Dreaming with Caren Tiechman

My guest today is Caren Tiechman who currently works for Living in the Green -- a set of adaptable, facilitated circle practices that provide a framework for discerning, designing, launching, and funding grassroots missional ministries. https://www.facebook.com/livinginthegreen.sewanee

She earned her certificate in Dream Work from Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work in Fairfield, CA: http://www.jeremytaylor.com/mipd/index.html

She has a certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Haden Institute in Hendersonville, NC: http://www.hadeninstitute.com/.

Caren is a mother of four sons, ages 18 to 23, whom she loves, adores, is astonished at, and enjoys immensely.

• Caren lived the traditional script for years. How do you reconcile living the script?
• Woke up a passion through serving in Antioch
• Joe March in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott -- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91245378
• Women Mystics
  • Theresa of Avila inward journey to come back out.
  • Catherine of Siena: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=9
  • Clare of Assisi: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-davis-phd/a-love-letter-to-st-franc_b_2653317.html
• Feminine Energy – Understanding our own creative potential
• Story of the Hebrew Midwives – Exodus 1:15-21
• Using dreams to know yourself – story of belt and gratitude
• Gifts from ancient women in your dreams.
• Our dreams are another world that is unseen – by remembering and talking about them we are paying attention and acknowledge that we want to be in relationship with it.
• Every remembered dream is a miracle. Ask myself – where was I before I was here?
• Why do we have so much shame associated with the female body?
• Modern day flappers for me is not about having a socially fabulous life – but about demanding to define your own identity.
• There is enough room for all the women in the word! Let's make more space.
• What does balance and partnership in our inside and outside lives?
• How do you see God in your life?