small groups
Nature and the Human soul – Middle Childhood
Just wanted to send along an invite to you to join us for our Spiritual Integration conversations on Tuesday nights at myc yoga in downtown Bend. We meet at 7:15. Also, join us on the podcast or catch up on what you have missed. http://www.spiritualintegration.mypodcast.com Bill Plotkin’s book, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness […]
Keeping the garden of community
There’s something about building community and organizations that gets very challenging for us radical and imaginative visionaries… that being tendency to dream more than grow. We plant and plant and plant… a seed here, a row there. Then we get thinking about what seeds we might plant next. Sometimes we plant them and sometimes we […]
Show up and “show home”
One of the biggest lessons I have learned about community is showing up. Real. Ready. Raw. Authentic. Present and accounted for. It’s so hard sometimes… and I recognize the difficulty many have with showing up. It most often comes back to trust. When we have risked and been hurt, risked and been hurt, it gets […]
The Material is Just Another Tool
I’ve really lost my appreciation for curriculum… or maybe I never really was a big fan anyway. I think there was something always that didn’t quite fit when I heard that word or when I was told about the latest and greatest new material. Being educated in youth ministry and getting a masters, I heard […]
The gift of silence in community
It is the silence that makes our words (sounds) mean something. When the words we offer come out of the deep silence of our listening, it is here that we can be assured that we are offering something and not just spouting out noises to fulfill our own needs or insecurities. How often do we […]
