Pam is Talking Joy with spiritual director Marcella Kraybill-Greggo.
Pam is Talking Joy with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo who is a dynamic teacher in the Wisdom School and teaches Cynthia Borgeault’s components of Wisdom.
Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
Marcella Kraybill-Greggo is a teacher, spiritual director, and dynamic participant in the wisdom school community. She lives in Bethlehem, PA with her husband and daughter, and spent her early years in Tanzania, Africa as a child of a hospital administer. Marcella is Director of Spirituality Programs and the Spiritual Direction Graduate Certificate Program at Moravian Theological Seminary. Marcella holds a Masters in Social Work along with a certificate in Spiritual Direction and is an Ignatian Director.
—The Talking Joy Podcast Interview with host Pam Rotelle Robertson
ABOUT:
Email address: marcellak2@aol.com
Marcella Kraybill-Greggo, MSW, LSW
Moravian Theological Seminary
Director of Spirituality Programs
Director of Spiritual Direction Certificate Programs.
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WISDOM SCHOOL: https://northeastwisdom.org
Committed to providing teachings and resources to deepen our understanding and practice of the Christian Wisdom tradition as taught by Cynthia Bourgeault and other Wisdom teachers.
As traditional forms of Christian teaching and transmission-churches, seminaries, monasteries-are all in crisis and people are hungering for authentic spiritual formation in a world desperately in need of new vision and deeper staying power, Wisdom Schools offer a vibrant meeting ground of roots and wings: time-honored, deep practices combined with a new expansiveness of vision and practical skills to take home with you.
The aim of Wisdom School has been to recover the true catholicity of the Christian tradition by returning to our own wellsprings. The wider tradition is unanimous, however, in its assertion that the deeper Christianity cannot be known by the mind alone; it requires a transformation of the entire being. That is our second—and in fact, primary—purpose. From time immemorial there have been wisdom schools to raise human consciousness and transform society, and we work with the core practices that sustain the transformation of consciousness: meditation, contemplative prayer, lectio divina, the language of sacred gesture, and the daily practices of mindfulness, inner observation, and surrender.
Wisdom fundamentally describes a higher level of human consciousness characterized by a supple and alert awareness, compassionate intelligence, a substantial reduction in the “internal dialogue,” and the capacity to engage reality directly, without the superimposition of mental constructs and categories. It is the original Integral Knowing.
I would encourage you all to not think of Wisdom as a new religion. It really is invisible. It’s like water. It takes the shape of any container. It’s a way of being present, and you actually live Wisdom in your being more than in your doctrines.” ~ Cynthia Bourgeault
Unlike the classic western association of Wisdom with intellect or information, the Wisdom way of knowing model emphasizes a wholistic approach utilizing ‘three centers,’ sometimes referred to as ‘three-brained intelligence’. The three centers include:
the moving center – including the instinctive inner operational systems of the body as well as the outward and voluntary interactions with the physical world through our five senses, movement, and rhythm.
the emotional center – associated with our capacity for perception of the divine, for intuitive understanding, for holding paradox, and for providing a sacred bridge connecting our mind and our body.
the intellectual/cognitive center – including our aptitude for gathering and analyzing information, reasoning, and making fine discriminations.
It is through the engaged exercising and communication of all three centers in synchronization that we are most fully present, most fully aligned in our Being, and most available and receptive to the Wisdom way of knowing.
More on Three-Centered Knowing, including practices for personal or group use can be found HERE.