Description:
This book is a wonderful resource for personal reflection, and a great gift for colleagues, friends, and family members.
Brief description:
Westina Matthews is an author, professor, public speaker, and contemplative workshop and retreat leader whose career has spanned corporate and not-for-profit leadership as well as academia. She retired from Merrill Lynch as a managing director following a 24-year career with the firm and subsequently served as Chief Program Officer of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. For twelve years, she was an adjunct professor at General Theological Seminary in the Center for Christian Spirituality, where she taught contemplative spiritual direction. She is the author of Dancing from the Inside Out, This Band of Sisterhood, and Soul Food. A graduate of Shalem Institute's Spiritual Guidance Program, she currently serves as chair of Spiritual Directors International. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Review Quotes:
"This book is so much fun to read. Everything: the stories, the people, the history -- it's a rooted, generous wisdom, willing to share itself."
--Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, author, The Courage to Grow Old