Sowing the Seeds for Inner Work
Since early 2020, I’ve been working with meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for the Wellbeing Project. Their mission is to support activists around the world as they labor on the front lines of love, truth, and justice. This year, they are running a nine-month series on the relation of inner work to social change. Every month, Sharon and I host one or two guests with expertise on the important questions involved. The series is taking an August break, but we’ll be back in the Fall with the following episodes:
Tuesday, Sept. 14: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Exploring Interconnectedness, featuring Dekila Chungyalpa and Mark Coleman
Tuesday, Oct. 12: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Embodying Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, featuring Justin Michael Williams and Sará King
Tuesday, Nov. 9: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Central
Real Change: Bridging our Inner and Outer Worlds, with our hosts Sharon Salzberg and Parker Palmer closing out the series
Carrie has been doing a series of online concerts and workshops. Check her website’s tour page for upcoming events this winter.
Nov 19th 2020 Carrie Newcomer Mini Retreat - Music & Conversation For Wise Women and Spirituality - Presented by The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
For Tour Page Click Here
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The Growing Edge is Happy to announce the release of a new music single "The Music Will Play On,” words & music by Parker J. Palmer, music by Carrie Newcomer. Carrie and Parker talk about the collaborative process that led to this song, and how it addresses “the curious promise of limited time” In the July The Growing Edge Podcast. The song is now available as a free downloadable mp3 on the Growing Edge Website accompanied by a new lyric video.
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Listen to Parker J. Palmer in conversation with with Sondra Samuels, president of the Northside Achievement Zone in North Minneapolis at the Westminster Forum. This is a beautiful recorded event includes open and honest conversation about race and justice.
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Carrie and Parker have a heart felt conversation with Interfaith Voices host Amber Khan about building community in fragmented times, The Growing Edge and The Brink of Everything, and living on the mobius strip of inner and outer life. To hear the conversation click on the button below.
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The 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards have been announced and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old, by Parker J. Palmer (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) has received the Gold Medal Award in the category of Aging/Death & Dying. Congratulations to Parker and to Berrett-Koehler!!
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Shalem is pleased to award their 2019 Contemplative Voices Award to Carrie Newcomer, performer, recording artist, educator and “prairie mystic.”
Shalem's Contemplative Voices Award was created to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to contemplative understanding, living and leadership and whose witness helps others live from the divine wellspring of compassion, strength, and authentic vision.
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This is an album about beginnings and endings, love and grief, being in process, miracles and possibility, and living in the kind of times that ask us to be better people than we ever thought we would need to be.
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The November-December, 2018 issue of Spirituality & Health celebrates the magazine’s 20th anniversary. They surprised us by including our Growing Edge partnership on their list of 10 SPIRITUAL LEADERS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS who are “responsive to today’s yearnings, forging new pathways, and elevating the conversation.”
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Carrie has just released a new book of sheet music, Sanctuary: The Carrie Newcomer Collection—Solo and Choral Arrangements by Gary Walters.
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Looking for a larger sense of what we mean by “the growing edge?” We co-authored a column on that subject for Krista Tippett’s On Being website
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On The Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old—”a brave and beautiful book on aging”—made four National Bestseller lists within three weeks of publication!
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