text.soul.culture Season Two Archives - 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:28:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 From the Field: Therapy, Fatherhood, and Embracing Uncertainty with Jeremy Dew /blog/from-field-jeremy-dew/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:00:06 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=12021 Shauna Gauthier sits down with Jeremy Dew (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥10) to talk about uncertainty in faith and how his work as a therapist aligns with his growth as a father.

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In our newest 鈥淔rom the Field鈥 episode of text.soul.culture, Shauna Gauthier (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥10), Alumni Outreach Coordinator, talks with Jeremy Dew (MACP, 鈥10), a therapist in private practice and the Facilitator of 天美视频鈥檚 Texas Alumni Chapter. Shauna and Jeremy were in the same cohort as graduate students, and the rapport of their long-time friendship is evident in this conversation, which starts with Jeremy鈥檚 reflections on an uprooted childhood that required him to be a charismatic, often silly kid who made new friends easily and maintained a positive, happy persona. As the oldest of five children in a family that moved often, Jeremy felt his role was to be exemplary in his ability to hold everything together鈥攁 burden that left him struggling to identify who he was beneath the surface.

Shauna: 鈥淚鈥檓 most compelled by Jeremy鈥檚 full-spectrum capacity to dive deep into heartache鈥攈is own and others鈥欌攁nd to leap so high into all sorts of play, especially in his play with his own children.鈥

Jeremy went to college to become a youth pastor, but a couple of years into school he realized that he had significant questions that were being answered in ways that felt disappointing and cheap. The environment seemed increasingly isolated and self-absorbed; it was all too easy to focus on obscure passages of Scripture or dense theological questions that felt removed from the day-to-day realities of the rest of the world.

Jeremy: 鈥淚t felt like many of the ways that we were answering questions of God further isolated us from the rest of the world.鈥

So Jeremy pursued other work鈥擲tarbucks, bronze casting, a microbrewery. He found himself longing for something more, but he knew it wouldn鈥檛 look like the pastoral education he鈥檇 seen before. Around this time he was exposed to work coming out of 天美视频, and he was intrigued by its openness to the rest of the world, a willingness to learn about God in unexpected places. Jeremy had tried walking away from his faith, but 鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 quite shake it.鈥 He was drawn to 天美视频 as a place where he could learn and wrestle with truth without having to artificially surrender his questions.

Jeremy: 鈥淲hat has felt true of vocation, and even calling, is that somehow it鈥檚 felt like that has been written in the peaks and in the valleys of my story. Both the places where I have known of my goodness and been uniquely named and uniquely spoken into, and in the places where I鈥檝e been most harmed and violated. Somehow my calling aligns those two.鈥

Shauna asks Jeremy what he has learned about vocation, calling, and sustainability, in the years since his time at 天美视频. The conversation also touches on what Jeremy鈥檚 work with parents has revealed about his own parenting, on what surprises and grounds him in his work, and on his heartbreak about the ways that men have used and abused power. The #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and #TimesUp movements have highlighted the need for his to keep pursuing his own growth and to help other men and young boys address their violent reactions to fragility and harm.

Jeremy: 鈥淰ocational sustainability has be wrapped up in who I am as a father as well, and as a husband.鈥


Resources to Go Deeper

Jeremy shares that he鈥檚 had a 鈥渞enewed energy for reading鈥 lately. Here鈥檚 what he鈥檚 into these days:

by Leif Enger鈥攔ecommended years ago by VP of Student & Alumni Development Paul Steinke, based on Jeremy鈥檚 love for by David James Duncan.

by Christine Marietta, over which Jeremy has cried with clients who feel validated in new ways by Christine鈥檚 words.

by Dorothy Dinnerstein, a feminist psychoanalyst writing in the 鈥70s.

by Daniel Keyes鈥攎ost people read this as kids, but a client recommended it to Jeremy to better understand where she鈥檚 coming from.

by Rene Girard鈥擩eremy heard about it in school and sometimes found himself using that language, so he decided to figure out what he meant by it.

