Terras Gamos, meaning Earth Marriage, is the first of its kind: a merging of psychology and land ceremony in a weekend workshop and ceremonial immersion rooted in depth psychology, archetypal and mythosomatic practices, animistic and relational principles, and dreamwork theory and technique. Born from Dr. Ariana Greene’s experience as a climate psychologist immersed in studying the ways life on earth is under threat, Terras Gamos is designed as a direct response intended to recreate the conditions for life on earth to thrive once more.

The collective human psyche is in a state of woundedness. Caught in the great forgetting and fragmentation that comes from separation from the natural world and the consciousness of earth, we have learned to perpetuate the wounding with ourselves, eachother, and the land. Planetary healing depends on the restoration of the ancient alliance between humans and earth.

In this workshop and ceremonial immersion, we will journey through one complete life cycle and move into a state of inner union and union with earth. This ceremony asks that participants make a commitment to life.

The weekend is formatted for one day of workshop and one day of ceremony, bookended by an opening and closing/integration circle. The workshop is didactic with group learning and the ceremony is experiential and immersive.

Both days follow the same four part flow:

Dreaming with Earth: Earth-based dreamwork theory and technique rooted in indigenous dreaming, Jungian theory, Robert Moss’ distillation, druidic dreaming, informed by the work of Bill Plotkin, and influenced by the Embodied Imagination method. We will learn how to incubate a dream question, connect with a specific earth ally, and recognize the ways your own aliveness mirrors the earth’s dream.

Mourning Lives Lost: Grief ritual to acknowledge the ways life on earth has been lost and taken. From the ashes we are given nutrients for our own lives to continue and thrive. To create a conscious relationship with life itself, we will acknowledge and honor the ways we have been impacted by the loss of life and be guided through to the application of unconditional love and gratitude for those lives and the renewed sense of connection to our own lives.

Renewed Life through Union: Mythosomatic ritual enactment of two archetypes forgotten by humanity, holding the keys to our true inheritance: the High King (“one who is noble”) who teaches honorable responsibility, commitment, and integrity, and the Sovereign Goddess (“of the earth”) who teaches earth-based innate wisdom, creativity, and rewilding. We will learn about these archetypes as guardians of human consciousness who can be embodied and related to as the modern humans we are today. In reunifying them, we restore the union between humans and earth as well as the inner union within the human psyche to recover wholeness, creating the conditions for new life to be born.

Commitment to Life Today: We are witnessed as we take an oath of conscious commitment to life on earth today. In ceremonial space, a personalized vow emerges to restore right relationship with life, a vow that will guide us forward with renewed purpose, meaning, inspiration, responsibility, and devotion. This is where we are accountable to both our collective forgetting of the sacredness of life, and our ability to consciously choose life again today.