The only thing that keeps any of us from enlightenment is our own thoughts. Believing is seeing. In this workshop, we delve deeply into our own mental landscape and explore it like pioneers. We examine what we think, why we think it, and discern if we want to keep thinking it. We liberate ourselves from cultural and religious conditioning. We practice original thinking. We learn how to speak from our core. In this work, we use poetry,…

It happens to all of us. We put our creativity on the back burner and never get to the thing we really want to do. But as we age, there is more urgency, more reasons why our words, our images, our ideas are calling for our attention. We will not be here forever and our minds are never going to be sharper than they are right now.

The mystic Meister Eckhart said, “The process of enlightenment is a process of subtraction, not addition.” We do not have to learn more to become enlightened. We have to let go of our ideas about enlightenment. We have to lose our illusions. We have to abandon our ideas that there is some place to get to, another state to arrive at, more information to acquire. The only thing that keeps any of us from enlightenment is our…

The roads we travel never look the same. Trees grow taller, buildings appear that were not the before; buildings that were always there disappear. Our physical journeys are ever changing as well – hair changes colour, bodies get larger or shorter or wider, they break down and inevitably die. Our faith journey often follows a similar pattern of growth, of health, of disintegration and, perhaps, death. The Atlantic Seminar in Theological Education was born in the summer…

A chance to create and re-create ourselves using the beautiful landscape around us for our inspiration. Water, trees, sand and rocks will guide us to the metaphors that give power to our poetry, our imagery, our stories and our souls. We will follow our heart’s creative desire, give voice to our intuitions, and pull up buckets from our wells of wisdom. We will explore poetry, music, and imagery as springboards for our creative expression and prophetic voices.…

A week long writing conference that I’ve been attending and teaching at since 1990. A life altering immersion in solidarity, community, celebration of our stories and our many ways of sharing them. For more info or to register for this event, please visit the IWWG website

The mystic Meister Eckhart said, “The process of enlightenment is a process of subtraction, not addition.” We do not have to learn more to become enlightened. We have to let go of our ideas about enlightenment. We have to lose our illusions. We have to abandon our ideas that there is some place to get to, another state to arrive at, more information to acquire. The only thing that keeps any of us from enlightenment is our…