For more from Jeremy, check out the video of his Symposia 2016 presentation, 鈥淧ractical Parenting: When Good Enough Is Good Enough, Even for the Trained Professional as Parent.鈥

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Finding Home in an Accelerated Age with Dr. Craig Detweiler /blog/finding-home-craig-detweiler/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:00:58 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=12089 Craig Detweiler talks about six months as President, adaptive resilience, the importance of home, and 天美视频鈥檚 next chapter.

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This week, on the second season finale of text.soul.culture, Dr. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, continues his discussion with Dr. Craig Detweiler, President of 天美视频. In the first part of this conversation, Craig shared about his personal formation and the journey that led him to 天美视频. Now, he and Derek look back on the last six months, talk about what it means to make a home in a new city, and dream together about what the future might hold鈥攆or Craig and his family, and for the entire 天美视频 community.

Craig: 鈥淲e have the ability to export our education and training in very robust ways. So this isn鈥檛 a small thing, it鈥檚 actually a very significant thing. We鈥檙e trying to be very deep and very personal, at a time when the needs are growing nationally, internationally鈥攖he hunger for peace, the hunger for wholeness, the hunger for healing is off the charts.鈥

Craig shares about his motivation to understand not just 天美视频 and the people in this building, but also our neighborhood and surrounding city鈥攖he broader context in which our mission unfolds. He has spent a lot of time out and about going to concerts, museums, lunches, 鈥渢rying to catch the flavor, the taste of what鈥檚 going on.鈥

Craig: 鈥淲e鈥檙e living in an accelerated age in Seattle. The city itself has grown faster and more than any other city over the last decade in the United States. That creates profound possibilities and profound anxieties. […] Finding home in all that, finding space鈥攊t鈥檚 tricky. It鈥檚 not easy, it鈥檚 not quick.鈥

Derek shares how Craig has brought with him new ways of thinking about the future that are 鈥渂oth disruptive and promising.鈥 It鈥檚 a profound time for those new perspectives, as 天美视频 is approaching its 21st birthday鈥攁 milestone of identity and maturation. 鈥淚t鈥檚 fascinating to arrive as 天美视频 is graduating a class in their 20th year here and turning toward the 21st year,鈥 says Craig. 鈥淢ost schools would celebrate their 20th anniversary, but we鈥檙e not most schools. I think we鈥檙e maybe more interested in celebrating the 21st, because it鈥檚 closer to a human rite of passage, moving toward adulthood.鈥

鈥淚 hope in the 21st year, in looking back, we can look at hard things, and we can look at beautiful things, and we can dance together again.鈥

In the midst of all the change, Derek and Craig also reflect on that which remains true about 天美视频鈥檚 ethos: the annual and seasonal rhythms, the weekly communion, the nine.noon.three bells that chime every three hours as an invitation to re-orient and re-settle. These core shared values鈥攑art of what Derek calls 鈥渁daptive resilience鈥濃攁re what ground us, personally and collectively, as we respond to change and dream about the future.

Derek: 鈥淵ou need that looking back to look forward, to recognize in some sense the continuity of us. […] We鈥檙e a very hopeful institution, and I think we are coming into this notion of what we are called to be.鈥

Craig: 鈥淲e reorient ourselves, at a time of massive confusion, to say 鈥榯hese things we know to be true.鈥 […] Can we lean into that ongoing hope that does not change, at a time when, on any given day, we all feel like we may be about to get swamped? […] Let鈥檚 learn from where we鈥檝e been, learn from mistakes we made, acknowledge aches, pains, growing pains, hunger, guilt, longing鈥攁nd yet here we are, ready to continue.鈥

As always, thank you for listening to text.soul.culture. You can catch up on every episode from our first two seasons here, and we鈥檒l see you in the fall as we continue the conversation.

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Voices from the Artist Residency: A text.soul.culture Minisode /blog/artist-residency-minisode/ Mon, 14 May 2018 12:00:20 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11987 Today on text.soul.culture, the students and alumni who participated in the 2018 Artist Residency reflect on what it was like to spend a week painting, drawing, and creating in 天美视频鈥檚 red brick building.

