Liminal Songlines

Rites of Passages and Wisdom Emerging

Gisela Wendling — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:34:57 PST

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...

Frank Ansell at TEDx Brisbane 2011

Gisela Wendling — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:50:17 PST

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...

True Reconciliation

Gisela Wendling — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:36:36 PST

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...

Summer Solstice 2011

Gisela Wendling — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:17:30 PDT

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...

Hunting for Honey Ants

Gisela Wendling — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:37:27 PDT

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...