The Spiral Path Blog
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Here are our older posts…
Crying in the church basement: On parenting children who don’t fit the box
Listen to Heather read the post here: I was crying in the church basement while my toddler ran circles around the room. I was certain I must be doing something wrong as a parent. My brother’s two sons were upstairs, sitting in cherubic silence on the hard...
Fall Orientations: Reflecting on Seasons, Activism, and Holding Space
Listen to Krista read the post: It’s sunny this morning. An autumn sun - somehow mellower than how I experience it in the spring or summer — or even the winter. No doubt I’m reacting more to its reflection off yellowing leaves and browning grass, the tell-tale signs...
Holding Space for Grief is a Practice of Community
We are delighted to share this blog post written by Holding Space Master Practitioner, Nam Pham, one of the primary teachers in our How to Hold Space Foundation Program. Nam lives in Viet Nam and has worked with us at the Centre since its inception. We are so grateful...
The Complexity of Rest
Listen to me read the post: I don’t even know how to start this post. I’ve been thinking about it since I started my semi-forced month of rest at the beginning of July. I knew I needed the rest. Had known it for quite a while. But my past versions of ‘rest’...
Meet me at the dinner table (a post about the end of the world)
Listen to me read the post: In the movie Don’t Look Up, two scientists (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) try to convince the public that an astroid is about to hit and, unless some action is taken to mitigate the threat, the earth is about to...
Why Krista Should Rest (and you should too)
Krista is taking the month of July for some much-needed rest, but because Krista is a high-functioning person who is very good at GETTING STUFF DONE (she has, in the past, had seven part-time jobs at once, while raising children and running a church) and not...
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Many years ago, a friend sent me Heather’s essay, What It Means To “Hold Space” For People, Plus Eight Tips On How To Do It Well. She thought this was “right up my alley” … it was! I had recently finished a certification program on line and was feeling empty. The program was solid, the tools were solid, my fellow graduates were energetically designing websites, writing business plans, setting monetary goals …. all valid – but I couldn’t find the heart. And then – poof! Heather
-How to Hold Space Foundation Program Participant