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Today on the text.soul.culture podcast, we鈥檙e spending a few minutes with the students and alumni who recently participated in our 2018 Artist Residency. The Artist Residency is an annual opportunity for members of our community to spend a week in the building, making the space their own as they draw, paint, sculpt, and create both individually and collectively.

鈥淎fter I鈥檝e drawn someone鈥檚 face I love them more, because I know them better.鈥

In this minisode, the artists reflect on what it鈥檚 like to inhabit our red brick building outside of their familiar role as students. How is their art uniquely impacted by these classrooms and hallways where they have spent years wrestling with big ideas and difficult questions?

鈥淧robably what I will take away more than anything is the people that I spent the time with,鈥 says Genevra Vanhoozer, MA in Counseling Psychology student. 鈥淚 will carry them with me, I鈥檒l carry them in my body. The work is good, it鈥檚 important, but I see the people as just as much, if not more essential.鈥

The theme of this year鈥檚 residency was 鈥淩epairer of the Breach,鈥 and the artists were hosted by poet and Assistant Instructor Brittany Deininger (MA in Theology & Culture, 鈥17). We鈥檙e grateful for those who spoke with us for this podcast, and for all of the artists whose presence and creation during the residency have left a mark in our building:

  • Lindsay Braman (MACP student)
  • Heather Casimere (MATC student)
  • Kate Creech (MACP student)
  • Katie Lin (MACP student)
  • Alissa Mazzenga (MACP student)
  • Genevra Vanhoozer (MACP student)
  • Jonnie Washburn (MATC student)

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Storytelling and Resilience with Nikkita Oliver /blog/storytelling-resilience-nikkita-oliver/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11943 On the text.soul.culture podcast, Shauna Gauthier talks with artist and community organizer Nikkita Oliver about her formation, her work in Seattle, and the difference between natural and forced resilience.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, co-host Shauna Gauthier, Alumni Outreach Coordinator, gets to know community organizer, artist, teacher, and attorney Nikkita Oliver, who shares about her formation, her work in Seattle, and the themes she engaged recently at our Humanity Through Community conference. This is an insightful, vulnerable, and necessary conversation, and we are grateful to Nikkita for sharing her story with us.

Nikkita: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 shy away from the painful points in things, because sometimes we have to be willing to engage the pain in order to move through it. We spend a lot of time trying to move around pain, or over pain, or away from pain.鈥

Nikkita shares about having a White mother and a Black father in Indianapolis, growing up code switching as she moved between different parts of her family and learned their ways of speaking and thinking. Her mother instilled in her a deep value for compassion and empathy, as well as a commitment to stick to her work even when it鈥檚 hard. Nikkita recalls visiting Seattle when she was 16 or 17, thinking for the first time about what it might mean to grow into her own person.

鈥淗ope is a beautiful thing, and it鈥檚 natural. It鈥檚 like faith鈥攊t persists because you have a vision for something better.鈥

Nikkita: 鈥淚 am constantly digging into my own family of origin to better understand why other people move through the world in the way that they do, and how you can use where a person comes from, their own story, to get them to see the role they play in the bigger story.鈥

As Nikkita began sharing her voice and putting her work out in the world, and as she continued reflecting on the stories that we tell鈥攁nd the stories that don鈥檛 get told鈥攕he grew as a leader in speaking to the realities and needs of her community. This background helps inform her view on the difference between natural resilience鈥攖he ability to be stretched and still keep your essence鈥攁nd forced resilience.

