a university, she noticed that the more time people spent away from nature, the less connected they were to each other. Operating from an integrative framework of spirit, mind, and body, Colleen is dedicated to the work of healing our fractured relationship with Mother Earth and, ultimately, one another.
Upcoming Programs by Colleen Mollica
Celebrating Summer’s Abundance: Nurturing Joy
Also With Cary Gaunt
The world comes alive in summer—gardens are blossoming and bearing fruit, children play, and many of us feel freer as the days grow longer and warmer. As the hours of light increase towards their peak at the summer solstice, nature is also at its peak vitality and fertility. Nature is profligate and all our senses […]
Gathering Fall’s Harvest
Also With Cary Gaunt
Summer’s abundance gives way to fall and we notice the days growing shorter. Ecologically, the natural world begins preparing for the coming winter, and this reminds us it is time to sort our harvest, keeping what we need and shedding that which no longer serves. The harvest time also reminds us of the importance of […]
Reverencing Winter’s Journey
Also With Cary Gaunt
How often do you honor nature’s winter rhythm of slowing down, getting still, and quieting body and mind to rest and prepare for spring’s emergence? We live in a time and culture antithetical to quiet reflection and rest. This season is a paradox. It is dark and cold. Many if us feel anxious, disoriented and […]