The Spiral Path Blog
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Here are our older posts…
Holding Space in Organizations
In 2019, our own Master Practitioner Candidate, Brenda Barritt, began a process of teaching the principles and tools of Holding Space to the organization she then belonged to. This is her story of how that journey began and her reflections on the process. by Brenda...
Wonder-wonder-wander: My threefold spiritual (and mental health) practice
Listen: I have a three-fold spiritual (and mental health) practice that I like to call “wonder-wonder-wander”. It has become especially relevant to me in recent months while this pandemic winter drags on and threatens to drag me under the waves of melancholy...
Holding Space and the Fine Art of Being Wrong
Listen to Krista read the post... You might be surprised to hear this, but one of the things Heather and I are in almost constant communication about is whether we could be wrong. Are we wrong about how we have approached something? Were we wrong in the way we...
Holding the sadness
Listen to Heather read the post... Yesterday, I came undone. It’s been a rough week. With our province on lockdown (no restaurants, gyms, coffee shops or movie theatres are open, and stores can only sell essential items), the infection numbers staying...
Oobleck and Holding Space
by Vicky Bryan, Apprentice Teacher for the Holding Space Foundation Program Watch Vicky Playing with Oobleck My son and I were watching Emily’s Wonder Lab one day, and we were learning about non-Neutonian fluids. What are non-Newtonian fluids? Fluids in which...
The other side of despair
listen to me read the post... I remember that moment clearly. I was sitting in the rocking chair in the tiny living room of the first home I owned with my ex-husband, I was five months pregnant with my first daughter, and I was in complete and utter despair. I...
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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