Nikkita: 鈥淥ftentimes the sort of resilience we celebrate as a society is not natural resilience, it is forced resilience. It should force us to think about why are some people forced to be resilient, and some people not? […] So I often talk about the problem of resilience. I think resilience in a white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal society is something we only expect certain people to have to show.鈥

Resources to Go Deeper

  • For more from Nikkita Oliver, you can watch the full video of her Humanity Through Community talk, 鈥淎 New Take on Resilience,鈥 as well as the follow-up panel discussion.
  • If the phrase 鈥渃ode switch鈥 is new to you, or if you鈥檙e just looking for insightful and engaging perspectives on critical cultural issues, check out the podcast from NPR.
  • Nikkita shared that her father鈥檚 family moved from Louisiana to Indiana near the time of the Great Migration. is a vital, in-depth look at 鈥渢his exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.鈥

About the Host

Shauna Gauthier received her MA in Counseling Psychology from 天美视频 in 2010. She previously worked in the Denver Metro area as a therapist and a nonprofit program manager; she also helped launch 天美视频鈥檚 Colorado Alumni Chapter. After returning to Seattle, Shauna now serves as the Alumni Outreach Coordinator. She also enjoys writing and speaking about motherhood, feminism, and faith. Learn more about Shauna here.

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Spirituality and Science with Dr. Curt Thompson /blog/spirituality-science-curt-thompson/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:00:25 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11865 Dr. Derek McNeil sits down for a conversation with psychiatrist and author Dr. Curt Thompson about the spirituality and science behind resilience, integration, and human flourishing.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, co-host Dr. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, is joined by Dr. Curt Thompson, psychiatrist, founder of , and author of The Soul of Shame and The Anatomy of the Soul. Curt is coming to 天美视频 April 20-21 for an evening lecture and all-day workshop about resilience and interpersonal neurobiology. Here, he shares with Derek some of what he鈥檚 learning about the science behind resilience, and about what that reflects of the nature of God.

Curt: 鈥淣o science ever exists independently, apart from being understood through a particular anthropology. When we understand the data that we discover through a lens of Christian anthropology, we come to recognize that the science itself is pointing to this inseparability of our spirituality and our biology.鈥

Curt shares about his path to psychiatry, about being in medical school and becoming passionate about exploring the nature of suffering and the human response to it. He had already been asking big questions鈥擶hy do we do what we do? Why is it so difficult to change? What has that got to do with the Gospel?鈥攁nd bringing his spirituality to the field of psychiatry gave him room to wrestle with these questions in deep and meaningful ways. Now, with the growing body of insight from the field of neuroscience, Derek and Curt reflect on how that might energize our understanding of God and give us new language for what God has been up to all along.

Curt: 鈥淚n this particular time and space, neuroscience is one of the ways that God is not leaving Himself without a witness.鈥

As Curt shares what he is learning about resilience, the conversation touches on education, parenting, and more. It鈥檚 clear that these insights into how we respond to suffering and how we foster resilience in relationship have a great deal to teach us about who we are, who God is, and how the world around us reveals the nature of both. It鈥檚 also clear that these are big ideas with significant implications, so we hope you鈥檒l join us April 20-21 as we welcome Curt Thompson back to 天美视频 to continue this conversation.

Curt: 鈥淲e have put thousands and thousands of people in fMRI scans to give us a sense of what a normal brain looks like under unstressed circumstances. But what if we got this wrong? What if a normal brain is a brain that is connected to another brain? What if that is actually the most resilient brain? […] It takes us right back to the Genesis account of creation.鈥

Resources to Go Deeper

  • by Curt Thompson
  • by Curt Thompson
  • by Lesslie Newbigin

About the Host

Dr. Derek McNeil is the Senior Vice President of Academics at 天美视频. He has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary, and his research, writing, and speaking have focused on issues of ethnic and racial socialization, the role of forgiveness in peacemaking, the identity development of African-American males, and marital intimacy. Learn more about Derek here.

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To Be Heard: A text.soul.culture Minisode /blog/to-be-heard-minisode/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11830 Today on text.soul.culture, we鈥檙e spending a few minutes with the question, 鈥淲hat does it feel like to be heard?鈥 Alumni, students, and staff share responses that, for such a short question, are surprisingly thought-provoking.

