This week I’m running the lastest episode of a series I’m calling “My Boss is a Zen Priest” – so my boss is SDI’s Executive Director, Reverend Seifu Anil Singh-Molares. He’s my manager and he provides oversight on the things I’m working on, and he’s also an ordained priest in the Zen Buddhist tradition. We have weekly one-on-one check in meetings, where I tell him about the things I’m working on, and he provides feedback and insight. And because we work at SDI and my boss is a zen priest, that feedback and insight often delves into deep dives around spirituality.
In this conversation we talk about our most recent publication of Listen – a digital publication that you can read on our website, sdiworld.org – and the inspiration for Rev. Seifu’s article, and my illustrations, on the concept of metamorphosis.
As you listen to this conversation, and all the metaphors we contemplate as descriptors for the spiritual journey, I invite you to reflect on this point in your own journey, and how you might define it.
As you reflect on your own sacred story, and yes your own story is indeed sacred, what are some metaphors you would use to tell this story? What’s in that cocoon of yours right now, being combusted? I invite you to journal on these questions, and share with a spiritual companion.
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Support for this podcast comes from Spiritual Companionship For Our Times, SDI’s annual gathering of spiritual companions happening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 23 – 26 2020. Registrations are now open, with Super Early Bird pricing through September 15th. We’ll be celebrating SDI’s 30th Anniversary, and charting the road ahead as we seek to welcome more and more people to the transformational gifts of spiritual companionship, and to make this healing modality available to every person on the planet.
Learn more now about our annual conference at www.sdievents.org.
EP084 - Sacred Music and Conversation with Simon de Voil
EP083 - Dimensions of Spiritual Companionship - Exploration of the Unknown
EP082 - Dimensions of Spiritual Companionship - Deep Listening with Rev. Seifu
EP081 - Nonviolent Communication - Pam Winthrop Lauer
EP080 - Sexuality and Spiritual Companionship - Part 4 with Langston Kahn
EP079 - Sexuality and Spiritual Companionship - Part 3 with Rev. Dr. Beverly Dale
EP078 - Sexuality and Spiritual Companionship - Part 2 with Tommie Watkins and Westina Matthews
EP077 - Sexuality and Spiritual Companionship - Part 1 with Karen Erlichman
EP076 - New Website! sdicompanions.org
EP075 - Poetry as Spiritual Companionship - Pastor Dave Brown
EP074 - Companionship in the Outdoors - Heather Makowicz
EP073 - The Long-Term Benefits of Meditation - Sean Murphy (Part 2)
EP072 - Mindfulness as the First Fruits of Meditation - Sean Murphy
EP071 - Talking with Lucy Abbott Tucker about Spiritual Direction Supervision
EP070 - A Dreamwork Session with Amy Curran - Fishbowl Spiritual Companionship
EP069 - An Introduction to Dreamwork - Amy Curran
EP068 - Meet Ann Lancaster - SDI Production Assistant
EP067 - Group Spiritual Direction with Diane Millis (and new offering from SDI!)
EP066 - Meet Desiree Casil - SDI Membership Services
EP065 - Hallmarks of Spiritual Companionship (Listen 14.2 - April 2020, read by SDI Staff)
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