Sometimes it seems that we are more connected to our smartphones than our souls. Whether we are avoiding the pain we see on the news or masking the trauma we have experienced first hand, many of us are struggling to engage with the pain in the world in a sustainable way. We are frantic and reactive rather than rooted and strategic.
Everyday Peacemaking is a sustained way of life that requires we stay in the game for the long haul as we join God in remaking our world.
In this webinar, we will learn from experienced guides and practitioners who embody lives of contemplative action. They will offer tools to keep us rooted in a climate of chaos and take the necessary internal journey that allows us to respond both to the Spirit and the news cycle. In the end, we will be reminded that we are human BE-ings, not human DO-ings.
Monday, August 13th – 5:00pm PT/8pmET
Panelists
Teresa P Mateus – is an author, speaker, teacher, professor and the Executive Director and co-founder of The Mystic Soul Project.
Teresa has served as a trauma psychotherapist/traumatologist for more than a decade of her career. She is a graduate of NYU School of Clinical Social Work, Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training, and the Living School at the Center for Action & Contemplation.
Teresa is the author of Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma & Recovery as well as Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing From Spiritual Trauma. Her upcoming book (working) titled Going Naked: The Camino de Santiago and Life as Pilgrimage is in progress. She has also contributed to a number of collected works, articles, print and podcast interviews, and presentations at various conferences in her areas of expertise — sitting at the intersections of trauma/healing, spirituality/contemplation, and action/justice-seeking.
Beyond that, she lives in Chicago in a little studio she calls her “hermitage in the city” with her two dogs – Gaia and Faith.
Phileena Heuertz – Author, spiritual director, yoga instructor, public speaker and retreat guide
Phileena is passionate about spirituality and making the world a better place. Phileena has led contemplative retreats for a number of faith communities including: Word Made Flesh, World Vision International, Compassion International, as well as non-faith and interfaith groups in leading cities across the nation. She has spoken at a number of universities and seminaries including: Asbury Theological Seminary, Biola University, Creighton University, Eastern Nazarene College, Fuller Seminary, George Fox University, Hardin-Simmons University and Midland University; and conferences such as Q, Catalyst, Urbana and the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Phileena and Chris founded Gravity in 2012 to support the development of consciousness by making contemplative practice accessible to individuals, communities and organizations who engage the challenging social justice perils of our time. Phileena’s work includes public speaking, teaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, facilitation of contemplative retreats, and spiritual direction. She holds a Masters of Christian Spirituality from Creighton University’s department of theology and is a certified spiritual director in the Ignatian contemplative evocative method.
Named “Outstanding Alumni” by Asbury University and one of Outreach magazine’s “30 Emerging Influencers Reshaping Leadership,” Phileena believes that contemplative spirituality is crucial to authentic, creative, liberating social change. Phileena is a member of the Red Letter Christians, is featured on Q Ideas, The Work of the People and Darkwood Brew and known for her provocative theological narrative, Pilgrimage of a Soul.
Facilitator
Jon Huckins – Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project
Jon is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, and has written three books of his own; his latest being Mending the Divides: Creative love in a Conflicted World. Jon has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lou) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill.
Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or his personal blog jonhuckins.net