The Center for Spiritual Imagination

Bone and Seed
spiritual/imagination

What is spiritual imagination?
ancient. wisdom. embodied. expand. relevant. language you can feel. how to be grounded in this life.  Flow. Rhythm. Permission-giving. Questions. I don't know. connection. belonging. so that you may have life and have it abundantly. well-being, wholeness


roles, behavior, expectations
Beliefs
Dogma that dictates our seeing and being
practice--to what end?
institutionalization: membership, money, community/my people, social access, leader, building, ways things are done
Tradition and wisdom*  comfortable, not risky, no conflict
heirarchy of power, access to naming
identity/belonging
meaning: how the world works, what I am expected to do and be, what is good and what is bad, framework for my life

shame/punishment/God as angry parent
surprise
vulnerability
unpredicatability








Searching for the root stock and the seed corn: truths 
Spirituality does not change but its context does. How we live it does.
Old stories. Images. Ideas. Words. An inner life of authenticity.
an invitation to [    \ live sensually, vitally, the strength of the flame of the inner life
what feeds us? Grounds us? Sustains us? Where do we receive and give nurture? Who are our guides?
Living fully, curiously, spiritual well-being: self, other, divine



the questions, the context abotu relation/ship
who we are and how we choose to live in the world
expanding meaning-making
re-storyation of language and images that have become as dry bones
sacred texts, words, images, metaphor, embodied practice through creative expression, contemplative pratice, shared curiosity

List of themes and workshops:
Reimagination: old stories into new sight: faith, courage, 
Gathering the Shards: Exploring Vestiges of Faith, Culture and Identity
Bone and Seed: Writing from the Deep Well
Poetics of Grief: Mary Oliver
Poetics of the Sacred
Longing and Belonging
Spiritual Literacy
Spiritual Identity
Contemporary Icons
Altar Making, Boxes as Vessels for Healing
Grief/Art/Writing 
Forgiveness
Re-storyation: new ways of seeing and hearing
Recovering the Sacred Feminine, The Red Tent
Film Festivals on theme or literacy word
The Five Gates
The Four Things
Women's Circles
Contemplative Creativity: I bring the materials and shape sacred time for reconnection to self and soul

I am not in the context of church
I am not in the context of social activism (form of practicing our relationship)
I am not in the context of politics (power)
I am in the context of Wisdom, Deepening, Edgewalking
​Contemplation (inner reflection)
​The Creative Process Opens Oneself to this in unique and powerful ways

I am in the context of accompanying
I am in the context of curious community
I am in the context of (essential) questions about relationship
I am in the context of cultivating beauty and belovedness
I am in the context of freeing, permission-giving, expansion

What am I "selling?"
nonjudgemental space and time to connect with one's soul and the voice of the divine within


David Arfa
Marya Lowrey
Sherril Willis
Habib Boeger
Jay McDaniel
Elana Klugman?
Regionally
Kali Quinn
Jefferson Navicky
Rob Zucker
Darcy Johnson: Ruth