Chaplain Jesse Ford

J, Jesse

I am an interfaith earth chaplain who accompanies people and communities along their journeys. I offer pastoral care and short-term pastoral counseling, and will create or co-create rituals for life transitions of humans and other animals. Some examples are: birth; adoption; child dedications; puberty; new beginnings such as marriages, gender transitions, coming into housing, pet rehoming, and new vocational undertakings; endings such as divorce, job separation, retirements, entering active dying, planned deaths, commitments of physical remains, and memorial services/celebrations of life). I will also create or co-create rituals of earth witness of all kinds (e.g., public witness; earth gratitude/reciprocity; planting/"re-storying"; emergence as well as public resistance to expected or unexpected abrupt transitions of ecological systems; and communal grieving/repentance/repair). I bless journeys of all kinds including gaining housing, embarking on sobriety and other spiritual disciplines, and embarking on extended voyages such as medical treatments, personal growth, vocational training, and the like.