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Rooted Together
Rooted Together
Rooted Together
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Rooted Together

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A youth mission prayer journal for personal reflection, group development, and a guide to doing justice. 

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 24, 2018
ISBN9781386618133
Rooted Together
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Nicole Oliver Snyder

Nicole Oliver Snyder’s expertise lies in the areas of leadership and gender issues. She teaches mindfulness practice through her podcast and blog on her website, eirenicole.com, and as co-founder and senior minister of just church, an on-line and local community blending spiritual practices and action in the greater Chicago area. Leadership, particularly in urban setting, requires community-relations skills, and an ability to clearly convey justice issues as they relate to felt, spiritual ones. Dr. Snyder is author of Leading Together: Mindfulness and the Gender Neutral Zone, and specializes in teaching mindfulness leadership development, formative spirituality, counseling, and Old Testament theology (emphasis on justice issues). She has a diverse background in international community-relations work combined with volunteer work in multi-ethnic communities, and with local institutions. She is an ordained Minister; a BS in Human Development and Family Studies, w/Education Certificate, an MA-Counseling, MDiv Equiv., holds a Doctor of Ministry and Advanced Certification in Formative Spiritual Direction, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (MI).

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    Rooted Together - Nicole Oliver Snyder

    Rooted Network

    Trees communicate; they speak to each other. Trees network, their roots extending, soak the nutrients and water from the soil, all the while noticing other trees. When one lacks nutrition, others will hold back and send the needed nourishment through a certain type of fungi. They will send distress signals when drought is coming or disease is approaching. If an aggressive insect attacks one grove, they’ll let other trees know and their behavior changes. Trees care for each other.

    Trees are also healing to us. Did you know, hormones and brain activity that show we are stressed are significantly lower after just 20 minutes of forest walking‽

    For us to thrive, we need each

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