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Today on the text.soul.culture podcast, we鈥檙e spending a few minutes with the question, 鈥淲hat does it feel like to be heard?鈥 It seems like a simple question, but as we wandered through the building talking to alumni, students, and staff, we were surprised by the range and depth of responses. Maybe the desire to be heard, in a way that goes beyond passive listening or distracted acknowledgment, touches on something core about what it means to be human.

To be heard鈥攄eeply, actively heard, in a way that is marked by attunement and empathy鈥攊s a longing that is core to our nature as relational beings. 鈥淚t feels like coming home, or returning to something valuable,鈥 says Heather Barnes, Institutional Support Manager. Like feeling a future stretching out before you.鈥

Many thanks to all of those who participated by sharing their responses:

Heather Barnes, Institutional Support Manager
Matt Gullett (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥11), Assistant Librarian
Andrew Accornero, MA in Counseling Psychology student
Laura Stembridge, Master of Divinity student
Graham Murtaugh, MA in Counseling Psychology student
Kartha Heinz, Director of Human Resources
Courtney Lee, MA in Counseling Psychology student

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The Dare of Proximity with Dr. Dwight Friesen /blog/dare-proximity-dwight-friesen/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:38:12 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11800 Dr. Derek McNeil is joined by Dr. Dwight Friesen to talk about working at 天美视频, fostering a more holistic form of education, and sharing his deep passion for the ongoing movement of God in the particularity of place.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, co-host Dr. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, is joined by Dr. Dwight Friesen, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, to talk about working at 天美视频, a more holistic form of education, and Dwight鈥檚 deep passion for the ongoing movement of God in the particularity of place.

Dwight shares about how he first came to 天美视频 and discovered a deep alignment between the mission of this institution and his own personal calling. As he reflects on what he dreams about personally and collectively, he reflects on the parish theology that compels his ministry, teaching, and writing.

Dwight: 鈥淥n a personal level, I think the dream of my life is to learn what it is to love: to love others, to love God, to love myself, to love place, to love what it is to be a creature. There are a lot of things that compete for my affections other than loving relationship. To actually throw myself into the gift of love鈥攖hat, on a personal level, feels like the dare of my life.鈥

As Derek and Dwight talk about teaching at 天美视频, they reflect on the unique challenges of education when transformation is the goal, not merely a checklist of correct answers. Dwight shares how, motivated by a relational, trinitarian theology that is grounded in the parish, he no longer sees his professorial role as primarily about imparting knowledge.

Dwight: 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not a Christian endeavor. I don鈥檛 think I鈥檓 in the knowledge business. […] Anything that collapses into theory is just not adequate.鈥

Derek: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e talking about something that is beyond words, that is much more holistic.鈥

Dwight: 鈥淚 increasingly believe that I am less a professor professing truth as I am a witness, bearing witness to what is real as to what I鈥檝e known and experienced of the living God.鈥

鈥淎nything that collapses into theory is just not adequate.鈥

The conversation turns to local expressions of church, and Derek and Dwight talk about the complexities of living these concepts in real, messy, day-to-day life. The emotion in Dwight鈥檚 voice is clear as he speaks of his deep love for the Church and his hope that local churches will not drift into abstraction or ideology but will grow into vibrant expressions of the tangible movement of God in their communities. That鈥檚 the hope that informs Dwight鈥檚 work, whether it鈥檚 teaching in the classroom, co-facilitating the Leadership in the New Parish certificate program or the , or just walking around his neighborhood.

Dwight: 鈥淕od is doing what God does and renewing God鈥檚 people, not for the sake of the church but for the sake of the world. […] Somehow proximity dares me, woos me to figure out how do I actually live rightly with my neighbors, in such a way that it calls us both into a better way of being.鈥

Resources to Go Deeper

Here are a few of the voices that emerged during this conversation. These texts help expand the way of listening to the triune God in the particularity of place that Dwight is so passionate about. And if you鈥檙e interested in joining with hundreds of others who are passionate about the place-based theology and practice Dwight discusses here, we hope you鈥檒l join us for the Inhabit, April 27-28 in Seattle.

