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A luminous spiritual memoir inviting the reader to the practice of silent prayer. Rooted in her Judeo-Christian tradition, author Susan Tiberghien welcomes the wisdom of other traditions and calls us to embrace our shared humanity.
In this 20th Anniversary Edition, Tiberghien writes an Afterword to update her journey, opening the confines of her own darkness and finding atonement in the natural world and in the presence of Sophia, the 'hidden wholeness' of creation.
About the author
Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer; Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story; Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman, two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft, and Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung, and most recently, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer. She has also published extensively narrative essays in literary reviews and anthologies.
For over twenty years Tiberghien has been teaching creative writing at C.G. Jung Societies, the International Women's Writing Guild, and at writers' centers and conferences, both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her online courses, "Journaling to the Soul, Keeping Our Own Red Books" and "Seeing Beauty with Words, Awakening the Soul" are posted at the Jung Society of Washington DC. She is a founding member of the International Writers' Residence at the Château de Lavigny and an active member of International PEN. Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers' Group (230 English-language writers) for 25 years. Married with six adult children, sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. www.susantiberghien.com
