The Systems View of Spiritual Emergence Support and Integration: Connecting Resonant Communities for Efficacy and Resilience

Abstract

Spiritual Emergence is an ongoing process of deepening inquiry, opening to more aspects and gifts within our selves, and releasing what has been completed. This may be soft and gentle like waves drawing us back into the sea, but more often then not, it is a purge through the fire. This initiation is an activation of soul purpose and capacities to be of service in the unique ways that only we can. Being an experiencer as well as a midwife as of this type of soul birth, facilitating the unfolding of psyche, is an honor and as we know, this requires deep levels of attunement and sensitivity. We can orient through lenses of Humanistic, Transpersonal, and Jungian psychology to offer frameworks on clinical practice. I also invite us to feel into and activate the synergistic collaboration of Spiritual Emergence with Neurodiversity, Ecology, and Cognitive Liberty, and the new ethics that these lineages demand from us all, where co-creating and manifesting together is possible. Join me in this exploration of my lived experience and clinical practice, of calibrating our instruments to another octave of resonance and integrity together in this time of transformation.

Presenter Bio

Michelle is a teacher, writer, energy worker, and Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy. She trained as a Spiritual Emergence Coach with Emma Bragdon and collaborates with the Gnosis Retreat Center project. Her love for the Earth and education was exemplified in her past as a high school Biology and Health teacher working in the Baltimore parochial school system after receiving her BS in Biology from University of Maryland Baltimore County. Deeply longing to immerse herself in the subtle realms, she was drawn to the Bay Area to continue her studies. With her MA in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies, she continued her own personal journey of healing, and then sharing that path with others through her wellness center and intuitive collective. She has been in states of Spiritual Emergence throughout her life to varying degrees, and entered a state of Spiritual Emergency in 2013. She completed and released her first book, Becoming Sacred Space in 2016. Then, in 2018, Michelle graduated from the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS, and just finished her second book, Holding Sacred Space.