  • by Esther Lightcap Meek
  • by Colin E. Gunton
  • by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight Friesen

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From the Field: Smruti Desai /blog/from-the-field-smruti-desai/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:00:32 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11586 Shauna Gauthier sits down with Smruti Desai (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥09) to talk about Smruti鈥檚 therapeutic work, primarily with people of color, and about the decision to take what she learned in Seattle back to her home state of Georgia.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, Shauna Gauthier (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥10), Alumni Outreach Coordinator, talks with Smruti Desai (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥09) for our first 鈥淔rom the Field鈥 episode. Shauna begins by sharing her curiosity about how 天美视频鈥檚 alumni are continuing their growth and education long after graduating. In these new, recurring field episodes, Shauna will sit down with alumni to discuss their formation, vocation, and life post-graduate school.

Smruti Desai has developed a thriving private practice and worked as a supervisor and director at community agencies for several years. After 11 years in Seattle, Smruti recently moved to Atlanta, in her home state of Georgia. Before she moved, she sat down with Shauna to talk about her therapeutic work and the decision to move back across the country.

Smruti: 鈥淚 think helping people is lovely, and for whose sake do you want to help people? And what do you do when you can鈥檛? How do you tolerate that with kindness and strength?鈥

Having grown up as an Indian woman in Georgia, Smruti shares about early experiences of encountering people from different backgrounds and traditions, and about her journey of faith. Raised Hindu, Smruti, who says that her father encouraged open-mindedness and hospitality to other traditions, learned about Christianity in college and did not see the two worldviews as contradictory.

Smruti: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know how the Gospel can be not something we鈥檙e becoming into. I don鈥檛 know how we鈥檙e not striving to be people of grace and mercy and redemption and healing. If it鈥檚 a fixed concept, I think we鈥檙e all kind of screwed.鈥

Smruti also reflects on what drew her to therapeutic work. She had noticed that therapy is often seen as 鈥渁 white American thing,鈥 and she wanted to help make it more accessible for other folks. This leads to a conversation about the daily traumas and microaggressions experienced by people of color, and Smruti shares about her vocational call to bear witness to the suffering of clients and to offer a space for them to breathe and care for themselves. She reflects on how 天美视频 helped equip her for that work, and about how she plans to continue it in Atlanta.

Smruti: 鈥淎 lot of people don鈥檛 need more resilience. They need spaces to feel their feeling and name that shit is hard and name that they鈥檙e barely getting by. My clients don鈥檛 need resilience. What they need is a freaking break.

You can see more from Smruti in this . We are endlessly grateful for and amazed by our alumni and the work they are doing in the world. Their vocational expressions extend the mission of 天美视频 beyond our walls and continually inform and refine how we train students. Stay tuned to text.soul.culture for future 鈥淔rom the Field鈥 episodes highlighting our alumni and the brave, beautiful work they pursue.


Resources to Go Deeper

Smruti is committed to reading one fiction book, one social justice book, and one therapy book concurrently. Here鈥檚 what she was reading at the time of this recording:

by Arundhati Roy, a novel about a trans person in India.

, about the intersection of social justice and Buddhism.

by Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips, part of a somatic experience training Smruti is participating in.

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The Art of Listening with Shauna Gauthier /blog/art-listening-shauna-gauthier/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:00:38 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11570 Dr. Derek McNeil sits down with Shauna Gauthier, Alumni Outreach Coordinator and our new co-host for this podcast, to talk about the transformative art of listening.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, Dr. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, sits down with Shauna Gauthier, MA in Counseling Psychology 鈥10 and Alumni Outreach Coordinator, to introduce her and welcome her as his new co-host, and to talk about the transformative art of listening.

