Liminal Songlines tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86835658627323660 2012-05-03T22:30:19-07:00 Liminal Songlines is a respectful and creative exploration of the traditional culture and spirituality of the Aboriginal people of Australia. TypePad Rites of Passages and Wisdom Emerging tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0133ed5eaf4b970b016766197f28970b 2012-05-03T22:30:19-07:00 2012-12-05T12:34:57-08:00 A couple of months ago I participated in the Wisdom Emerging retreat at IONS with Alan Briskin, Lauren Artress and Angeles Arrien. I began making the painting above during the retreat's expressive arts process and completed it a couple of weeks later. The painting symbolizes significant aspects of the rite... Gisela Wendling Frank Ansell at TEDx Brisbane 2011 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0133ed5eaf4b970b0162fd8e403e970d 2011-12-08T17:48:46-08:00 2011-12-08T17:50:17-08:00 Frank Ansell recently gave this very generous talk about his life as a half aboriginal and half white person and the road he travelled to become a traditional Ngungkari healer. He left behind the spirit in the bottle, connected to the spiritual energies that are part of all of life... Gisela Wendling True Reconciliation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0133ed5eaf4b970b0153942d93af970b 2011-12-07T21:19:58-08:00 2011-12-08T02:36:36-08:00 Nigel Patterson came along on The Journey into Aboriginal Wisdom, the post-conference offering that we organizsed as part of the Spirituality, Leadership and Management conference (SLaM) this year. The wisdom Nigel gained is transformational and I am deeply touched by his insights. In the following brief essay he tells us... Gisela Wendling Summer Solstice 2011 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0133ed5eaf4b970b015433dcaf09970c 2011-07-20T04:17:14-07:00 2011-08-06T16:17:30-07:00 photo by Amy Lenzo I recently returned form a month long trip to the San Francisco Bay Area visiting with friends and re-connecting with my network of colleagues there. Since I left Germany in 1985 I lived in the Greater Bay Area off and on for 15 years. It was... Gisela Wendling Hunting for Honey Ants tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0133ed5eaf4b970b014e5ff7835f970c 2011-03-24T19:25:40-07:00 2011-04-01T14:37:27-07:00 During one of my visits to the Central Desert to participate in the women’s ceremonies, several Aboriginal women went hunting for honey ants and took a friend of mine and me along. Before we left I knew very little about these ants except that they had a great cultural significance... Gisela Wendling