Building on the thirty years that they have worked together in the work of antiracism, Regina Shands Stoltzfus and Tobin Miller Shearer will draw on the deep spiritual traditions of the world’s religions to connect spiritual formation with racial identity.

This seminar will introduce soulfulness as an orientation to contemplative and embodied practices that is characterized by soul-level experiencing, deep connectivity, and inspired expression. 

This seminar is designed specifically to increase your awareness and range of options of how to communicate in the midst of strong emotions, whether anger, sadness or the numbness of confusion or disassociation. Together we will explore the Compassionate Conversations approach that honors the intelligence of our feelings, without being consumed by them, so that we become more conscious of our own states and our responses to others. 

This seminar demonstrates the somatics of trauma; realistic therapeutic interactions; elements of interpersonal neurobiology; and fractal recurrences, including the transpersonal emergence of synchronicity.