Recovering “The Original Blueprint of the Human Soul”: One Storied View of Women’s Spirituality Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 76
  In Roundtable Session: Theoretical Perspectives in Gender and Education

Abstract

This paper draws from a feminist narrative and artistic study of the lived experiences of faculty and student alumni of a Women’s Spirituality Masters of Arts (WSMA) degree program, located in the San Francisco Bay area. The paper portrays the storied experience of one WSMA student alumni. This co-participant exemplifies the cultivation of aesthetic and kinesthetic awareness, and relational, spirited, embodied ways of engaging feminist education and research from within and after her study in the WSMA. Her work educates and transforms a violent world into a non-violent world, where women are held as sacred, whole beings, in mind, body, emotions and spirit.

Author

• Nane Ariadne Jordan, The University of British Columbia