ARE YOU READY TO STEP UP? The Earth is calling you,
Humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis. We are called to awaken, grow, and rise like never before. Duane, Coleen, and the Choosing Earth Team are here to support your group or organization in deepening understanding of the immense challenges and opportunities within this profound planetary transition.
Presentations
Invite Duane and Coleen to engage with your group. Whether through a tailored presentation, interactive workshop, or insightful discussion, they can customize their approach to align with your organization’s specific interests.
Consulting and Coaching
We provide consulting services on the escalating planetary crisis and opportunities for adapting with creative responses. We also offer coaching to empower leaders and facilitators to effectively integrate Choosing Earth’s key insights into their organizations.
Courses and Workshops
We offer a versatile seven-session course that can be tailored to fit your group’s interests and schedule. Additionally, we provide dynamic, highly interactive training sessions that typically range from one to three days.
Media Requests
Whether for digital, print, or broadcast platforms, Duane and Coleen Elgin are available for media and interview requests. We look forward to engaging with your audience on the pressing challenges and inspiring possibilities of our time of great transition.
Testimonials
As we grapple with the harsh realities of our planetary crisis, Duane and Coleen guide us with grace and compassion. They create an atmosphere where we feel valued and heard and have space to feel, contemplate, and grow.
Sunny Sabbini
Duane and Coleen create trusting environments that are inclusive, allowing for diverse perspectives that enrich us all.
Susan Starkey, Co-Chair
Faith Communities Environmental Network
Duane Elgin is a seasoned futurist of the highest caliber, one of the great thinkers of our time who views the reality of our human condition through cognitive, affective, and spiritual lenses simultaneously.
Ron Nahser PhD
Provost Emeritus, Presidio Graduate School Executive Director, Corporantes, Inc.
Dwight Collins PhD
Dean Emeritus, Presidio Graduate School Founder/President, Collins Educational Foundation
Meet the Team
Co-Founders
Collaborators
Marianne Rowe
Marianne Rowe, MS, is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Founding Teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio. She is certified as a Nature & Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT), Eco-therapist (Earthbody Institute), California Naturalist (UC), and Authentic Relating Facilitator. Marianne also holds certifications in Climate Psychology (CIIS), Eco-psychology (Pacifica), and Climate Stewardship (UC).
Her therapeutic work, teaching, and leadership focus on bringing deeptime perspective to healing, transformation, and evolution through awareness and relationship – developing Integral consciousness through the physiological, cognitive, emotional, relational, and spiritual aspects of being.
Marianne’s passions include inspiring reverence and reciprocity with Earth, spiritual activism, and conscious relationship with all beings. She is dedicated to catalyzing and cultivating eco-systemic consciousness and relationality and is currently focused on developing Impact Networks of learning, action, and cultural change. Her sense of belonging and enlivenment is sourced and deepened through walks, sits, and gazing with the Pacific Ocean, forest, night skies, and evolutionary conversations with beloved friends.
Sandy Wiggins
Sandy is a national leader in equitable economies, environmental sustainability and the transformation of finance. He is the past Chair of BALLE, past Chair of US Green Building Council, and founding Chair of Green Business Certification Institute. He has also served as Sr. Advisor to RSF Social Finance. His skillful facilitation has helped birth impact investment strategies, city-wide sustainability plans, and sustainable master plans across the country. Drawing on a lifetime of work in support of sustainable communities and evolutionary consciousness, he now works with organizations and communities that are stepping out of the dominant paradigm to explore new possibilities for life on Earth. He is a lifelong student of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, a certified Integrative Breathworker and Psycho-Spiritual Facilitator and holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from St. Joseph’s University.
Barbara Easterlin
Barbara Easterlin, PhD, is a clinician and consultant specializing in climate psychology. She teaches clinical workshops and develops educational and training materials for mental health clinics on the trajectory of the climate emergency, its psychological consequences, and how to help people to develop agency and resilience when engaging with this difficult topic. She is a Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA) and co-developed the CIIS Climate Psychology Certificate Program. Barbara has a master’s degree in Environmental Psychology from UC Irvine and, until recently, was an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley where she specialized in neuropsychological assessment. barbaraeasterlinphd.org
