Spiritual Companioning
No cost spiritual companioning sessions will be available this fall as part of my graduate school Spiritual Direction Practicum at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
Initial "getting to know each other" conversations will begin in mid-May. Schedule a no cost, no obligation conversation for more information here.
Those who would like to work with me will meet via Zoom for about an hour, approximately once a month for 5-8 months, beginning in September, 2024.
Initial "getting to know each other" conversations will begin in mid-May. Schedule a no cost, no obligation conversation for more information here.
Those who would like to work with me will meet via Zoom for about an hour, approximately once a month for 5-8 months, beginning in September, 2024.
Spiritual companioning offers non-clinical support and sacred witnessing as you move through the process of life’s unfolding. It is a space where I support you with deepening the conversation with your inner, wise self.
It is an opportunity to have a trusted companion on the path with you as you explore your own personal growth, deep questions, and all the things that life’s journey asks us to hold. It offers time to explore what you consider sacred, to be deeply listened to, and to be held and witnessed in a space of radical acceptance and sincere compassion without advice giving or judgment. |
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.
~ Rumi
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Spiritual direction offers a safe, accepting, and non-judgmental space where another human being can be truly seen and heard, and have the freedom to express where they are on their spiritual and life journey. Spiritual direction explores the meaning of one’s life, and supports a person's unique journey toward wholeness, self-actualization and relationship to the sacred or transcendent. In spiritual direction one investigates their inner self, what matters most to them in life, and the root causes of chronic unhappiness and disharmony.
In spiritual direction a person has the freedom to determine what "spirituality" means to them, and how to cultivate meaning, happiness and peace in their lives. Spiritual direction encourages and guides a person to strengthen their relationship with themselves, and to find wisdom and answers they seek inside themselves. Spiritual direction explores a deeper understanding of the spiritual aspect of being human.
~ Jim Palmer
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.
~ Rumi
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Spiritual direction offers a safe, accepting, and non-judgmental space where another human being can be truly seen and heard, and have the freedom to express where they are on their spiritual and life journey. Spiritual direction explores the meaning of one’s life, and supports a person's unique journey toward wholeness, self-actualization and relationship to the sacred or transcendent. In spiritual direction one investigates their inner self, what matters most to them in life, and the root causes of chronic unhappiness and disharmony.
In spiritual direction a person has the freedom to determine what "spirituality" means to them, and how to cultivate meaning, happiness and peace in their lives. Spiritual direction encourages and guides a person to strengthen their relationship with themselves, and to find wisdom and answers they seek inside themselves. Spiritual direction explores a deeper understanding of the spiritual aspect of being human.
~ Jim Palmer
What is Spiritual Companioning?
Spiritual direction aims to help us experience the eternal and the infinite aspects of our true nature through wise, experienced, and compassionate company of another human being.
~ Spiritual Directors International
~ Spiritual Directors International
Sessions offer contemplative support for the whole body-mind-soul self. This work offers an opportunity to be gently supported and witnessed as you walk your own unique path and cultivate ways of deep listening to your inner, wise self. We explore the human experience as it relates to your own personal journey, the relational nature of things, and transcendent reality.
This approach honors your personal beliefs, practices, traditions, preferences, and experiences. I accompany those who are exploring concepts around all aspects of the human experience, offering support, witnessing, and resources from my broad range of experience as you explore your connection to what you consider sacred. While there is often a strong spiritual element to this work, this kind of support is open to anyone who is interested in leaning into the human journey, whether you consider yourself to be spiritual or not. There is no right, wrong, judgment, or agenda. We simply give space to notice, honor, and witness your experiences, supporting your own sense of deepening into your personal processes.
These sessions are not therapy. They offer a non-clinical, non-dogmatic, collaborative partnership in which we explore what's on your mind and in your heart. Sessions may include holding space for soul centered conversations, somatic explorations, simple energy medicine practices, or other forms of witnessing and support. This work honors interspiritual values, spiritual companioning values, Red Thread Circle values, and peer support values, supporting you as the expert of your own life.
