Wisdom Mentoring: A Journey to Love
About the Creator
Bill Redfield is a Wisdom Mentor, Clinical Social Worker, and Episcopal Priest who focuses on creating community to deepen spiritual growth and transformation. Through programs and practices he has developed, he seeks to deepen experiential wisdom.
Journey Description
This virtual journey program, “Wisdom Mentoring: A Journey to Love,” is a sequential series of fifteen recordings, each of which runs about 25 minutes.
Initially seen as a formal way of working to enhance another’s healing and spiritual growth, Wisdom Mentoring turns out to be distinctively different than other approaches, such as psychotherapy, coaching, and spiritual direction. Based on a Wisdom-oriented orientation to human life and purpose, Wisdom Mentoring assists another to grow into the fullness of their own specific and unique being.
But more than just formal way of assisting and accompanying another through their own Wisdom transformation, Wisdom Mentoring carries the key to unlocking the door to a deeper understanding and appreciation of love and caring. It, therefore, represents a call to us all.
Journey Tracks
Introduction
This is your personal invitation to embark on a transformational journey.
Wisdom's Transformational Arc
Here we take more of a bird’s-eye view of the Wisdom transformation and introduce the importance of sharing our experiences with each other through human language.
Beyond Beliefs
Wisdom promotes an embodied understanding that favors experiential knowing, rather than just theoretical or even theological propositions.
Rather than being associated with or belonging fully to any religious or philosophical tradition, Wisdom cuts across all other traditions.
Seeing The Divine In The Other
Wisdom sees the possibility that we can find meaning and purpose no matter what the circumstances and no matter what the conditions in which we find ourselves. We do not have to be defined by the situations in which we find ourselves.
The Wisdom Mentor can, by the power of her seeing this divine part in the person before her, reflect this divine wholeness and fullness back to the other from the reflection from her eyes. Thus, this divine fullness can be, in a very real sense, seen into being; and it becomes fully manifested when the Mentee entrusts herself to this and then lives the fullness of this reality into being.
Not Just The What But The How
These topics are explored:
It’s not just the “what” but also the “how”.
Wisdom Mentoring is non-hierarchical.
One Size Does Not Fit All
These aspects of Wisdom Mentoring are explored:
One size does not fit all
Invitation to life’s beneficent unfolding
Reality’s emergent unfolding
Engaging with the energies of the universe
Connections, Perspectives, And Practices
The growth and deepening of connections and perspectives is discussed. A deeper understanding and appreciation of spiritual practice is introduced.
New Ways Of Seeing
Wisdom Mentoring encourages new and deeper ways of seeing.
Silence, Tears, And Laughter
In this recording we cover three seemingly unrelated aspects of Wisdom Mentoring—the mother tongue in which these conversations between Mentor and Mentee are spoken, the language and forms of discourse with which we may address the divine, and the liberation of time from its constrictions as only a one-way linear arrow. We will discover how they are deeply related.
Grief And Grieving And Death And Dying
Wisdom Mentoring will take the Wisdom conversations right into and directly through these challenging and culturally taboo subjects. So much of our inner frozenness and wounding rests of our unwillingness and/or lack of experience in navigating these waters more directly.
What You Need You Already Have
Wisdom Mentoring desires to become the midwife of the birth of the Mentees own Wisdom voice and deeper intuitive knowing.
The Importance Of True Seeing
This very specific quality of seeing is how all the other issues and aspects that have been raised get traction in the process of transformational change.
Authenticity And Seeing
Beyond seeing the possibility of her own wholeness reflected back to her, the Mentee also sees the Mentor’s wholeness as the embracing field within which she can begin to see her own. In a most profound way, the Mentee’s wholeness and the Mentor’s wholeness are neither separate nor disconnected. Indeed, it is Wisdom Mentoring that is a process that can more intentionally link them together.
A Further Calling
What we learn from the more formal application of Wisdom Mentoring turns out to be precisely the skills and attitude we need to live the full life of love and loving.
Implications And Next Steps
In concluding this work, we consider the implications and next steps we might take.
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