Miss the SDI Conference this year? Now you can access all the keynotes, practices, and guided meditations, from the comfort of home, at your own pace.
Self-Paced Meditations, Practices, and Compassionate Companionship
This collection of meditations, practices, and keynote presentations are put together from SDI’s 2024 Online Conference, recorded May 8-10, 2024. Includes over 20 hours of original content.
Order today and receive instant access to all content, which you can enjoy at your own pace. Create your own mini-retreat with this collection of deep insight, practice, and inspiration for all spiritual companions navigating challenging times.
Note to 2024 Online Conference Participants – You already have access to this collection! Simply log into our site with the SDI account you used to register, and go to My Courses.
This Collection Includes:
- Over 20 hours of pre-recorded content, which you can access anytime
- Listen to our keynoters speak to how to process and use stress to our advantage as spiritual directors and companions
- Guided Zen Meditation and Centering Prayer
- A range of somatic practices engaging the body
- Musical healing and inspiration
Includes Keynote Presentations by:
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Keynote Presenter
Kaira Jewel Lingo blends spirituality, meditation, and social justice. She grew up in an ecumenical Christian community and spent 15 years living as a nun in a Plum Village Buddhist monastery. Becoming a Zen teacher in 2007 through the transmission of Thich Nhat Hanh, she also teaches Vipassana Insight through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Today, she sees her work as a continuation of the Engaged Buddhism and the work of her father with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on desegregating the South. Now based in New York, she teaches and leads retreats internationally, provides spiritual mentoring, and interweaves art, play, nature, racial and earth justice, and embodied mindfulness practice in her teaching. She feels especially called to share with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as activists, educators, youth, artists, and families.
She imparts accessible advice on navigating difficult times of transition, drawing on Buddhist teachings about impermanence to help readers establish equanimity and resilience in her book, We Were Made for These Times: 10 Lessons for Moving through Change, Loss, and Disruption.
In this era of global disruption, threats to our individual, social, and planetary safety abound, and life can become quite overwhelming. Kaira’s book, and her approach, offer powerful ways to meet the considerable challenges of this moment with wisdom, resilience, and ease. Based on time-honored teachings that assist in developing presence, compassion, and stability in daily life, Kaira can help us spiritual directors and companions release the fear, doubt, and resistance that hold us back!
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Keynote Presenter
Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. He is the author of several books of poetry and prose: Feed the Beast, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, In the Shelter, Sorry for your Troubles, and Readings from the Books of Exile. Ó Tuama is also the host of the popular podcast Poetry Unbound, which immerses the listener into one poem every week, and the author of the collection, Poetry Unbound, an expansion on the podcast that offers reflections on fifty powerful poems. He splits his time between Ireland and NYC.
Cole Arthur Riley
Keynote Presenter
Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the NYT bestselling author of This Here Flesh and Black Liturgies. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator.
Harry Pickens
Musical Spiritual Companion in Residence
Harry is an award-winning musician, educator, and life transformation coach. He holds practitioner and trainer certifications in EFT and Spiritual Technology and a Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology from the Flourishing Center. He is the developer of the From StageFright To Standing Ovation™, From Burnout To Bliss™ and Rewire Your Brain For Inner Peace™ Workshops, and creator of Emotional Empowerment For Personal Mastery™, a step-by-step protocol that is designed to help his clients quickly and easily release the pain of the past, fully embrace the miracle of the present moment, and consciously create their best possible future. Harry was a recent presenter in the SDI Trauma and Wellness Course for Spiritual Directors and Companions.
Wendie Bernstein Lash
CoMMUNITY SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
Wendie is a spiritual director, supervisor, and service leader (Shelichat Tzibor) of a monthly contemplative chanting service, a Jewish Studio Project Facilitator, and the creator of two CDs – one chanting, one meditation. Wendie is a former member of the Coordinating Council of Spiritual Director’s International and the former co-director of the Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Direction.
Karen Erlichman, DMin, LCSW
COMMUNITY Spiritual Director
Karen provides psychotherapy, spiritual direction, supervision and So(U)L coaching in San Francisco, with a mind-body-spirit approach to healing. Karen’s writing has been published in numerous journals, blogs and anthologies, including Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, Tikkun, Feminist Studies in Religion and in the interfaith anthology Spiritual Guidance Across Religions. She is passionate about creating diverse and welcoming spaces for liberation, embodied spirituality and community. Her website is here.
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