"I believed I wanted to be a poet, but deep down, I just wanted to be a poem." 

                                                           -Jaime Gil de Biedma​
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A $205 value, for $165

A collection of audio programs offering a primer on living more fully into the world of soul and community. Beginning with the 10-week series "Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters," Francis guides us into the depths of how we may more meaningfully embody this life. The second series, "The Alchemy of Initiation," touches deftly on the multiple ways that psyche/soul persists in the tasks of initiating us into a fuller and more robust identity. In the third series, we drop into the necessary terrain of picking up our "Apprenticeship with Sorrow." Together, these three offerings provide a richly textured guide to The Arts of Life. Click on the image to purchase. 

Recorded live in October 2020, this series of four talks offers ways to cultivate a lifelong relationship with the inevitable presence of loss and sorrow. Topics include: the ideology of individualism leading to feelings of separation and emptiness; the six elements in our apprenticeship with sorrow, how trauma and soul loss can be held; the Long Dark that deepens our capacity for imagination and repair; and the role of love and power in ripening our intimacy with the living world. Click on the image to purchase. 

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Is my soul asleep?
Have those beehives that labor
at night stopped? And the water-
wheel of thought,
is it dry, the cups empty,
wheeling, carrying only shadows?

No, my soul is not asleep,
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
its clear eyes open,
far-off things, and listens
at the shores of the great silence.

                                  -Antonio Machado

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​with Francis.

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​Francis' books

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​Hear psychotherapist and author Francis Weller, discuss the communal nature of grief, the expressive virtue of anger, false happiness, and the two hands of grief and gratitude. Interview recorded at the 2013 Minnesota Men's Conference.

​A rich and varied conversation between Michael Lerner, founder and director of Commonweal and Francis Weller, exploring The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Recorded October 12, 2016

​An exquisite video combining scenes from the film, "The New World" and passages from Francis' book, ​The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Produced by Tom van der Linden, of "Like Stories of Old."