Our heart's break at what feels to be the increasingly surreal vortex of this historical moment. No one of us is untouched by the chaos ensuing in our social and political fabric. How shall we ride this great tidal wave of uncertainty?

So much of what is being promulgated by our current administration in the name of faith is anathema to the essence of core religious values.

 So I hold a vision of Sanctuary before us.

By popular request, we are offering a second Sourcing Lament: Writing As Ceremony online workshop in collaboration with Katharina Lindauer. Dancer, musician, sister Constellation colleague, and Process Psychology guide, I am honored to be offering this workshop alongside her.

As we enter into the great cycle of light and dark expressed in Advent/Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Diwali, and Yule, so many, both in ancient and contemporary times, have created ceremony to live into the holding of the light as the end of the year draws close.

Please join us for these Outer Edge and Gateway House offerings. I wish us all a holy and merry end of the year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve just finished reading the chapter “Allegiance to Gratitude” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s brilliant book Braiding Sweetgrass…

This is a WILD STORY….

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.

What would happen if the whole world could Lament together?

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…

As I stood on the Trestle Bridge gazing at Joppy, 
I had a vision of the power of lament reaching far and wide
to people of many communities,
that a collective practice could ignite and expand
into a global archive of witness. 

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?

Lament is a guttural response of protest.

Lament is a fist shake that it be put right.

Lament is a visceral, heartbreaking cry…

Join me in celebrating the launch of a new website and online presence for The Outer Edge, my coaching, consultancy and facilitation practice.

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.

“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”- Ferderico Fellini

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…