Igniting Liberation for All: Widening Our Circles with Jeanine Canty, PhD
Light the way into 2026’s Year of the Fire Horse – join a 2-hour online immersive practice for renewal, connection, and collective liberation.
With the time of midwinter and the approach of the Year of the Fire Horse, the invitation to set our intentions for our individual and collective work is upon us. While the past year may have felt the heaviness of the world and chose to look inward and perhaps even go underground, now is the time to alight our connections with all sentient beings. The work of liberation requires going beyond our boundaries of comfort and needs to include all beings. During this two-hour webinar session, we will engage in lecture, practice, and experiential exercise that support widening our circles for collective liberation. Participants should be prepared to work with challenging material, encounter difficult and joyful emotions, engage in experiential practices including meditation and dialogue, and to be in respectful, compassionate community.
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to guest teach at Naropa and at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology certificate program. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing our Collective Narcissism and Healing our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022), along with many publications, and her most recent edited book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (2025). She is also a certified meditation instructor as well as a Wilderness First Responder.
Naropa University welcomes participants with diverse abilities. If you require accommodations, please contact Kristin Anderson-Bohan at kbohan@naropa.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.
