Maurena McKee
Forest Chaplain – Lavender Spirit Creations
Maurena McKee acts as a multi-religious chaplain in Chirripó mountain of Central America, which she senses as the raised tail of Turtle Island. While residing and practicing in the mountain, she aims to connect with the many villages and ecosystems within the sacred forests. An intention for ethnographic filmmaking and ecological studies is guiding her to act as a theologian, anthropologist and methodologist focused on decolonization and human ecology in the rainforest. Her research skills and findings have been awarded by the Paul Podvin Endowment, supporting ethnography that is now guiding an eco-ministry service and production company that responds to the Earth by circulating with an eco-praxis. She is completing the GTU’s Interreligious Chaplaincy Certificate, while defending her GTU Master’s Capstone Culmination on interfaith yoga and forest chaplaincy, via experimental ethnographic media. Furthermore, as an emerging scholar she is connecting contemplative and intersubjective knowledge-bases in Dharma traditions and Śākta theology with local Marian art and Latin American religious practice, honoring ritual and ceremony that is deeply connected to the Feminine Divine. She is hopeful to continue on to become BCCI certified in the future.
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