Bookshelf

The Circle Way

The Seven Whispers

Christina Baldwin
Co-Founder
PeerSpirit, Inc.
P.O. Box 550
Langley,WA 98260
360-331-3580

CHRISTINA BALDWIN
PEERSPIRIT, INC.
cbaldwin@peerspirit.com
http://www.peerspirit.com/

BIOGRAPHY
Christina is an eloquent and witty speaker and educator, who integrates the spiritual journey and the practical path. Whether offering a retreat, presenting a workshop or speaking to conferences, Christina’s vibrancy, talent, and unique body of knowledge provides an enlivening experience.

Christina has taught nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, and has contributed classic books in the emerging bodies of knowledge around personal writing, group process and spirituality. Her first work, One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing is a pioneering text that has remained in continuous print for a quarter of a century. Her marvelous sequel, Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest, extended the art of journal writing to spiritual practice.

In the early 1990's, Christina began developing a group process methodology that led to the concepts presented in her ground-breaking work, Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture. This book has introduced thousands of people to a practical, hands-on structure for convening their meetings in circle and tapping collective wisdom. She has taken this work to the heart of mainstream culture in North America, Europe, and Africa.

Now living on an island near Seattle, Washington, she and author /educator Ann Linnea manage their business PeerSpirit, Inc. Through PeerSpirit, the two women offer a variety of consulting seminars, practica, and wilderness programs that take advantage of their unique range of skills. PeerSpirit clients include: health care corporations; health care delivery teams: university administrations, faculties, and graduate student programs; church congregations and religious administrative offices; provincial government housing administrations; Federal Corrections administration; industrial manufacturing teams; software development staff and project teams.

In 2000-2001, with the Berkana Institute, she co-developed the international initiative, "From the Four Directions," presented at the Women in Lucent Leadership Conference, worked with the Race and Gender Institute at the University of North Carolina, and consulted with the Center for Nursing Leadership. When at home she adores the peace of island life: beach walking, bicycling, gardening and kayaking.

ARTICLES/BOOKS
Seven Whispers, Listening to the Voice of Spirit
Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture
One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing
Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
"Providing life-changing experiences through the form of council, or circle, which allows us to integrate experience of heart and mind."