Ecology and Spirituality Centre - Glenburn


10th BIRTHDAY

The Centre for Ecology and Spirituality, Glenburn, recently celebrated its tenth birthday. On Sunday June 27th, 2010, around 70 people visited the Centre to help celebrate the event. Leonard Sheahan and Trevor Parton were the founding community of two, and now the resident community includes another Christian Brother, Rod Parton, a Mercy Sister, Mary White and Margaret McKinley who is currently an intern.

The program for the Centre is advertised on this site under 2010 Calendar .What might be of special interest is the September Tour/Retreat in the Flinders Ranges. The trip leaves from Melbourne and travels via the Murray River country to Gum Creek Station near Blinman in the Central Flinders. It has been popular over the past few years.


The Centre for Ecology and Spirituality was founded in 2000, and a small community of Christian Brothers has lived there ever since.

A series of retreats, workshops and courses have been conducted on-site and other programs, have been offered in other centres throughout Victoria and interstate.

Each year a ten-week residential Course/Sabbatical on Ecological Spirituality known as Sacred Earth is held from February to April. In 2009 a five-week intensive is planned for October/November. Both of these courses culminate in a Retreat/Tour of the Flinders Ranges.

The teaching emphasis at the centre is not so much religious as spiritual in the broader sense, especially as it concerns an attitude and dentification with the earthed tradition; and what is means to be a human in an evolving universe.

The Centre provides an opportunity for people to spend time on the spiritual and ecological dimensions of their lives. It offers space for reflection, discussion and education.

The Centre wishes to be inclusive and welcomes all interested in the link between ecology and spirituality. The Centre is dedicated to the promotion of a sound spirituality which recognises the ecology of Creation, and the connectivity and balance of all life. The Centre also endeavours to gain insight into the role of the Human, in what has now come to be known as the Ecozoic era of the world.