News & Notes

Sowing the Seeds for Inner Work

Since early 2020, I’ve been working with meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for the Wellbeing Project. Their mission is to support activists around the world as they labor on the front lines of love, truth, and justice. This year, they are running a nine-month series on the relation of inner work to social change. Every month, Sharon and I host one or two guests with expertise on the important questions involved. The series is taking an August break, but we’ll be back in the Fall with the following episodes:

Tuesday, Sept. 14: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Exploring Interconnectedness, featuring Dekila Chungyalpa and Mark Coleman

Tuesday, Oct. 12: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Embodying Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, featuring Justin Michael Williams and Sará King

Tuesday, Nov. 9: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Real Change: Bridging our Inner and Outer Worlds, with our hosts Sharon Salzberg and Parker Palmer closing out the series

Carrie has been doing a series of online concerts and workshops. Check her website’s tour page for upcoming events this winter.

Nov 19th 2020 Carrie Newcomer Mini Retreat - Music & Conversation For Wise Women and Spirituality - Presented by The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

For Tour Page Click Here

Parker has an essay in this new book about Howard Thurman, edited by Greg Ellison, our September podcast guest. Available to followers of The Growing Edge at a 40% discount. Use GROWINGEDGE as promotion code. Click here to purchase your copy.

The 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards have been announced and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old, by Parker J. Palmer (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) has received the Gold Medal Award in the category of Aging/Death & Dying. Congratulations to Parker and to Berrett-Koehler!!

Shalem is pleased to award their 2019 Contemplative Voices Award to Carrie Newcomer, performer, recording artist, educator and “prairie mystic.”

Shalem's Contemplative Voices Award was created to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to contemplative understanding, living and leadership and whose witness helps others live from the divine wellspring of compassion, strength, and authentic vision.