Cultivating Purpose with guest faculty Joan Borysenko & Gordon Dveirin
Follow Your Soul’s Compass
Mar 10 - Mar 15, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA Led by: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D, Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. , Mary Hofstedt, Lizzy Wetzel
Financial aid is available. Apply Here.
Tune into your inner guidance system and act from a place of alignment and connection to Source
Why are we here?
What does a life worth living look like?
How do we find our way through the figurative dust storm of modern life – and how do we satisfy our thirst for meaning and purpose?
In this time of change and uncertainty, you may find yourself asking these age-old questions with renewed curiosity and urgency.
By exploring the wisdom contained in humanity’s sacred texts – ranging from the Torah to the New Testament, the Tao Te Ching to the Buddhist scriptures, the Vedantas to the Koran – you can discover profound insights that will help you unlock your own innate wisdom and find the answers you’re looking for.
In this powerful and inspiring workshop co-facilitated with mind-body-spirit experts and authors Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., and Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D., you will explore ancient wisdom practices that can help you tune into your soul’s compass so that it can guide you toward living an enlightened, harmonious, and spiritually fulfilling life.
What you’ll gain
Through experiential exercises and deep reflection and sharing, you will:
You will leave bursting with inspiration and renewed optimism, with a deep sense of connection to a larger reality and the motivation to make a more inspired contribution to the world around us.
Meet your faculty
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D
NY Times bestselling author of Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance? and Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. is an internationally known speaker in integrative medicine and the mind/body/spirit connection. She is also the author of seventeen books, including, It’s not the end of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change and Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year.
Joan is an internationally known speaker in integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She has a doctorate in cell biology from Harvard Medical School and is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a journalist and radio personality. After her father died from cancer, she became more interested in studying the person with the illness rather than the disease itself, and returned to Harvard Medical School to complete a second postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine and become an expert in human potential.
Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D.
President of Dveirin and Associates | Mentor | Strategic Thinker
Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. is President of Dveirin and Associates, a human development consulting firm. His clients have ranged from the United States Air Force to hospitals, investment firms, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Gordon is also a spiritual educator and co-author of two books: Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom for Your Journey (Hay House, 2006) and Your Soul’s Compass: What is Spiritual Guidance (Hay House, 2007).
Co-founder of The Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry, he is also a founding board member of the Passageworks Institute dedicated to the social, emotional, and spiritual learning of children and youth in our schools. Gordon’s passion is for the possible, helping individuals and organizations align with the most skillful vector of the emergent future.
This workshop is for you if...
You are spiritually curious and looking for a deeper sense of connection to something larger than yourself
You’re going through a major life transition and looking for insight and guidance to make wise choices that will help you embody goodness and thrive
You want to be able to discern between your innate wisdom and your ego and understand what’s true in a world of distortion and misperception
You want to overcome a sense of separateness and isolation and feel more deeply interconnected with the Source of all being
You want to be able to access the “flow state” where inspiration, creativity, insight, and wisdom come easily to you
You long for deeper spiritual community and insight without necessarily subscribing to a specific religion or belief system
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
Meet your MEA facilitators
In addition to the powerful sessions conducted by Joan and Gordon, you will be guided through the core MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum by our seasoned faculty members:
Mary Hofstedt
Content Facilitator
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Mary Hofstedt is an experienced non profit leader and educator who strives to advance a more hopeful, caring, and connected world. Her passion for youth and community development led her to work with Challenge Success, spearhead a coalition of youth and adult partners to develop a community arts center, and serve for over a decade within Stanford University’s John W. Gardner Center. She recently wrapped up a mid-career break to reflect on purpose, study Spanish, travel, and volunteer with whale shark research and conservation. She serves as a Senior Associate with Heartwise Learning and is thrilled to be based back in Santa Fe after a 22 year stint in the Bay Area!
Lizzy Wetzel
Experience Facilitator
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Lizzy Wetzel is a Santa Fe based artist, facilitator, and creative experience producer. She is passionate about encouraging creative connection through acts of making, intuitive play and collaborative exploration. She is an avid believer in the transformational power found in imagination, humor, and breathtaking landscape.
You’re four steps away from a life of deeper spiritual meaning, purpose, and fulfillment
The four steps toward greater spiritual connection to source are simple but profound: align yourself with Source of all being, discern the innate voice of Spirit from your own ego, take meaningful action based on your soul’s guidance, then review the results and discover what lessons are available for you to learn.