Wilderness Retreats

in New Zealand

Wilderness retreats, meditation classes, workshops and personal spiritual direction can also be commissioned by contacting:

Rev. Dr Keith Morrison

Superior, St Isaac House of Prayer

Director, Sustainable Community Development Research Institute

52 Ollivier Ave

Upper Selwyn Huts

RD4 Christchurch 7674

New Zealand

pesamorrison@hotmail.com

+64 3 3295464

A calendar for Wilderness retreats, meditation classes and sustainable living workshops open for further participants is available.

 

A PDF leaflet download of this page is available.

The wilderness retreats offer:

·         Experiential learning to live sustainably

·         Personal development

·         Leadership development

·         Professional integrity development

·         Team / group capability development

·         Community development

Wilderness retreats available:

·         One day

·         Weekend - one night

·         Week - five nights

Cost:

This is negotiable depending on the resources available to the client (groups) and range from shared food and travel costs, to market rates for guided wilderness trips.

 

For the last 12 years wilderness retreats have been held in the awesome bush clad rugged wilderness of New Zealand, forming an essential part of the education for sustainability of a generation of New Zealand environmental management and natural resources engineering students. These same wilderness retreats are now available to the wider community.

The wilderness retreats are a Rite-of-Passage into the path of sustainable development: to find vision, understanding, practical knowledge and practical skills. The Eastern Orthodox Christian path of hesychia (dynamic stillness) and philokalia (the love of beauty and truth) form the basis for the Rite-of-Passage.

They are facilitated by Rev. Dr Keith Morrison, a spiritual director and theologian of a meditative tradition (Eastern Orthodox Christianity), a researcher and author on sustainable development (human ecology, indigenous knowledge, ecological engineering and community development), with mountain craft and safety skills.