My experience of Anne Wilson Schaef is of a woman with an immense ability to love and with great wisdom. Having read lots of self help books I was really struck by Anne Wilson Schaef's Living In Process book because it was not promising a quick fix or a heady hype, the words struck a chord within me and I felt their truth. After finishing reading the book, I really wanted to know more, to experience this process work myself. So I arrived at the next weekend "intensive" with a mixture of excitement and fear. With me was my 5 year old daughter.
We were both welcomed warmly and the weekend was the beginning of a healing process I am grateful to still be participating in.
Anne Wilson Schaef by bringing her process work to the world, has given me an opportunity to connect with the creator of all, the knowledge that I am more than what happened to me as a child or than my current neuroses or addictions. And most hopeful of all is that I can heal from within myself with support from a loving community without someone telling me what is "wrong" with me and how I can fix it, or learn to adapt to living with the pain.
My outer life has changed and most of all my inner life has changed since my participation in the Living in Process Community. I live a rich and full life and am open to new challenges and feel grateful (most of the time). I am not cured of all my troubles and that worries me less and less, I contribute to my community in meaningful ways and am glad to be growing and living.
Anne herself is an inspiration, she is a real person living a real life in a different way to anyone I have experienced. She is loving enough to give feedback that can be hard to hear and she gives boundlessly to the Living In Process Community and to many other communities such as Native American Tribes, in many ways.
She is happy to share her wisdom as a Native Elder, her truth and process as a teacher and her love and humour as a woman.
Having recently returned from a Gathering of Native Elders sponsored by Anne Wilson Schaef and the Living In Process Community I feel enriched as though from a spiritual bath and honoured to have been amongst such wonderful people.
Mandy, Australia, South Pacific.
