NEWS
Vigil to the Dying
Connee will be teaching Vigil to the Dying in Seattle Washington in March 2012
This course introduce a spiritual perspective of the dying process and teach skills for spiritual care for the dying.
Talks With Connee
In May 2012, we introduce our first audio conference series, Talks With Connee, to share the mystical teachings about what death teaches about life.
Refuge in the Heart
An audio offering from Connee's Wisdom of the World series.
The Living Tradition of the Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Buddhist Pilgrimage Through Eastern and Southern Tibet
June 30 – July 22, 2013
Co-led by Connee Louise Pike and Dr. Gyurme Dorje
CONNEE LOUISE PIKE founded The Mandorla Project as a vehicle to bring together teachings, stories, and practices around key questions, starting with spiritual care for the dying. In her work as a psychotherapist and chaplain, she discovered that good care begins by listening to the stories and teachings of the dying, their loved ones, and the professionals, who care for them. First as a spiritual care manager, and later as an independent midwife, she developed classes, workshops, and retreats to teach spiritual care to the dying. With the development of the Mandorla Project, she hopes to bring professionals together to explore and elucidate the field of spiritual midwifery to the dying. All work in The Mandorla Project is grounded in an interfaith understanding and practice of what the world’s wisdom traditions and their sages teach not only about death, but about life.
SPIRITUAL MIDWIFERY for the DYING
Historically, midwives have supported individuals and their families through important transitions such as birth, healing, and death. We are focused upon, not only the transition of dying, but the process that unfolds from the time a life-threatening diagnosis is rendered.
WISDOM of the WORLD
We interview sages, teachers, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds and countries, sharing their teachings, practices, stories, scriptures, and traditions, in multi-media formats. We offer classes, public talks, and online courses to integrate these teachings into our personal lives and practices of service. We travel to sacred sites, in the spirit of pilgrimage, to experience the wisdom of the world directly.