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THE SOPHIA INSTITUTE, a 501c3 organization, offers retreats featuring nationally and
Internationally renowned authors and teachers, providing a wide range of programs
addressing the needs of those engaged in personal and interpersonal transformation.
THE SOPHIA INSTITUTE provides leading edge programs taught by the world’s foremost thinkers and teachers that foster Wisdom, Wholeness, Oneness, Sustainability, Peace and the Integration of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine for the transformation of Self and Society.
The purpose of the SOPHIA INSTITUTE is to be a source and a beacon in today’s world for profound transformation and unlimited spiritual growth. Using a new model of spiritual partnership and integration between feminine and masculine values, the Institute fosters a spirit of co-creative wisdom that calls forth the unique gifts of each individual.
Noted faculty include Carol Anderson, Angeles Arrien, Christopher Bamford, Sera Beak, Eve Blossom, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joan Borysenko, Rick Brown, Tradd Cotter, Loiuse Doire, Anna Douglas, Carol Lee Flinders, Erica Ariel Fox, China Galland, Richard Garcia, Jim Garrison, Natalie Goldberg, Andrew Harvey, Jean Houston, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Stephanie Hunt, Dr. Lee Irwin, Daryn Kagan, Gloria Karpinski, Ann Kidd Taylor, Anne LeClaire, Bokara Legendre, Pat Luce, Sharon Martin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Debra Moffitt-Leslie, Terry Monell, Sue Monk Kidd, Mary Alice Monroe, Maureen Murdock, Mark Nepo, Kathleen Norris, Andrea Olsen, Lacquanna Paul, Robert Powell, Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Paula Reeves, Velcrow Ripper, Stephaney Robinson, Peggy Rubin, Ileana Shaner, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dr. Gus Speth, Margaret Starbird, Robert Thurman, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Daphne Tse, Lynne Twist, Lindsay Wagner, Susan Hull Walker, Ellen Watson, David Whyte, Marianne Williamson, Marion Woodman, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Len Young, Claire Zammit, Ann Igoe, Ann Igoe and Eliza Ingle, Jacqueline Kabat, Kurt Lamkin, Henk Brandt, Carolyn Rivers.
Whether it’s Women’s Circles with Carolyn Rivers, Men in Transition with Henk Brandt, Sunday Meditation with Dr. Lee Irwin or Ecumenical Evenings, there is an array of on-going programs to engage everyone in transformative work. The SOPHIA INSTITUTE is honored to sponsor Ecumenical Evenings, a monthly series with varying religious leaders, seasoned artists, advocates and allies challenging us to live vibrantly and creating a culture of understanding and tolerance with a greater sense of the divine in us all. The series is free and open to all -- Sophia's gift to the community.
THE SOPHIA INSTITUTE looks towards a world that could be called a wisdom society, a 21st century that could be called The Sophia Century: a conscious enlightened world, a compassionate global community, where wholeness, healing, sustainability, the conscious heart, deep wisdom, and the sacred feminine are at the center of life. As we face new challenges in a world of conflict, we are dedicated to the vision that together we can create a more conscious and enlightened world, a world in renaissance that expresses the vastness of the human potential.
Convocations of sacred activists, concerned citizens, spiritual and business leaders, work together to redefine and move forward the changes needed to create a just, sustainable and compassionate society.
Dear Friends,
We are living in potent times, full of challenge and also of opportunity. It may be that the big heart of the world is cracking open before us, shifting everything with it, directing us into a whole new way of living and being in the world that honors the oneness of all things and brings the sacred back to the center of life.
Central to the work of The Sophia Institute is the belief that we are living in a time of great evolutionary shift guided by Divine Wisdom, when the feminine impulse is beginning to come into balance with the masculine and bringing with it a radical wisdom of the heart. Old patterns that no longer serve us, patterns of domination, aggression and control, are beginning to be transformed within ourselves and in our social structures. New ones that are centered on integration, wholeness, oneness, collaboration, sustainability and peace are now emerging. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Nobel Peace Laureates have noted, “Educating the intellect alone is a prescription for disaster. We must also be educating the heart.” Doing so is central to the vision of The Sophia Institute.
We believe that community and global transformation often arises out of individual transformation. We seek out leading-edge visionaries and thinkers whose work reflect this vision and bring them to The Sophia Institute to lead retreats, workshops, lectures, and other special events. Their messages of wisdom, healing, integration, oneness, sustainability, peace, and the conscious feminine and masculine herald the arrival of new paradigms and fresh perspectives at that moment in our history when they are needed most.
Sue Monk Kidd, our writer-in-residence, said recently in a talk she gave at The Sophia Institute, “There is a new spiritual consciousness breaking into the world. We could call it a Feminine consciousness, even a Sacred Feminine consciousness. It has the potential to bring healing, balance and a new paradigm of wholeness. It has the potential to do something that has never been done before: To open the immense common heart of the world. The particular genius of the Sacred Feminine is in its valuing of the wisdom of the heart, of interdependence, empathy, relational thinking, compassionate community, intuitive intelligence, peace, creativity, and the sacredness of the earth.”
We invite you to bring your curiosity, wisdom, passion for life and growth to our gatherings. As Einstein said, “The mindset that created the problem is not the mindset that will solve it.” We are cultivating a new mindset, one that is wisdom based and found in the hearts of women and men alike. We agree with Jean Shinoda Bolen on our National Advisory Board that “when a critical number of people change how they think and behave, the culture will also, and a new era begins.”
The Sophia Institute envisions a world that could be called a wisdom society, a 21st century that could be called The Sophia Century: a conscious enlightened world, a compassionate, global community, where wholeness, oneness, sustainability, the conscious heart, deep wisdom, and the sacred are at the center of life.
As we face new challenges in a world in transformation, please join us as together we can create a more conscious and enlightened world, a world that expresses the vastness of the human spirit.
Blessings,
Carolyn Rivers
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