Finding Wisdom in the wilderness

Rev. Eileen Gebbie, MA, MDiv. is a queer, white, anti-racist spiritual director and forest therapy guide in Champaign County, IL. Her professional experience includes teaching at the University of Illinois, serving as staff at a community organizing alliance, being the Executive Director of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate, and serving all that is holy as the first female and first queer senior pastor at two congregations in the United Church of Christ (a non-creedal Christian denomination pushing the boundaries of radical inclusion).

Through Wisdom and Wilderness, she provides individual and group spiritual direction (companionship) and forest therapy. She has spent quite some time with people in crisis, people who are being actively oppressed, people who are curious, people who are fearful, people who are being born, and people who are dying. She works with people to practice the arts of listening and partnering that take us beyond conversation and observation and into the heart and soul of being part of the planet at this particular time.