"Call the world if you please, "The vale of Soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world."
- John Keats
I offer many programs and workshops throughout the year. These offerings support and augment the inner work being done in our lives. There are times when we need a larger container, a more encompassing space in which to do the work of soul. As Carl Jung once wrote, "The soul cannot become itself without an other, which is always found in a You." We require community to fully restore ourselves to the world. These programs and workshops help to place us back in the original context of belonging and deep participation in the soul lives of others.
Ultimately, it is the community that offers a final blessing, a confirmation of worth and value. Our wounds make us doubt that we will ever be welcomed into the arms of the circle, which makes the step into that territory feel risky. And yet, to remain outside the body of the community is to live in isolation. At some point, we must, as poet Mary Oliver says, "risk the wildest places, lest we go down in despair and comfort." Finding our way back into the world makes possible our full embodiment. We enter the great dance of life and offer ourselves as we are to the breathing earth. To read more about any of the programs below, click on the title of the event.
PROGRAM OFFERINGS:
Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters.
A 10-week series on cultivating depth and intimacy with our inner and outer worlds. Distilled from over 35 years of study in psychology, anthropology, alchemy, mythology and poetic traditions, this program offers an in-depth exploration of the practices and processes that enrich the life of the soul.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief
On these weekends, we turn our attention to the grief we carry for self, community, and world. Turning over these sorrows allows them to compost into fertile soil. Sharing our deep emotional selves brings us into the circle of restoration, into the arms of the sacred. Utilizing the potent tools of writing practice, singing, and ritual, we will build a community of concerned hearts and coax our stories of loss and suffering into the visible world. This soul activism is what we are called to in this extreme time.
The Generous Heart: The Gifts of Self-Compassion
This weekend we focus on slowing down and cultivating inner and outer practices that foster self-compassion. By working with the edges of our judgments and the rejected pieces of our interior life, the "outcast brothers and sisters,” we recover the vitality that is ours when we touch our suffering with mercy and forgiveness.
A Dream of Burning: Reclaiming Our Wild Soul
This weekend focuses on cultivating inner and outer practices that foster self-compassion and a fierce inner resolve to protect what is vulnerable in our lives. More than a psychological process, it is a mythic journey into the core of our soul’s aliveness.
Ultimately, it is the community that offers a final blessing, a confirmation of worth and value. Our wounds make us doubt that we will ever be welcomed into the arms of the circle, which makes the step into that territory feel risky. And yet, to remain outside the body of the community is to live in isolation. At some point, we must, as poet Mary Oliver says, "risk the wildest places, lest we go down in despair and comfort." Finding our way back into the world makes possible our full embodiment. We enter the great dance of life and offer ourselves as we are to the breathing earth. To read more about any of the programs below, click on the title of the event.
PROGRAM OFFERINGS:
Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters.
A 10-week series on cultivating depth and intimacy with our inner and outer worlds. Distilled from over 35 years of study in psychology, anthropology, alchemy, mythology and poetic traditions, this program offers an in-depth exploration of the practices and processes that enrich the life of the soul.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief
On these weekends, we turn our attention to the grief we carry for self, community, and world. Turning over these sorrows allows them to compost into fertile soil. Sharing our deep emotional selves brings us into the circle of restoration, into the arms of the sacred. Utilizing the potent tools of writing practice, singing, and ritual, we will build a community of concerned hearts and coax our stories of loss and suffering into the visible world. This soul activism is what we are called to in this extreme time.
The Generous Heart: The Gifts of Self-Compassion
This weekend we focus on slowing down and cultivating inner and outer practices that foster self-compassion. By working with the edges of our judgments and the rejected pieces of our interior life, the "outcast brothers and sisters,” we recover the vitality that is ours when we touch our suffering with mercy and forgiveness.
A Dream of Burning: Reclaiming Our Wild Soul
This weekend focuses on cultivating inner and outer practices that foster self-compassion and a fierce inner resolve to protect what is vulnerable in our lives. More than a psychological process, it is a mythic journey into the core of our soul’s aliveness.
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I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; the one who remains silent while I talk, the one who forgives, sweet, when I hate, the one who takes a walk when I am indoors, the one who will remain standing when I die. -Juan Ramon Jimenez (translated by Robert Bly) |