Life Passages
Counseling Mentoring Wilderness Work
in person by phone by internet
Counseling Mentoring Wilderness Work
in person by phone by internet
The Greatest Task of Living
Are you now making a great life transition? Is this a major rite of passage? A move into a new phase of life. A major change in an important relationship. A serious illness. Or the big one: your own final crossing, or the dying of someone you love.
Any of these can be a cause for great overwhelm . . . or a call to greater awareness.
Turning this kind of overwhelm into conscious awareness is, I believe, the greatest task of living.
The great passion of my own life work – most all of it, actually – has been to offer counseling and support to people making these kinds of life transitions. This is not just work I do for others. In my own life, I show up as consciously as I can whenever I’m making these kinds of transitions. When I'm called to help others also wanting to make a transition consciously, I bring great passion, deep listening, and a lifetime of insights.
I offer consultations, counseling, and mentoring.
You do not have to make this journey alone.
You do not have to make this journey alone.
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My Background
I am a physician, an educator and an author. I worked for nearly 20 years as an AIDS specialist and more than 30 years as a hospice physician. During this traditional part of my career, I sat with hundreds of people who were either struggling with a serious illness or who were making their own final crossing.
In 2001, I also started working as a wilderness guide. Two years later, in 2003, I joined the guiding staff at School of Lost Borders. I've guided an array of wilderness programs, with two special interests. The first is exploring how the three phases of a wilderness rites of passage -- death, in between worlds, rebirth -- are informed by my many years of sitting with people who were physically dying. This the topic of my first book, The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live. My second interest, drawn from being a longtime student of Buddhism, is seeing how a person can cultivate an open, spacious heart-mind, both by being alone in a wide-open desert and by sitting quietly on a meditation cushion. Both of these interest make up a major part of my newest book The Soul's Red Thread: Emerging, Transforming, Dissolving, which I hope to have completed by the end of 2023.
I am a physician, an educator and an author. I worked for nearly 20 years as an AIDS specialist and more than 30 years as a hospice physician. During this traditional part of my career, I sat with hundreds of people who were either struggling with a serious illness or who were making their own final crossing.
In 2001, I also started working as a wilderness guide. Two years later, in 2003, I joined the guiding staff at School of Lost Borders. I've guided an array of wilderness programs, with two special interests. The first is exploring how the three phases of a wilderness rites of passage -- death, in between worlds, rebirth -- are informed by my many years of sitting with people who were physically dying. This the topic of my first book, The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live. My second interest, drawn from being a longtime student of Buddhism, is seeing how a person can cultivate an open, spacious heart-mind, both by being alone in a wide-open desert and by sitting quietly on a meditation cushion. Both of these interest make up a major part of my newest book The Soul's Red Thread: Emerging, Transforming, Dissolving, which I hope to have completed by the end of 2023.
Petaluma, California
seberle@sbcglobal.net
707-772-5404
seberle@sbcglobal.net
707-772-5404
