Resilience of Our Ancestors
The beautiful catastrophe of being human....
Here we are, my beloveds, in our complicated, excruciating, unfathomable truth of what feels to be a critical, historic moment. I implore us to take heart. Throughout our lineages, the suffering and resilience of our ancestors has enabled us to live now. All they lived through, has brought us, you and I, into this very specific moment. We can source their resilience and wisdom.
Somatic Dramatic: Navigating the Narrow Place
Join Amii Legendre and Kathleen Mandeville for this exciting and unique workshop, utilizing the practices of family constellations and somatic* movement to transform our narrow places* while being witnessed and supported in community.
Upcoming Events from The Outer Edge
I'm pleased to share with you a veritable array of events and offerings. This time of year, as we approach the Autumnal Equinox, is the opportunity to be in balance. Even as we are on the cusp of a season's change and the particular historical moment we are in in our nation and the world; community is where we can find a sense of equilibrium.
The Outer Edge invites you into deeper engagement as we navigate into the Autumn season, with a rich lineup of experiences to support your inner and outer worlds.
Our Emotional ‘Weather Patterns’
As a systemic and family constellations facilitator, I've come to understand more potently how captured we are by our own personal narrative. It's as if we live inside our own egoic consciousness and yet we are born into a system, a family of origin, which is also informed by the systems of our ancestral lineages and the cultures, landscapes and way of being that informed those lineages.
Our Lives As Prayer: An Expanded Workshop with Elizabeth Cunningham & Kathleen Mandeville
By popular demand we bring you this second 2024 session of “Our Lives As Prayer,” a workshop co-facilitated by Elizabeth Cunningham and myself, Kathleen Mandeville at my home, Gateway House Multifaith Sacred Arts Community, Rosendale, NY.
Human Delegates to The Democracy of Species
I’ve just finished reading the chapter “Allegiance to Gratitude” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s brilliant book Braiding Sweetgrass…
Our Lives As Prayer: A Workshop with Elizabeth Cunningham
It is my distinct honor to host Elizabeth Cunningham, author of My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir and the award-winning series The Maeve Chronicles at my home, Gateway House Multifaith Sacred Arts Community, Rosendale, NY.
Sourcing Lament: Writing As Ceremony
What would happen if the whole world could Lament together?
Tricking My Resistance Under The Winter Moon
Winter Moon
Lately, I have been engaging in my winter practice of going outside and gazing up at the winter moon, asking myself: “What is the truest essence of myself that I am dreaming in my winter dream?” The cold heightens the moon’s luminosity; stars seem to crackle through the night sky…
Thanksgiving Meh
The holiday season with Thanksgiving as its ‘gateway’, evokes a plethora of feelings in many of us. Are we questioning the value of celebrating in the face of world suffering? Are we reminded of the factions and patterns of behavior in our own families?
Power of Lament
Lament is a guttural response of protest.
Lament is a fist shake that it be put right.
Lament is a visceral, heartbreaking cry…
Launching The Outer Edge Online
Join me in celebrating the launch of a new website and online presence for The Outer Edge, my coaching, consultancy and facilitation practice.
Honoring Losses of Covid: A Gathering
Both professionally as an Episcopal priest as well as personally,
I have traveled a road with grief & death.
They are sacred companions,
great and challenging teachers
who invite us ever more deeply
into the cycle of life.
Living Spherically in All Directions
“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”- Ferderico Fellini
Covid Pivot
Pivot is one word for this moment. ‘Pivot’ comes from Old Provençal, Pua, a tooth of a comb. All is being combed out in this chrysalis time, the snarls we have made. New hybrid forms of theater, music, audience, performance are sprouting with this whole ‘greening’ moment. The world is ‘greening’. We are streaming…
Gateway House & Being in Harmony with Change
A wild year it has been! Full of events, music, completions, deaths, ceremonies, collaborations, enduring friendships & new ones...all building a foundation on which to ride this vortex of 2020 shift, launching us into this decade of change. I know I am feeling it. From the many conversations I am having, I know I am just 'one among'…