About Liz

Elizabeth Meacham, PhD, is an internationally recognized and award-winning environmental philosopher, spiritual ecologist, author, teacher, healer, and musician. She teaches nationally and internationally through workshops, advanced training programs, and one-on-one mentoring. She is the author of Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices (Findhorn Press/Inner Traditions 2020, and in German: Das Erdseele-Träumen, Neue Erde 2023).

Dr. Meacham is the founder and co-director of the Lake Erie Institute for Holistic Environmental Education, based in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her PhD in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and her MA in Philosophy from Cleveland State University (summa cum laude). She teaches and publishes in the areas of spiritual ecology, ecopsychology, environmental philosophy and earth-based spiritual practices. From 2010 to 2016, she taught in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Ursuline College, in Pepper Pike, OH. Her courses included environmental philosophy, ecojustice, ecopsychology, bioethics, and topics in sustainability. During her time at Ursuline, she co-created an undergraduate degree in Sustainability and Social Justice, and created an online graduate certificate in Sustainability and Spirituality. 

Her abilities and skills as a healer derive from decades of cultivating relationships with and learning from loving nature and spirit beings, and training in earth-based shamanic healing arts with her long-time teacher, Damaris Chrystal.

“Liz is a very generous teacher, both with her knowledge and her time. She creates a very safe space in the group. I really appreciated that I could say anything and know that it would be received and accepted without judgement.” Paula, London, UK, Author, Musician, Sound Healer

More About My Work

Writing, teaching, and earth-based spiritual mentoring and healing are one part of my “work.” It is work that I love deeply and am so grateful to be able to do.

The center and source of what I call my Wyrk involves tending my relationships with the Earth and Spirit realms on a daily basis: this is where I find energy, healing, inspiration, guidance, expansion of my awareness and consciousness beyond my wildest imaginings, as well as the meaning of my life. Speaking with the beings on the land where I live and tending these relationships daily; dancing and singing each day in gratitude to honor the profound beauty and complexity of life; making ceremony for so very many reasons; honoring the rhythms of life and the seasons; attending to deaths and births and other cycles of life; listening to my helping spirits and the spirits of the land for guidance in my daily tasks and my unfolding spirit calling; walking the ley lines and tending the vortexes of my bioregion; weaving webs of healing and light between power places; offering my own small contribution and support to the other beings in the web of life as they fulfill their roles as mediators and tenders among all of the beings of the Earth and the Cosmos.

This is a beautiful and powerful way of life that is very much needed to balance and heal our political-economic focused and hyper-rational dominant Western culture. Yet Western culture is shifting more and more toward a return to Earth-honoring ways. More and more people want to come back to ancient Earth Spirit ways with all of the new gifts that we can now bring to create our own Western ways of caring for the web of life, and all her beings, from who we are and what we know now.

“Working with Elizabeth has been a transformative experience. Her ability to teach, encourage, and model is phenomenal. Elizabeth stands out amongst teachers because of her ability to facilitate authentic earth-based practice while providing challenging study material to stimulate powerful synthesis of content.” Aaron, Psychotherapist, Ohio

Radio and Podcast Interviews

Rebel Spirit Radio, interview with Nick Mather, September 2021

Voices of the Sacred Feminine, with Rev. Karen Tate – Live! May 16th, 11 am PST

Get Over It! Interview with Monique Chapman

Doona Sebo Radio Hour – Live! March 20, 2020 – 8 pm PST

Cosmic Questions, with Cheryl Costa- KCOR Radio -March 3, 2020 – 8 pm EST

Feature Articles

Ohio Magazine, Excellence in Education, 2015

Chagrin Valley Times, By RYAN DENTSCHEFF, November 12, 2014, “Pepper Pike: Professor explores whether fracking and efforts to sustain land can coexist in NE Ohio”

Book Reviews

Spring 2021: Sacred Hoop

Spring 2020: Indie Shaman Magazine

Winter 2020: Holistic Therapist Magazine

“As much as I’ve learned about how and why to help others reconnect with nature, I’ve learned so much about myself and my spirit and I think that has only been possible because of the welcoming, open and extremely supportive environment created by Liz and the cohort. We all have a goal of guiding people “back to the garden,” in all senses of that phrase, and it is beautiful watching each other grow and drawing on inspiration from one another. This course has offered me new and exciting perspectives and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity.” Kitty, USA