Christina Baldwin: Bio

Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story (New World Library, 2005)
The Seven Whispers, A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These (New World Library, 2002)
Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998)
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest (Bantam 1990)
One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans, 1977,1991)

Christina Baldwin is an eloquent and witty speaker and educator, who integrates the spiritual journey and the practical path. Whether offering a retreat, presenting a workshop or speaking to conferences, Christina’s vibrancy, talent, and unique body of knowledge provides an enlivening experience.

Christina has taught nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, and has contributed classic books in the emerging bodies of knowledge around personal writing, group process and spirituality. Her first work, One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans,1977, rev. 1991) is a pioneering text that has remained in continuous print for a quarter of a century. Her marvelous sequel, Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest (Bantam 1990), extended the art of journal writing to spiritual practice. These titles have sold over 150,000 copies.

In the early 1990's, Christina began developing a group process methodology that led to the concepts presented in her ground-breaking work, Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998). This book has introduced thousands of people to a practical, hands-on structure for convening their meetings in circle and tapping collective wisdom. She has taken this work to the heart of mainstream culture in North America, Europe, and Africa.

Now living on an island near Seattle, Washington, she and author /educator Ann Linnea manage their business PeerSpirit, Inc. Through PeerSpirit, the two women offer a variety of consulting seminars, practica, and wilderness programs that take advantage of their unique range of skills. PeerSpirit clients include: health care corporations; health care delivery teams: university administrations, faculties, and graduate student programs; church congregations and religious administrative offices; provincial government housing administrations; Federal Corrections administration; industrial manufacturing teams; software development staff and project teams. In 2000-2001, with the Berkana Institute, she co-developed the international initiative, From the Four Directions, presented at the Women in Lucent Leadership Conference, worked with the Race and Gender Institute at the University of North Carolina, and consulted with the Center for Nursing Leadership. When at home she adores the peace of island life: beach walking, bicycling, gardening and kayaking.