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Sanity & Soul is available for one more week! Until March 24th, 2025 Experience the depth of Stephen’s work in a pretty unique way as described in 'Die Wise'. Hearing Stephen practice in 4 recorded grief counsel sessions, most with dying people Listening to Stephen's conversations with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín and Dr....

Tomorrow, Stephen Jenkinson will be speaking with two colleagues to discuss the lasting impact of Die Wise on grief counselling, death doulas, and the way these ideas continue to shape our world, Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín, a neuroscientist studying human consciousness and on Sunday with Dr. Manfred Becker, filmmaker exploring the afterlife. Those...

This has become a season of intense concentration upon several writing projects. I thought the times of such intensity were done, but I've been wrong before. There is a bit of accountant's math that goes along with that surprise, though: concentration is drawn away from other things. My old...

Join Us March 15 & 16 Earlier this year Stephen agreed to several heart-to-hearts; among those conversations were a handful of counsel calls and a few interviews. Those counsel call conversations are now available to those who have registered for Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On. The three interviews are with...

Early Bird Pricing Ends Tomorrow Join Us  For Canadian Participants: $200 CAD Early Bird Price offer valid until Tuesday, February 18th then $300 CAD For International Participants: $200 USD Early Bird Price offer valid until Tuesday, February 18th then $300 USD  Many among us now are crazy for meanings, and crazed by seeking them out. The meanings of life aren’t inherited....

New Price It seems proper now, given the times, the lateness of the hour for some amongst us, that the door of this orphan wisdom which is Die Wise, Ten Years On swings wide open on its hinges, that we might make more of Sanity and Soul with you there in March. Stephen Jenkinson Founder of Orphan Wisdom Join Us  For...

Alms. Giving. A year ago yesterday I sat in a basement room in another country and stared at a screen. In a moment the lights would go up, I'd lift my face and begin talking to a hundred or so people who'd been invited to witness a kind of vernissage, a kind...

"Dying is not the collapse or the eclipse of wisdom. It is the sum of a soulful life." Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On Registration opens at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT / 5am ACT (+1 day) Transcript of Stephen speaking with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín and Dr. Manfred Becker who...

“Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.” Registration opens Tuesday February 4th Early Bird $350 USD until February 18th Regular $450 USD Event Details Quotes from Die Wise, A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul: By being given More Time, they have been given more death. Imagine that there is...

Paths and empty halls -by Nathalie Roy Whichever way I walk, I would come upon an empty hall. There's a path to the front door of my house that leads down a slope to the river, The River of Abundance and Time. She's frozen over now, in most places. Coyotes cross over in the night. Ice feathers cling...

Only the Living Die: A Year of Reckoning Live in Joshua Tree: March 7 & 8 In time of yore, most people went to the desert reluctantly. Ekvballai, 'driven out': that's what it took to get there: a God at your heels, or in your rafters, just apounding. Or a vision. Or crying after one, for want of...

Gone. That's a sure sign that something happened, out there beyond the reach of the busy mind. Gone. It's good practice for The Big One. Two nights ago, the coldest of the year by far, we ignored Boss' barking - the last time we do that - and stayed warm inside. An...

Sanity and Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On High Stepping In the place I was born to, habit drove the engine of almost everything. The metronomic plodding of the inevitable calendar-driven days: that was the cadence. Working for the weekend. High-fiving the ghosts. Making do in the suburbs. Getting used to...

Only the Living Die: A Year of Reckoning Live in Joshua Tree: March 7 & 8 For most village people, for many centuries or most, the desert was a place you went to for extremes, when your life was calling out for some kind of edge by which to find its centre. The desert was a...

Nathalie's dream is coming true. We're creating a Scriptorium around Stephen Jenkinson’s collected work. The Boreal Sessions will be in-person scriptorium labour. We are hard at it, creating an online Library and Colloquium and, in good time, we may be able to offer a collection of hand-crafted books based on decades of...

Paying attention: there’s a reason we use the word pay. It’s hard to have a sort of chronic attention span. It asks a lot. But being asked much of helps. Your feeding the place you call home, and your recompense, may be a consequence of your being asked a...

A public life. A life's work.  Two things that sound official, intentional, inevitable. Both have come my way, and neither have that sound to them, not to my ear. * It is a joy to be surprised by one's little life, to be taken aback. I am joyful that way. It is a relief to...

  December 19, 2024 Dearest greetings to you, These cold, clear, dark days have inspired a bit of Winter house keeping. Many of you will have received a newsletter, sent out back in April of this year introducing me, Khadija as a new member of the Orphan Wisdom team. The correspondence and the conversations...