Francis Weller

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INTERVIEW TOPIC:

LONELINESS AS THE ABSENCE WHERE A FULLNESS SHOULD HAVE BEEN

Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. 

 

In this interview, psychotherapist and soul-activist Francis Weller invites us to consider the kinship between grief and loneliness. He reminds us that

  • staying attuned to the scent of sorrow keeps us connected to the larger breath of the world

  • risking revelation - beginning to share our grief and loneliness with others - takes us down into the commons of the soul

  • loneliness is related to the feeling that I cannot show you all of who I am

  • community ritual breaks the trance of privatization and helps us come back into a sense of being held by something bigger than our own will

LINKS:

Website: francisweller.net

BIO:

Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological and spiritual traditions.   

Francis received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and two Master’s Degrees from John F. Kennedy University in Clinical Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology. His writings have appeared in anthologies and journals exploring the confluence between psyche, nature and culture. His work was featured in The Sun magazine and the Utne Reader. Francis is currently on staff at Commonweal Cancer Help Program, co-leading their week-long retreats with Michael Lerner. He has taught at Sonoma State University, the Sophia Center in Oakland and has been the featured teacher at the Minnesota Men's Conference. He is currently completing his third book, A Trail on the Ground: The Geography of Soul.


This video is one of 16 interviews comprising the Transforming Loneliness summit, which was curated and hosted by Laura Parker, MFT in early 2019. To view the other interviews in the series, please register here if you haven’t already.

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