We partner to explore the themes of what arises for you and support connection with what is most sacred and important in your life through conversation, contemplations on nature, creativity-based activities, sacred silence, and inner-reflections.
The intention of our time together focuses on bringing compassionate curiosity to the experiences of the body-mind-soul so that we may more fully listen and lean into the ways all parts of you may be asking to be witnessed. This work offers holistic, collaborative support that helps us deepen into who we are at our core and attune to our own hearts while giving awareness to somatic and transcendent experiences. It is an opportunity to have a trusted companion on your path with you as we explore how experiences show up through personal growth, healing work, hope, love, forgiveness, compassion, beauty, grief, pain, deep questions, fears, and all the things that life's journey asks us to hold.
Sessions are not intended to treat symptoms or fix problems and are not substitutes for services you may receive from a licensed provider. This soul tending-focused work offers compassionate support so you can have a witness present as you explore your own journey. Through this work, we seek self-understanding as well as deeper understanding about the interrelated nature of life, using a holistic approach to promote greater harmony.
This approach honors your personal beliefs, practices, traditions, preferences, and experiences. I accompany those who are exploring concepts around all aspects of the human experience, offering support, witnessing, and resources from my broad range of experience as you explore your connection to what you consider sacred. While there is often a strong spiritual element to this work, this kind of support is open to anyone who is interested in leaning into the human journey, whether you consider yourself to be spiritual or not. There is no right, wrong, judgment, or agenda. We simply give space to notice, honor, and witness your experiences, supporting your own sense of deepening into your personal processes.
These sessions are not therapy. They offer a non-clinical, non-dogmatic, collaborative partnership in which we explore what's on your mind and in your heart. Sessions may include holding space for soul centered conversations, somatic explorations, simple energy medicine practices, or other forms of witnessing and support. This work honors interspiritual values, spiritual companioning values, Red Thread Circle values, and peer support values, supporting you as the expert of your own life.
We partner to explore the themes of what arises for you and support connection with what is most sacred and important in your life through conversation, contemplations on nature, creativity-based activities, sacred silence, and inner-reflections.
The intention of our time together focuses on bringing compassionate curiosity to the experiences of the body-mind-soul so that we may more fully listen and lean into the ways all parts of you may be asking to be witnessed. This work offers holistic, collaborative support that helps us deepen into who we are at our core and attune to our own hearts while giving awareness to somatic and transcendent experiences. It is an opportunity to have a trusted companion on your path with you as we explore how experiences show up through personal growth, healing work, hope, love, forgiveness, compassion, beauty, grief, pain, deep questions, fears, and all the things that life's journey asks us to hold.
Sessions are not intended to treat symptoms or fix problems and are not substitutes for services you may receive from a licensed provider. This soul tending-focused work offers compassionate support so you can have a witness present as you explore your own journey. Through this work, we seek self-understanding as well as deeper understanding about the interrelated nature of life, using a holistic approach to promote greater harmony.
“When we look at the level of the intellect, we will always find what separates and divides us. But when we look at the level of the heart, we will always find what joins us and makes us the same.”
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Unity of Religious Ideals
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The Medicine Woman's Prayer
I will not rescue you, for you are not powerless.
I will not fix you, for you are not broken.
I will not heal you, for I see you in your wholeness.
I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your light.
~ Sheree Bliss Tisley
“When we look at the level of the intellect, we will always find what separates and divides us. But when we look at the level of the heart, we will always find what joins us and makes us the same.”
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Unity of Religious Ideals
_______________________
The Medicine Woman's Prayer
I will not rescue you, for you are not powerless.
I will not fix you, for you are not broken.
I will not heal you, for I see you in your wholeness.
I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your light.
