Support to find and trust your own compass:
the guidance system (in you) that opens life up
and inspires appreciation of life’s blooming 🪷
Follow your path of ever-deepening connection to self, other and all.
I offer a space for attention to and exploration of oneself and one’s beliefs. Here live the foundational structures that manage and boundary one’s emotional and mental landscapes, like roads on a map. There may be whole other worlds to explore – worlds in which our ancient nervous systems evolved. If we apply courageous focus to explore beliefs and existential mindsets, we may find streams that naturally carry us beyond our greatest limitations. We may be awed and inspired to discover what has always been here, with us and in us.
I encourage self-discovery alongside the development of practices that improve introspective resolution and environments that inspire calm curiosity.
Education and Practice
Some of what I offer comes from:
Interfaith Ministry ordination | Order of Universal Interfaith
Master of Divinity degree | Starr King School for the Ministry
Spiritual Care/Chaplaincy training | Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
Interfaith Chaplaincy work | spiritual/emotional care, guidance and group facilitation in hospital, congregation and street (with unhoused communities)
Soto Zen Buddhist practice | residential monastic at Green Gulch and Tassajara
Most of what I offer comes from a life dedicated to love.
Special Focuses in my spiritual care, work, practices and education:
Many (multi-belief, -person, -faith, -culture, -being), rooted in respect and humility
Social justice, equity, access to marginalized communities, and advocacy/activism
Earth justice and (inter-)connection
Community care and Nature care (as healing environments)
Trauma-informed care and spiritual-wounding sensitivity
Deep listening and gentle, empathetic care
Accessibility (physical, intellectual, and financial)
Meditation, mindfulness and developing authentic practices over copying popular
Fostering inclusion in all ways
Rates
$120 - 1 hour session
Sliding scale is available for those in need.
Virtual Office
I offer sessions virtually over video call using a secure platform.
Frequency
I prefer meeting every week or every two weeks for sustained concentration, but I can also meet monthly if that is your preference.
May be a good fit for those who..
Want to feel more connected with community, nature and/or their inner self
Sense a depth to the world they wish to explore
Hope to develop mindfulness and meditation practices OR form authentic practices of grounding
Appreciate a personally-guided, open and caring life path
Want to develop habits that reduce stress, cultivate introspection and wisdom, and settle their life
Are recovering from dogmatic religious wounding and would like to process their experience in an open and affirming space
Are healing after a recent loss or major transition and want grief support
Interfaith Spiritual Care Provider
macpheetravis@gmail.com
(415) 496-6189
Feel free to reach out to schedule a free 30 minute session for us to meet each other