Here are the notes and community insights from our exploration of holding space, especially in a "liminal" state, a threshold of transition.
We want to fix things, give good advice, control the outcome, or avoid the conversation all together...Holding space is what we do in the liminal space w...
Thoughts on the The Perfection of Patience chapter from The World Could be Otherwise, by Norman Fischer.
Preview on Google Books. Click the Front Cover button, then click The Perfection of Patience
Frodo sighs “I wish it need not have happened in my time.” Gandalf nods, and then dr...
We were online for our Tuesday, March 17th session - having transitioned away from in-person sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic. After sitting meditation, we read and discussed an article by Dr. Christiane Wolf on how mindfulness can help us adapt to the pandemic. She writes:
Mindfulness i...
After sitting and walking meditation, and tea, we read and reflected on an article by Sharon Salzberg about anxiety. What is it? How does it differ from fear? What can we do to relieve it? Salzberg writes:
...anxiety feeds on itself. Sylvia [Boorstein] describes it as a “free-floating hyperacti...
Our topic this week, after sitting and enjoying some tea, is how both meditation practice and expressive arts like writing or taking photos are ways to enter into life more fully. In Mark Nepo's book, Drinking From The River Of Light: The Life of Expression, he writes:
The simplest and hardest...