Amplifying Nature's Wisdom Through Story and Experience
Wild Hope holds us all in its desires and manifestations. It unites all life in a dance of change and balanced co-creation.
What is Wild Hope?
Wild Hope holds us all in its desires and manifestations. It unites all life in a dance of change and balanced co-creation.
It reminds us that we are never alone, and that for every action there is a reaction. It grounds us in the truth of oneness and the power of love.
Wild Hope extends beyond our own wishes and desires to include the hope of the collective. It asks - what is best for all life?
It often emerges on the other side of grief, trauma, and pain, when we are forced to search outside of ourselves for support.
You aren't broken when you are in this space, you are evolving.
Our Mission
Center for Wild Hope accelerates the spread of Wild Hope by creating points of
connection and opportunities to move into relationships of honoring and reciprocity.
We amplify nature's wisdom through stories and experiences that reconnect us to our heart consciousness, opening the doors to our own personal healing alongside the healing of all life.
Our Vision
Center for Wild Hope envisions a future where all individuals know, understand, and respect their interconnection to all life, taking action based in reciprocity and care, understanding that they are part of a greater cycle of life.
We believe all living beings have an inherent right to peace, joy, happiness, and freedom.
What Guides Us
Reciprocity
Our work happens within relationships of honoring and reciprocity with all life. Taking only what is needed, giving back through stewardship, story, and care.
Amplifying Indigenous Wisdom
We stand with and behind the communities whose ancestral ways have protected life on Earth for millennia.
Our role is to amplify their voices, not to speak for them.
Heart Consciousness
We believe reconnection to heart consciousness, our own and the planet's, is the foundation of any
lasting change.
Activation that honors your health and well-being alongside the health and well-being of all life. This is the work. This is Wild Hope.
What Guides Us
Our Why and How
We know that this moment requires an activation that we have never experienced before. This will happen outside of the boundaries of our current, prominent paradigms. It will bring us back into a place of alignment and harmony with all of life. Igniting this activation drives our every action.
Center for Wild Hope amplifies the healing power and wisdom of the natural world through story and immersive experience, reconnecting individuals, groups, and organizations with the Natural Intelligence available to us at all times.
Our History
The Center for Wild Hope is the evolution of decades of work by Laurie Benson. 2012 was a pivotal year though, what began as an invitation to learn and experience life through an Indigenous lens, has evolved into an embodied understanding of how we participate in this incredible dance of life with the wisdom and gifts of the natural world and each other.
Core Values: Reciprocity, Equality, Oneness
We are boundary walkers - navigating the liminal space between ideas, ideologies, cultures, religions and more. We give no value to titles and work daily to become free of the conditioning that has created labels and categories that create separation and judgement.
Our Leadership
Our leadership comes from the trees, the rocks, the birds, the moon, the stars in the night sky. We aren't alone on this journey, we have just forgotten where to seek the answers and wisdom needed to move us forward. Our allies are all around us simply awaiting our invitation to collaborate and co-create. We cannot think of a greater team to be guiding us toward harmony, equality and peace.
The People Behind the Work
Laurie Benson
Executive Director and Founder
Mary Pat Mueller
Board Member
Afton Leslie
Board Member