~ Sheree Bliss Tisley
Some of what I have been sought out to support others with exploring:
- Support with remembering our sense of interconnectedness and who we are at our core
- Exploring other ways of knowing, beyond the intellect
- Supporting natural rhythms and cycles of life
- Holistic approaches to support a sense of well-being
- Exploring the lived experience of neurodivergence, unique ways of sensory processing, complex chronic illnesses, etc
- Somatic explorations and embodiment practices
- Honoring the need for rest and restorative practices
- Support with topics of sexuality, gender, and relationships
- Understanding aspects of both our humanity and our divinity
- Exploring grief, loss, and longing
- Dismantling oppressive and pathologizing paradigms
- Connection to the land, plant allies, spirit realm, natural world, ancestors, and unseen forces
- Mystical healing principles and practices
- Exploring your personal spirituality and your connection to what you consider sacred
- Theosophical ideas, metaphysics, and esoteric practices
- Personal maps such as astrological charts, Enneagram, Gene Keys, Human Design, etc
- Near death experiences, dreams, psychedelic experiences, and other mystical experiences
- Experiences with intuition, voices, visions, or other unique perceptions
- Honoring the callings of your own heart
- Creating sacred space and ritual guidance
- Exploring Eastern principles for self-care
- End-of-life doula care and conscious dying support
- Exploring life experiences through journaling, creativity, dream work, imagery, and reflective practices
- Resources and discussions on energy medicine topics
- Working with the inner critic
“There is a desperate need for spirituality in our time... We require a spirituality that promotes the unity of the human family, not one that further divides us or maintains old antagonisms. At the same time, this interspiritual approach must not submerge our differences... The truth itself is big enough to include our diversity of views. They are all based on authentic inner experience, and so all are valid.”
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart |
Arriving Here
After many years of working with people on body-mind-soul themes, offering somatic therapies, trauma recovery coaching, acupuncture, bodywork, nutrition education, herbal medicine, yoga instruction, and other healing practices, I kept finding that the most meaningful work was being done through deep listening, honoring folks' own inner knowing, and essentially being in the mystery of things versus trying to fix or change something. I was being consistently nudged to move away from clinical practices and away from outcome-based ways of doing things. My heart was asking me to let go of the rigid, goal-oriented ways our culture tends to expect this kind of work to be offered in order to make room for how the flow of life actually wants to show up and dance with us in present-moment timing.
What revealed itself is the deep, personal calling to simply be with others rooted, present, and curious as a witness to the journey as folks navigate their own paths, building trust in their own connections and resourcing abilities. After decades of personal and professional experience with integrative healing modalities, I began to feel called towards a practice with no more agendas, no focusing on "fixing," no experts, no assessments, no paperwork, no goals, no bowing to systems that seek to control - just showing up in our beautiful, imperfect wholeness and honoring the depth and the realness of the human experience in real time.
This work is focused on embracing the concepts of slow medicine, connection, receptivity, self-trust, and the simple act of being fully present, human-to-human. It is about embodying the heart-felt calling to offer kindness and compassion while trusting the process of life's unfolding. It's moving courageously into a liminal space where we begin to more fully embrace and allow the process of our becoming to happen with a sacred witness present.
What revealed itself is the deep, personal calling to simply be with others rooted, present, and curious as a witness to the journey as folks navigate their own paths, building trust in their own connections and resourcing abilities. After decades of personal and professional experience with integrative healing modalities, I began to feel called towards a practice with no more agendas, no focusing on "fixing," no experts, no assessments, no paperwork, no goals, no bowing to systems that seek to control - just showing up in our beautiful, imperfect wholeness and honoring the depth and the realness of the human experience in real time.
This work is focused on embracing the concepts of slow medicine, connection, receptivity, self-trust, and the simple act of being fully present, human-to-human. It is about embodying the heart-felt calling to offer kindness and compassion while trusting the process of life's unfolding. It's moving courageously into a liminal space where we begin to more fully embrace and allow the process of our becoming to happen with a sacred witness present.
“We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are – creatures of boundless love, caring, compassion, and wisdom.”
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
Here are some of the values I hold dear for showing up in sacred space with others.
Artema Somatics LLC
815 Main Street East
Menomonie, WI 54751
815 Main Street East
Menomonie, WI 54751