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I am a writer, scholar, poet, clergywoman, circle-way facilitator, wife, sister, daughter and companion… curious to learn about you, your wisdom & practices for celebrating LIFE in such turbulent time.
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Previous Work
A Companionable Way: Path of Devotion in Conscious Love
In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference. A Companionable Way invites inquisitive minds, body-souls, and spiritual hearts into the delightful but demanding inner work required for peaceable encounters with integrity across interreligious and intercultural difference. Unmet yearnings and the unconscious refusal of deep feeling in so many of our cultures need redress, not only within scholarly-analytical habits of mind but also in aging communal "containers" not adept at holding deep feeling without harm. Ancient but 'new' containers today--webs of spiritual friendship and circle-way communities of practice--offer hope for new learning and formative encounters with difference toward an expressive delight able to companion the suffering of self and others. Part memoir of a deep-feeling academic, part toolbox for the curiously contemplative, A Companionable Way witnesses to the deeply rooted Sacred available to each of us in a return to the body, devotion in conscious love, and new ways of being human together across irreconcilable difference, held gently in a patient and living wisdom particular to each but needed by all.
See also
Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode (Pickwick Publications, 2011)
and
Artisanal Theology: Intentional Formation for Radically Covenantal Companionship (Cascade, 2009).
What Readers are Saying…
A Companionable Way is a delightful marriage of head and heart in exploring one woman's deepening into faith. Lisa has a powerful gift of combining academic language and experience and a mystic's openness to beliefs and practices which people from traditions other than her own have shared with her. She shares her personal experiences as well as carefully explaining the practices she has learned and developed. This book should be savored over time, not gulped whole. One major gift I received from the book is language for explaining the worth and practices of circle-way community to those who have not experienced it. Lisa is a bridge builder and the result is sturdy, elegant, and much needed.
~Laura K. Dreamspinner,
I appreciate Lisa's writing, her sharing, and her invitation. In this book, she invokes the simple -- an unfinished and evolving relationship with what is uncertain and with what is mystery. And in this book, she encourages the profound -- insight and intuition that arises from commitment to turn to self and to turn to each other. Companioning is a great note upon which to find harmony in self and with others. I'm grateful for Lisa's inner work to clarify and add purpose to the outer work.
~ Tenneson Woolf (https://www.tennesonwoolf.com/)
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