NIMBLE ATTUNEMENT WITHIN THE METACRISES
Welcome to the FIELDTRIP 2025-2026:
Nimble Attunement
Beginning October 2025—a series of online retreats exploring the Four Fields through the practice of Nimble Attunement.
The Four Fields are a contemporary, ecological, and socio-political teaching on the embodiment of wakefulness. The FOUR FIELDS are:
MOSSROCK FIELD: Ecological and Embodied
WILDFIRE FIELD: Psychological and Visionary
LIT OCEAN FIELD: Meditative and Aware
SPACE FIELD: Being and Emptiness
One Sunday a month—from 11am-2pm Eastern
We will practice and explore nimble attunement as a way into the Four Fields.
Each Sunday 3 hour retreat will include guided practice, talks, and intensive work in pairs or small groups. There will be occasional rituals and experiments.
There will be self-paced video teachings between the live sessions.
Adam will lead most sessions with guest co-teachers along the way.
Oct 5
Nov 2
Dec 7
Jan 4
Feb 15
March 15
April 19
May 3
Jun 24
Nimble attunement is the practice of simply allowing—before any structure, any goal, any effort—opening to the Four Fields as they already are.
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It is supple and ungrasping, joining nondual, effortless awareness with a radical ethic of responsiveness.
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Here, primordial spirituality meets potent politics, moving as rest, resistance, solidarity, and wild care.
YOUR FIELDGUIDE
Adam Lobel, PhD
Hello! I want to warmly invite you into these fields of practice and non-practice. After more than 20 years teaching Buddhism, I remain curious about a contemplative life for our times. Practicing at the thresholds of ecologies, Buddhist meditation, the Dzogchen and Bön traditions, and contemporary theory, I am a professor of Ecopsychology, a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, an environmental justice activist, and meditation teacher. I am grateful for so many friends, lineages, mentors, ancestors, my family, and the more-than-human world who continue to teach me about the fields. You can find out more about me here: https://www.releasement.org/site/about
This Fieldtrip Is For You If...
- You are curious about the Four Fields
- You are longing for a spiritual practice attuned to ecological and socio-political reality
- You are trying to find your way within the rise of techno-authoritarianism and climate overshoot
- You respect traditional maps of meditation training but wonder how their goals map onto the present
- You love this world with such an unspeakable, heartbreaking force that there is no room for it within our dominant ways of life
sounds about right
Questions:
Q: Do I have to sign up for the whole thing or can I just do one Sunday at a time?
A: You can sign up for each Sunday individually.
Q: Can I skip Sundays and just jump in? Will I have missed stuff?
A: Yes, you can come into any of the Sundays, but yes, you will miss stuff. However, you can always sign up to get access to the recordings of earlier teachings.
Q: What if I don't like people and am burned out on even the word "community" and want to just do the asynchronous learning parts? Can I still sign up?
A: Yup! You can choose to only have access to the recordings and not come to the live sessions, but we encourage shared participation for this year's Fieldtrip. So please come live if you can. It will be a different and more limited experience if you don't. You will miss the work in small groups, but that may be what is best for you right now. (It's the same price to sign up, you would just skip the live sessions and get access to the recorded teaching).
Q: How are you thinking about power-dynamics and the position of the teacher (Adam), especially in light of the abuse of power in Shambhala and other modern spiritual groups?
A: Adam will be leading most of the sessions and will play a teacher role for this Fieldtrip. A critique of solid hierarchies is inherent in the 4 fields model. Just as each field is equal to the others, there is no notion of a human hierarchy. No one is a "master" of the fields, we each have certain ways of accessing and enjoying the fields.
Yet this will not be a co-created experience, it is more like a guided martial art or yoga class. So it is true that Adam, with his limits and his experience, is designing and teaching this course (unlike some other courses on releasement.org that have been teams), and therefore has a certain power.
ENTER THE FIELDS
FIELDTRIP
FIELDTRIP 2025-2026: NIMBLE ATTUNEMENT WITHIN THE METACRISES