Spirituality
I am writing a memoir that incorporates part of my spiritual exploration, which involved seven months of travel and meditation in India. It has proven challenging to articulate my spiritual voyage, attempting to transform words and experience from the abstract realm into something personalized, fresh, and universal.
My essay Dharma by the Dozen: The Art of Spiritual Writing, written in 2008, identifies 12 characteristics found in the best writing on this topic. It addresses the work of Peter Matthiessen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Natalie Goldberg, Anne Lamott, Andrew Harvey, and Pema Chodron. If you would like a copy, please contact me.
I teach workshops on writing as a spiritual practice. See www.heatherconn.com/teaching/ for more details.
For more on spirituality, please see the Spirituality section of my blog.
Celebrate yourself with SoulCollage
I teach workshops on a process called SoulCollage, a wonderful, intuitive form of spiritual self-discovery and celebration created by Seena Frost of California. A graduate of the Yale School of Theology, Seena drew on her work in the Human Potential Movement, archetypes and Jungian sub-personalities to form a SoulCollage movement. Now there are SoulCollage workshop facilitators around the world. For more information on my workshops, please see www.sunshinecoastsoulcollage.ca. Seena’s website is www.soulcollage.com.
Spirituality in the Workplace
As we move towards more holistic work environments, employers will strive to honor and provide space and time for employees’ spiritual expression. To me, this is part of celebrating diversity and offering work-life balance.
While editor-in-chief of PeopleTalk magazine in Vancouver, I chose the theme Spirituality in the Workplace for the summer 2005 issue. I wrote the cover story for that issue, which also appeared on the website HRVoice.org. Here it is:
http://hrvoice.org/story.aspx?&storyid=2021&issueid=690
“Thank you so much for the March 2005 magazine. It is the best. The magazine has given my clients a deeper understanding of the topic and the reasoning behind the coaching that I do. The acceptance of the material and the topic by my clients has been 100% positive.”
Steve Everson, MBA
Professional Coach, Everson Coaching
Think beyond Pandora’s box (my editorial in the same issue)
December 2005
I gave a luncheon talk on A Spiritual Workplace: Reality or Utopia in downtown Vancouver for the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development. I serve on the Centre’s board.