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1. Facing the World with Soul
How do we keep our souls alive? What would a soulful response to these times of breakdown and collapse look like?
This is the replay of our first conversation with Psychotherapist, Author, and Soul Activist Francis Weller. Renowned for his book the "Wild Edge of Sorrow; A Threshold Between Loss and Revelation". In this conversation, Francis Weller shares ways to cultivate a robust interior life rooted in imagination, creativity, fertile stories, ritual, self-compassion, and the vital necessity of friendship and living community.
2. An Apprenticeship with Sorrow - Tending the Sorrows of Everyday Life
Grief and loss touch us all, arriving at our door in countless ways. They come swirling on the winds of divorce, in the death of someone dear, or as illness that alters the course of a life. For many, grief is tied intimately to the ravages we witness daily: the degradation of watersheds and forests, the disappearance of species, the silencing of languages, and the coarsening of culture. And yet, our encounters with sorrow are often met with confusion, fear, and overwhelm. We are uncertain how to welcome this difficult guest when it surfaces in our lives.
This live-recorded webinar explores the elements of an Apprenticeship with Sorrow. Through the rites of grief, we are ripened as human beings. Grief invites gravity and depth into our world, urging us to understand it not only as an emotion but as a core faculty of being human. This apprenticeship is, at its heart, about crafting elders capable of meeting the pain and suffering of the world with a dignified and robust bearing. This is soul activism—intended to foster deep cultural change.
Cultivating the skills of grief work is critical in these days of wild uncertainty and rampant loss. We must fortify our inner and outer connections not only to weather the storms but to be tempered by them. We do this work not solely for our own healing, but to make us capable of responding to the critical needs of our times.
3. In the Absence of the Ordinary - book launch
In this intimate and interactive conversation with Francis Weller, best-selling author of “the Wild Edge of Sorrow’, we explore the themes of his latest book, In the Absence of the Ordinary - Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty.
Francis Weller describes our era as a “rough initiation” — a threshold moment asking us to find new forms of belonging. In this profound conversation, we discuss his new book and explore how to follow a soulful path and uncover sources of resilience in the face of what feels overwhelming.
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