WILD HEART SEED CORE TEACHER
Rev. Scott Godlew, MS
Whispers-with-Forests
Spiritual Companion, Eco-Spiritual Catalyst, Interspiritual Minister, Inn Keeper & Caretaker
+1.575.224.2421 talk or text
Scott@WildHeartSeed.Earth
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Interfaith / Interspiritual Minister, OSIS: One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, 2021-2023,
Graduated & Ordained 2023Studied Spiritual Companioning, 2022, 2023 - 2024
Leader for Soul Matters Deep Listening Circles, Unitarian-Universalist Church, 2019 - 2022
Certificates in Jungian Magnum Opus - Individuation & Personal Myth, Center for Jungian Studies, 2025 - 2026
Practicum Certificate: Center for Courage & Renewal, 2025
Studied Internal Family Systems for Helping Practitioners, Richard Schwartz, Jeanne Catanzaro, & Souds True, 2025
Studied Wild Mind, Animas Valley Institute, 2018
Studied Nature and the Human Soul, Animas Valley Institute, 2020
Studied Soulcraft, Animas Valley Institute, 2024
Studied Tao Te Ching, David Wallace, OSIS, 2021 (also independent study)
Studied Pre-Christian Celtic and Indigenous Traditions, OSIS, 2023
Studies on-going for Indigenous Healing and Wholing, and Nature-based Wellness Traditions, 2023 - ongoing
Whispers-with-Forests —identity revealed to me through Soulitude.
Scott guides people into deeper connection—with the natural world, with others, and with their own unique purpose within the grand scheme of life. As an Eco-Spiritual Catalyst, he helps participants experience the intelligence and soul of the land, cultivate relational awareness, and discover how their gifts can contribute to a life-sustaining world.
Over the past decade, Scott has focused deeply on ecology and soulful identity, drawing from studies and experiences in seminary, depth psychology, human fragility, and Earth-centered traditions. He views these pathways as complementary, each offering insight into how we might live fully, ethically, and in harmony with the living world.
Scott’s life has unfolded along two threads: a “survival dance”, which included a vocation in technology, and a “sacred dance”, rooted in time on the land and ecological connection. Over time, the survival dance became less central, and the sacred dance more prominent, shaping the focus of his work and life today.
Scott grew up in a small town in Southwest Michigan, the son of teachers who nurtured curiosity, skill, and a love of nature. Family camping trips and access to wild places provided the container for his early sense of exploration, wonder, and belonging. These formative experiences seeded a lifelong relationship with ecological places—where every rock, tree, and river is alive and relational.
It’s Scott’s hope to help people cultivate:
An appreciation for the ecological container in which we were created and by which we exist
Awareness of the Others—human and more-than-human—with whom we must relate to thrive
A sense of their true identity as purpose in the grand scheme of the world
While he cannot hand answers to anyone, Scott acts as a catalyst, creating the conditions in which participants discover their own understanding, insight, and grounded wisdom.
Inn Keeper & Caretaker
Scott handles the nuts & bolts of the land where many of our retreats and events take place: RoadRunner Coyote Retreat.
What is the greatest gift?
Could it be the world itself
the oceans, the meadowlark,
the patience of the trees
in the wind?
Could it be love,
with its sweet clamor of passion?
Something else
something else entirely
holds me in thrall.
That you have a life
that I wonder about more
than I wonder about my own.
That you have a self
courteous, intelligent
that I wonder about more
than I wonder about my own.
That you have a soul
your own, no one else's
that I wonder about more
than I wonder about my own.
So that I find my soul
clapping its hands for yours
more than my own.
— Mary Oliver
“A faithful companion for your journey”
“The bee, attracted by the scent of the flower, lands on one then another, inadvertently enabling reproduction. Should the bee go extinct, not just flowers but birds, small mammals, and humans would likely also cease to exist. It’s fair to assume that the bee doesn’t know its role in this interconnected puzzle and in preserving the balance of nature. The bee is simply being.” – Rick Rubin
Bee-ing, get it? Scott Whispers-with-Forests gets it: both the excellent pun and the sentiment. We are connected with nature; we have a role to play; we humans (unlike the bees, as far as we know, but there is much we do not know) carry big questions about what this is all about, what we are all about, how to make sense of our lives, how to play the hand the universe has dealt us. Whispers helps hold your questions and celebrate whatever answers are revealed. A faithful companion for your journey. — Susannah, co-seminarian