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Life Mapping

Life Mapping is a creative approach to discernment that integrates mind, body and spirit. In Life Mapping participants construct mental maps to document and explore times of heightened spiritual awareness and the places where these experiences have occurred.  By tracing the sequence of these spiritually significant places, the current and future shape of spiritual development can be charted.

A FEW WORKSHOP BASICS

This four-session workshop is designed for anyone interested in exploring their spiritual journey in a supportive setting. The workshop centers on the creation of personal maps that represent the participant’s spiritual geography and pathways.   

Each of the four, hour-and-a-half workshop sessions follows a simple format:

• A brief reflection on a sacred text.

• Presentation and discussion of key ideas in Life Mapping.

• Mapmaking experiences.  

The workshop also incorporates reading assignments and activities for participants to complete between the workshop sessions. 

Each workshop can accommodate up to eight participants.

WORKSHOP AVAILABILITY — IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

The workshop is available to groups both in-person and online:

1. The in-person format can be offered when and where public health guidelines permit.

2. The online experience utilizes the combination of an online workbook and Zoom conferences. The Zoom conferences orient participants to the material in the workbook and provide an opportunity to unpack the reading and mapmaking assignments.

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The City as Sacrament

The City as Sacrament Workshop is designed for congregations seeking to understand and transform the interior life of their faith community as well as the city that they serve.

The workshop is offered in two parts over a two-day period. Part one takes place in an afternoon or evening and involves an exercise in neighborhood mapping, an urban plunge, and a debriefing. The urban plunge is an experiential practice that came out of the action training movement of the 1960s and involves an immersive experience of urban life.

Part Two occurs the following day and involves exploring a sacramental approach to city life that is informed by social justice, religious ritual, placemaking and the logic of transformation in human development. This session includes a presentation followed by discussion.