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"Daughter of Promise" with Luisah Teish
Myths, Rituals, and Rites of Spring
Angela Murphy hosts this dialogue with Yoruba priestess Luisah Teish. They talk about the potential of spring and renewal, and our relationship to gardening and other earth-centered arts.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-04-28
- 00:58:03
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The Spacious Center
Using creative ritual, successful leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi build bridges between a culture’s core and its periphery, and in the process ignite renewal.
- Publications Articles
- March - May 2005
- 4 pages
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Sailing Home
Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
Norman Fischer deftly incorporates Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, and popular thought, as well as his own unique and sympathetic understanding of life, in his reinterpretation of Odysseus's familiar wanderings as lessons that everyone can use.
- Publications Books
- June 3, 2008
- 256 pages
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Shift Issue 6
CREATIVITY
CREATING THE STORY OF TOMORROW
by Charles JohnstonCREATIVITY BEGINS IN THE WOMB
by Richard HeinbergNURTURING THE POSSIBLE
by Wendy Anne McCartyBECOMING CONSCIOUSLY VIBRALINGUAL
by Rachel BagbyPARADOX, BREAKTHROUGH, AND THE ZEN KOAN
by John TarrantDREAMING MIND AND CREATIVE MIND
by Fariba BogzaranTHE SPACIOUS CENTER
by Aftab OmerJOHN MACK – A TRIBUTE
by Michael H. CohenCLASSICS IN CREATIVITY
by Willis Harman, Howard Rheingold, and Rollo MayFrontiers of Research
Creative or Defective?
by Dean Radin- March - May 2005
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Essential Shifts Interview: Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is known for her environmental activism, but she is also a deeply spiritual and reflective being. In this dialogue, she reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-06
- 00:29:18
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Essential Shifts Interview: Brother David Steindl-Rast
Network for Grateful Living founder Brother David Steindl Rast has walked in many worlds, from contemplative Christian monasteries to Naval academies to new paradigm workshops at Esalen. Out of his broad experience has emerged a deep wisdom that lights the path forward from traditional theistic religion and its reliance on doctrine and belief to panentheism, which focuses on direct experience and seeing God as fully present in the world.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-11-02
- 00:34:27
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Harriet M. Crosby
Harriett M. Crosby is Cultural Traditions & Diversity Committee Chair of the IONS Board of Directors.
She is Co-Founder and President of the Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia (ISAR), supporting grassroots environmental activism in the former Soviet Union. She trained in psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, worked for Colorado Outward Bound as a mountaineering instructor, collected Tibetan folk tales in Ladakh, worked on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and now practices meditation, pottery, organic gardening and wildlife rehabilitation. She currently serves on the boards of Friends of the Earth, the Institute for Deep Ecology, 20/20 Vision, Taxpayers for Common Sense, ISAR, and IONS.
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Ryan Feinstein
Ryan Feinstein is a community organizer from the California Bay Area who has been designing and hosting multi-generational World Café experiences since 2004. Based on the profound impact of the World Café in his early life, Ryan has a passion for supporting people of all ages to convene authentic conversations and build their collaborative learning capacity. Ryan is also the program director for the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, which is an organization that provides leadership development training and cultural immersion experiences in Bali.
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Nan Phifer
Nan Phifer, author of Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Guide, serves as an associate director for the Oregon Writing Project at the University of Oregon and presents workshops for writers' groups, libraries, religious and contemplative organizations, continuing education programs, and retreat and renewal organizations. Her interest in American Literature and her Master of Liberal Arts studies at The Johns Hopkins University contributed background for her present work. Her workshops range from monthly sessions in Indianapolis where she co-guided pastors in writing to explore their vocational dedication, to a retreat in the Rocky Mountains, to nation-wide, on-line teaching for Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. At The Church of the Epiphany in Washington, DC, she led participants in writing to design sacred space, and on the West Coast she guided writers in exploring wilderness without, and within, themselves. Currently, she designs a series of interfaith writing workshops.
To learn more about Nan’s book and workshops, please go to www.memoirsofthesoul.com or write to her at nanphifer@mac.com.
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Reverend Matthew Fox, PhD
Matthew Fox is author of 26 books including Original Blessing, The Reinvention of Work, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet and One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths. He was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate (received summa cum laude) in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris.
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About/News@IONS/Sustainability
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Wayne Muller
Wayne Muller is a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of several books. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Wayne spent the last thirty-five years following a thread through the rich company of the family of the earth – including those loved and those abused, the courageous and bereft, the generous and the exhausted. Because Wayne listens for what is beautiful, strong, and true in each of us, he invites us to learn together how to find nourishment and delight in our lives as they unfold in new, often unexpected directions.
Wayne has consulted with numerous community organizations, educational institutions and healthcare corporations. He is the founder of Bread for the Journey – a network of ordinary people who engage in grassroots, neighborhoodphilanthropy through micro-grants. Along with being an Extended Faculty member at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he has served as Senior Scholar at the Fetzer Institute, and received several awards for his work with those in need.
He is now working with individuals and small groups as a private mentor and spiritual director, helping those facing change or transition in their life or work, helping clarify their inner sense of meaning and purpose. Wayne shares his time, care and attention to find together any emerging threads that can guide them safely to their new, evolving destiny.
He is the author of A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough; Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal and Delight in our Busy Lives, and Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood, among others.
Wayne lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his beloved wife Kelly and their children.
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Year of the White Rabbit, a good time to Zen Your Den.
Happy Chinese New Year, New moon in Aquarius, Candlemas (which is the midway point between winter solstice and spring equinox), Imbolic (which honors Brigid the goddess of creative inspiration and ...