Joining text.soul.culture is a natural outgrowth of Shauna鈥檚 work with alumni, an opportunity to share the stories of those who extend the mission of 天美视频 in their vocations and callings. 鈥淚 love the idea of allowing our alumni to lead us as an institution,鈥 says Shauna, 鈥渁llowing them and what they鈥檙e doing in the world to continue to inform us.鈥

Derek and Shauna also reflect on how the intimate format of a podcast invites us to slow down, pause, and engage in the sort of listening that fosters transformation. The deep, thoughtful conversations Derek and Shauna will continue hosting on text.soul.culture invite us to hear in a way that opens us to the tragedy, beauty, hope, and pain in the stories of others.

Shauna: 鈥淚 love to hear stories, I love to be part of sharing stories.鈥

Derek: 鈥淎nd you鈥檙e not simply talking about people telling stories, but people listening to stories. My sense of you is that you鈥檙e a deep listener of stories.鈥

Shauna: 鈥淚 appreciate that generative listening鈥攊t鈥檚 listening that really offers life back.鈥

Stay tuned as Shauna joins Derek in listening to and telling stories on text.soul.culture. In our next episode, we鈥檒l feature a conversation between Shauna and one of our alumni鈥攁 conversation that embodies much of what Shauna and Derek talk about today.


Resources to Go Deeper

Derek and Shauna share a deep respect for how Krista Tippett models deep listening.

Before moving back to Seattle, Shauna wrote this blog about how her intimate connection to the Columbine shooting impacted her calling and vocation.

At Symposia 2015, Shauna pulled from psychological theory, contemporary research, and her own experience as she offered this talk about how writing can shape the movement of healing from trauma.

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The Road to Seattle with Dr. Craig Detweiler /blog/road-seattle-craig-detweiler/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:00:21 +0000 http://theseattleschool.edu/?p=11473 This week on text.soul.culture, Dr. Derek McNeil sits down with 天美视频鈥檚 new president, Dr. Craig Detweiler, to talk about his journey to Seattle. Craig shares about some of his formative experiences and reflects on what drew him to 天美视频.

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This week on the text.soul.culture podcast, Dr. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, is joined by our new president, Dr. Craig Detweiler, to talk about the journey that led him to 天美视频. Our community has been in the process of getting to know Craig, and we鈥檙e excited for you to join that conversation today.

After growing up in North Carolina and working as a filmmaker, author, and teacher in Los Angeles, Craig says that he sees this move to Seattle as a sort of third act in his life鈥攂oth personally and professionally. He and Derek talk about what stood out about 天美视频, and about how his past work and formative experiences prepared him for this role.

Craig: 鈥淎s I read the job description it was very strange, like 鈥極h, that is eerily similar to who I am and what I do.鈥 […] Then I waded through the website and saw layer and layer of intentionality, thoughtfulness, depth.鈥

Craig shares about how early encounters with films, including Casablanca and Raging Bull, inspired him to engage and tell stories, and to believe that God is often found in unexpected places. He and Derek reflect on the beauty in stories of hard-won redemption鈥攁nother way Craig connected with the work of 天美视频, where we believe that healing is rarely quick or easy, and that we can鈥檛 use Band-Aids for deep, systemic wounds.

Craig: 鈥淚 believe that God can use unlikely people, places, and things to wake us up. That鈥檚 what film did for me.鈥

Derek and Craig also talk about the practicalities of a whole family adjusting to a big move, the challenges of making a home in a new place, and the speed and frenzy of our society, particularly in a tech hub like Seattle鈥攖hemes that Craig was engaging before coming to Seattle, including in his books and the upcoming . Craig shares how he resonates with the missionality of 天美视频 and the emphasis on sustainability and intentionality.

Derek: 鈥淭he speed is stimulating but has some emptiness to it. Speed is not bad, but if you become intoxicated with the speed and lose quality of life or wholeness, then you feel more empty after you come down off the ride.鈥

Craig: 鈥淎nd here is a community that is doing, essentially, the opposite. They鈥檙e going slow, they鈥檙e going thoughtful, they鈥檙e going deep. It genuinely intrigued me.鈥


Resources

Go deeper with the books and movies that emerged in this conversation:

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