Welcome to Orphan Wisdom

This is the home of Stephen Jenkinson’s writing and teaching work. ORPHAN WISDOM is a teaching house and a learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time we may not see.

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ORPHAN WISDOM SCHOOL:Mandatory Arts of Living Deeply

NEW CLASSES IN CANADA
In the East Ottawa Valley, Ontario in the fall 2012
In the West Hollyhock Centre, Cortes Island, B.C., 26-31 October 2012

The Orphan Wisdom School is crafted specifically for all those people who will fail to live forever, who have come to the idea - or been driven there - that their yearning for a deep life must be tethered to the plough of labour and learning to harrow the hardened field of sorrows and solitary, grey news that has become our corner of this beautiful world, so that children can one day soon be born into to a real, detailed, laboured over Better Day that we ourselves might not live to see. This happy announcement and invitation we extend to you and your friends and especially your adversaries. To receive a registration form This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Upcoming Events

Sun Jan 15, 2012 @07:00PM -MAUI Griefwalker screening & Talk -Makawao Union Church Hall, Maui
Sun Jan 22, 2012 @01:00PM -MAUI An Apprenticeship to Living Deeply -Temple of Peace in Haiku, 575 Haiku Road, Haiku, Maui
Fri Feb 10, 2012 @09:30AM -TORONTO: Cross National Think Tank On Loss and Grief -TORONTO: York University Psychology Clinic
Fri May 04, 2012 @08:00AM -GUELPH: Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief -GUELPH
Sun Aug 05, 2012 @08:00AM -CORTES IS., BC: The Soul of a Well Lived Life -CORTES ISLAND, B.C., CANADA - HollyHock
 

Books

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HOW IT ALL COULD BE: A workbook for dying people and for those who love them (2009)

Stephen has presented screenings of Griefwalker in communities across Canada and abroad.  This book was written in response to the questions and concerns that people everywhere keep voicing.  It is part study guide, part meditation, and can work for study groups and individual contemplation with or without the film. 
Please visit the Orphan Wisdom Store to order a copy and for more details on other learning material from Orphan Wisdom.


Culture Unplugged Film Festival

StephenJenkinson
ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
presents GRIEFWALKER
SPIRIT ENLIGHTENED CULTURE UNPLUGGED.com
How can seeing your life’s end be the beginning
of your deep love of being alive?
 

Griefwalker Video

Harvard trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW leads workshops and offers speaking engagements for organisations all over Canada and abroad, at times using scenes of GRIEFWALKER.
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Griefwalker on DVD

Purchase your own copy of GRIEFWALKER on DVD.  Visit our online store for Stephen's books and live recorded teachings and other items of interest from Orphan Wisdom.

Radio Interviews

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People First Radio CHLY 101.7FM 
A full-program conversation about life,
death, and the Canadian culture with
'Griefwalker', Stephen Jenkinson.

DrishtiPoint Radio
COOP 102.7FM
"Dying is the occasion for a certain deep
understanding 
of life to announce itself.
There's a lot of love in there" 
**interview starts at 5:30min**

Compassionate Solutions CFRU 93.3FM 
Podcast

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