Circles for subtle awareness

Since 2022 I’ve been learning in community with people connected through the work of Stephen Busby. This learning has taken shape in both in-person in Whitehorse, on retreats (Marsh Lake, Harstine Island, Beauvais) and in many online encounters. There are...

Writing with Nina Wise

Since 2021 I’ve been thrilled to work online with people from around the world who are learning powerful writing techniques with the irrepressible Nina Wise. I’m grateful to my “pandemic friends” who show up in zoom rooms for real human...

In Her Words: Joanna Macy

I am feeling so incredibly lucky to spend intermittent Saturdays inspired by the vibrant Joanna (at 91) and her sidekick Lydia… Zoom has made it possible for her students from around the world to show up for her wise exhortations and laughter. Anyone who needs a...

Create to Liberate

I’m grateful to have spent five days at the amazing Hollyhock centre, learning from Rebekka Goldsmith and Khari Wendell McClelland and the participants in our Create to Liberate group! Lots of deep listening to ocean, cedars, song, other people and my own...

shifts

The past seven months have been so full of living, some of it quite raw. Deaths and transitions and lots of listening to others’ painful moments. And yet there has been such a sweetness, like a descant adding its melody to the main line of sound. Sources of...

Solstice circle

Grateful thanks to Jennifer Berezan and Nina Wise and all the brave women who circled up on June 14 at Sundog Retreat… I felt deeply nourished. And alert to new ripple effects…