Justin Ferko
City: Camp Hill
State: PA
Languages: English, Spanish
Personalized Affiliation: Eco/Nature-based
Spiritual Spheres: Buddhism, Christianity, Eco/Nature-based, Humanism, Interfaith, Interspiritual, Quaker, Spiritual but Not Religious, Spiritual Independent, Unitarian Universalist, Wicca/Neopaganism
Affinity Groups: LGBTQ+
Category: Spiritual Director, Spiritual Companion, Supervisor, Chaplain
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 7172205034
Website: http://www.wildspiritpaths.com
Focus Area: Corporate/Workplace, Creative Arts, Dreamworker, Dying/Sick/Hospice, Ecospirituality/Nature-based, Education, Elderly/Mature, European Cultures, Grief and Loss, Group Spiritual Direction, Health Care, Homeless/Low Income, Immigrants/Displaced, LGBTQIA+, Men's Issues, Mental Health/Depression, Mindfulness/Meditation, Non-Traditional Healing, Psychic Phenomena, Spiritual Awakening / Mystical Experiences
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Profile: Justin Ferko (he/they) is a queer interspiritual companion and Earth-rooted poet, apprenticing to Mother Earth through herbalism, ancestral and folk healing, sacred story, and lived relationship with land. Grounded in queer resilience and joy, they support LGBTQIA2S+ people and allies in cultivating soul care, resilience, and wholeness through spiritual companioning and nature-based practice. Justin is a certified Forest Bathing Guide, Work That Reconnects facilitator, Dean of SDSGII with Oasis, Team Teacher with the Spiritual Life Center of West Hartford, Connecticut, and group spiritual companioning facilitator with The BTS Center. Justin offers spiritual companioning, supervision, and guided Forest Bathing walks in person and remotely. Contact: [email protected] | wildspiritpaths.com/events-workshops Justin has helped Seekers develop their own practices including: sit spot, meditation, writing poetry, creating one's own icons, developing grief and celebratory rituals. Areas of focus include: -Earth Connection, Eco-Grief, Climate Anxiety -Supporting LGBTQIA+ folkx of all ages with personal experience, communal wisdom, and research -Work That Reconnects Rituals and Facilitation -Discovering, Recovering and Living into your Soul Purpose -Navigating Life Transitions, particularly at Mid-Life or Second Half of Life -Facilitating Spiritual connection, Tending Spiritual trauma -Wonder and Awe -Embodiment practices -Ancestral Connection and recovering heritage and chosen lineage wisdom practices Some important questions I work with folks on finding their Wisdom include: -What is mine to do? -Where is my spiritual home? -How do I fit my spiritual practice(s) into my life? -What is my sacred activism? What this might look like: -Walking with you in discernment of your spiritual path and which practices nurture you -Facilitating your soul work (Bill Plotkin) and navigating your transitions from First Half of Life to Second Half of Life (Richard Rohr) -Inviting you to practices from Forest Bathing to foster connection with Earth, Self, and your higher power -Companionship through grief and spiritual trauma -Fostering your contemplative posture in the world -Supervision for spiritual directors/companions In other curves of his spiral life path, Justin has been a professional Palliative Care and Trauma chaplain and Spanish and English Language Learners teacher at the secondary and university levels. You can reach him for spiritual companioning, supervision of your spiritual counseling/companionship/direction practice and in-person/remotely guided forest bathing walks: [email protected] www.wildspiritpaths.com
