In this week's episode, we hear from our New Contemplatives.  The New Contemplatives Initiative is a container of vocational support and development opportunities for emerging spiritual companions in their first half of life. New Contemplatives enrich the SDI community with new forms and paradigms of spiritual care, bringing their voices to the center of the organization and the broader field of spiritual companionship. Together, we work to weave a web of intergenerational wisdom and practice, and to seek answers to: what is spiritual companionship for our times?  This session was recorded during our Renaissance 2021 Conference from this April and features the voices of our program leader Lizzie Salsich and her group of New Contemplatives: Ufra Mir, Sunyata Kopriva, Nathan Bettger, Meissan Chan, and Sarah Zaltash. This is part one of a two part series - please tune in again next week for the second half of their presentation. --- Join SDI for a 8-night / 9-day transformational journey to one of the most mystical places in the world - Iona, Scotland.  Ritual, community worship, poetry, body prayer, meditation, journaling, music and movement will be our tools to deeply listen to the voice of The Great Mystery. Led by retreat leader and Iona native Reverend Simon de Voil, we will walk the landscape of Iona together as pilgrims, wandering to special places on the island to embrace the wilderness and to pray with nature. Learn more at sdicompanions.org.