Gisela Wendling's Blog

“The pandemic and current social uprising changes everything we see, everything we write, and everything we...

Turning Toward One Another in a Time of Crisis

The more I try to grasp the many dimensions of the global crisis that has so fundamentally changed our lives, the more I care...

Responding to the Global Emergency from the Inside Out

A heightened sense of interconnectedness of our human community is awakening around the world. It is an interconnectedness...

The Sundance Ceremony of the North American Great Plains People (which includes territories of the Cree people in Canada) is a...

Working with Crucibles of Change

One of the central topics that David Sibbet and I explore in The Grove workshop Designing and Leading Change is how to...

Rites of Passage and Wisdom Emerging

A couple of months ago I participated in the Wisdom Emerging retreat at IONS with Alan Briskin, Lauren Artress and Angeles...

Altered States or Altered Realities

When I first became introduced into indigenous spiritual healing traditions, I began to experience things that were out of the...

Ceremony As A Collective Healing Response

A few posts ago I shared my perception that ceremonies are a collective healing response to the existential experiences of...

Rites of Passage: Pivoting at the Edge with Spirit

Please feel free to download Understanding Rites of Passages. for a more conceptual overview, its traditional use and...

Dreamtime or Time for Dreaming – Two

Sometime after the painting Incubation: Lizard Dreaming was done, I looked online to find any references to animal...

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