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Introducing Spirit Matters
So what is Spirit Matters? Hopefully some of the essence of what we do and why we came into being shines through this website. We are a consortium of trustees and practitioners, each of whom has experience and practices that are based in a spiritual view of the human being.
Pathfinding 2026 February 4-8, Boonville, CA
Pathfinding in Uncertainty: Cultivating Capacities for Leading into the Future is an in-residence four-day intensive designed to develop capacities for self-knowledge as a foundation for leading and serving others in a time of uncertainty and distrust.
Pathfinding 2025, October 15-19 Hesperus Village, Toronto, Ontario
Pathfinding in Uncertainty: Cultivating Capacities for Leading into the Future is a four-day intensive designed to develop capacities for self-knowledge as a foundation for leading and serving others in a time of uncertainty and distrust. Leading out of one’s intuitive sense for the future, out of a mood of inquiry rather than outcome , brings one, regardless of experience or origin, to a threshold, a gateway to community. This recognition and how to navigate it lie at the heart of this intensive.
Spirit Matters Innovative Form
Spirit Matters—Serving Anthroposophical Initiative is a California non-profit entity, and an independent IRS Section 501(c)(3) charity that is also a supporting organization to RSF Social Finance, Anthroposophical Society in America, and the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America.
A Brief Report—Pathfinding 2024
The first Pathfinding in Uncertainty was held in February, 2024, at Chadwick Library, Boonville, CA. Leah Walker and John Bloom, conveners, welcomed nine enthusiastic, wondering, and tentative participants to the first Intensive.
Pathfinding: An Engaged Introduction [Online] Coming Spring 2025
Pathfinding in Uncertainty is about leadership and social being, about a path of self-knowing as a key to collaborating with others and the world out of a healing impulse. This four-hour online introduction will be based upon the deep organizational and vocational questions each participant carries.