We Wonder & Weep
With The River With
Trebbe Johnson

 

October 7-14, 2023

8 days, 45 miles of canoeing, daily writing,
delicious food, 19 participants max.

Guides:  Trebbe Johnson, Lauren Bond, Monika, Cate
Pricing: $2695, payment plans upon request

The deposit and cost of The River’s Path Canoe Adventures are non-refundable. We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance through our partner Outward Travel to protect your investment.

On this journey
through Labyrinth Canyon
we open up to the dialogue
between our own hearts and
the land and water
that hold us.

Meet Trebbe Johnson

Author

Trebbe Johnson is the author of Fierce Consciousness: Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self and other books, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Trebbe speaks four languages; had camped alone in the Arctic wilderness; studied classical Indian dance; and worked as an artist’s model, a street sweeper in an English village, and an award-winning multimedia producer. She has led contemplative journeys in a clear-cut forest, Ground Zero in New York, the Sahara Desert, and for military veterans. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

We Wonder
And Weep With
The River

Wherever we are, the place that holds us reaches out to touch our own life: what we’ve been through, what we long for, what frightens us, what gives us joy. Our places on Earth also call to us to get more involved with them—to immerse ourselves in their history, their hurts, their beauty.

Often, our own preoccupations are so dominant that we forget to pay attention to this constant exchange of invitations and impulses. On this journey through Labyrinth Canyon we open up to the dialogue between our own hearts and the land and water that hold us.

Absorbing and being absorbed by the river and canyon, we explore both what this place can teach us and how we can give back to it. The Green River and the canyon that embraces it draw us to different areas, different emotional focuses: a beautiful wildlife study area… ancient petroglyphs that evoke the original caretakers…the spoils of uranium mining… and the ways climate change threaten the river.

In this landscape of magic and mystery, we will wonder at magnificence and weep in sorrow, both for ourselves and for this place on Earth. There will be time for solo walks and reflections on land and river, and in the evenings, we’ll sit together in Council to share our stories. Every day we will give and receive beauty.