July Conversation: From Isolation to Contemplative Action with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Phoebe Hunt
There’s a difference between isolation and healthy solitude, between islands of exclusion and an integrated balance between contemplation and action. Join Irish poet and peace activist Pádraig Ó Tuama and mystic indie folk artist Phoebe Hunt for an interactive discussion on the third of the seven stories we are exploring as part of the 7-month New Story Journey. In this conversation we'll talk about how to move from the story of Isolation - “us staying apart from them” - in which we forfeit the gifts of diversity for a false sense of safety and identity, to the story of Contemplative Action in which we nurture the inner life through times of solitude, not to hide from the world, but to be able to love it more and serve it even more effectively.