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About the Alliance for Wilderness Engagment
The Alliance for Wilderness Engagement was founded to provide immersive outdoor experiences that seek to deepen our connection to the web of life and our sense of place in the universe. We are presently seeking Non-Profit Status with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 501(c)3 status from the U. S. Internal Revenue Service.
Our Mission
Our mission is to rekindle intimacy with our more-than-human world by providing immersive outdoor experiences that seek to deepen our connection to the web of life and our sense of place in the universe.
Our Vision
We envision a world in which humans return to right relationship with the Earth - living with reverence, reciprocity, and joy as part of an interconnected, thriving web of life.
Our Values
Indigeneity
All humans have ancestral relationships with land, but many of us have been severed from them by colonization, displacement, and industrial culture. We seek to reweave those broken threads with humility and care - centering the sovereignty and leadership of Indigenous Peoples who have tended this connection while also inviting all people to reindigenize: to remember how to belong, how to listen, and how to be in right relationship with the living Earth.
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Connection
We believe connection is sacred - connection to place, to people, to the more-than-human world, and to something greater than ourselves. In a culture of disconnection, we choose presence, we choose relationship, and we choose intimacy with the unfolding life around us.
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Care
We center deep care as embodied love: tending to land, to each other, to grief, to joy, and to the everyday needs of the Beloved Earth Community.
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Harmony
Rather than seeking control over the natural world, we seek to live in harmony with it. We notice the rhythms of the seasons, the guidance of ecosystems, and the wisdom of our bodies.
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Stewardship
Stewardship means tending what we have inherited and what we will pass on. It is practical, reverent, and grounded in the belief that sacredness resides in the everyday. We live gently, and we take responsibility.
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Interdependence
We are not separate from the world - we are the world, made of stardust, water, and memory. Every tree, stream, pollinator, and stone participates in a great unfolding story. Nothing and no one thrives in isolation. We are part of a vast web of life, each thread connected to countless others. Our survival, our joy, and our liberation are bound up with all beings.
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Reciprocity
We give and receive with gratitude. We ask what the Earth is offering - and what it asks of us in return. Every relationship, human and more-than-human, should be mutual, not extractive.​
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Justice
There can be no ecological thriving without justice. We root our work in the liberation of all beings, recognizing the ways racial, economic, gendered, and ecological violence intersect. Our vision of wholeness includes repair and restoration.